{"id":946092,"date":"2026-10-25T20:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T20:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/946092\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T20:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T20:10:18","slug":"canadas-fernandez-falls-to-top-ranked-rybakina-in-ningbo-open-womens-tennis-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/946092\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Fernandez falls to top-ranked Rybakina in Ningbo Open women&#8217;s tennis final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NINGBO \u2014 Canada\u2019s Leylah Fernandez fell 6-2, 6-2 to world No. 1 Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan in the Ningbo Open women\u2019s tennis final on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fernandez, from Laval, Que., had two aces to three double faults but failed to break on all four of her chances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Rybakina had three aces to two double faults but converted on four of her five break-point opportunities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 30th-ranked Fernandez was in search of her second WTA title of the season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rybakina, on the other hand, won her tour-leading fourth title of the season and first as No. 1. She won the Australian Open, Stuttgart Open and U.S. Open earlier in the year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rybakina is now 8-0 in her career at the Ningbo Open, having also won the title in 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 25, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NINGBO \u2014 Canada\u2019s Leylah Fernandez fell 6-2, 6-2 to world No. 1 Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-946092","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\/946092","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=946092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}