Leylah Fernandez’s D.C. Open title defence is over.<\/p>\n
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’s WTA 500 tournament.<\/p>\n
Eala converted four of nine break points and won 63.3 per cent of the points on Fernandez’s second serve to take the match in one hour 53 minutes.<\/p>\n
The seventh-seeded Fernandez fell to 13-20 in singles action this season.<\/p>\n
She and partner Anna Danilina of Kazakhstan also exited the women’s doubles tournament Tuesday with a first-round loss to China’s Tang Qianhui and Xu Yifan.<\/p>\n
The world No. 34 moves on to the National Bank Open in Toronto, with singles main-draw play beginning Sunday.<\/p>\n
Fernandez and her sister, Bianca, also received a wild card for the women’s doubles tournament at Sobeys Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leylah Fernandez’s D.C. Open title defence is over. The 23-year-old from Laval, Que., lost 6-2, 7-6 (1) to…\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-834603","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\/834603","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=834603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834603\/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=834603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}