(Reuters) – Teenaged Canadian Leylah Fernandez stated she was happy along with her preventing spirit after managing to save five championship factors to defend her title in Monterrey on Sunday towards Colombia’s Camila Osorio.
Playing her first title match since happening to Britain’s Emma Raducanu within the U.S. Open remaining, Fernandez rallied after dropping the opening set and dealing with a 4-1 deficit within the decider to beat Osorio 6-7(5) 6-4 7-6(3) within the WTA 250 event.
“Today it was a really, very powerful match, not solely bodily or tennis-wise, however mentally,” Fernandez stated. “Camila, she’s a troublesome participant to play towards. She’s very artful, she does slices, excessive balls, it is very unpredictable.
“I’m very, very comfortable that I used to be in a position to discover a method via my errors, discover a method to get again within the match after which discover a method to win it on the finish and never get pissed off with myself. I’m very, very comfortable to have gone via these onerous moments.”
It was the second WTA title for the 19-year-old, each coming within the Mexican metropolis of Monterrey.
Fernandez was assembly 20-year-old Osorio for the primary time in a tour-level match though the pair have confronted off 3 times beforehand on the junior circuit.
The Canadian jumped to a 4-1 lead within the opener and in addition served for the set at 5-3 solely to lose it to the thirty fifth ranked Osorio within the tiebreak.
Fernandez took one other 4-1 lead within the second set earlier than Osorio obtained a break of serve again and the Canadian discovered the grit to maintain on to take the competition to a decider.
Fernandez’s title defence regarded over when Osorio constructed up a 4-1 benefit within the third set, throughout which play was halted for about quarter-hour due to a partial energy failure on court docket.
But the left-hander as soon as once more dug deep, saving a matchpoint within the tenth recreation and 4 extra within the twelfth to take the competition right into a tiebreaker which she dominated.
“Camila, I hope we’ve got many, many extra finals like this, as a result of with out her, I do not assume this event, this remaining, could be (as) particular,” Fernandez stated.
(Reporting by Sudipto Ganguly in Mumbai; enhancing by Stephen Coates)
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