{"id":177196,"date":"2025-09-29T09:19:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T09:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177196\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T09:19:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T09:19:22","slug":"tennis-alexandra-eala-falls-short-of-jingshan-open-final-in-three-setter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177196\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis &#8211; Alexandra Eala falls short of Jingshan Open final in three-setter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandra Eala lost the lead and the match as the top seed went out in the Jingshan Open 2025 semi-finals on Saturday (27 September).<\/p>\n<p>The Filipina was eliminated at the hands of Lulu Sun, the third seed from New Zealand, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 in the People\u2019s Republic of China.<\/p>\n<p>The second set was there for either\u2019s taking, even at 4-4, which Sun did by winning the last two games of the frame.<\/p>\n<p>Sun was comfortably in front throughout the third with Eala able to only manage a couple of consolation games before the Kiwi ended the match after 2 hours, 13 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The 58th-ranked Eala had been eyeing her second career title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexandra Eala lost the lead and the match as the top seed went out in the Jingshan Open&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-177196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177196","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=177196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}