{"id":2665,"date":"2016-06-10T18:16:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T16:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ricoh-open.nl\/en\/?p=2665"},"modified":"2016-06-10T20:17:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T18:17:10","slug":"mladenovic-increases-euphoria-after-roland-garros-rosmalen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/2016\/06\/10\/mladenovic-increases-euphoria-after-roland-garros-rosmalen\/","title":{"rendered":"Mladenovic increases euphoria after Roland Garros in Rosmalen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kristina Mladenovic (WTA-32) provided herself with a place in the final four at the Ricoh Open. <span lang=\"EN-US\">The third seed survived a break in set one as well as in the second set against Elise Mertens (WTA-171) overcoming her 7-5, 6-3.<\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"EN-US\">For Mertens it was the end of a great tournament. The Belgian qualified for the main programme in the qualification rounds, where she established her name by allowing Eurgenie Bouchard only two games in the opening round. <\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The 20-year-old Mertens was able to count on her many fanatic Belgian supporters during her competitions at the Autotron. Mladenovic could not be distracted however, she kept a cool head and caused a lot of damage on Mertens\u2019 second serve. <\/span><\/p><p>For Mladenovic, the tournament in Rosmalen is a pleasant continuation of her performance at Roland Garros, where she won the doubles title with Caroline Garcia.<\/p><p><span lang=\"EN-US\">In the singles tournament in Paris, France\u2019s number one was defeated by Serena Williams in the third round. Previously she reached her season\u2019s first semi-final at the WTA tournament in Strassbourg. <\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Mladenovic has to beat top seed Belinda Bencic from Switzerland to reach the final. Last year the French player was defeated by her good friend in a long quarter-final match on the Brabant grass.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristina Mladenovic (WTA-32) provided herself with a place in the final four at the Ricoh Open. The third seed survived a break in set one as well as in the second set against Elise Mertens (WTA-171) overcoming her 7-5, 6-3.For Mertens it was the end of a great tournament. The Belgian qualified for the main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2644,"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\/2665\/"}],"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=2665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2666,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665\/revisions\/2666\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2644\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=2665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=2665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=2665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}