{"id":237010,"date":"2025-10-19T19:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T19:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/237010\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T19:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T19:55:11","slug":"leylah-fernandez-downs-teen-tereza-valentova-to-clinch-japan-open-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/237010\/","title":{"rendered":"Leylah Fernandez downs teen Tereza Valentova to clinch Japan Open title"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canada’s Leylah Fernandez won her second title of the year after beating Czech teenager Tereza Valentova 6-0, 5-7, 6-3 in the Japan Open final on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Fernandez<\/a>, the world number 27, followed up her victory at the DC Open in Washington in July with another tournament win after seeing off qualifier Valentova<\/a> in Osaka.<\/p>\n

It was the fifth title of the 23-year-old Fernandez’s career<\/a> and the first time she has won twice in the same year.<\/p>\n

Fernandez, playing with heavy strapping on her right thigh, cruised to the first set against her 18-year-old opponent, who is ranked 78 in the world and was appearing in her first WTA final.<\/p>\n

Valentova looked shell-shocked at the changeover before the second set but she came out swinging and levelled the match.<\/p>\n

Fernandez regained the upper hand in the third set, sealing victory when her opponent hit a service return into the net.<\/p>\n

\"FernandezFernandez (R) alongside Valentova after the matchPAUL MILLER \/ AFP \/ AFP \/ Profimedia<\/p>\n

The Japan Open’s top seed, former world number one Naomi Osaka<\/a>, pulled out ahead of her quarter-final after failing to recover from a leg injury.<\/p>\n

Fernandez will compete in next week’s Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, where she will face fellow Canadian Victoria Mboko<\/a> in the opening round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada’s Leylah Fernandez won her second title of the year after beating Czech teenager Tereza Valentova 6-0, 5-7,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-237010","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\/237010","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=237010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}