{"id":947279,"date":"2026-10-31T06:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T06:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/947279\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T06:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T06:30:09","slug":"in-form-fernandez-reaches-tokyo-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/947279\/","title":{"rendered":"In-form Fernandez reaches Tokyo final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afp.com\/en\/urn:newsml:afp.com:20261031:92c90708-6c11-4fc9-a80a-b988fdad1e42\" rel=\"http:\/\/cv.iptc.org\/newscodes\/ninature\/picture nofollow noopener\" shape=\"rect\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><br \/>\n                 Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez reached the Tokyo final with a 7-5, 6-3 win over Uzbekistan&#8217;s Kamilla Rakhimova on Saturday to continue her hot streak on women&#8217;s tennis&#8217;s Asian swing.<\/p>\n<p>The world number 23 won her first title of the season in Singapore last month and followed that up by reaching the final of last week&#8217;s Ningbo Open in China, where she lost to world number one Elena Rybakina.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez will face either Russia&#8217;s Diana Shnaider or Slovakia&#8217;s Mia Pohankova in the Pan Pacific Open final as she looks for her seventh title on the WTA Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez reached the quarter-finals when Rybakina withdrew from their match with a neck injury, a day after securing the year-end world number one ranking.<\/p>\n<p>World number 66 Rakhimova was eliminated in qualifying in Tokyo but entered the main draw as a lucky loser and made it all the way to the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>She was attempting to reach her first final on the WTA Tour but she ran into a player in form in Fernandez, who hit nine aces.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian went a break down early in the first set but soon recovered with a break of her own before tipping the balance her way.<\/p>\n<p>Rakhimova also went a break up early in the second set but Fernandez clawed her way back again and took the match in just under two hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez reached the Tokyo final with a 7-5, 6-3 win over Uzbekistan&#8217;s Kamilla Rakhimova on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-947279","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\/947279","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=947279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}