{"id":2539,"date":"2016-06-09T17:56:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T15:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ricoh-open.nl\/en\/?p=2539"},"modified":"2024-03-21T13:18:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T11:18:54","slug":"sijsling-crashes-against-karlovic-two-tiebreaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/2016\/06\/09\/sijsling-crashes-against-karlovic-two-tiebreaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Sijsling crashes against Karlovic in two tiebreaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">For Igor Sijsling the Ricoh Open is finished. The player from Amsterdam lost out in a service battle to third seed Ivo Karlovic (ATP-28): 7-6(4), 7-6(5). With this result the home player failed to equal his best performance in Rosmalen, a place in the quarter-finals.<\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Three times Sijsling took the lead at 15-30 in the first set, but could not force a breakpoint. In the tiebreak<\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Holland\u2019s number two was bombarded with backhand slices and a vigorous service volley action, after which the Kroatian served the set out at 5-4. <\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"EN-US\">At 1-1 in the second set Karlovic produced a game of four consecutive aces, but two games later Sijsling created the match\u2019s only break chance. <\/span>Karlovic polished out this possibility with an ace.<\/p><p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The players again ended up in a tiebreak, in which Sijsling gave away one service point with too long a volley. <\/span>At 6-5 Karlovic finished the match with his 20th ace.<\/p><p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Last year Karlovic lost to Robin Haase in the quarter-final in a tiebreak in the deciding set. To reach the last four this year, the service cannon must defeat Adrian Mannarino (ATP-55). The Frenchman defeated the Russian qualifier Daniil Medvedev (ATP-256). 6-4, 6-2. <\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Muller<\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Seventh seed Gilles Muller (ATP-44) has reached the quarter-final stage at the Autotron. The Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ATP-53) lost to the player from Luxembourg, 7-5, 6-1. <\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Topseed David Ferrer from Spain (ATP-14) or Israel\u2019s Dudi Sela (ATP-68) will be Muller&#8217;s next opponent.<\/span><\/p><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Faypl9fzI4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Igor Sijsling the Ricoh Open is finished. The player from Amsterdam lost out in a service battle to third seed Ivo Karlovic (ATP-28): 7-6(4), 7-6(5). With this result the home player failed to equal his best performance in Rosmalen, a place in the quarter-finals.Three times Sijsling took the lead at 15-30 in the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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\/2539\/"}],"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=2539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2621,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions\/2621\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2532\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=2539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=2539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=2539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}