Mirra Andreeva vs. Leylah Fernandez | 2026 Toronto Round 3 | WTA Match Highlights

The Roland Garros champion then making her entrance here. Eleni, who do you want to ask? Heads. Okay, good. That is tails. Layla. Your serve. Can we have a photo please? Facing that side. Kids in the front. Eleni in the middle please. Thank you very much. That's an umpire, it's not just... Well after a brilliant couple of shots. Yeah everything started from the serve. Superb. Magnificent footwork. Well I think she gave us the answer. Set point. Brilliant set of tennis. How she's been able to manage her tennis in this opening set has been magnificent. Has given and driven nothing in the opening seven games. 6-1 the Canadian. Of course she's going to find the winner there. Stunning tennis. You know to come up with the right solution. One thing is for sure, she needs to work her points a bit harder. It's actually one of the best points she's played. There's still more work to do though. Well a reaction. What have we got here? Fantastic Fernandez. What a moment for the 23 year old. She absolutely deserved that. The way she played from the first point to the last. Even those three games that Andreeva won. At 5-1 she stayed true to herself. And the first time since October last year she's won back-to-back matches on the hard courts. What a performance. 6-1, 6-4 in 81 minutes. Leila, this day crowd clearly understood the assignment. And so did you. You're into the round of 16 here in Toronto. Feels to hear that. Oh my goodness. It feels amazing. And especially doing it at home in front of an amazing crowd. Thank you so much for showing up. I mean I absolutely have no words. So thank you so much for coming out. Cheer me on and hopefully I'll see you on my next round. Leila, you just ousted the fifth seed and looked absolutely in cruise control at points of this match. You rattled off nine straight games at one point. What were you telling yourself in that changeover before you got a chance to serve for the match? Put your first serves in. I don't know. I mean I just thought about like staying in the present moment. Calming my nerves down. And of course using the crowd as energy. So again thank you so much for helping me out today. It really means a lot. And of course I got to thank my coaching team. I mean they did a great job in helping me keeping calm and focusing on at the task at hand. So you know I was just super happy that I was able to listen and execute for the most part. And Leila I know that everyone in Montreal is probably watching you as well. You were the lone Canadian in singles action here at the National Bank Open. So what message would you like to send to them in French today? Leila Fernand is off to the round of 16 here in Toronto. Keep it rolling Leila.