{"id":5429,"date":"2018-05-12T22:21:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T20:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beheer.libema-open.nl\/en\/?p=5429"},"modified":"2024-03-21T13:21:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T11:21:51","slug":"bertens-loses-fantastic-final-in-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/2018\/05\/12\/bertens-loses-fantastic-final-in-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Bertens loses fantastic final in Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kiki Bertens was not able to conclude her great week at the big WTA tournament in Madrid with a victory. The player from Wateringen was defeated by the world number ten Petra Kvitova in the spectacular final of this prestigious event: 7-6(6) 4-6 6-3.<\/p><p>Bertens reached the final against Kvitova after her impressive victories against, among others, five-time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova and top 10 players Caroline Wozniacki and Caroline Garcia. Kvitova is not only a two-time Wimbledon champion, but also two-time winner of the tournament in the Spanish capital. Holland\u2019s number one played very well in the biggest match of her career.<\/p><p>The first set, which lasted 74 minutes, had to be decided in a tiebreak when Bertens could not hold on to a break advantage. Finally the hard-won tiebreak was won with 8-6 by the left-handed Kvitova. The second set was won by Bertens, who managed to use her break advantage to win the set: 6-4.<\/p><p>The start of the third set looked promising for Bertens, but Kvitova survived and, after nearly three hours, she was lifting the trophy.<\/p><p>Bertens, winner of five WTA titles, takes 15<sup>th<\/sup> position in the world rankings after this match, her best ever.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiki Bertens was not able to conclude her great week at the big WTA tournament in Madrid with a victory. The player from Wateringen was defeated by the world number ten Petra Kvitova in the spectacular final of this prestigious event: 7-6(6) 4-6 6-3.Bertens reached the final against Kvitova after her impressive victories against, among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5426,"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\/5429\/"}],"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=5429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5429\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5430,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5429\/revisions\/5430\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5426\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=5429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=5429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=5429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}