Alex Eala of the Philippines reacts towards Clara Tauson of Denmark throughout their Ladies’s Singles First Spherical match on Day One of many 2025 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King Nationwide Tennis Heart on August 24, 2025 within the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York Metropolis. Sarah Stier/Getty Photos/AFP
MANILA, Philippines — Alex Eala jumpstarted her Guadalajara Open marketing campaign with a rousing 6-2, 6-2 win over Arianne Hartono of the Netherlands on Wednesday morning (Philippine time) in Mexico.
Eala superior to the spherical of 16 of the Ladies’s Tennis Affiliation (WTA) 125 tour after reasserting her dominance over Hartono, whom she has now overwhelmed for the fourth straight time.
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The 20-year-old Filipino zoomed to a 3-1 begin and by no means seemed again to take the opening set.
Tied at 2-2 within the second, Eala gained 4 straight video games to complete the match in an hour and 9 minutes.
Eala battles a 39-year-old qualifier Varvara Lepchenko of the US within the second spherical on Thursday.
Lepchenko, the world No. 122, swept Maddison Inglis, 6-4, 6-1, within the spherical of 32.
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The world No. 75 Eala is coming off a historic US Open, the place she turn into the primary Filipino to win a match at a Grand Slam singles event within the Open period after beautiful world No. 14 Clara Tauson of Denmark, 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (13-11).
Nevertheless, her run ended within the second spherical after falling to Spain’s Cristina Bucsa, 6-4, 6-3.
The Rafa Nadal Academy graduate simply returned from a shoulder harm and can compete within the Sao Paulo Open from September 8 to 14 in Brazil.
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