{"id":743329,"date":"2026-06-17T19:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/743329\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T19:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:10:20","slug":"canadas-leylah-fernandez-ukraines-starodubtseva-advance-to-nottingham-doubles-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/743329\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Leylah Fernandez, Ukraine\u2019s Starodubtseva advance to Nottingham doubles quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NOTTINGHAM \u2014 Canada\u2019s Leylah Fernandez and Ukraine\u2019s Yuliia Starodubtseva advanced to the doubles quarterfinals at the Nottingham Open with a 6-0, 6-2 win over Taiwan\u2019s Wu Fang-Hsien and Japan\u2019s Eri Hozumi on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fernandez and Starodubtseva were strong on serve, winning 81 per cent of first-serve points and 64 per cent on second serve,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The winners saved both break points they faced, while converting breaks on five of seven chances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fernandez and Starodubtseva will face another Taiwanese-Japanese combo in the quarterfinals at the WTA 250 grass-court event, second seeds Chan Hao-ching and Shuko Aoyama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fernandez, from Laval, Que., has struggled in singles play this year but has had an encouraging doubles run on grass so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She teamed with Germany\u2019s Laura Siegemund to reach the final of the HSBC Championships last week.\u2028<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 17, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NOTTINGHAM \u2014 Canada\u2019s Leylah Fernandez and Ukraine\u2019s Yuliia Starodubtseva advanced to the doubles quarterfinals at the Nottingham Open&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-743329","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\/743329","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=743329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}