{"id":904280,"date":"2026-09-21T16:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T16:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/904280\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T16:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T16:20:10","slug":"leylah-fernandez-holds-off-japanese-qualifier-in-singapore-advancing-to-round-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/904280\/","title":{"rendered":"Leylah Fernandez holds off Japanese qualifier in Singapore, advancing to Round 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez is through to the second round of the Singapore Tennis Open following a 6-2, 6-3 win over Japan&#8217;s Kyoka Okamura on Monday.  <\/p>\n<p>Fernandez, who is seeded sixth at the WTA 500 event, was challenged by the Japanese qualifier more than the scoreline suggested, as the match took two hours 19 minutes to complete.  <\/p>\n<p>The first set contained a total of 23 deuce points, with Fernandez defending 11 of 12 break points faced while converting three of 12.  <\/p>\n<p>Fernandez outaced her 30-year-old opponent 4-0.  <\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old from Laval, Que., will next face the winner of a match between American Alycia Parks and Japan&#8217;s Mei Yamaguchi.  Fernandez entered the tournament ranked No. 31 in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-904280","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\/904280","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=904280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}