{"id":57929,"date":"2025-10-22T15:31:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/fernandez-to-the-japan-open-final-clash-with-young-valentova-4\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T15:31:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:31:29","slug":"fernandez-to-the-japan-open-final-clash-with-young-valentova-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/fernandez-to-the-japan-open-final-clash-with-young-valentova-4\/","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\nThe tennis player Leylah Fernandez, the last remaining seed in the WTA Japan Open, has qualified for Sunday&#8217;s final after defeating Sorana C\u00eerstea.\n\nFernandez, 21 years old, defeated C\u00eerstea, 35 years old, 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 and then held his own serve in the following game to secure his advance.\n\nThe Canadian player, seeded number four, will face qualifier Tereza Valentova, 18 years old, in the final.\n\nValentova reached the final after defeating Jaqueline Cristian with a score of 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-3 in the other semi-final.\n\nCristian had reached the semifinals after Naomi Osaka, the first seed, withdrew due to a left leg injury.\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 previous semifinal this season was at the WTA 500 D.C. Open, where she won her fourth WTA singles title by defeating Anna Kalinskaya in the final.\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 remaining seed in the WTA Japan Open, has qualified for Sunday&#8217;s final after defeating Sorana C\u00eerstea. Fernandez, 21 years old, defeated C\u00eerstea, 35 years old, with a score of 6-1, 2-6, 6-4. In the decisive set, with the score tied [&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-57929","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\/57929","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=57929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}