Canada’s Leylah Fernandez Ousted in Second Round of China Open

Canada’s Leylah Fernandez ousted in second round of China Open

BEIJING — Canada's Leylah Fernandez was ousted from the China Open women's tennis tournament with a three-set loss to Kamilla Rakhimova of Uzbekistan on Saturday. Rakhimova prevailed 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 in the second round over the 23rd-seeded Fernandez from...

Canada's Leylah Fernandez ousted in second round of China Open

BEIJING - Canada's Leylah Fernandez was ousted from the China Open women's tennis tournament with a three-set loss to Kamilla Rakhimova of Uzbekistan on Saturday.

Canada’s Leylah Fernandez falls early at China Open

It won’t be two straight tournament victories for Leylah Fernandez. The Canadian’s five-match win streak came to a halt on Saturday in China when she fell 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 to Uzbekistan’s Kamilla Rakhimova in the Round of 64. Fernandez was coming off a late-September triumph at the Singapore Open in which she ousted a pair of top-five seeds in Mirra Andreeva and Maja Chwalinska. But the Montreal native failed to keep the momentum going in Beijing d…