{"id":657016,"date":"2026-05-08T23:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/657016\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T23:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:49:08","slug":"canadas-leylah-fernandez-exits-italian-open-after-three-set-loss-to-masarova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/657016\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez exits Italian Open after three-set loss to Masarova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">ROME \u2014 Leylah Fernandez was upset by world No. 160 Rebeka Masarova of Switzerland 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the round of 64 at the Italian Open on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Laval, Que., native took the opening set before Masarova answered in the second and dominated on serve in the third, winning 95 per cent of her first-serve points while not allowing Fernandez a break-point chance in the final set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Leylah Fernandez, ranked 23rd in the world and seeded 25th in Rome, finished with one ace and five double faults.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Masarova converted five of 10 break-point chances in the two-hour, 23-minute clay-court match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Montreal\u2019s F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime, the lone Canadian still alive in singles play, will face Argentina\u2019s Mariano Navone in the round of 64 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In women\u2019s doubles, Ottawa\u2019s Gabriela Dabrowski and Brazil\u2019s Luisa Stefani, seeded fourth, will open the tournament against Czechia\u2019s Marie Bouzkova and Russia\u2019s Anna Panova, while Fernandez and Italy\u2019s Elisabetta Cocciaretto will meet Americans Taylor Townsend and Katerina Siniakova.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 8, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROME \u2014 Leylah Fernandez was upset by world No. 160 Rebeka Masarova of Switzerland 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-657016","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\/657016","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=657016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}