{"id":634460,"date":"2026-04-28T16:22:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/634460\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T16:22:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:22:37","slug":"canadas-leylah-fernandez-falls-to-mirra-andreeva-in-madrid-open-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/634460\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez falls to Mirra Andreeva in Madrid Open quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MADRID \u2014 Canada\u2019s Leylah Fernandez was eliminated from the Madrid Open clay-court tournament with a 7-6 (1), 6-3 loss to ninth-seeded Mirra Andreeva in Tuesday\u2019s quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Andreeva saved three set points in the opening set before taking the tiebreak and seizing control of the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fernandez, seeded 24th, was facing Andreeva for the third time, with the Russian improving to 2-1 in their head-to-head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Laval, Que., native had reached the quarterfinals with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Ann Li in the round of 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fernandez was only the second Canadian to reach the Madrid quarterfinals and had matched her best WTA 1000 result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Andreeva advanced to her first Madrid semifinal and will face either top seed Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus or Hailey Baptiste of the United States.\u2028<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 28, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADRID \u2014 Canada\u2019s Leylah Fernandez was eliminated from the Madrid Open clay-court tournament with a 7-6 (1), 6-3&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-634460","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\/634460","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=634460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}