{"id":318979,"date":"2025-11-30T17:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T17:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/318979\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T17:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T17:30:07","slug":"alex-ealas-stunning-2025-prize-money-breakthrough-revealed-with-telling-stat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/318979\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Eala&#8217;s stunning 2025 prize money breakthrough revealed with telling stat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rising star Alex Eala made history for the Philippines in 2025 as she enjoyed a breakthrough campaign on the WTA Tour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/alex-eala\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eala<\/a> compiled a 13-13 record on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/wta-tour\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTA Tour<\/a> in 2025, having won just two of the 16 matches she had played on the main tour prior to this season.<\/p>\n<p>The left-hander\u2019s record across all levels this year, including Challengers, ITF events and qualifying matches, was an impressive 40-26.<\/p>\n<p>Having started 2025 ranked 147th, Eala ended the season at a career-high ranking of world No 50 \u2014 becoming the highest-ranked player from the Philippines in tennis history.<\/p>\n<p>Eala, who turned 20 in May, also became the first tennis player from her nation to reach a tour-level final and record multiple wins against Grand Slam winners and top five players.<\/p>\n<p>At the WTA 1000 event in Miami in March, Eala stunned both Madison Keys and Iga Swiatek in straight sets during her sensational run to semi-finals as a wildcard.<\/p>\n<p>In June, Eala lost a thrilling final at the WTA 250 grass-court tournament in Eastbourne to Maya Joint in a third set tiebreak.<\/p>\n<p>Tennis News<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-videos\/rafael-nadal-seen-practicing-alex-eala-marks-one-year-since-retirement\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WATCH: Rafael Nadal seen practicing with Alex Eala as he marks one year since retirement<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/wta-prize-money-earned-victoria-mboko-alex-eala-joint-jovic-2025-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prize money earned by Mboko, Eala, Joint, Jovic &amp; other rising WTA stars in 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The prize money Alex Eala earned in 2025<\/p>\n<p>Alex Eala collected $907,777 in prize money across the 27 tournaments she played during the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Filipina earned $332,160 \u2014 over a third of her yearly prize money haul \u2014 for reaching the last four at the Miami Open.<\/p>\n<p>She secured $154,000 for making the second round of the US Open in September after registering her first-ever Grand Slam main draw victory.<\/p>\n<p>How much did Alex Eala earn in her career before 2025?<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the 2025 season, Eala had claimed $455,908 in prize money since the start of her professional career in March 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old earned almost double that amount this year, taking her total career prize money haul to $1,363,685.<\/p>\n<p>What has Alex Eala said about her breakout season?<\/p>\n<p>Eala reflected on her 2025 campaign in a post on her Instagram account earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy season comes to an end. I have no words to describe what 2025 has brought me,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy dreams have truly come alive. It\u2019s such a privilege to look back at this year and relive these amazing moments through memory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll that\u2019s happened this season and the emotions that come with it is a love letter to my family, friends, team, every supporter across my journey in tennis, and of course, baby Alex.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis marks the beginning of what I hope to be a long, happy and fruitful career on tour! Thank you every body, see you in 2026!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/2025-wta-tour-awards-aryna-sabalenka-madison-keys-victoria-mboko-alex-eala\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025 WTA Tour Awards \u2013 ft. Aryna Sabalenka, Madison Keys, Victoria Mboko, Alex Eala<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rising star Alex Eala made history for the Philippines in 2025 as she enjoyed a breakthrough campaign on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-318979","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\/318979","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=318979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}