{"id":21432,"date":"2026-05-12T09:18:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/?p=21432"},"modified":"2026-05-12T12:39:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T10:39:05","slug":"big-challenge-for-defending-champion-diallo-in-strong-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/2026\/05\/12\/big-challenge-for-defending-champion-diallo-in-strong-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Big challenge for defending champion Diallo in strong field"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-visibility-auto\"><p>Registration for the men&#8217;s singles at Lib\u00e9ma Open (June 6\u201314) is now closed. Defending champion Gabriel Diallo (ATP-46) will face significant challenges from at least four top 20 players and multiple Grand Slam champions.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"content-visibility-auto\"><p>The schedule for the ATP 250 tournament is led by Felix Auger-Aliassime (ATP-5). Former world number one and US Open winner Daniil Medvedev is the second top 10 player (ATP-9) coming to the Autotron &#8216;s-Hertogenbosch. Arthur Fils (ATP-17) and Cameron Norrie (ATP-20) are formidable world-class players.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"content-visibility-auto\"><p>Belgian fans can enthusiastically come and cheer for last year&#8217;s finalist Zizou Bergs (ATP-39) and new sensation Alexander Blockx (ATP-36).<\/p><\/div><div class=\"content-visibility-auto\"><p>Other big names competing on the Brabant grass include Arthur Rinderknech (ATP-24), Ugo Humbert (ATP-33), Denis Shapovalov (ATP-37), US Open champion and Wimbledon finalist Marin Cilic (ATP-49), and Hubert Hurkacz (ATP-53).<\/p><\/div><div class=\"content-visibility-auto\"><p>2023 winner Tallon Griekspoor (ATP-31) and Botic van de Zandschulp (ATP-54) will also be competing on home soil.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"content-visibility-auto\"><p>Additional players may still be added via wildcard.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"content-visibility-auto\"><p>Lib\u00e9ma Open is a combined ATP\/WTA tournament. The women&#8217;s singles participant list will follow later. Elise Mertens is the defending champion.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"content-visibility-auto\"><p>Don&#8217;t miss out and order your tickets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventim.nl\/artist\/libema-open\/?affiliate=3LB\">here<\/a> quickly!<\/p><p>Full list of players (men) can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/players\/gentlemen\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Registration for the men&#8217;s singles at Lib\u00e9ma Open (June 6\u201314) is now closed. Defending champion Gabriel Diallo (ATP-46) will face significant challenges from at least four top 20 players and multiple Grand Slam champions.The schedule for the ATP 250 tournament is led by Felix Auger-Aliassime (ATP-5). Former world number one and US Open winner Daniil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":21043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21432\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=21432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21432\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21475,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21432\/revisions\/21475\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21043\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=21432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=21432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=21432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}