{"id":22230,"date":"2026-06-10T15:53:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/?p=22230"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:24:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T09:24:25","slug":"griekspoor-edge-out-victory-in-dutch-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/2026\/06\/10\/griekspoor-edge-out-victory-in-dutch-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Griekspoor Edge Out Victory in Dutch Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tallon Griekspoor emerged victorious in the highly anticipated clash with fellow countryman Botic van de Zandschulp. The 2023 champion, ranked as the second-best player in the Netherlands, was too strong across two days of play, winning 6-2, 6-7(2), 6-4 to advance to the second round.<\/p><p>On Tuesday, Griekspoor served for the match at the end of the second set, but Van de Zandschulp fought back, forcing a deciding set via the tiebreak. In that final set, Griekspoor secured an early break before the match was suspended due to rain.<\/p><p>Upon resumption on Wednesday, no further breaks occurred, ultimately allowing the top-ranked Dutch player and sixth seed to prevail.<\/p><p>In the second round, Griekspoor faces Chinese player Zhang Zhizhen, whom he knows well. The pair train together frequently throughout the year, but this will mark their first-ever head-to-head encounter on a competitive court.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tallon Griekspoor emerged victorious in the highly anticipated clash with fellow countryman Botic van de Zandschulp. The 2023 champion, ranked as the second-best player in the Netherlands, was too strong across two days of play, winning 6-2, 6-7(2), 6-4 to advance to the second round.On Tuesday, Griekspoor served for the match at the end of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":22228,"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\/22230\/"}],"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=22230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22230\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22290,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22230\/revisions\/22290\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22228\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=22230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=22230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=22230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}