{"id":911213,"date":"2026-09-27T04:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T04:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/911213\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T04:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T04:52:14","slug":"canadas-leylah-fernandez-rallies-to-reach-final-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/911213\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada’s Leylah Fernandez rallies to reach final in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Leylah Fernandez recovered from a lopsided opening-set loss to beat Poland’s Maja Chwali\u0144ska in the semifinals of the Singapore Tennis Open on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Laval, Que., native dropped the first set 6-1 but powered back to take the next two sets 6-4, 6-2.<\/p>\n

“Maya, she’s such an amazing player, very tricky to play against,” Fernandez said after the match in an on-court interview. “She doesn’t give you the same ball twice, not even three times. I knew it was going to be tough, and from the beginning, I guess I was just too, I was a little shocked, and then also I got a little too frustrated.<\/p>\n

“But of course, the crowd definitely helped me out to reset in the second set, and without you guys, I don’t think I would be in the finals, so thank you so much for the support and always believing in me.”<\/p>\n

It marks the first tour-level final of the season for Fernandez, who will face Australia’s Talia Gibson for the title on Sunday in the first meeting of the two women.<\/p>\n

Gibson defeated Tatiana Prozorova of Russia in a walkover.<\/p>\n

Prozorova said she was unfairly withdrawn from the semifinal because of a doctor’s concerns about a concussion.<\/p>\n

She was struck in the face by a ball during a doubles quarterfinal, which prompted an assessment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-911213","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\/911213","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=911213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}