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Canada’s Leylah Fernandez and Indonesia’s Aldila Sutjiadi will not be moving on to the Wuhan Open final. 

The pairing lost 7-5, 6-2 to Americans Jessica Pegula and Asia Muhammad in the women’s doubles semifinals at the tennis tournament on Saturday.

Fernandez of Laval, Que., and Sutjiadi won 72.2 per cent of their first-serve points but failed to convert on all three of their break point opportunities.

The duo had defeated Australia’s Ellen Perez and Nicole Melichar-Martinez of the United States 6-4, 6-4 in quarterfinal action on Friday to advance.

Pegula and Muhammad won 80 per cent of their first-serve points and broke on three of their five chances.

They will next face Kazakhstan’s Anna Danilina and Russia’s Irina Khromacheva in Sunday’s final.