{"id":953094,"date":"2026-10-31T11:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T11:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953094\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T11:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T11:48:09","slug":"canadas-fernandez-beats-uzbekistans-rakhimova-to-reach-japan-open-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953094\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Fernandez beats Uzbekistan&#8217;s Rakhimova to reach Japan Open final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez defeated Uzbekistan&#8217;s Kamilla Rakhimova 7-5, 6-3 in semifinal play Saturday at the Japan Open in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Fernandez, from Laval, Que., needed one hour 54 minutes to complete the victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">She will play the winner of the late semifinal between Russia&#8217;s Diana Shnaider and Slovakia&#8217;s Mia Pohankova.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">The final at the WTA 500 tournament was scheduled for Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Andreescu reaches quarters in Mexico<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Meanwhile, fellow Canadian Bianca Andreescu defeated Spain&#8217;s Alicia Herrero Linana 6-1, 6-1 in quarterfinal play at the Quer\u00e9taro Open in Quer\u00e9taro, Mexico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Andreescu, the No. 4 seed from Mississauga, Ont., needed just 55 minutes to breeze to her ninth victory in a row.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">She was scheduled to play Carole Monnet of France in the semifinals of the WTA 125 tournament on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-953094","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\/953094","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=953094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}