{"id":933050,"date":"2026-10-14T19:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T19:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/933050\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T19:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T19:14:09","slug":"canadas-leylah-fernandez-advances-to-third-round-of-wuhan-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/933050\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez advances to third round of Wuhan Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez advanced to the third round of the Wuhan Open tennis tournament with a 6-3, 6-4 win over China&#8217;s Shi Han on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Shi, who opened the tournament with an upset of 13th seed Alexandra Eala, hit 23 unforced errors, 10 more than Fernandez. She managed to convert just one of eight break-point chances.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez had her struggles on serve with seven double faults, but made the most of her opportunities with three breaks on four chances.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old from Laval, Que., will next face Latvia&#8217;s Jelena Ostapenko at the WTA 1000 event.<\/p>\n<p>Ostapenko won their only previous meeting in the first round of Wimbledon in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez entered Wuhan ranked 25th in the world and won her sixth career WTA title last month in Singapore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez advanced to the third round of the Wuhan Open tennis tournament with a 6-3, 6-4&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-933050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933050","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=933050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}