{"id":55373,"date":"2025-10-19T13:49:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T17:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/fernandez-to-the-japan-open-final-clash-with-young-valentova\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T13:49:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T17:49:23","slug":"fernandez-to-the-japan-open-final-clash-with-young-valentova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/fernandez-to-the-japan-open-final-clash-with-young-valentova\/","title":{"rendered":"Fern\u00e1ndez to the Japan Open Final: Clash with Young Valentova"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Leylah Fernandez Advances to the Japan Open Final<\/h2>\n\n\nThe tennis player Leylah Fernandez, the last seeded player in the WTA Japan Open, has qualified for Sunday&#8217;s final. Fernandez defeated 35-year-old Sorana C\u00eerstea with a score of 6-1, 2-6, 6-4.\n\nIn the decisive set, with the score tied at 4-4, Fernandez managed to break C\u00eerstea&#8217;s serve. Then, he held his own serve in the next game, securing his advance to the final.\n\nThe Canadian player, seeded number four, will face the young Tereza Valentova, 18 years old and coming from the qualifying phase. Valentova defeated Jaqueline Cristian with a score of 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-3 in the other semifinal.\n\nCristian reached the semifinals after the top seed, Naomi Osaka, withdrew due to a left leg injury on Friday, giving the Romanian player a direct pass to the semifinals.\n\nFernandez, finalist of the 2021 US Open, reaches her eighth final in her career. Her only previous semifinal this season was at the WTA 500 D.C. Open, where she defeated Anna Kalinskaya in the final, obtaining her fourth WTA singles title.\n\nFernandez lost in three sets against Coco Gauff in the second round of the China Open at the end of September.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leylah Fernandez Advances to the Japan Open Final The tennis player Leylah Fernandez, the last seeded player in the WTA Japan Open, has qualified for Sunday&#8217;s final. Fernandez defeated 35-year-old Sorana C\u00eerstea with a score of 6-1, 2-6, 6-4. In the decisive set, with the score tied at 4-4, Fernandez managed to break C\u00eerstea&#8217;s serve. [&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-55373","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\/55373","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=55373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}