{"id":532934,"date":"2026-03-11T09:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/532934\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T09:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:03:08","slug":"alex-eala-loses-to-linda-noskova-in-bnp-paribas-open-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/532934\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Eala loses to Linda Noskova in BNP Paribas Open round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex Eala<\/a>‘s run at the BNP Paribas Open<\/a> at Indian Wells has come to an end in the round of 16, losing to Linda Noskova<\/a>, in a clash between former junior rivals.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old Filipina lost 2-6, 0-6 to the No. 14 seed at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Eala, the No. 31 seed, defeated the Czech twice in junior competition, first in the Les Petit As-Le Mondial Lacoste final in Tarbes, France, in 2018, and then in the quarterfinals of the 2020 French Open girls’ tournament, but she had no answers in their first professional meeting.<\/p>\n

Noskova dictated the pace early in the opening set, breaking Eala in her first service game to seize the early momentum. She nearly raced to a 3-0 lead, but Eala showed resistance by saving two break points to get on the board.<\/p>\n

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The Czech continued to apply pressure from the baseline and eventually created separation at 4-2, converting another crucial break in the seventh game before closing out the set in the eighth. Noskova’s strong serving underpinned the set, firing three aces and winning 80% of her first-serve points.<\/p>\n

The second set followed a similar pattern, with Eala unable to gain rhythm as the Czech dominated to claim a bagel. Noskova’s serving efficiency remained steady, finishing with seven aces and winning 78% of her first-serve points.<\/p>\n

Eala defeated Dayana Yastremska<\/a>, of the Ukraine, having been given a bye into the second round; and Coco Gauff<\/a>, the No. 4 seed, from the U.S., who retired in the second set in the third round<\/a>, to reach the round of 16. Her defeat by Noskova continues her poor results against Czech opponents. Eala is now 0-11 against players from Czechia in her professional career.<\/p>\n

The Filipina now returns to the Miami Open<\/a> at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, where she will look to build on the confidence from her breakthrough semifinal appearance in last year’s tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Eala‘s run at the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells has come to an end in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-532934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532934","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=532934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}