{"id":906456,"date":"2026-09-26T17:36:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T17:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/906456\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T17:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T17:36:29","slug":"canadas-leylah-fernandez-rallies-to-reach-final-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/906456\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez rallies to reach final in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Leylah Fernandez recovered from a lopsided opening-set loss to beat Poland&#8217;s Maja Chwali\u0144ska in the semifinals of the Singapore Tennis Open on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Laval, Que., native dropped the first set 6-1 but powered back to take the next two sets 6-4, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maya, she&#8217;s such an amazing player, very tricky to play against,&#8221; Fernandez said after the match in an on-court interview. &#8220;She doesn&#8217;t give you the same ball twice, not even three times. I knew it was going to be tough, and from the beginning, I guess I was just too, I was a little shocked, and then also I got a little too frustrated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But of course, the crowd definitely helped me out to reset in the second set, and without you guys, I don&#8217;t think I would be in the finals, so thank you so much for the support and always believing in me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It marks the first tour-level final of the season for Fernandez, who will face Australia&#8217;s Talia Gibson for the title on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":906457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-906456","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\/906456","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=906456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}