{"id":950380,"date":"2026-10-29T07:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950380\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T07:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:46:11","slug":"canadas-fernandez-holds-off-mertens-rally-to-advance-at-japan-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950380\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Fernandez holds off Mertens rally to advance at Japan Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez defeated fifth-seeded Elise Mertens of Belgium 6-2, 7-6 (8) in second-round women&#8217;s singles tennis action at the Japan Open.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez, of Laval, Que., went ahead 4-1 in the second set before Mertens staged her comeback effort Thursday morning in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>After dropping the next two games, Fernandez made it 5-3, but again gave up two consecutive games.<\/p>\n<p>In the tiebreak, Mertens won the first three points before Fernandez answered with three straight of her own.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A back-and-forth affair eventually led to Mertens taking an 8-7 edge but Fernandez won the last three points to seal the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez had three double faults and went without an ace. However, she converted four of her 11 break-point opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez defeated fifth-seeded Elise Mertens of Belgium 6-2, 7-6 (8) in second-round women&#8217;s singles tennis action&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-950380","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\/950380","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=950380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}