{"id":68090,"date":"2026-06-16T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/canadas-fernandez-loses-to-sonmez-in-first-round-at-nottingham\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T14:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T18:02:20","slug":"canadas-fernandez-loses-to-sonmez-in-first-round-at-nottingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/canadas-fernandez-loses-to-sonmez-in-first-round-at-nottingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Fernandez loses to Sonmez in first round at Nottingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/larongenow.com\/2026\/06\/16\/canadas-fernandez-loses-to-sonmez-in-first-round-at-nottingham\/\">Canada\u2019s Fernandez loses to Sonmez in first round at Nottingham<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/larongenow.com\/2026\/06\/16\/canadas-fernandez-loses-to-sonmez-in-first-round-at-nottingham\/\">https:\/\/larongenow.com\/2026\/06\/16\/canadas-fernandez-loses-to-sonmez-in-first-round-at-nottingham\/<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-16 13:58:00<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Leylah Fernandez of Canada plays a return to Kaite Boulter of Britain during their first round match at the Queen&#8217;s Club tennis championships in London, Tuesday, June 9, 2026. (AP Photo\/Alberto Pezzali)<\/p>\n<p>By <span class=\"sc-author\">The Canadian Press<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"sc-time\">Jun 16, 2026 | 11:51 AM<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>NOTTINGHAM \u2014 Canada\u2019s Leylah Fernandez was upset 6-4, 7-6 (1) by Turkey\u2019s Zeynep Sonmez in first-round action Friday at the Nottingham Open.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez, seeded second at the WTA 205 grass-court event, had seven aces, but she hit into four double-faults and was broken three times.<\/p>\n<p>Sonmez evened her career record against Fernandez at 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez came out on top earlier this year when she beat Sonmez in three sets at the clay-court Stuttgart Open.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/larongenow.com\/2026\/06\/16\/canadas-fernandez-loses-to-sonmez-in-first-round-at-nottingham\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s Fernandez loses to Sonmez in first round at Nottingham https:\/\/larongenow.com\/2026\/06\/16\/canadas-fernandez-loses-to-sonmez-in-first-round-at-nottingham\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-16 13:58:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wpRssService\/imageRedirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmapi.cp.org%2Fasset-photos%2Fe7a68fe8-d355-4796-9aaa-6c605c5582f7%2Fd20639ad0b8d6c48bf5b77496d9ec72daeffd017e52ac36b98d25a9fd2594fc7.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68092,"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68090\/revisions\/68092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}