Canada’s Leylah Fernandez is feeling good on American soil again.\u00a0After upsetting No. 1 seed Jessica Pegula in the second round, the World No. 36 moved through to the semifinals of the WTA 500 Mubadala Citi DC Open with a 6-4, 7-6(4) win over another American, qualifier Taylor Townsend, on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Washington, D.C.:\u00a0Draws<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Scores<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Order of play<\/a><\/p>\n With three wins in D.C., Fernandez is through to the biggest hard-court semifinal of her career since she finished as runner-up to Emma Raducanu at the 2021 US Open. Fernandez’s three semifinal appearances on the surface since then all came at WTA 250-level events.\u00a0<\/p>\n To get to the final four, Fernandez staved off a comeback effort from World No. 97 Townsend. After opening up a 5-1 lead in the first set, she broke serve at 5-4 after failing to serve the set out twice. In set two, she came from 5-3 down — saving a set point — and then regrouped from a 5-3 tiebreak deficit to seal the victory in straight sets.<\/p>\n More to come…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada’s Leylah Fernandez is feeling good on American soil again.\u00a0After upsetting No. 1 seed Jessica Pegula in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,1602,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-23853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-text","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}