{"id":578416,"date":"2026-04-03T00:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/578416\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T00:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:03:09","slug":"leylah-fernandez-fails-to-reach-charleston-open-quarterfinals-falling-in-straight-sets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/578416\/","title":{"rendered":"Leylah Fernandez fails to reach Charleston Open quarterfinals, falling in straight sets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez was eliminated in the third round of the Charleston Open tennis tournament following a 6-3, 6-0 loss to Russia&#8217;s Diana Shnaider in South Carolina on Thursday.  <\/p>\n<p>Shnaider faced just two break points, saving both, and put consistent pressure on Fernandez&#8217;s serve.  <\/p>\n<p>The seventh-seeded Russian had 15 break-point chances, converting four of them.  <\/p>\n<p>Shnaider will face top-seeded American Jessica Pegula in the quarterfinals of the WTA 500 event.  <\/p>\n<p>Fernandez of Laval, Que., who was seeded ninth in South Carolina, saw her record this year fall to 4-9.  <\/p>\n<p>Shnaider has won three straight matches against Fernandez to take a 3-2 lead in their career series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-578416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578416","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=578416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}