{"id":4864,"date":"2017-06-18T17:23:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T15:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ricoh-open.nl\/en\/?p=4864"},"modified":"2018-03-19T11:00:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T09:00:37","slug":"muller-takes-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/2017\/06\/18\/muller-takes-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Muller takes final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After being viewed\u00a0\u200bas\u200b a grass court specialist for years, Gilles Muller (ATP-28) has now finally won a title on his beloved surface. In the final of the Ricoh Open the left-hander from Luxemburg defeated Croatia\u2019s power server Ivo Karlovic (ATP-24): 7-6(5)\u200b,\u200b 7-6(4).<\/p><p>Last year Muller won the semifinal with exactly the same score in the tiebreaks. He missed out on the final that year when he was defeated by three-time winner Nicolas Mahut.<\/p><p>The final was, as expected, decided through tiebreaks. The 34-year-old Muller managed to cause a bit more damage in his return points than his opponent, who is four years older. The match was recorded as the \u2018oldest\u2019 ATP final since 1976.<\/p><p>Muller\u200b&#8217;s\u200b second ATP-title of the year is also\u00a0\u200bthe\u200b second ATP title of his career. Karlovic has eight tournament victories, of which three were on grass.<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DKtZKYyUqng\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being viewed\u00a0\u200bas\u200b a grass court specialist for years, Gilles Muller (ATP-28) has now finally won a title on his beloved surface. In the final of the Ricoh Open the left-hander from Luxemburg defeated Croatia\u2019s power server Ivo Karlovic (ATP-24): 7-6(5)\u200b,\u200b 7-6(4).Last year Muller won the semifinal with exactly the same score in the tiebreaks. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4860,"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":[74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864\/"}],"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=4864"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5009,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864\/revisions\/5009\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4860\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=4864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=4864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=4864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}