{"id":25205,"date":"2025-10-18T07:40:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T11:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/18\/leila-fernandez-wins-tereza-valentova-in-japan-open-final\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T07:40:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T11:40:30","slug":"leila-fernandez-wins-tereza-valentova-in-japan-open-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/18\/leila-fernandez-wins-tereza-valentova-in-japan-open-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Leila Fernandez wins Tereza Valentova in Japan Open final"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>OSAKA, Japan &#8212; The last remaining seeded player at the WTA Japan Open advanced to Sunday&#8217;s final &#8212; Leila Fernandez defeated 35-year-old Solana Cirstea 6-1, 2-6, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez broke Cirstea&#8217;s serve in the deciding set 4-4 on Saturday and held his serve in the next game to advance.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth-seeded Canadian will face 18-year-old qualifier Tereza Valentois in the final. In the other semifinal, Valentova defeated Jacqueline Cristian 6-7(3), 6-4, 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>Cristian advanced to the last four on Friday when top seed Naomi Osaka withdrew with a left foot injury, giving the Romanian a bye in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez, the 2021 US Open runner-up, has reached the final for the eighth time in his career. Her only semi-final appearance this season was at the WTA 500 DC Open, where she defeated Anna Kalinskaya in the final to win her fourth WTA singles title.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez lost to Coco Gauff in three sets in the second round of the China Open in late September.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OSAKA, Japan &#8212; The last remaining seeded player at the WTA Japan Open advanced to Sunday&#8217;s final &#8212; Leila Fernandez defeated 35-year-old Solana Cirstea 6-1, 2-6, 6-4. Fernandez broke Cirstea&#8217;s serve in the deciding set 4-4 on Saturday and held his serve in the next game to advance. The fourth-seeded Canadian will face 18-year-old qualifier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[419,63,6400,4828,32,24,2652,2653,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-25205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-fernandez","9":"tag-final","10":"tag-japan","11":"tag-leila","12":"tag-open","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-tereza","15":"tag-valentova","16":"tag-wins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25205","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=25205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}