{"id":912017,"date":"2026-09-27T20:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/912017\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T20:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:58:13","slug":"leylah-fernandez-wins-singapore-open-for-1st-title-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/912017\/","title":{"rendered":"Leylah Fernandez wins Singapore Open for 1st title of season"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Canada’s Leylah Fernandez captured her first title of the season with a 7-5, 6-0 win over Australia’s Talia Gibson in the women’s singles final at the Singapore Tennis Open on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Laval, Que., native won the last nine games to secure the win in one hour 38 minutes. Fernandez dropped only one set across her five matches in the tournament.<\/p>\n

Fernandez had five aces and won 6 of 12 available break points. She made quick work of the second set, winning 81.8 per cent of her first serve points.<\/p>\n

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Canada’s Leylah Fernandez claims 1st WTA title of the season in Singapore<\/p>\n

Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que. captured the Singapore open title Sunday defeating Talia Gibson of Australia 7-5, 6-0.<\/p>\n

Fernandez, the world No. 31, came into the WTA 500 tournament seeded sixth and dispatched top seed Mirra Andreeva in the quarterfinals to advance.<\/p>\n

It marks the sixth career title for Fernandez, whose last triumph came at the Japan Women’s Open last October. All of her titles have been earned in hard-court tournaments.<\/p>\n

Fernandez improved to 6-3 in final appearances and now has two WTA 500 titles, having previously won the D.C. Open in July 2025.<\/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.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":912018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-912017","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\/912017","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=912017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}