NEW YORK — The coaching took place on the phone as it has since the beginning of last week.
Leylah Fernandez’s father and coach, Jorge, stayed home with her sister and hasn’t been in Queens to watch his daughter knock off one top ranked player after another.
Still, as the most important match of Fernandez’s life went to a third-set tiebreaker Tuesday, Fernandez thought back to the phone call she had with her father earlier in the day.
