{"id":832479,"date":"2026-07-29T00:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/832479\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T00:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:01:10","slug":"leylah-fernandez-partner-anna-danilina-bounced-in-d-c-open-doubles-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/832479\/","title":{"rendered":"Leylah Fernandez, partner Anna Danilina bounced in D.C. Open doubles first round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Canada\u2019s Leylah Fernandez and partner Anna Danilina of Kazakhstan exited the D.C. Open women\u2019s doubles tournament with a first-round loss Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The fourth-seeded Fernandez and Danilina fell 6-2, 6-4 to China\u2019s Tang Qianhui and Xu Yifan in one hour 13 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Chinese duo converted five of nine break-point opportunities while successfully defending four of six chances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They\u2019ll meet Venus Williams of the United States and Diana Shnaider of Russia in Wednesday\u2019s quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fernandez remains in the D.C. Open singles tournament as the defending champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 23-year-old from Laval, Que., will face Alexandra Eala of the Philippines in the second round Wednesday after opening her tournament with a straight-sets victory over Poland\u2019s Magda Linette on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 28, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Canada\u2019s Leylah Fernandez and partner Anna Danilina of Kazakhstan exited the D.C. Open women\u2019s doubles tournament&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-832479","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\/832479","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=832479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}