{"id":929165,"date":"2026-10-15T15:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/929165\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T15:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:00:20","slug":"fernandez-eliminated-from-wuhan-open-with-third-round-loss-to-ostapenko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/929165\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernandez eliminated from Wuhan Open with third-round loss to Ostapenko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WUHAN \u2014 Canada\u2019s Leylah Fernandez was eliminated from the Wuhan Open tennis tournament Thursday with a 6-1, 1-6, 6-4 loss to Latvia\u2019s Jelena Ostapenko.<\/p>\n<p>After Ostapenko dominated the first set and won the opening game of the second set, Fernandez reeled off six straight game wins to get back into the match.<\/p>\n<p>Ostapenko regained control with a break in a nine-minute game to go up 3-2 in the third set.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez broke back to tie the set 4-4, but Ostapenko won against serve in the next game and then served out for the win.<\/p>\n<p>Ostapenko improved to 2-0 against Fernandez and will next face Russia\u2019s Diana Shnaider at the WTA 1000 event.<\/p>\n<p>In round-of-16 doubles action, the top-seeded team of Ottawa\u2019s Gabriela Dabrowski and Brazil\u2019s Luisa Stefani downed Norway\u2019s Ulrikke Eikeri and American Quinn Gleason 6-1, 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>Dabrowski and Stefani will face Mexico\u2019s Giuliana Olmos and Estonia\u2019s Ingrid Neel in Friday\u2019s quarterfinals.\u2028<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 15, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WUHAN \u2014 Canada\u2019s Leylah Fernandez was eliminated from the Wuhan Open tennis tournament Thursday with a 6-1, 1-6,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":929166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-929165","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\/929165","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=929165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}