{"id":611433,"date":"2026-04-18T01:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/611433\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T01:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:53:08","slug":"fernandez-falls-in-three-set-thriller-to-top-seed-rybakina-in-stuttgart-quarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/611433\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernandez falls in three-set thriller to top seed Rybakina in Stuttgart quarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., fell 7-6 (5), 6-4, 7-6 (6) to top seed Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan in a quarterfinal Friday at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>Rybakina improved to 3-2 against the Canadian in a match that lasted three hours.<\/p>\n<p>The final-set tiebreak was tied six times before Rybakina won the last two points.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez converted 4 of 8 break points, while Rybakina went 3-for-14.<\/p>\n<p>Rybakina finished with a 7-6 edge in aces.<\/p>\n<p>Rybakina will face sixth seed Mirra Andreeva of Russia in the semifinals Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., fell 7-6 (5), 6-4, 7-6 (6) to top seed Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-611433","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\/611433","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=611433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}