Canada’s Leylah Fernandez falls early at China Open

It won't be two straight tournament victories for Leylah Fernandez. The Canadian's five-match win streak came to a halt on Saturday in China when she fell 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 to Uzbekistan's Kamilla Rakhimova in the Round of 64. Fernandez was coming off a late-September triumph at the Singapore Open in which she ousted a pair of top-five seeds in Mirra Andreeva and Maja Chwalinska. But the Montreal native failed to keep the momentum going in Beijing despite firing four aces. Fernandez, seeded 23rd, earned just four break-point opportunities across three sets against the unseeded Rakhimova, converting two, while surrendering 11...