{"id":834762,"date":"2026-07-30T00:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T00:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/834762\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T00:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T00:12:08","slug":"canadas-leylah-fernandez-exits-d-c-open-with-loss-to-eala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/834762\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez exits D.C. Open with loss to 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\">\u201cI know that she was playing a little better, and maybe my level dropped a little bit,\u201d Eala said of her second-set comeback. \u201cThose are very tricky moments, when you know your level has dropped and you want to do better, but things for one reason or another just aren\u2019t coming out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI think patience was key there, just trying to work it out, and a strong mentality in terms of trying to find solutions.\u201d<\/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>Related Stories<\/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":834763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44,82],"class_list":["post-834762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834762","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=834762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}