{"id":784183,"date":"2026-07-07T05:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/784183\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T05:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:59:14","slug":"filipina-alexandra-eala-scales-new-heights-on-tennis-grandest-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/784183\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipina Alexandra Eala scales new heights on tennis&#8217; grandest stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/sports\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Fans compare rising star to legendary Philippine boxer Manny Pacquiao<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/7\/1.jpeg\" alt=\"20260707 Eala\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The Philippines&#8217; Alexandra Eala plays a shot during her fourth-round match against Italy&#8217;s Jasmine Paolini at Wimbledon, in London\u00a0on July 5. Eala lost in three tight sets. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>AKATSUKI UCHIDA and RAMON ROYANDOYAN<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">WIMBLEDON, England\/MANILA &#8212; Wherever Filipina tennis star <a class=\"Link_link__qPD1b\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/sports\/southeast-asia-aces-tennis-breakthrough-at-australian-open\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alexandra Eala<\/a> goes, a sea of her fans follow &#8212; and before long, another piece of history is made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sports Fans compare rising star to legendary Philippine boxer Manny Pacquiao The Philippines&#8217; Alexandra Eala plays a shot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[181243,64,63,369389,348324,370633,370632,3127,96508,85,47867,747],"class_list":["post-784183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-alexandra","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-eala","tag-filipina","tag-grandest","tag-heights","tag-new","tag-scales","tag-sports","tag-stage","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784183","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=784183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}