{"id":312817,"date":"2025-10-18T07:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T07:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/312817\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T07:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T07:18:10","slug":"canadian-leylah-fernandez-advances-to-the-wtas-japan-open-final-with-win-over-cirstea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/312817\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Leylah Fernandez advances to the WTA’s Japan Open final with win over C\u00eerstea"},"content":{"rendered":"

OSAKA, Japan (AP) \u2014 The last remaining seeded player at the WTA’s Japan Open is through to Sunday’s final \u2014 Leylah Fernandez defeated 35-year-old Sorana C\u00eerstea 6-1, 2-6, 6-4.<\/p>\n

At 4-4 in the deciding set Saturday, Fernandez broke C\u00eerstea’s serve, then held her own serve in the next game to advance.<\/p>\n

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The fourth-seeded Canadian player will face either Jaqueline Cristian or 18-year-old Tereza Valentova, a qualifier. Cristian and Valentova played their semifinal later Saturday.<\/p>\n

Cristian advanced to the semis when top-seeded Naomi Osaka pulled out with a left leg injury<\/a> on Friday, giving the Romanian player a walkover in her quarterfinal.<\/p>\n

Fernandez, the 2021 U.S. Open runner-up, advanced to her eighth career final. Her only run to a semifinal this season came at the WTA 500 D.C. Open, where she defeated Anna Kalinskaya in the final for her fourth WTA singles title.<\/p>\n

Fernandez lost in three sets<\/a> to Coco Gauff in the second round of the China Open in late September.<\/p>\n

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AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OSAKA, Japan (AP) \u2014 The last remaining seeded player at the WTA’s Japan Open is through to Sunday’s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":312818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[157650,170,10340,61014,15242,95076,62,1464,157649,67,132,68,2212],"class_list":{"0":"post-312817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-canadian-player","9":"tag-japan","10":"tag-jaqueline-cristian","11":"tag-leylah-fernandez","12":"tag-osaka","13":"tag-sorana-cirstea","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tennis","16":"tag-tereza-valentova","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-wta"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115393954122393610","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}