{"id":5806,"date":"2018-05-29T16:10:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T14:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beheer.libema-open.nl\/en\/?p=5806"},"modified":"2024-03-21T13:21:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T11:21:47","slug":"mertens-and-flipkens-reach-second-round-roland-garros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/2018\/05\/29\/mertens-and-flipkens-reach-second-round-roland-garros\/","title":{"rendered":"Mertens and Flipkens reach second round Roland Garros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belgians Elise Mertens and Kirsten Flipkens have reached the second round at Roland Garros. Mertens, seeded 16<sup>th<\/sup>, had a tough job in beating Varvara Lepchenko from the USA. The 22-year-old player from Leuven needed three sets to defeat the world\u2019s number 92: 6-7(9) 7-6(4) 6-0.<\/p><p>The match on court 6 had to be postponed due to rain. Mertens was leading with 3-0 in the third set. On Tuesday, when the match was continued, the world\u2019s number 16 did not give away any game to her left-handed opponent.<\/p><p>Mertens meet Heather Watson in the second round. The Brit easily defeated home player Oceane Dodin with 6-3 6-0.<\/p><p>Kirsten Flipkens also reached the second round in the French capital. The 32-year-old player from Geel defeated Tatjan Maria with 7-6(1) 6-4) and will meet Daria Kasatkina in de second round. The Russian 14<sup>th<\/sup> seed convincingly won her match against Kaia Kanepi from Estland in the opening round with 6-4 6-1.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgians Elise Mertens and Kirsten Flipkens have reached the second round at Roland Garros. Mertens, seeded 16th, had a tough job in beating Varvara Lepchenko from the USA. The 22-year-old player from Leuven needed three sets to defeat the world\u2019s number 92: 6-7(9) 7-6(4) 6-0.The match on court 6 had to be postponed due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5199,"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":[76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5806\/"}],"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=5806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5806\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5807,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5806\/revisions\/5807\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5199\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=5806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=5806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=5806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}