{"id":581691,"date":"2026-04-02T23:49:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/581691\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T23:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:49:15","slug":"canadas-leylah-fernandez-falls-in-third-round-of-charleston-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/581691\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez falls in third round of Charleston Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez was eliminated in the third round of the Charleston Open tennis tournament following a 6-3, 6-0 loss to Russia&#8217;s Diana Shnaider on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Shnaider faced just two break points, saving both, and put consistent pressure on Fernandez&#8217;s serve.<\/p>\n<p>The seventh-seeded Russian had 15 break-point chances, converting four of them.<\/p>\n<p>Shnaider will face either top-seeded American Jessica Pegula or 14th-seeded Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto in the quarterfinals of the WTA 500 event.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez, who was seeded ninth in South Carolina, saw her record this year fall to 4-9.<\/p>\n<p>Shnaider has won three straight matches against Fernandez to take a 3-2 lead in their career series.\u2028<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez was eliminated in the third round of the Charleston Open tennis tournament following a 6-3,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-581691","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\/581691","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=581691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}