{"id":221540,"date":"2025-10-18T05:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T05:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/221540\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T05:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T05:51:07","slug":"canadian-leylah-annie-fernandez-advances-to-the-wtas-japan-open-final-with-win-over-cirstea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/221540\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Leylah Annie Fernandez advances to the WTA&#8217;s Japan Open final with win over C\u00eerstea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OSAKA, Japan (AP) \u2014 The last remaining seeded player at the WTA\u2019s Japan Open is through to Sunday\u2019s final \u2014 Leylah Fernandez defeated 35-year-old Sorana C\u00eerstea 6-1, 2-6, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">At 4-4 in the deciding set Saturday, Fernandez broke C\u00eerstea\u2019s serve, then held her own serve in the next game to advance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The fourth-seeded Canadian player will face either Jaqueline Cristian or 18-year-old Tereza Valentova, a qualifier. Cristian and Valentova played their semifinal later Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cristian advanced to the semis when top-seeded Naomi Osaka pulled out with a left leg injury on Friday, giving the Romanian player a walkover in her quarterfinal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fernandez, the 2021 U.S. Open runner-up, advanced to her eighth career final. Her only run to a semifinal this season came at the WTA 500 D.C. Open, where she defeated Anna Kalinskaya in the final for her fourth WTA singles title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fernandez lost in three sets to Coco Gauff in the second round of the China Open in late September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OSAKA, Japan (AP) \u2014 The last remaining seeded player at the WTA\u2019s Japan Open is through to Sunday\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-221540","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\/221540","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=221540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}