{"id":54265,"date":"2025-10-18T15:32:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T19:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/fernandez-to-the-japan-open-final-faces-young-hope\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T15:32:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T19:32:22","slug":"fernandez-to-the-japan-open-final-faces-young-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/fernandez-to-the-japan-open-final-faces-young-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Fern\u00e1ndez to the Japan Open Final: Faces Young Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Leylah Fernandez Advances to the Japan Open Final<\/h2>\n<p>The tennis player Leylah Fernandez, the last remaining seeded player in the WTA Japan Open, has qualified for Sunday&#8217;s final after defeating Sorana C\u00eerstea.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez won with partials of 6-1, 2-6 and 6-4 in an exciting match.<\/p>\n<p>In the decisive set, with the score tied at 4-4, Fernandez managed to break C\u00eerstea&#8217;s serve. Subsequently, she held her own serve in the next game, securing her advance to the final.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian player, seeded number four, will face the young Tereza Valentova, 18 years old, who reached the final after defeating Jaqueline Cristian.<\/p>\n<p>Valentova defeated Cristian with a score of 6-7 (3), 6-4 and 6-3 in the other semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>Cristian reached the semifinals after Naomi Osaka, the top seed, withdrew due to a left leg injury.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the eighth final for Fernandez, who was the runner-up at the US Open in 2021. Her only previous semifinal appearance this season was at the WTA 500 D.C. Open, where she won her fourth WTA singles title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leylah Fernandez Advances to the Japan Open Final The tennis player Leylah Fernandez, the last remaining seeded player in the WTA Japan Open, has qualified for Sunday&#8217;s final after defeating Sorana C\u00eerstea. Fernandez won with partials of 6-1, 2-6 and 6-4 in an exciting match. In the decisive set, with the score tied at 4-4, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[175,9150,6405,167],"class_list":{"0":"post-54265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tennis","7":"tag-final","8":"tag-japan-open","9":"tag-leylah-fernandez","10":"tag-tennis"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}