{"id":55711,"date":"2025-10-20T02:09:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/fernandez-to-the-japan-open-final-clash-with-young-valentova-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T02:09:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:09:02","slug":"fernandez-to-the-japan-open-final-clash-with-young-valentova-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/fernandez-to-the-japan-open-final-clash-with-young-valentova-2\/","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\nOSAKA, Japan \u2013 The last seeded player remaining in the WTA Japan Open, Leylah Fernandez, has secured her place in Sunday&#8217;s final after defeating Sorana C\u00eerstea.\n\nFernandez, of Canadian origin and seeded number four, defeated C\u00eerstea with a score of 6-1, 2-6, 6-4.\n\nIn a crucial moment of the decisive set, with the score at 4-4, Fernandez managed to break C\u00eerstea&#8217;s serve. Subsequently, she held her own serve in the following game, securing her advance to the final.\n\nIn the final, Fernandez will face Tereza Valentova, an 18-year-old player who qualified for the tournament. Valentova reached the final after defeating Jaqueline Cristian with a score of 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-3.\n\nCristian had reached the semifinals thanks to the withdrawal of Naomi Osaka, the top seed, due to a left leg injury.\n\nFor Fernandez, runner-up at the US Open in 2021, this will be her eighth final of her career. Her only previous advance to a semifinal this season was at the WTA 500 D.C. Open, where she won her fourth WTA singles title after defeating Anna Kalinskaya.\n\nFernandez suffered a three-set defeat to 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 OSAKA, Japan \u2013 The last seeded player remaining in the WTA Japan Open, Leylah Fernandez, has secured her place in Sunday&#8217;s final after defeating Sorana C\u00eerstea. Fernandez, of Canadian origin and seeded number four, defeated C\u00eerstea with a score of 6-1, 2-6, 6-4. In a crucial moment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[175,6405,7029,167],"class_list":{"0":"post-55711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-final","9":"tag-leylah-fernandez","10":"tag-osaka","11":"tag-tennis"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55711","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=55711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}