{"id":220629,"date":"2025-10-17T16:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/220629\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T16:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:32:10","slug":"canadas-leylah-annie-fernandez-advances-to-japan-open-semifinals-with-win-over-rebecca-sramkova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/220629\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Leylah Annie Fernandez advances to Japan Open semifinals with win over Rebecca Sramkova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OSAKA \u2014 Canada\u2019s Leylah Fernandez is off to the semifinals of the Japan Open tennis tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fernandez defeated Slovakia\u2019s Rebecca Sramkova 7-6 (2), 6-3 in the quarterfinals on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Laval, Que., native had one ace to three double faults but broke on four her nine chances in the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sramkova also had one ace, but committed seven double faults.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Slovakian converted two of her three break-point chances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fernandez will next face the winner between Switzerland\u2019s Viktorija Golubic and Romania\u2019s Sorana Cirstea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 16, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OSAKA \u2014 Canada\u2019s Leylah Fernandez is off to the semifinals of the Japan Open tennis tournament. Fernandez defeated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-220629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}