WASHINGTON – Leila Fernandez has received the match for the most important title of her profession on the DC Open, beating Anna Kalinskaya 6-1, 6-2 within the remaining on Sunday, bringing collectively the most important title of her profession on the DC Open.
Fernandez, a 22-year-old left-hander from Canada, ranked thirty sixth and received her fourth singles trophy – all held in a tough court docket match – and in her first occasion on the WTA 500 occasion. She was fairly near the Grand Slam Championship as a teen on the 2021 US Open, and superior to the ultimate in New York earlier than dropping to Emmaraducanu.
There was largely a rematch in Washington, however Karinskaya eradicated Radkanu within the semi-finals on Saturday.
Till Sunday, Karinskaya, who ranked forty eighth, hadn’t dropped his set all week.
Nonetheless, she could not sustain with Fernandez. Fernandez saved two breakpoints he confronted whereas filming Kalinskaya’s 4 service video games in a match that lasted an hour and 10 minutes. One key: Fernandez scored 10 of the 12 factors within the match when Kalinskaya hit a second serve.
This was Fernandez’s first title because it was held on the Hong Kong Open in October 2023.
She arrived in Washington this season with a dropping report and has not received greater than two video games in the identical match since final November.
With a mixture of baseline excellence and powerful netplay, Fernandez’s path to the finals included victory over prime seed Jessica Pegra, who was the US Open runner-up final yr, and third seed Elena Rivakina, the 2022 Wimbledon champion.
The victory over Rybakina in Saturday’s semi-finals took three tiebreakers and over three hours.
There was no such drama towards Karinskaya, a 26-year-old Russian who fell 0-3 within the tour-level remaining. She was defeated final yr by Jasmine Palini from Dubai and Pegra from Berlin.
The boys’s remaining scheduled for the second half of Sunday was No. 7 seed Alex de Minauauurus, No. 12 Alejandro Davidevich Fokina, who defeated No. 1 on the quarter-finals and No. 12 on the semi-finals, defeating No. 4 on the Ben Shelton.
