{"id":57670,"date":"2025-10-22T09:50:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/fernandez-to-the-japan-open-final-clash-with-young-valentova-3\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:50:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:50:25","slug":"fernandez-to-the-japan-open-final-clash-with-young-valentova-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/fernandez-to-the-japan-open-final-clash-with-young-valentova-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Fern\u00e1ndez to the Japan Open Final: Clash with Young Valentova"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Leylah Fernandez Advances to the Japan Open Final<\/h2>\n\nOSAKA, Japan \u2013 The last seeded player in the WTA Japan Open, Leylah Fernandez, has secured her place in 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 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.\n\nThe Canadian tennis player, ranked as the fourth seed, will face Tereza Valentova in the final, an 18-year-old player coming from the qualifying phase.\n\nValentova reached the final after defeating Jaqueline Cristian with a score of 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-3 in the other semifinal.\n\nCristian had reached the semifinals thanks to the withdrawal of Naomi Osaka, the top seed, who retired due to a left leg injury.\n\n\n<p>This is the eighth final for Fernandez, who was the runner-up at the US Open in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leylah Fernandez Advances to the Japan Open Final OSAKA, Japan \u2013 The last seeded player in the WTA Japan Open, Leylah Fernandez, has secured her place in 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 tied at 4-4, Fernandez managed [&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-57670","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\/57670","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=57670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}