{"id":625794,"date":"2026-04-23T13:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/625794\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:35:12","slug":"alex-eala-zeynep-sonmez-advance-to-round-of-16-of-madrid-open-doubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/625794\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Eala, Zeynep Sonmez advance to Round of 16 of Madrid Open doubles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Published April 23, 2026 6:17pm <\/p>\n

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Tennis – Madrid Open – Park Manzanares, Madrid, Spain – April 22, 2026 Philippines’ Alexandra Eala in action during her round of 128 match against Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Photo: REUTERS\/Isabel Infantes <\/p>\n

Alexandra \u201cAlex\u201d Eala<\/a> of the Philippines and partner Zeynep Sonmez of Turkey advanced in the WTA1000 Madrid Open women\u2019s doubles tournament after defeating the pair of Chan Hao-Chang of Chinese Taipei and Fanny Stollar of Hungary, 6-2, 6-2, in the Round of 32 on Thursday in Spain.<\/p>\n

The duo, who are now through to the Round of 16, bucked a slow start in which they surrendered the first two games of the first set, before coming back to take the first set 6-2.<\/p>\n

They continued to cruise in the second set, jumping out to a 4-0 lead before trading points with their opponents to close it out, 6-2.<\/p>\n

Eala entered the doubles event fresh off a 6-3, 6-3 win over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the Round of 128<\/a> of the singles draw.<\/p>\n

Like Eala, Sonmez is also thrpugh to the Round of 64 of the singles competition after a 7-5, 6-2 win over Carlota Martinez Cirez.<\/p>\n

They are currently still awaiting who their opponents will be in the Round of 16.<\/p>\n

\u2014JMB, GMA News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published April 23, 2026 6:17pm Add GMA on Google Make this your preferred source to get more updates…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[5100,69099,64,63,280666,85,747,63949],"class_list":{"0":"post-625794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alex-eala","9":"tag-alexandra-eala","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-madrid-open","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-zeynep-sonmez"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625794","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=625794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}