{"id":124989,"date":"2025-09-07T07:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T07:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/124989\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T07:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T07:08:08","slug":"alex-eala-brings-pride-to-rafa-nadal-academy-with-first-wta-125-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/124989\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Eala brings pride to Rafa Nadal Academy with first WTA 125 title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Alex Eala won her first WTA 125 title on Sunday at the Guadalajara 125 Open, becoming a source of pride for the Rafa Nadal Academy, the school where she trained.<\/p>\n<p>In a social media post, the academy congratulated Eala on her achievement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat a night in Guadalajara! After dropping the first set, Alex roared back with all her heart (emoji) to defeat Udvardy and claim her first WTA singles title,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s now the first Filipino\u2014man or woman\u2014to win a WTA singles title. Goosebumps. Pure pride.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">????????Alex Eala is a WTA Champion! ????????<\/p>\n<p>What a night in Guadalajara! After dropping the first set, Alex roared back with all her ?? to defeat Udvardy and claim her first WTA singles title! ????<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s now the first Filipino\u2014man or woman\u2014to win a WTA singles ????. Goosebumps. Pure pride ???? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/maOwRnIyYr\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/maOwRnIyYr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar (@rnadalacademy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rnadalacademy\/status\/1964440679054266625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 6, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eala <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/sports\/othersports\/958291\/alex-eala-panna-udvardy-guadalajara-125-open-finals-september-7-2025\/story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">defeated Panna Udvardy of Hungary, 1\u20136, 7\u20135, 6\u20133, in the finals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/sports\/othersports\/958292\/alex-eala-in-the-guadalajara-125-open-and-the-road-to-her-first-wta-title\/story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alex Eala in the Guadalajara 125 Open and the road to her first WTA title<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014JKC, GMA Integrated News<\/p>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Eala won her first WTA 125 title on Sunday at the Guadalajara 125 Open, becoming a source&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[5100,64,63,87723,17839,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-124989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alex-eala","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-guadalajara-125-open","12":"tag-rafa-nadal-academy","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}