{"id":609226,"date":"2026-04-17T01:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/609226\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T01:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:33:10","slug":"canadian-leylah-fernandez-rallies-for-stirring-three-set-win-at-porsche-tennis-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/609226\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Leylah Fernandez rallies for stirring three-set win at Porsche Tennis Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">STUTTGART \u2014 Canadian Leylah Fernandez rallied to win her second-round match Thursday at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix women\u2019s tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fernandez needed three sets to dispatch Turkish qualifier Zeynep Sonmez 6-7 (2), 6-1, 7-6 (5) and advance to the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fernandez overcame a 5-1 third-set deficit to force the tiebreaker with a third service break in five opportunities in the final set. Actually both players had their issues holding serve in the set as Sonmez had three breaks of her own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Both players struggled to hold serve in the contest as Fernandez finished with nine break points in 14 opportunities. Sonmez registered six breaks but had 24 opportunities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fernandez completed the match with two aces and eight double faults while Sonmez had three aces and three double faults.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fernandez will face top-seeded Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 16, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STUTTGART \u2014 Canadian Leylah Fernandez rallied to win her second-round match Thursday at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-609226","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\/609226","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=609226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}