DATE: 06 Jun - 12 Jun 2016
SURFACE: Grass
PRIZE MONEY: $226,750
FIELD SIZE: 28
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Camila Giorgi
Seeds:
1. BENCIC, Belinda
2. JANKOVIC, Jelena
3. MLADENOVIC, Kristina
4. OSTAPENKO, Jelena
5. SIEGEMUND, Laura
6. VANDEWEGHE, CoCo
7. BOUCHARD, Eugenie
8. FRIEDSAM, Anna-Lena
The Tournament:
Held at the Autotron Rosmalen exhibition complex in southern Netherlands about 7 km east of 's-Hertogenbosch the week after the French Open, the Topshelf Open serves as a chance for many players to get acclimated to the grass in preparation for Wimbledon. Launched as an ATP tournament in 1990, it became a joint event in 1996
Belinda Bencic and Jelena Jankovic head the field.
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: $226,750
FIELD SIZE: 28
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Camila Giorgi
Seeds:
1. BENCIC, Belinda
2. JANKOVIC, Jelena
3. MLADENOVIC, Kristina
4. OSTAPENKO, Jelena
5. SIEGEMUND, Laura
6. VANDEWEGHE, CoCo
7. BOUCHARD, Eugenie
8. FRIEDSAM, Anna-Lena
The Tournament:
Held at the Autotron Rosmalen exhibition complex in southern Netherlands about 7 km east of 's-Hertogenbosch the week after the French Open, the Topshelf Open serves as a chance for many players to get acclimated to the grass in preparation for Wimbledon. Launched as an ATP tournament in 1990, it became a joint event in 1996
Belinda Bencic and Jelena Jankovic head the field.
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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