{"id":2275,"date":"2016-04-12T13:04:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T11:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ricoh-open.nl\/en\/?p=2275"},"modified":"2024-03-21T13:18:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T11:18:59","slug":"murray-proceeds-with-difficulty-monte-carlo-goffin-convincing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/2016\/04\/12\/murray-proceeds-with-difficulty-monte-carlo-goffin-convincing\/","title":{"rendered":"Murray proceeds with difficulty in Monte-Carlo; Goffin convincing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Murray encountered robust opposition in the opening match at the Masters 1000 tournament in Monte-Carlo. The second seed needed three sets to pull away from qualifier Pierre Hugues Herbert (ATP-95) beating him 6-2, 4-6, 6-3.<\/p><p>The player from Scotland, who competes in Monte-Carlo for the first time since 2013, meets 16th seeded Benoit Paire, or Joao Sousa (ATP-34). The 28-year-old Murray was knocked out in an early stage in both Indian Wells and Miami.<\/p><p>The curtain fell for Grigor Dimitrov (ATP-26) in the second round. The 15<sup>th<\/sup> seed Gilles Simon was a size too big for the two-times quarter-finalist who lost 6-4, 6-3.<\/p><p>The Frenchman might play against the fourth seed, 2014 winner Stan Wawrinka, but the Swiss player will have to defeat Philipp Kohlschrieber (ATP-28) first. The German defeated Borna Coric (ATP-42): 6-4, 6-4. The young Croatian was a finalist in the ATP 250 tournament in Marrakech last Sunday.<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>Goffin<\/p><p>David Goffin reached the semi-finals at the first two Masters 1000 tournaments (Indian Wells and Miami) this year. The Belgian, seeded 11<sup>th<\/sup>, has kept his form in the second round in Monte-Carlo. He convincingly defeated Spain\u2019s Feliciano Lopez (ATP-23) with 7-5, 6-0.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Murray encountered robust opposition in the opening match at the Masters 1000 tournament in Monte-Carlo. The second seed needed three sets to pull away from qualifier Pierre Hugues Herbert (ATP-95) beating him 6-2, 4-6, 6-3.The player from Scotland, who competes in Monte-Carlo for the first time since 2013, meets 16th seeded Benoit Paire, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_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\/2275\/"}],"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=2275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2276,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions\/2276\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=2275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=2275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}