{"id":742120,"date":"2026-06-17T05:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T05:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/742120\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T05:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T05:49:10","slug":"canadas-fernandez-suffers-first-round-upset-loss-at-nottingham-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/742120\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Fernandez suffers first-round upset loss at Nottingham Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez was upset 6-4, 7-6 (1) by Turkey&#8217;s Zeynep Sonmez in first-round action Friday at the Nottingham Open.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez, seeded second at the WTA 205 grass-court event, had seven aces, but she hit into four double-faults and was broken three times.<\/p>\n<p>Sonmez evened her career record against Fernandez at 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez came out on top earlier this year when she beat Sonmez in three sets at the clay-court Stuttgart Open.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Fernandez, from Laval, Que., saw her season record drop to 11-17.<\/p>\n<p>The world No. 22 has lost her first match in four of her last five events.\u2028<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez was upset 6-4, 7-6 (1) by Turkey&#8217;s Zeynep Sonmez in first-round action Friday at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-742120","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\/742120","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=742120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}