{"id":219180,"date":"2025-10-17T06:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T06:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/219180\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T06:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T06:57:07","slug":"leylah-fernandez-advances-to-japan-open-semifinals-with-win-over-sramkova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/219180\/","title":{"rendered":"Leylah Fernandez advances to Japan Open semifinals with win over Sramkova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/sports\/tennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tennis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez is off to the semifinals of the Japan Open tennis tournament after beating Slovakia&#8217;s Rebecca Sramkova 7-6 (2), 6-3 in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian will face the winner between Viktorija Golubic and Sorana Cirstea<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press  \u00b7 Posted: Oct 17, 2025 12:54 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"A female tennis player fist-pumps after winning a point.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760684227_725_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"leadmedia-story-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez reacts after winning a point against Rebecca Sramkova during their quarterfinal match at the Japan Open tennis tournament. (Paul Miller\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez is off to the semifinals of the Japan Open tennis tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez defeated Slovakia&#8217;s Rebecca Sramkova 7-6 (2), 6-3 in the quarterfinals on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Laval, Que., native had one ace to three double faults but broke on four of her nine chances in the match.<\/p>\n<p>Sramkova also had one ace, but committed seven double faults. The Slovakian converted two of her three break-point chances.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez will next face the winner between Switzerland&#8217;s Viktorija Golubic and Romania&#8217;s Sorana Cirstea.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/corrections-clarifications-1.5893564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corrections and clarifications<\/a>\u00b7Report error<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennis Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez is off to the semifinals of the Japan Open tennis tournament after beating Slovakia&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-219180","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\/219180","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=219180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}