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Russia’s Shnaider beats Fernandez of Canada to win Tokyo title

TOKYO: Russia’s Diana Shnaider won her first title of the year with a hard-fought victory over Leylah Fernandez in Tokyo on Sunday and couldn’t wait to tell her mum all about it. The world number 13 beat Canada’s Fernandez 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 to win the Pan Pacific Open and then went straight to her phone to call home. “I was calling my mum — I wanted to hear her voice after winning a title and share a first few moments with her,” the 22-year-old Shnaider said. “She said ‘you’ve just finished and alre