After a rough start to her season, Leylah Fernandez has a nice win on her resume.<\/p>\n
The Canadian beat No. 13 seed Liudmila Samsonova of Russia 5-7, 7-5, 6-3 in the opening round of the Dubai Tennis Championships on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Fernandez, the world No. 27, was 1-4 on the season heading into the match against the world No. 17 at the WTA Tour 1000 event.<\/p>\n
The match took two hours 52 minutes. Fernandez saved 10 of 13 break points.<\/p>\n
The Canadian will face Janice Tjen of Indonesia in the second round on Monday. Tjen beat Fernandez in straight sets in the Australian Open last month.<\/p>\n
Canada’s Victoria Mboko, coming off a run to the Qatar Open final, faces Jaqueline Cristian of Romania in the first round at Dubai on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a rough start to her season, Leylah Fernandez has a nice win on her resume. The Canadian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-470865","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\/470865","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=470865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}