Canada’s Leylah Fernandez wins Citi Open for fourth career WTA title

By Canadian Press on July 27, 2025.

WASHINGTON — Canada’s Leylah Fernandez defeated Russian Anna Kalinskaya 6-1, 6-2 for her fourth career WTA title at the Citi Open hardcourt tennis tournament on Sunday.

Fernandez’s last title came at Hong Kong in October 2023. Her most recent final had been a bit over a year ago when she was a runner-up to Daria Kasatkina on the grass of WTA 500 Eastbourne.

The Laval, Que., native broke on four of her six chances, going 2 for 3 in each of the two sets in the one-hour, nine-minute match.

Fernandez also had two aces and four double faults, to go along with winning 75 per cent of her first-serve points.

Kalinskaya was held to just one break-point opportunity, which she did not convert, and only won 61.5 per cent of her first-serve points.

Fernandez entered the match having come off a three-hour, 12-minute marathon of a three-set semifinal win over Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina on Saturday.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 27, 2025.

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