{"id":216522,"date":"2025-10-16T04:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T04:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/216522\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T04:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T04:57:09","slug":"fernandez-tops-galfi-in-straight-sets-to-advance-at-japan-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/216522\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernandez tops Galfi in straight sets to advance at Japan Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OSAKA \u2014 Canada\u2019s Leylah Fernandez earned a 6-1, 6-4 win over Hungary\u2019s Dalma Galfi on Wednesday in second-round action at the Japan Open tennis tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fernandez of Laval, Que., hit one ace to three double faults but broke on three of her eight opportunities in the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She also won 78 per cent of her first-serve points compared to 55 per cent from her opponent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Galfi had three aces and two double faults but failed to convert her lone break-point chance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 15, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OSAKA \u2014 Canada\u2019s Leylah Fernandez earned a 6-1, 6-4 win over Hungary\u2019s Dalma Galfi on Wednesday in second-round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-216522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}