{"id":2600,"date":"2016-06-09T22:32:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T20:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ricoh-open.nl\/en\/?p=2600"},"modified":"2016-06-10T10:50:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T08:50:41","slug":"bencic-quarter-final-ricoh-open-despite-bad-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/2016\/06\/09\/bencic-quarter-final-ricoh-open-despite-bad-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Bencic in quarter-final Ricoh Open despite bad start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belinda Bencic needed some time to get into form in her second match at the Ricoh Open,\u00a0 but after losing the first set to Vravara Lepchenko (WTA-65), she improved her play and the top seed won the match: 3-6, 6-3, 6-2.<\/p><p>Lepchenko placed the first break at 2-1 after Bencic made a forehand mistake. The latter seemed irritated and did not survive the break.<\/p><p>The Swiss started well in the second set and played to 2-0 advantage, but Lepchenko re-started using her prescriptive flat shots and leveled the standing. Bencic placed a new break at 4-3 after an imperative point and balanced the match.<\/p><p>The battle quickly finished in the third set and the American increasingly made mistakes. The world number eight reigned supreme and finished the game at 5-2 after an unnecessary forehand fault by her opponent.<\/p><p>To reach the last four, Bencic has to deal with compatriot Viktorija Golubic (WTA-113). Bencic and Golubic played doubles together this week, but had no luck. Qualifier Golubic defeated another qualifier, Risa Ozaki (WTA-124).<\/p><p>Ostapenko eliminated<\/p><p>Fourth seed Jelena Ostapenko (WTA-39) has ended her adventure in Rosmalen. The Latvian was, surprisingly, defeated by Kateryna Kozlova (WTA-104): 7-5, 6-2.<\/p><p>The Ukrainian will meet American Madison Brengle (WTA-68) in her next match.<\/p><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ILgKLbvytKI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belinda Bencic needed some time to get into form in her second match at the Ricoh Open,\u00a0 but after losing the first set to Vravara Lepchenko (WTA-65), she improved her play and the top seed won the match: 3-6, 6-3, 6-2.Lepchenko placed the first break at 2-1 after Bencic made a forehand mistake. The latter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2558,"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":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/"}],"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=2600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2612,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions\/2612\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2558\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=2600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=2600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=2600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}