{"id":17166,"date":"2021-09-08T09:42:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T04:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=147327"},"modified":"2021-09-08T09:42:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T04:12:43","slug":"us-open-leylah-fernandez-storms-into-the-semi-final-after-a-win-against-elina-svitolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/us-open-leylah-fernandez-storms-into-the-semi-final-after-a-win-against-elina-svitolina\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open: Leylah Fernandez storms into the semi-final after a win against Elina Svitolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Canadian Leylah Fernandez stormes into the semi-finals of the U.S. Open after defeating the Ukrainian Elina <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Svitolina on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Semifinal bound.<\/p>\n<p>Unseeded 19-year-old Leylah Fernandez's dream run continues in New York! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5xp0YYXxrB\">pic.twitter.com\/5xp0YYXxrB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 US Open Tennis (@usopen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usopen\/status\/1435353848139374598?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 19-year-old has once again shocked the world after already defeating the likes of the three-time Grand Slam winner Angelique Kerber and the defending champion Naomi Osaka. She has now managed to beat Svitolina 6-3,3-6,7-6.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI honestly have no idea what I\u2019m feeling right now. I told myself to trust my shots. Even if I lose, I\u2019ve got to go for it. And I\u2019m glad I did.\u201d said Fernandez, reports AFP.<\/p>\n<p><span>The U.S. Open was hit by several withdrawals with big names. The young talents like 19-year-old <\/span><span>Fernandez and 18-year-old Briton Emma Raducanu have grabbed the opportunity with both hands and have stepped up to take the spotlight away from the likes of Serena Williams, Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal due to their outstanding display <\/span><span>at the Open.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Fernandez started the game strong while breaking for a 4-2 lead. The Olympic bronze medalist looked to quickly adjust her game but her mixed defence in the third finally broke Fernandez\u2019s serve. Fernandez found her way out of trouble as she chose her shots very precisely to head into a tie-break. Fernandez launched out to a 4-1 lead and continued that momentum and win the tie.\u00a0<span>The 73rd world-ranked youngster is not set to face <\/span><span>world number two Aryna Sabalenka in the semi-final clash on Friday the 10th of September.\u00a0 <\/span><span>Sabalenka beat Barbora Krejcikova 6-1,6-4 to reach her first-ever U.S. Open semi-final.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leylah Fernandez defeated Elina Svitolina in the quarter-final match to enter his first-ever U.S. Open semi-final. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":37912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1421,2667,202,335,2606],"class_list":["post-17166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-grand-slam","tag-leylah-fernandez","tag-tennis","tag-us-open","tag-us-open-2021"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}