Leylah Annie Fernandez is a professional tennis player from Canada. She attained a career-high ranking of No. 13 by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) on August 8, 2022.

Fernandez claimed her first WTA Tour victory in the Monterrey Open in 2021. She finished runner-up to fellow youngster Emma Raducanu in the 2021 US Open as a 19-year-old, defeating three top-5 players on way to the final (including defending champion Naomi Osaka).

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Fernandez earned her first professional singles tennis championship on July 21, 2019, when she rallied to defeat fellow Canadian Carson Branstine in the final of the Gatineau Challenger.

On the same day, Fernandez won her first professional doubles title alongside Vancouver’s Rebecca Marino.

The duo overcame Mexico’s Marcela Zacarias and Taiwan’s Hsu Chieh-yu, the second-seeded team. The following week, she reached her second straight ITF final in Granby, where she was defeated by Lizette Cabrera of Australia.

Fernandez defeated Olympic champion Belinda Bencic and 2019 French Open semifinalist Amanda Anisimova in the third and fourth rounds of the French Open in May, before falling to Martina Trevisan in the quarterfinals.

After losing in the first round to Ostapenko the year before, she was forced to skip Wimbledon due to a Grade III broken foot sustained during her quarterfinal match with Trevisan.

Fernandez lost in the second round of the Canadian Open to eventual finalist Beatriz Haddad Maia. Fernandez was eliminated in the first round of the Cincinnati Masters by Ekaterina Alexandrova.

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