{"id":57857,"date":"2025-10-22T14:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/fernandez-at-the-end-of-the-japan-open-clash-with-young-valentova\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T14:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:57:09","slug":"fernandez-at-the-end-of-the-japan-open-clash-with-young-valentova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/fernandez-at-the-end-of-the-japan-open-clash-with-young-valentova\/","title":{"rendered":"Fern\u00e1ndez at the end of the Japan Open: Clash with young Valentova"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Leylah Fernandez Advances to the Japan Open Final<\/h2>\n\n\nTennis 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, of Canadian origin, defeated C\u00eerstea with a score of 6-1, 2-6 and 6-4.\n\nIn the decisive set, with a score of 4-4, Fernandez managed to break C\u00eerstea&#8217;s serve and then held his own serve in the next game to secure his advance to the final.\n\nIn the final, the fourth seed will face young Tereza Valentova, an 18-year-old player coming from the qualifying phase.\n\nValentova secured her place in the final after defeating Jaqueline Cristian with a score of 6-7 (3), 6-4 and 6-3 in the other semifinal.\n\nCristian had reached the semifinals thanks to the withdrawal of Naomi Osaka, the top seed, due to an injury to her left leg.\n\nThis will be the eighth final in Fernandez&#8217;s career, who was the runner-up at the US Open in 2021.\n\nHer only other semifinal appearance 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 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, of Canadian origin, defeated C\u00eerstea with a score of 6-1, 2-6 and 6-4. In the decisive set, with a score of 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-57857","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\/57857","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=57857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}