{"id":24871,"date":"2025-07-27T01:32:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T01:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/24871\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T01:32:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T01:32:23","slug":"leylah-fernandez-to-face-anna-kalinskaya-in-dc-open-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/24871\/","title":{"rendered":"Leylah Fernandez to face Anna Kalinskaya in DC Open final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3641\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leylah Fernandez<\/a> will be trying to win her first WTA title of the season, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2977\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anna Kalinskaya<\/a> will seek the first of her career when they meet each other in the final of the hard-court DC Open.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez, the runner-up at the 2021 US Open, hit 12 aces and picked up her second victory of the week against a top-20 opponent by beating 2022 Wimbledon champion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3126\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elena Rybakina<\/a> 6-7 (2), 7-6 (3), 7-6 (3) across 3 hours, 16 minutes in the semifinals Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Kalinskaya needed less than half as much time to eliminate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3398\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Raducanu<\/a> 6-4, 6-3 with the help of 14 backhand winners in the other women&#8217;s semifinal. It was Raducanu who defeated Fernandez for the championship at Flushing Meadows four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Both finalists are unseeded. Canada&#8217;s Fernandez, who is 22 years old, is ranked 36th; Russia&#8217;s Kalinskaya, 26, is ranked 48th.<\/p>\n<p>Kalinskaya moved into her third tour-level final. She went 0-2 in title matches last season.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez, who got past top-seeded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2113\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Pegula<\/a> earlier in the week, owns three titles. Sunday&#8217;s matchup will be her seventh career final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON &#8212; Leylah Fernandez will be trying to win her first WTA title of the season, and Anna&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-24871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24871","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=24871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}