{"id":834413,"date":"2026-07-29T20:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T20:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/834413\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T20:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T20:30:07","slug":"canadas-leylah-fernandez-exits-d-c-open-with-second-round-loss-to-alexandra-eala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/834413\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez exits D.C. Open with second-round loss to Alexandra Eala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Leylah Fernandez\u2019s D.C. Open title defence is over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 23-year-old from Laval, Que., lost 6-2, 7-6 (1) to Alexandra Eala of the Philippines in the second round Wednesday after winning last year\u2019s WTA 500 tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Eala converted four of nine break points and won 63.3 per cent of the points on Fernandez\u2019s second serve to take the match in one hour 53 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The seventh-seeded Fernandez fell to 13-20 in singles action this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She and partner Anna Danilina of Kazakhstan also exited the women\u2019s doubles tournament Tuesday with a first-round loss to China\u2019s Tang Qianhui and Xu Yifan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The world No. 34 moves on to the National Bank Open in Toronto, with singles main-draw play beginning Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fernandez and her sister, Bianca, also received a wild card for the women\u2019s doubles tournament at Sobeys Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 29, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Leylah Fernandez\u2019s D.C. Open title defence is over. The 23-year-old from Laval, Que., lost 6-2, 7-6&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-834413","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\/834413","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=834413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}