{"id":2722,"date":"2016-06-10T21:35:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T19:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ricoh-open.nl\/en\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2016-06-11T12:36:32","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T10:36:32","slug":"mahut-on-his-way-to-title-rosmalen-after-impressive-victory-tomic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/2016\/06\/10\/mahut-on-his-way-to-title-rosmalen-after-impressive-victory-tomic\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahut on his way to title in Rosmalen after impressive victory over Tomic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div dir=\"ltr\"><p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Nicolas Mahut (ATP-49) has reached the last four in Rosmalen for the third time in his career. \u00a0The two-times tournament winner (2013 and 2015) won his match against second seed Bernard Tomic (ATP-23), who is also a fervent fan of grass tennis,: 6-7(5), 6-4, 6-2.<\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The two players first met in Brisbane at the beginning of the year. <\/span>Then it was Tomic who won \u00a06-4, 6-3.<\/p><\/div><\/div><p>The Australian Had an early break, but at 5-4 he lost the advantage.<\/p><p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The 23-year-old Tomic took the lead in the tiebreak after a great rally, but Mahut took the next four points. However, at the end Mahut, who is 11 years older, saw his opponent taking the set.<\/span><\/p><div dir=\"ltr\"><p><span lang=\"EN-US\">At 2-2 in the second set Mahut played a fantastic return winner. He broke Tomic\u2019s service with a forehand return winner, an effective lob and attacking play. <\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The title defender did not have any problems in his own service and took the set at 5-4 after Tomic missed a forehand return.<\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The brand new doubles\u2019 number one started the third set with a break, after which the excitement of the game faded out. After a new break at 4-2 the eighth seed took the match against the tournament debutant with an ace.<\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"EN-US\">To reach the final, \u00a0Mahut will have to shake off fifth seed Sam Querrey (ATP-37). The American hard hitter is playing for the first time in Rosmalen. <\/span><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicolas Mahut (ATP-49) has reached the last four in Rosmalen for the third time in his career. \u00a0The two-times tournament winner (2013 and 2015) won his match against second seed Bernard Tomic (ATP-23), who is also a fervent fan of grass tennis,: 6-7(5), 6-4, 6-2.The two players first met in Brisbane at the beginning of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2663,"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\/2722\/"}],"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=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2723,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions\/2723\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2663\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}