Canada's Leylah Fernandez wins Singapore Open for 1st title of season
Canada's Leylah Fernandez captured her first title of the season with a 7-5, 6-0 win over Australia's Talia Gibson in the women's singles final at the Singapore Tennis Open on Sunday.
Laval, Que., native tops Australia's Talia Gibson in straight sets for 6th career title
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Canada's Leylah Fernandez captured her first title of the season with a 7-5, 6-0 win over Australia's Talia Gibson in the women's singles final at the Singapore Tennis Open on Sunday.
The Laval, Que., native won the last nine games to secure the win in one hour 38 minutes. Fernandez dropped only one set across her five matches in the tournament.
It marks the sixth career title for Fernandez, whose last triumph came at the Japan Women's Open last October. All of her titles have been earned in hard-court tournaments.
Fernandez improved to 6-3 in final appearances and now has two WTA 500 titles, having previously won the D.C. Open in July 2025.
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Canada's Leylah Fernandez claims 1st WTA title of the season in Singapore
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Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que. captured the Singapore open title Sunday defeating Talia Gibson of Australia 7-5, 6-0.KioskNews shows a cleaned-up reading view extracted from the publisher’s page — the original always lives on their site, not ours.