{"id":56916,"date":"2025-10-21T17:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T21:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/fernandez-vs-valentova-japan-open-final-with-a-youthful-flavor-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T17:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T21:47:11","slug":"fernandez-vs-valentova-japan-open-final-with-a-youthful-flavor-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/fernandez-vs-valentova-japan-open-final-with-a-youthful-flavor-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fern\u00e1ndez vs. Valentov\u00e1: Japan Open Final with a Youthful Flavor"},"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 at the WTA Japan Open, has qualified for Sunday&#8217;s final after defeating Sorana C\u00eerstea.\n\nFernandez defeated C\u00eerstea with a score of 6-1, 2-6, and 6-4 in an exciting match.\n\nIn the decisive set, with the score tied at 4-4, Fernandez managed to break C\u00eerstea&#8217;s serve and then held his own serve in the following game, securing his advance to the final.\n\nThe Canadian player, seeded as number four, will face young Tereza Valentova in the final, who managed to qualify after defeating Jaqueline Cristian.\n\nCristian reached the semifinals after Naomi Osaka, the top seed, withdrew due to a left leg injury.\n\nThis will be the eighth final for Fernandez, who was the runner-up at the US Open in 2021.\n\nHer only previous semifinal this season was at the WTA 500 D.C. Open, where she won her fourth WTA singles title.\n\nFernandez was defeated in three sets by 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 at the WTA Japan Open, has qualified for Sunday&#8217;s final after defeating Sorana C\u00eerstea. Fernandez defeated C\u00eerstea with a score of 6-1, 2-6, and 6-4 in an exciting match. In the decisive set, with the score tied at [&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-56916","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\/56916","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=56916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}