{"id":947545,"date":"2026-10-31T11:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T11:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/947545\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T11:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T11:50:08","slug":"tennis-fernandez-sets-up-pan-pacific-open-title-clash-with-shnaider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/947545\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis-Fernandez sets up Pan Pacific Open title clash with Shnaider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO, Oct 31 (Reuters) \u2013 Canada\u2019s Leylah Fernandez extended her strong late-season run by beating \u200bKamilla Rakhimova 7-5 6-3 \u200con Saturday to reach the Pan Pacific Open final, where she faces Russia\u2019s Diana Shnaider.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The 24-year-old reached \u200ca \u200bsecond straight final \u2060after finishing runner-up \u2060to world number one Elena Rybakina in Ningbo last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Fernandez, who advanced to the \u200bsemi-finals via a walkover after Rybakina withdrew from their \u2060quarter-final, won her \u2060first title of the \u200bseason in Singapore in September.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The \u200bCanadian will bid for another \u200ctrophy against third seed Shnaider, who booked her place in Sunday\u2019s final with a 6-4 \u20607-6(7) victory over Slovak teenager Mia Pohankova.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u201cI\u2019m proud of my mental fortitude,\u201d Fernandez \u2060said. \u201cThese \u200caren\u2019t easy matches so \u2060I\u2019m happy that I \u200bwas \u200cable to find solutions \u200band stay \u2060calm in tough moments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Shnaider is chasing her first title of the season.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Suramya Kaushik in Bengaluru; Editing by \u200bKen Ferris)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO, Oct 31 (Reuters) \u2013 Canada\u2019s Leylah Fernandez extended her strong late-season run by beating \u200bKamilla Rakhimova 7-5&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-947545","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\/947545","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=947545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}