{"id":25252,"date":"2025-10-19T03:55:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T07:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/19\/leila-fernandes-wins-japan-open-for-fifth-time-in-total\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T03:55:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T07:55:50","slug":"leila-fernandes-wins-japan-open-for-fifth-time-in-total","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/19\/leila-fernandes-wins-japan-open-for-fifth-time-in-total\/","title":{"rendered":"Leila Fernandes wins Japan Open for fifth time in total"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>OSAKA, Japan &#8212; Leila Fernandez defeated 18-year-old qualifier Tereza Valentova 6-0, 5-7, 6-3 in the WTA Japan Open final on Sunday for her fifth career title.<\/p>\n<p>Playing in his eighth career final, the one-time US Open runner-up won the first set in 29 minutes, and Valentova held her nerve in the second, finding a way to break Fernandez in the 12th game to equalize.<\/p>\n<p>In the deciding set, Fernandes, ranked 27th in the rankings, made a decisive break in the fourth game and fought off a late challenge from the Czech player, winning his second title of the season after winning the WTA500 DC Open in July.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OSAKA, Japan &#8212; Leila Fernandez defeated 18-year-old qualifier Tereza Valentova 6-0, 5-7, 6-3 in the WTA Japan Open final on Sunday for her fifth career title. Playing in his eighth career final, the one-time US Open runner-up won the first set in 29 minutes, and Valentova held her nerve in the second, finding a way [&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":[1308,6400,4828,32,24,607,2141,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-25252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-fernandes","9":"tag-japan","10":"tag-leila","11":"tag-open","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-time","14":"tag-total","15":"tag-wins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25252","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=25252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25252\/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=25252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}