{"id":349135,"date":"2025-12-15T08:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/349135\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T08:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:01:08","slug":"sea-games-alex-eala-beats-malaysian-foe-to-reach-womens-singles-tennis-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/349135\/","title":{"rendered":"SEA Games: Alex Eala beats Malaysian foe to reach women&#8217;s singles tennis semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/tracking\/alexeala\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alex Eala<\/a> played like the world-class talent that she is, beating Shihomi Leong of Malaysia with a 6-3, 6-1 win in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/sports\/othersports\/969600\/live-updates-team-philippines-at-the-2025-sea-games-december-15-2025\/story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2025 Southeast Asian Games<\/a> women&#8217;s singles tennis quarterfinals on Monday at the National Tennis Development Center in Thailand.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With the statement win, the Filipina tennis star will advance to the semifinals as she aims for her first-ever SEA Games gold medal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite her long list of international accolades, the 20-year-old Eala has yet to win a gold medal at the biennial event.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In her SEA Games debut in 2022 in Vietnam, Eala was able to seize three bronze medals by finishing third in the singles, mixed doubles, and women&#8217;s team events.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now ranked no. 53 in the world, Eala is eager to put her name in the SEA Games map, first earning a Round of 16 bye before dominating the 18-year-old Leong, who&#8217;s currently the world no. 969.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014JMB, GMA Integrated News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Eala played like the world-class talent that she is, beating Shihomi Leong of Malaysia with a 6-3,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[32450,192482,5100,69099,64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-349135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-2025-sea-games","9":"tag-2025-southeast-asian-games","10":"tag-alex-eala","11":"tag-alexandra-eala","12":"tag-au","13":"tag-australia","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349135","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=349135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}