{"id":4498,"date":"2017-06-15T15:35:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T13:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ricoh-open.nl\/en\/?p=4498"},"modified":"2017-06-16T14:02:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T12:02:06","slug":"cilic-passes-test-opening-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/2017\/06\/15\/cilic-passes-test-opening-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Cilic passes the test in opening match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Topseed Marin Cilic fought himself to the quarter finals at the Ricoh Open. The world\u00b4s number seven managed to come back after a one set disadvantage and turned the match into a victory. Janko Tipsarevic from Serbia was the victim after a ball over the net on matchpoint: 6-7(6) 6-2 6-4.<\/p><p>It is Cilic\u00b4s first performance in Rosmalen since 2006 and chose the Brabant grass to start the grass season this year.<\/p><p>To reach the semi finals the 2014 US Open champion has to defeat Vasek Pospisil. The Canadian qualifier saw Ukraine\u2019s Alexandr Dolgopolov withdraw at 7-6(2) 4-2.<\/p><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/02fUASLx9Us?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p><p><strong>Karrlovic<\/strong><\/p><p>Ivo Karlovic is another Croatian who qualified for the quarter finals. The third seed blew away the 19-year-old wildcard player Stefan Kozlov with 6-4 6-1 and will again play again a nextgen player in the quarter final.<\/p><p>The 21-year-old Russian Daniil Medvedev dealt with his peer Thanasi Kokkinakis from Australia: 6-3 7-6(3). He is the next player who will have to take on the service power of Karlovic.<\/p><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LWPSzQK0tnI?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topseed Marin Cilic fought himself to the quarter finals at the Ricoh Open. The world\u00b4s number seven managed to come back after a one set disadvantage and turned the match into a victory. Janko Tipsarevic from Serbia was the victim after a ball over the net on matchpoint: 6-7(6) 6-2 6-4.It is Cilic\u00b4s first performance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4481,"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\/4498\/"}],"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=4498"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4596,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498\/revisions\/4596\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4481\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=4498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=4498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=4498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}