{"id":224630,"date":"2025-10-19T07:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T07:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/224630\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T07:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T07:31:09","slug":"leylah-fernandez-wins-japan-open-for-fifth-career-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/224630\/","title":{"rendered":"Leylah Fernandez wins Japan Open for fifth career title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OSAKA, Japan &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3641\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leylah Fernandez<\/a> beat 18-year-old qualifier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=8419\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tereza Valentova<\/a> 6-0, 5-7, 6-3 in the final of the WTA&#8217;s Japan Open on Sunday for her fifth career title.<\/p>\n<p>Playing in her eighth career final, the one-time US Open runner-up raced through the first set in 29 minutes, before Valentova settled her nerves in the second set and found a way to level the match when she broke Fernandez in the 12 game.<\/p>\n<p>In the deciding set, the 27th-ranked Fernandez made a crucial break in the fourth game and then fought off a late challenge by the Czech player to claim her second title of the season after taking the WTA 500 D.C. Open in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OSAKA, Japan &#8212; Leylah Fernandez beat 18-year-old qualifier Tereza Valentova 6-0, 5-7, 6-3 in the final of the&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-224630","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\/224630","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=224630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224630\/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=224630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}