{"id":741464,"date":"2026-06-17T02:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T02:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/741464\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T02:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T02:48:16","slug":"canadas-fernandez-loses-to-sonmez-in-first-round-at-nottingham-brandon-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/741464\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Fernandez loses to Sonmez in first round at Nottingham \u2013 Brandon Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NOTTINGHAM \u2013 Canada\u2019s Leylah Fernandez was upset 6-4, 7-6 (1) by Turkey\u2019s Zeynep Sonmez in first-round action Friday at the Nottingham Open.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez, seeded second at the WTA 205 grass-court event, had seven aces, but she hit into four double-faults and was broken three times.<\/p>\n<p>Sonmez evened her career record against Fernandez at 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/941db1e5de44a8f1ca5f120f03c8071d4254015af279c0612f20c26099202cee.jpg\" data-pswp- data-pswp-width=\"1024\" data-pswp-height=\"682\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/941db1e5de44a8f1ca5f120f03c8071d4254015af279c0612f20c26099202cee.jpg\" alt=\"Leylah Fernandez of Canada plays a return to Kaite Boulter of Britain during their first round match at the Queen's Club tennis championships in London, Tuesday, June 9, 2026. (AP Photo\/Alberto Pezzali)\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLeylah Fernandez of Canada plays a return to Kaite Boulter of Britain during their first round match at the Queen&#8217;s Club tennis championships in London, Tuesday, June 9, 2026. (AP Photo\/Alberto Pezzali)<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez came out on top earlier this year when she beat Sonmez in three sets at the clay-court Stuttgart Open.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Fernandez, from Laval, Que., saw her season record drop to 11-17.<\/p>\n<p>The world No. 22 has lost her first match in four of her last five events.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 16, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NOTTINGHAM \u2013 Canada\u2019s Leylah Fernandez was upset 6-4, 7-6 (1) by Turkey\u2019s Zeynep Sonmez in first-round action Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-741464","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\/741464","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=741464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}