{"id":784662,"date":"2026-07-07T11:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/784662\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T11:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:22:08","slug":"filipino-tennis-star-alex-ealas-historic-wimbledon-ends-vs-italys-jasmine-paolini-asia-news-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/784662\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipino tennis star Alex Eala\u2019s historic Wimbledon ends vs Italy\u2019s Jasmine Paolini \u2013 Asia News Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#999 !important\">  July 7, 2026<\/p>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Alex Eala\u2019s golden run at Wimbledon hit the end of the road on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Eala went down swinging before falling to Italian world No. 13 and former finalist Jasmine Paolini, 4-6, 6-4, 3-6, in the round of 16 in front of a star-studded crowd at Centre Court that included Roger Federer in the royal box.<\/p>\n<p>The loss did not diminish Eala\u2019s historic campaign on tennis\u2019 most grandiose stage.<\/p>\n<p>In another trail-blazing bid, the 21-year-old Eala became the first Filipino to reach the round of 16 in a Grand Slam singles tournament after she unseated defending champion Iga Swiatek in straight sets on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Paolini, a former world No. 4, evened the score against Eala after losing to the Filipino ace in the Dubai Tennis Championships round of 32 last February.<\/p>\n<p>Paolini, who made the All England Club final two years ago, booked a spot in the quarterfinals against Ukraine\u2019s Marta Kostyuk set Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Federer, who holds the men\u2019s record with eight singles titles, made an apperance at Wimbledon on the 18th anniversary of his epic five-set final against great rival Rafael Nadal in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 7, 2026 MANILA \u2013 Alex Eala\u2019s golden run at Wimbledon hit the end of the road on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-784662","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\/784662","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=784662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}