{"id":669996,"date":"2026-05-14T08:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/669996\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T08:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:18:19","slug":"eala-tjen-usher-in-new-wave-of-sea-talent-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/669996\/","title":{"rendered":"Eala, Tjen usher in new wave of SEA talent &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy match in Melbourne, I was at a loss for words when I saw the videos after my match. I saw a couple of clips of the lines and the people and I was really surprised. It\u2019s hard to\u2026 I think also a little in denial. It\u2019s hard to accept or really see yourself being someone with that much influence or that much impact because I\u2019ve been myself my whole life. Nothing changed much, in terms of who I am, from 2025 to 2026. It\u2019s just that my success kind of skyrocketed, which I\u2019m very thankful for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo after I broke that barrier of not accepting, like thinking, \u2018I don\u2019t think I\u2019m really famous\u2019, every week they just kept coming, so I was like, \u2018Okay, you have to accept it, absorb it, it\u2019s here, it\u2019s a really good position\u2019, and I started to just be so grateful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause I don\u2019t know how long this is going to last either. It\u2019s definitely not going to be forever, so I try to enjoy it as much as I can while it\u2019s happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The level of fandom around Eala has been undeniable, so much so that even her peers are in awe of the atmosphere she\u2019s been able to create during her matches.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/40607-a.anisimova\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Amanda Anisimova<\/a> sat in the stands for one of Eala\u2019s matches in Dubai, just to witness it all firsthand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love that she has such an incredible fan base. I&#8217;ve seen the atmosphere. It&#8217;s amazing,\u201d Anisimova said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think she&#8217;s also such a good representation of her country. I mean, she&#8217;s so young and she carries herself so well. It&#8217;s so good to see.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI caught a little bit of the beginning of her match last night. Yeah, I stuck around for it because the atmosphere was so great.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMy match in Melbourne, I was at a loss for words when I saw the videos after my&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-669996","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\/669996","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=669996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}