Leylah Annie Fernandez is a Canadian professional tennis player who won her first WTA Tour title at the 2021 Monterrey Open and was runner-up at the 2021 US Open to fellow teenager Emma Raducanu.
On May 16, 2022, she achieved a career-high ranking of No. 17 by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA).
Who is Leylah Fernandez father Jorge Fernandez?
Leylah Fernandez was born on September 6, 2002, in Montreal, Quebec, to Jorge Fernandez and Irene Fernandez, born Irene Exevea.
Her mother is Filipino Canadian and she has a younger sister named Bianca Jolie. Bianca Jolie is also a tennis player. She has a WTA doubles ranking of 735 as well as a WTA singles ranking of 891, both achieved on March 7, 2022.
Her father, Jorge, is an Ecuadorian-Canadian tennis coach and former association football player and coach.
He was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and relocated to Montreal, Canada with his family when he was four years old. When he turned 14, he became a Canadian citizen.
