{"id":2667,"date":"2016-06-10T18:32:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T16:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ricoh-open.nl\/en\/?p=2667"},"modified":"2016-06-11T11:19:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T09:19:18","slug":"2667","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/2016\/06\/10\/2667\/","title":{"rendered":"Bencic has new final spot in sight at Ricoh Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div dir=\"ltr\"><p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Belinda Bencic has won the &#8216;Swiss&#8217; quarter-final at the Ricoh Open, beating her compatriot, \u00a0qUalifier Viktorija Golubic (WTA-113) 7-6(6), 7-6(2).<\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The top seed forced an early break and played a variety of winners in the opening set. It looked as she was going to easily win it, but Golubic kept pace and at 5-4 equalized with a break <\/span><\/p><p>In the tiebreak the 19-year-old tournament favorite survived a 3-0 and 6-4 disadvantage and then won her first set point with attacking<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span>play.<\/p><p><span lang=\"EN-US\">In the sixth game, Bencic created a break chance for herself with a phenomenal forehand along the line and Golubic double faulted.\u00a0<\/span>However, the latter broke back immediately.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div dir=\"ltr\"><p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Finally the two Swiss ladies again came to a tiebreak, in which Bencic made the first point with a backhand return winner. At 6-2 the competition was decided by a forehand down the doubles alley by the 23-year-old Golubic, who had impressed with her nice single-handed backhand. <\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Bencic reaches the semi-final in her first tournament appearance since the beginning of April (Charleston) when a back injury forced her to the sidelines.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"EN-US\">To reach the final stage the world number eight has to beat third seed, Kristina Mladenovic (WTA-32) from France. Bencic won their last confrontation in Rosmalen in a long three setter in the quarter-final last year. <\/span><\/p><\/div><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D4c5gcgA7Ko\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belinda Bencic has won the &#8216;Swiss&#8217; quarter-final at the Ricoh Open, beating her compatriot, \u00a0qUalifier Viktorija Golubic (WTA-113) 7-6(6), 7-6(2).The top seed forced an early break and played a variety of winners in the opening set. It looked as she was going to easily win it, but Golubic kept pace and at 5-4 equalized with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2646,"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\/2667\/"}],"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=2667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2719,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions\/2719\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2646\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=2667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=2667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=2667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}