{"id":57155,"date":"2025-10-21T23:33:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T03:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/fernandez-vs-valentova-japan-open-final-with-a-youthful-flavor-3\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T23:33:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T03:33:41","slug":"fernandez-vs-valentova-japan-open-final-with-a-youthful-flavor-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/fernandez-vs-valentova-japan-open-final-with-a-youthful-flavor-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Fern\u00e1ndez vs. Valentova: 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, 6-4.\n\nIn the decisive set, with the score 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 number four, will face 18-year-old tennis player Tereza Valentova in the final, who managed to qualify.\n\nValentova defeated Jaqueline Cristian with a score of 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-3 in the other semifinal.\n\nCristian reached the semifinals after Naomi Osaka, the first seed, withdrew due to a left leg injury on Friday, giving the Romanian player a direct pass to the semifinals.\n\nThis will be the eighth final of Fernandez&#8217;s career, who was the runner-up at the US Open in 2021. Her only previous semifinal this season was at the WTA 500 D.C. Open, where she won her fourth WTA singles title by defeating Anna Kalinskaya.\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 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, 6-4. In the decisive set, with the score at 4-4, Fernandez managed to break C\u00eerstea&#8217;s [&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-57155","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\/57155","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=57155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}