DATE: 06 Jun - 12 Jun 2016
SURFACE: Grass
PRIZE MONEY: €566,525
FIELD SIZE: 28
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Nicholas Mahut
Seeds:
1. David Ferrer
2. Bernard Tomic
3. Ivo Karlovic
4. Steve Johnson
5. Sam Querrey
6. Andreas Seppi
7. Gilles Muller
8. Nicolas Mahut
The Tournament:
The Ricoh Open is one of seven tour-level events played on grass, and hosts both the men's and women's tours in the opening week of the grass-court swing.
David Ferrer and Bernard Tomic head the field as the grass court swing begins.
About s-Hertogenbosch
s-Hertogenbosch: literally "The Duke's Forest" in English, and historically in French: Bois-le-Duc) is a city and municipality in the southern Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Brabant. In speech, the Dutch seldom use the formal 's-Hertogenbosch but rather the colloquial Den Bosch. Den Bosch means "The Forest". The duke in question was Duke Henry of Brabant, whose family had owned a large estate at nearby Orthen for at least four centuries. He founded a new town located on some forested dunes in the middle of a marsh. At age 26, he granted 's-Hertogenbosch city rights and the corresponding trade privileges in 1185.
The birthplace and home of one of the greatest painters of the northern Reneissance, Hieronymus Bosch, 's-Hertogenbosch suffered a catastrophic fire in 1463, which the then (approximately) 13-year-old Bosch probably witnessed; presumably, this fire provided inspiration for the fiery hell-scapes that would later make Bosch famous.
The city has its own food speciality, the Bossche-Bol—effectively a giant profiterole, somewhat larger than a tennis ball, which is filled with whipped cream and coated with chocolate. The spoken language is Maaslands (The variant spoken in 's-Hertogenbosch is called Boschwhich is placed among the Central North Brabantian dialects, although other classification systems also describe it as East Brabantian), which is very similar to colloquial Dutch.
Tourism Guide:
SURFACE: Grass
PRIZE MONEY: €566,525
FIELD SIZE: 28
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Nicholas Mahut
Seeds:
1. David Ferrer
2. Bernard Tomic
3. Ivo Karlovic
4. Steve Johnson
5. Sam Querrey
6. Andreas Seppi
7. Gilles Muller
8. Nicolas Mahut
The Tournament:
The Ricoh Open is one of seven tour-level events played on grass, and hosts both the men's and women's tours in the opening week of the grass-court swing.
David Ferrer and Bernard Tomic head the field as the grass court swing begins.
About s-Hertogenbosch
s-Hertogenbosch: literally "The Duke's Forest" in English, and historically in French: Bois-le-Duc) is a city and municipality in the southern Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Brabant. In speech, the Dutch seldom use the formal 's-Hertogenbosch but rather the colloquial Den Bosch. Den Bosch means "The Forest". The duke in question was Duke Henry of Brabant, whose family had owned a large estate at nearby Orthen for at least four centuries. He founded a new town located on some forested dunes in the middle of a marsh. At age 26, he granted 's-Hertogenbosch city rights and the corresponding trade privileges in 1185.
The birthplace and home of one of the greatest painters of the northern Reneissance, Hieronymus Bosch, 's-Hertogenbosch suffered a catastrophic fire in 1463, which the then (approximately) 13-year-old Bosch probably witnessed; presumably, this fire provided inspiration for the fiery hell-scapes that would later make Bosch famous.
The city has its own food speciality, the Bossche-Bol—effectively a giant profiterole, somewhat larger than a tennis ball, which is filled with whipped cream and coated with chocolate. The spoken language is Maaslands (The variant spoken in 's-Hertogenbosch is called Boschwhich is placed among the Central North Brabantian dialects, although other classification systems also describe it as East Brabantian), which is very similar to colloquial Dutch.
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