{"id":26491,"date":"2025-07-26T22:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T22:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/26491\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T22:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T22:48:07","slug":"canadas-leylah-fernandez-advances-to-citi-open-final-after-three-set-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/26491\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Leylah Fernandez advances to Citi Open final after three-set win"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Leylah Fernandez returns the ball during a match at the Citi Open tennis tournament on Thursday.Nick Wass\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

Canadian Leylah Fernandez is on to the finals of the Citi Open.<\/p>\n

Fernandez, from Laval, Que., beat Kazakhstan\u2019s Elena Rybakina in three sets on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

She\u2019ll face the winner of the other semifinal between Great Britain\u2019s Emma Raducanu and Anna Kalinskaya, who is from Russia, on Sunday.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s already Fernandez\u2019s best showing of 2025.<\/p>\n

Fernandez was ranked 36th in the world heading into the Citi Open in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old has yet to win on the WTA tour, but did reach the U.S. Open final in 2021 where she lost to Raducanu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Leylah Fernandez returns the ball during a match at the Citi Open tennis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,44,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-26491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-news","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26491","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=26491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}