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Canada’s Leylah Fernandez Looks to Hard Courts to Turn Around Trying Season
Fernandez has won all five career WTA titles on hard courts and is 12-19 this season as she seeks to reset her form.
- Canadian tennis player Leylah Fernandez prepares to defend her title at the Washington WTA 500 event on Friday. The 23-year-old looks to revitalize her season as the tour shifts to hard courts.
- Fernandez, currently ranked 25th, has struggled with a 12-19 singles record this season following a 1-4 run on grass. She dealt with "a couple of physical problems" that impacted her confidence after losses began piling up.
- Her team, led by coach Jorge Fernandez , advised her to "slow your roll" and focus on process over results. She said, "Especially this year when I was thinking, 'No, I don't got time, I gotta do better.'"
- Off the court, boyfriend and Para hockey player Vincent Boily provides perspective and support. She credits her mental reset post-Wimbledon, saying she tries "to come back to the very basics of things, like why I started playing tennis."
- With goals of cracking the WTA top 10 and winning her first Grand Slam, Fernandez next targets the National Bank Open in Toronto . She has won all five career titles on hard courts.
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