{"id":172557,"date":"2025-09-27T10:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T10:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/172557\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T10:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T10:32:08","slug":"alex-eala-falls-to-lulu-sun-in-jingshan-tennis-open-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/172557\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Eala falls to Lulu Sun in Jingshan Tennis Open semis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/tracking\/alexeala\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alexandra \u201cAlex\u201d Eala<\/a> fell to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/sports\/othersports\/960409\/who-is-lulu-sun-meet-alex-eala-s-semis-foe-at-the-jingshan-tennis-open\/story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lulu Sun<\/a> of New Zealand, 6-3, 4-6, 2-6, in the semifinals of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/sports\/othersports\/959933\/alex-eala-at-the-jingshan-tennis-open-schedule-results-and-details-you-need-to-know\/story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Jingshan Tennis Open<\/a> on Saturday in China.<\/p>\n<p>After taking the first set, the world No. 58 Eala held an early 2-1 lead in the second before the world No. 146 Sun won four straight games. The Filipina tennis ace managed to win two more games, but Sun closed out the set to even the match.<\/p>\n<p>Momentum shifted to Sun\u2019s side in the third set, as she won the first four games. Eala managed to stop the run, but Sun built a 5-1 lead. Although Eala took one more game, Sun eventually sealed the victory.<\/p>\n<p>This marks Eala\u2019s second career loss to Lulu Sun, following their previous meeting in the Wimbledon qualifiers last year.<\/p>\n<p>Eala reached the semifinals after defeating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/sports\/othersports\/960031\/alex-eala-vs-aliona-falei-jingshan-tennis-open-round-of-32\/story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aliona Falei<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/sports\/othersports\/960282\/alex-eala-advances-to-jingshan-open-quarterfinals\/story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mei Yamaguchi,<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/sports\/othersports\/960403\/alex-eala-jia-jing-lu-jingshan-tennis-open-quarterfinals-september-26-2025\/story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jia-Jing Lu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sun will face China\u2019s Ye-Xin Ma in the final.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014JKC, GMA Integrated News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexandra \u201cAlex\u201d Eala fell to Lulu Sun of New Zealand, 6-3, 4-6, 2-6, in the semifinals of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[5100,64,63,110885,110886,63945,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-172557","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-jingshan-open","12":"tag-jingshan-tennis-open","13":"tag-lulu-sun","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172557","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=172557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}