Leylah Annie Fernandez brushes past Diana Shnaider 6-1 6-4 in the 3rd round in Cincinnati on Friday after playing a marvellous match to come up against Jessica Pegula in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 22 minutes. This will be her best achievement in this event. In the past, the best she could do was reaching the 1st round in 2020, 2021 and 2022. Here you can see her history at this event.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Leylah scored 69 points vs. Diana’s 51.
Fernandez
Fernandez served extremely well to win 83% of the points (29/35) behind her first serve. Anyhow she won only 38% points (8/21) on her second serve. The Canadian won this match even if she had a tough time converting her break points after she converted only 40% (4/10) of the procured opportunities.
Shnaider
On the other side, Diana wasn’t that great in converting her break points (only 20% – 1/5). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Fernandez and Shnaider is 1-0 for Leylah .
Draw and next match H2H: Leylah Annie Fernandez vs. Jessica Pegula – stats
Fernandez will fight against Pegula in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that Leylah Annie Fernandez and Jessica Pegula play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Pegula (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Pegula won 7-5 6-4 in the 3rd round in Miami back in March 2024.
Tennis Scores in Cincinnati
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan (4-6 6-0 6-3)
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Taylor TownsendTownsend (6-2 6-3)
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Qinwen ZhengZheng (7-5 6-1)
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Diana ShnaiderShnaider (6-1 6-4)
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Marta KostyukKostyuk (6-2 6-2)
- Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-4 6-4)
- Mirra AndreevaAndreeva – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (3-6 6-3 6-2)
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (7-5 6-2)
Upcoming matches
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (1-2) – H2H details and stats
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (0-1) – H2H details and stats