OSAKA, Japan — Leylah Fernandez beat 18-year-old qualifier Tereza Valentova 6-0, 5-7, 6-3 within the ultimate of the WTA’s Japan Open on Sunday for her fifth profession title.
Enjoying in her eighth profession ultimate, the 2021 US Open runner-up raced via the primary set in 29 minutes earlier than Valentova settled her nerves within the second set and located a strategy to degree the match when she broke Fernandez within the twelfth recreation.
Within the deciding set, the Twenty seventh-ranked Fernandez made an important break within the fourth recreation after which fought off a late problem by the Czech participant to assert her second title of the season after taking the WTA 500 D.C. Open in July.