{"id":228982,"date":"2025-10-16T12:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/228982\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T12:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:20:08","slug":"canadas-fernandez-tops-galfi-in-straight-sets-to-advance-at-japan-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/228982\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Fernandez tops Galfi in straight sets to advance at Japan Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/sports\/tennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tennis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez earned a 6-1, 6-4 win over Hungary&#8217;s Dalma Galfi on Wednesday in second-round action at the Japan Open tennis tournament in Osaka.<\/p>\n<p>Laval, Que., native will next face Slovakia&#8217;s Rebecca Sramkova<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press  \u00b7 Posted: Oct 16, 2025 5:24 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"A women's tennis player lunges to make a shot during a match on a hard court.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760617208_194_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"leadmedia-story-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez hits a return to Hungary&#8217;s Dalma Galfi during their women&#8217;s singles match at the Japan Open tennis tournament in Osaka on Thursday.        (Paul Miller\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez earned a 6-1, 6-4 win over Hungary&#8217;s Dalma Galfi on Wednesday in second-round action at the Japan Open tennis tournament in Osaka.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez of Laval, Que., hit one ace to three double faults but broke on three of her eight opportunities in the match.<\/p>\n<p>She also won 78 per cent of her first-serve points compared to 55 per cent from her opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Galfi had three aces and two double faults but failed to convert her lone break-point chance. <\/p>\n<p>Fernandez will next face Slovakia&#8217;s Rebecca Sramkova.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/corrections-clarifications-1.5893564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corrections and clarifications<\/a>\u00b7Report error<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennis Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez earned a 6-1, 6-4 win over Hungary&#8217;s Dalma Galfi on Wednesday in second-round action&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-228982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}