{"id":355719,"date":"2025-12-18T08:47:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T08:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/355719\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T08:47:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T08:47:38","slug":"alex-eala-wins-her-first-sea-games-gold-in-womens-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/355719\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Eala wins her first SEA Games gold in women&#8217;s tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/tracking\/alexeala\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alexandra \u201cAlex\u201d Eala<\/a> flexed her might in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/sports\/othersports\/970028\/live-updates-team-philippines-at-the-2025-sea-games-december-18-2025\/story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2025 Southeast Asian Games<\/a> after a dominant 6-1, 6-2, win against Mananchaya\u00a0Sawangkaew of Thailand in the gold medal match on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>This is Eala\u2019s first gold medal in the Southeast Asian Games and her third medal this year after getting two bronzes in the women\u2019s team event and mixed doubles. Back in 2021, Eala settled for bronze in the women\u2019s singles event.<\/p>\n<p>This also marks the Philippines\u2019 third gold medal in SEA Games women\u2019s tennis after Pia Tamayo in 1981 and Maricris Fernandez in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Justin Kenneth Carandang\/JMB, GMA Integrated News <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexandra \u201cAlex\u201d Eala flexed her might in the 2025 Southeast Asian Games after a dominant 6-1, 6-2, win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355720,"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-355719","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\/355719","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=355719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}