{"id":939422,"date":"2026-10-20T00:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T00:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/939422\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T00:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T00:36:13","slug":"canadas-leylah-fernandez-beats-elise-mertens-at-ningbo-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/939422\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez beats Elise Mertens at Ningbo Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leylah Fernandez continued her recent run of good play in Asia on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The unseeded Canadian beat No. 7 seed Elise Mertens of Belgium 2-6, 6-3, 7-5 in the opening round of the Ningbo Open in China.<\/p>\n<p>Mertens is ranked 15th in the world, while Fernandez is No. 30.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez won her first tournament of the season at the Singapore Open last month. She&#8217;s coming off a run to the round of 16 at the Wuhan Open.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez will next face world No. 122 Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus at the WTA 500 event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leylah Fernandez continued her recent run of good play in Asia on Monday. The unseeded Canadian beat No.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-939422","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\/939422","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=939422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}