{"id":952884,"date":"2026-10-31T07:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T07:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/952884\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T07:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T07:48:09","slug":"canadas-leylah-fernandez-beats-uzbekistans-kamilla-rakhimova-to-reach-final-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/952884\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez beats Uzbekistan&#8217;s Kamilla Rakhimova to reach final in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TOKYO \u2014 Canada\u2019s Leylah Fernandez defeated Uzbekistan\u2019s Kamilla Rakhimova 7-5, 6-3 in semifinal play Saturday at the Pan Pacific Open. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fernandez, from Laval, Que., needed one hour 54 minutes to complete the victory. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She will play the winner of the late semifinal between Russia\u2019s Diana Shnaider and Slovakia\u2019s Mia Pohankova.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The final at the WTA 500 tournament was scheduled for Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 31, 2026. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO \u2014 Canada\u2019s Leylah Fernandez defeated Uzbekistan\u2019s Kamilla Rakhimova 7-5, 6-3 in semifinal play Saturday at the Pan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":952885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,88519,21072,44,82],"class_list":["post-952884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-kamilla-rakhimova","tag-leylah-fernandez","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952884","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=952884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/952885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}