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\u201cSo they\u2019re both coming in with some good confidence. Either player, it\u2019s going to be a tough match. For myself, I\u2019m just going to focus on my own game and what I can do to neutralize them and make them uncomfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n
A year ago, Fernandez and Venus Williams made an inspired run to the US Open doubles quarterfinals.<\/p>\n
Next month, Fernandez will take a US Open title shot alongside another explosive American partnering Frances Tiafoe in US Open Mixed Doubles. Tiafoe was originally scheduled to partner long-time friend Hailey Baptiste, who tore her ACL in her left knee at Roland Garros in May.<\/p>\n
Fernandez texted fellow lululemon ambassador Tiafoe and asked him to play. Big Foe accepted the offer creating what promises to be a popular mixed doubles pairing with 2021 US Open singles finalist Fernandez and two-time US Open singles semifinalist Tiafoe.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old Fernandez has high hopes for the partnership.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were trying to think of different partners, maybe who I can message. Frances was definitely at the top of my list,\u201d Fernandez said. \u201cWhen I first messaged him, I knew he was playing with
Hailey, and it was unfortunate that she sustained an injury at Roland Garros, but yes, I was kind of waiting a little bit. I was also trying to look at different options, but Frances came back to me and said, Yeah, let\u2019s do it, let\u2019s play, and hopefully we can do well.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a great atmosphere. I know he loves the energy, and I love it, too. Hopefully we can go far.\u201d<\/p>\n
Richard Pagliaro. Richard Pagliaro is Tennis Now Managing Editor. He is a graduate of New York University and has covered pro tennis for more than 35 years. Richard was tennis columnist for Gannett Newspapers in NY, served as Managing Editor for TennisWeek.com and worked as a writer\/editor for Tennis.com. He has been TennisNow.com managing editor since 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leylah Fernandez talks her Washington, DC title defense and US Open mixed doubles partner. By Richard Pagliaro |…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-828147","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\/828147","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=828147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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