{"id":80590,"date":"2025-08-19T07:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T07:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/80590\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T07:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T07:03:10","slug":"canadas-leylah-fernandez-makes-comeback-with-opening-round-win-at-monterrey-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/80590\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Leylah Fernandez makes comeback with opening-round win at Monterrey Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Canada’s Leylah Fernandez celebrates her 6-3, 7-5 first-round victory over Jaqueline Cristian of Romania at the WTA 500 Monterrey Open in Monterrey, Mexico.Hector Vivas\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Leylah Fernandez needed a major confidence boost after back-to-back opening-round exits at the National Bank Open in Montreal and Cincinnati Open.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old from Laval, Que., got it Monday night in Mexico with a 6-3, 7-5 first-round victory over Jaqueline Cristian of Romania at the WTA 500 Monterrey Open, where she is a former two-time champion.<\/p>\n

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The seventh-seeded Fernandez, who posted on Instagram that \u201cI like to think every setback is just a setup for the comeback,\u201d won the first set in 35 precision-filled minutes.<\/p>\n

Both players stayed on serve in the tight second set until Fernandez broke Cristian at 5-5, then served out to win 7-5 to take the match in one hour, 33 minutes.<\/p>\n

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Jaqueline Cristian of Romania playing against Fernandez at the WTA 500 Monterrey Open.Hector Vivas\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Fernandez, who won the Washington Open last month<\/a>, advances to the round of 16 and will face the winner of a match between Rebecca Sramkova of Slovakia and Victoria Rodriguez of Mexico.<\/p>\n

Cristian, who got stronger as Monday\u2019s match progressed, finished with five aces and three double faults. Fernandez had three aces and one double fault.<\/p>\n

Fernandez held an advantage on first serves, winning 86 per cent of her points on first serve, compared to 76 for Cristian.<\/p>\n

Fernandez won two of five break points and took 24 points while receiving. Cristian had 23 unforced errors, 11 more than Fernandez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Canada’s Leylah Fernandez celebrates her 6-3, 7-5 first-round victory over Jaqueline Cristian of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,44,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-80590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-news","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80590","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=80590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}