Leylah Annie Fernandez

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Leylah Annie Fernandez
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Fernandez at the 2021 French Open
Country (sports)Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Residence Boynton Beach, Florida, U.S. [1]
Born (2002-09-06) 6 September 2002 (age 18)
Montreal, Canada
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Turned pro2019
PlaysLeft-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize moneyUS$ 786,772
Singles
Career record98–63 (60.9%)
Career titles1 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 66 (14 June 2021)
Current rankingNo. 73 (30 August 2021)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open 1R (2020, 2021)
French Open 3R (2020)
Wimbledon 1R (2021)
US Open 3R ( 2021 )
Other tournaments
Olympic Games 2R (2021)
Doubles
Career record28–23 (54.9%)
Career titles2 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 120 (21 June 2021)
Current rankingNo. 125 (30 August 2021)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open 3R (2021)
French Open 3R (2021)
Wimbledon 1R (2021)
Team competitions
Fed Cup 1–2
Last updated on: 31 August 2021.

Leylah Annie Fernandez (born 6 September 2002) is a Canadian tennis player. Born to an Ecuadorian father and a Filipino Canadian mother, she currently trains in Florida. [2] She won her first WTA Tour singles title at the 2021 Monterrey Open. [3]

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Fernandez has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 66, set on 14 June 2021. She achieved her career-high doubles ranking of 120 on 21 June 2021.

Junior career

On 25 January 2019, Fernandez made it to the Australian Open girls' singles final, where she lost to the top-seeded Clara Tauson. [4] On 8 June 2019, Fernandez defeated Emma Navarro in the French Open girl's singles final to become the first Canadian female winner of a junior Grand Slam title since Eugenie Bouchard at 2012 Wimbledon. [5]

Professional career

On 21 July 2019, Fernandez won her first professional singles tennis title when she rallied to beat fellow Canadian Carson Branstine in the final of the Gatineau Challenger. Fernandez also won her first professional doubles title on the same date when she teamed with Rebecca Marino of Vancouver. The pair defeated the second-seeded team of Marcela Zacarías of Mexico and Hsu Chieh-yu of Taiwan. [6] The following week, she made her second consecutive ITF final in Granby, [7] losing to Lizette Cabrera of Australia.

Fernandez made her Grand Slam debut at the 2020 Australian Open. After making it through qualifying, she fell in the first round to Lauren Davis. [8] She picked up the biggest win of her career to date the following week in the Fed Cup qualifying round against No. 5 in the world, Belinda Bencic. [9] In late February at the Mexican Open, she made it through qualifying and into her first WTA tournament final, where, after winning twelve sets in a row, she was defeated by world No. 69, Heather Watson. A week later, she upset Grand Slam champion Sloane Stephens to reach the quarterfinals of the Monterrey Open, falling to eventual champion Elina Svitolina.

Fernandez began 2021 unable to string together consecutive wins in her first four tournaments. That changed, however, in March at the Monterrey Open where she won her first four matches to reach the final, and defeated Viktorija Golubic to win the first WTA title of her career. At 18 years old, she was the youngest player in the main draw, and captured the championship without dropping a set the entire tournament. [10] [3]

Personal life

Fernandez's father Jorge is from Ecuador and is a former soccer player, her younger sister Bianca Jolie is also a tennis player, [5] and her older sister, Jodeci, is a dentist. She is of Ecuadorian and Filipino descent, and is fluent in English, French and Spanish.

Performance timelines

Key
W F SFQF#RRRQ#DNQANH
(W) Won; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held. SR=strike rate (events won/competed)
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win/loss records. [11]

Singles

Current after the 2021 Western & Southern Open.

Tournament 2018 2019 2020 2021 SRW–LWin%
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open AA 1R 1R 0 / 20–20%
French Open AA 3R 2R 0 / 23–260%
Wimbledon AANH 1R 0 / 10–10%
US Open AA 2R 0 / 11–150%
Win–Loss0–00–03–31–30 / 64–640%
WTA 1000
Miami Open AANH Q1 0 / 00–0  
Madrid Open AA Q1 0 / 00–0  
Italian Open AA Q1 Q1 0 / 00–0  
Canadian Open Q2 1R NH 1R 0 / 220–20%
Cincinnati Open AA 1R 1R 0 / 20–20%
Career statistics
Tournaments12713Career total: 23
Titles0001Career total: 1
Finals0011Career total: 2
Overall Win–Loss1–10–311–815–121 / 2327–2453%
Year-end ranking48720988$413,017

Doubles

Tournament 2020 2021 SRW–LWin%
Australian Open A 3R 0 / 12–167%
French Open 1R 3R 0 / 21–233%
Wimbledon NH 1R 0 / 10–10%
US Open A0 / 00–0  
Win–Loss0–13–30 / 43–443%

WTA career finals

Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments
Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 / WTA 1000
Premier / WTA 500
International / WTA 250
Finals by surface
Hard (1–1)
Grass (0–0)
Clay (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–L   Date   TournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss0–1 Feb 2020 Mexican Open InternationalHard Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Heather Watson 4–6, 7–6(8), 1–6
Win1–1 Mar 2021 Monterrey Open, MexicoWTA 250Hard Flag of Switzerland.svg Viktorija Golubic 6–1, 6–4

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner–ups)

Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$80,000 tournaments
$60,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$15,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (1–2)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–L   Date   TournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Win1–0Jul 2019ITF Gatineau, Canada25,000Hard Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Carson Branstine 3–6, 6–1, 6–2
Loss1–1 Jul 2019 Challenger de Granby, Canada80,000Hard Flag of Australia (converted).svg Lizette Cabrera 1–6, 4–6
Loss1–2Oct 2019ITF Waco, United States25,000Hard Flag of Mexico.svg Fernanda Contreras 3–6, 6–2, 1–6

Doubles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups)

ResultW–L   Date   TournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Win1–0Jul 2019ITF Gatineau, Canada25,000Hard Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Rebecca Marino Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Hsu Chieh-yu
Flag of Mexico.svg Marcela Zacarias
7–6(5), 6–3
Win2–0 Oct 2019 Challenger de Saguenay, Canada60,000Hard (i) Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Mélodie Collard Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Samantha Murray Sharan
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Bibiane Schoofs
7–6(3), 6–2
Loss2–1 Nov 2019 Tevlin Challenger, Canada60,000Hard (i) Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Mélodie Collard Flag of the United States.svg Robin Anderson
Flag of France.svg Jessika Ponchet
6–7 (7), 2–6
Loss2–2Oct 2020ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt15,000Hard Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Bianca Jolie Fernandez Flag of Russia.svg Veronika Pepelyaeva
Flag of Russia.svg Anastasia Tikhonova
6–4, 3–6, [6–10]

Junior Grand Slam finals

Girls' singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner–up)

ResultYearTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss 2019 Australian Open Hard Flag of Denmark.svg Clara Tauson 4–6, 3–6
Win 2019 French Open Clay Flag of the United States.svg Emma Navarro 6–3, 6–2

Top 10 wins

Season 2020 Total
Wins11
#OpponentRankEventSurfaceRdScoreLAFR
2020
1. Flag of Switzerland.svg Belinda Bencic No. 5 Fed Cup, SwitzerlandHard (i)QR6–2, 7–6(3)No. 185

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