{"id":16787,"date":"2025-07-27T17:01:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T21:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/27\/leylah-fernandez-passes-anna-karinkaya-for-dc-open-title\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T17:01:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T21:01:02","slug":"leylah-fernandez-passes-anna-karinkaya-for-dc-open-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/27\/leylah-fernandez-passes-anna-karinkaya-for-dc-open-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Leylah Fernandez passes Anna Karinkaya for DC Open Title"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WASHINGTON – Leila Fernandez has won the tournament for the biggest title of her career at the DC Open, beating Anna Kalinskaya 6-1, 6-2 in the final on Sunday, bringing together the biggest title of her career at the DC Open.<\/p>\n

Fernandez, a 22-year-old left-hander from Canada, ranked 36th and won her fourth singles trophy – all held in a hard court tournament – and in her first event at the WTA 500 event. She was pretty close to the Grand Slam Championship as a teenager at the 2021 US Open, and advanced to the final in New York before losing to Emmaraducanu.<\/p>\n

There was mostly a rematch in Washington, but Karinskaya eliminated Radkanu in the semi-finals on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Until Sunday, Karinskaya, who ranked 48th, hadn’t dropped his set all week.<\/p>\n

However, she couldn’t keep up with Fernandez. Fernandez saved two breakpoints he faced while filming Kalinskaya’s four service games in a match that lasted an hour and 10 minutes. One key: Fernandez scored 10 of the 12 points in the match when Kalinskaya hit a second serve.<\/p>\n

This was Fernandez’s first title since it was held at the Hong Kong Open in October 2023.<\/p>\n

She arrived in Washington this season with a losing record and has not won more than two games in the same tournament since last November.<\/p>\n

With a mix of baseline excellence and strong netplay, Fernandez’s path to the finals included victory over top seed Jessica Pegra, who was the US Open runner-up last year, and third seed Elena Rivakina, the 2022 Wimbledon champion.<\/p>\n

The victory over Rybakina in Saturday’s semi-finals took three tiebreakers and over three hours.<\/p>\n

There was no such drama against Karinskaya, a 26-year-old Russian who fell 0-3 in the tour-level final. She was defeated last year by Jasmine Palini from Dubai and Pegra from Berlin.<\/p>\n

The men’s final scheduled for the second half of Sunday was No. 7 seed Alex de Minauauurus, No. 12 Alejandro Davidevich Fokina, who defeated No. 1 at the quarter-finals and No. 12 at the semi-finals, defeating No. 4 at the Ben Shelton.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON – Leila Fernandez has won the tournament for the biggest title of her career at the DC Open, beating Anna Kalinskaya 6-1, 6-2 in the final on Sunday, bringing together the biggest title of her career at the DC Open. Fernandez, a 22-year-old left-hander from Canada, ranked 36th and won her fourth singles trophy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2828,419,4829,4776,32,237,24,361],"class_list":{"0":"post-16787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-anna","9":"tag-fernandez","10":"tag-karinkaya","11":"tag-leylah","12":"tag-open","13":"tag-passes","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-title"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}