{"id":224427,"date":"2025-10-19T11:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/224427\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T11:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:12:09","slug":"leylah-annoe-fernandez-beats-tereza-valentova-in-three-sets-to-win-singles-crown-at-japan-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/224427\/","title":{"rendered":"Leylah Annoe Fernandez beats Tereza Valentova in three sets to win singles crown at Japan Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OSAKA \u2014 Canadian Leylah Fernandez got off to a quick start and then had to battle to defeat Tereza Valentova of Czechia 6-0, 5-7, 6-3 in the championship final of the Japan Women\u2019s Open on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 23-year-old Fernandez, of Laval, Que., needed only 28 minutes to win the first set, but then needed almost two more hours to close it out as the 18-year-old Valentova found her game at the Utsubo Tennis Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fernandez finished with three aces, seven winners and only four unforced errors and two double faults.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian won 43 points while receiving, compared to Valentova\u2019s 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fernandez had a 70 per cent win percentage on first serve and 46 per cent on second serve. She saved five of nine break points, while Valentova saved nine of 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 18, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OSAKA \u2014 Canadian Leylah Fernandez got off to a quick start and then had to battle to defeat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-224427","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\/224427","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=224427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}