{"id":222470,"date":"2025-10-18T10:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T10:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/222470\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T10:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T10:15:07","slug":"leylah-fernandez-to-get-tereza-valentova-in-japan-open-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/222470\/","title":{"rendered":"Leylah Fernandez to get Tereza Valentova in Japan Open final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OSAKA, Japan &#8212; The last remaining seeded player at the WTA&#8217;s Japan Open has reached Sunday&#8217;s final &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3641\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leylah Fernandez<\/a> defeated 35-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/tennis\/player\/_\/id\/1774\/sorana-cirstea\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sorana C\u00eerstea<\/a> 6-1, 2-6, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>At 4-4 in the deciding set Saturday, Fernandez broke C\u00eerstea&#8217;s serve, then held her own serve in the next game to advance.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth-seeded Canadian player will face 18-year-old qualifier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=8419\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tereza Valentova<\/a> in the final. Valentova beat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2737\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaqueline Cristian<\/a> 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-3 in the other semifinal.<\/p>\n<p>Cristian advanced to the last four when top-seeded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2789\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Naomi Osaka<\/a> pulled out with a left leg injury on Friday, giving the Romanian player a walkover in her quarterfinal.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez, the 2021 US Open runner-up, advanced to her eighth career final. Her only run to a semifinal this season came at the WTA 500 D.C. Open, where she defeated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2977\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anna Kalinskaya<\/a> in the final for her fourth WTA singles title.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez lost in three sets to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3626\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coco Gauff<\/a> in the second round of the China Open in late September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OSAKA, Japan &#8212; The last remaining seeded player at the WTA&#8217;s Japan Open has reached Sunday&#8217;s final &#8212;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-222470","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\/222470","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=222470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}