{"id":738039,"date":"2026-06-15T12:20:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/738039\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T12:20:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:20:25","slug":"leylah-fernandez-partner-laura-siegemund-advance-to-queens-club-doubles-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/738039\/","title":{"rendered":"Leylah Fernandez, partner Laura Siegemund advance to Queen\u2019s Club doubles final"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Leylah Fernandez celebrates during her first round match at the Queen’s Club Championships in London. Fernandez, ranked 23rd in women\u2019s singles, could secure her first WTA doubles title with a victory on Sunday.Alberto Pezzali\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s Leylah Fernandez and partner Laura Siegemund of Germany advanced to the women\u2019s doubles final at the HSBC Championships after another walkover at The Queen\u2019s Club in West London on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Fernandez and Siegemund were scheduled to face Americans Iva Jovic and McCartney Kessler, but Jovic withdrew after losing 6-2, 6-2 to Britain\u2019s Emma Raducanu in the singles semi-finals earlier in the day.<\/p>\n

The pair will now meet Slovakia\u2019s Tereza Mihalikova and Britain\u2019s Olivia Nicholls in Sunday\u2019s final.<\/p>\n

Fernandez and Siegemund also advanced via walkover to the semi-finals after Canadian star Victoria Mboko withdrew from the WTA 500 event, halting a much-hyped doubles partnership with 44-year-old tennis legend Serena Williams.<\/p>\n

Mboko\u2019s knee injury forces withdrawal from Queen\u2019s Club, and ends doubles run with Williams<\/a><\/p>\n

Williams returned to competitive tennis this week after nearly four years away, teaming with Mboko for a 7-6 (2), 6-2 win over Erin Routliffe of New Zealand and Nicole Melichar-Martinez of the United States.<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old Mboko announced Friday she would miss the rest of the grass-court season, including Wimbledon, due to a knee injury<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fernandez, ranked 23rd in women\u2019s singles, could secure her first WTA doubles title with a victory on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Leylah Fernandez celebrates during her first round match at the Queen’s Club Championships…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[3793,3782,64,63,3794,1348,3774,3795,2065,3773,3787,3788,3784,3775,3772,164,2555,75,69,3781,3805,3776,3777,3786,3783,1625,2289,3796,3779,3800,3801,3803,3798,3802,3797,3799,3778,3790,3791,84,3789,2111,85,635,105,747,3792,3785,3780,1346,3804],"class_list":["post-738039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-tennis","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738039","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=738039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}