{"id":6004,"date":"2018-06-08T13:15:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T11:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beheer.libema-open.nl\/en\/?p=6004"},"modified":"2018-06-08T12:47:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T10:47:16","slug":"tsitsipas-and-mcdonald-receive-wildcard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/2018\/06\/08\/tsitsipas-and-mcdonald-receive-wildcard\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsitsipas and McDonald receive wildcard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stefanos Tsitsipas and Mackenzie McDonald have received a wildcard for the main schedule of the Lib\u00e9ma Open.<\/p><p>Tsitsipas is this season\u2019s revelation. The 19-year-old Greek player has jumped no less that 160 places on the world ranking and currently takes 39<sup>th<\/sup> position. His best performance was at the ATP tournament in Barcelona, where the likeable Tsitsipas was defeated by the world\u2019s number one, Rafael Nadal, in the final.<\/p><p>The 23-year-old McDonald performed at his best at Challenger tournaments, but this year, he caused a sensation when he forced Grigor Dimitrov to a heavy five set match during the Australian Open. Currently McDonald takes 107<sup>th<\/sup> position on the world rankings, but he only plays for two years in the tour. Previously the player from Miami was active in American college tennis.<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefanos Tsitsipas and Mackenzie McDonald have received a wildcard for the main schedule of the Lib\u00e9ma Open.Tsitsipas is this season\u2019s revelation. The 19-year-old Greek player has jumped no less that 160 places on the world ranking and currently takes 39th position. His best performance was at the ATP tournament in Barcelona, where the likeable Tsitsipas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6000,"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\/6004\/"}],"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=6004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6005,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004\/revisions\/6005\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6000\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=6004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=6004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=6004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}