{"id":4154,"date":"2017-06-12T17:22:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T15:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ricoh-open.nl\/en\/?p=4154"},"modified":"2017-06-18T15:39:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T13:39:00","slug":"title-defender-mahut-passes-smoothly-to-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/2017\/06\/12\/title-defender-mahut-passes-smoothly-to-second-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Title defender Mahut smoothly to second round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nicolas Mahut reached the second round of the Ricoh Open. The title defender defeated qualifier Dennis Novikov with 6-3 6-4.<\/p><p>The French stylist just needed a winning return game in every set against the American qualifier. The 35-year-old Mahut must defeat Russia\u2019s Evgeny Donskoy or Yen-Hsun Lu from Taiwan to reach the quarter final.<\/p><p>Aljaz Bedene won his opening round against Denis Istomin from Uzbekistan. The British player came back after losing the first set and won the following two sets with 6-2 6-1.<\/p><p>The eighth seeded Bedene will compete against Ernesto Escobedo or Hyeon Chung in the second round.<\/p><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aIjqGU3F2X0?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicolas Mahut reached the second round of the Ricoh Open. The title defender defeated qualifier Dennis Novikov with 6-3 6-4.The French stylist just needed a winning return game in every set against the American qualifier. The 35-year-old Mahut must defeat Russia\u2019s Evgeny Donskoy or Yen-Hsun Lu from Taiwan to reach the quarter final.Aljaz Bedene won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4149,"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\/4154\/"}],"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=4154"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4440,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions\/4440\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4149\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=4154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=4154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=4154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}