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WTA Weekly: Beijing Preview | Leylah Fernandez wins Singapore Open artwork

WTA Weekly: Beijing Preview | Leylah Fernandez wins Singapore Open

Talking Tennis

September 29, 2026

Leylah Fernandez is the Singapore Open champion! On this week’s WTA Weekly, we look back at her title run and what it could mean for the rest of her season. Then we turn to Beijing: Who arrives with momentum, which players need a strong week, and who could make a deep run?

Speakers Amanda, John Silk

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Well, hello there, and welcome to WTA Weekly, Asian Style, and I'm pleased to be joined by Amanda once again, from Aces and Faults. Amanda, how are you doing?

Amanda (3:07)

I'm good. How are you?

John Silk (3:09)

Yeah, not bad, not bad. It's always interesting doing tennis chat around about this time of year, because most people I talk to were in the wrong time zone for it.

Amanda (3:22)

Yeah, it's a little rough, this part of the season for me. But it's so confusing because I'll wake up and I'll check the scores, and I'm like, wait, did this happen yesterday or today?

What is going on? But I try to keep up the best I can.

John Silk (3:40)

Yeah, that's all you can do in that situation, really. I think, yeah, for reference, what your experience is, what I experienced when Indian Wells is on. I can only watch half of it, essentially. Yeah. And of course, they put all the big stars on at night, so you just sleep through all the mega results. For example, I would not blame you if you have not seen Leylah Fernandez won the Singapore Open, given that she...

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