{"id":839309,"date":"2026-08-02T06:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T06:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/839309\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T06:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T06:45:14","slug":"manila-philippines-filipino-tennis-ace-alex-eala-ousted-former-world-no-1-naomi-osaka-6-4-6-2-to-reach-her-first-500-wta-tour-final-at-the-mubadala-d-c-open-at-the-william-h-g-fitzger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/839309\/","title":{"rendered":"MANILA, Philippines \u2014 Filipino tennis ace Alex Eala ousted former world No. 1 Naomi Osaka, 6-4, 6-2, to reach her first 500 WTA Tour final at the Mubadala D.C. Open at the William H.G. FitzGerald\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attributed-text-segment-list__content text-color-text !text-sm whitespace-pre-wrap break-words&#10;        \" dir=\"ltr\" data-test-id=\"main-feed-activity-card__commentary\">MANILA, Philippines \u2014 Filipino tennis ace Alex Eala ousted former world No. 1 Naomi Osaka, 6-4, 6-2, to reach her first 500 WTA Tour final at the Mubadala D.C. Open at the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center Stadium Court in Washington early Sunday morning in Manila.<\/p>\n<p>Eala racked up three straight games including a service hold to finish off the 4-time major champ Osaka and reach the finale, where she faces Jessica Pegula in a rematch.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/redir\/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftmt%2Enews%2F2396451&amp;urlhash=ZhNO&amp;trk=public_post-text\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-tracking-control-name=\"public_post-text\" data-tracking-will-navigate=\"\">https:\/\/tmt.news\/2396451<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANILA, Philippines \u2014 Filipino tennis ace Alex Eala ousted former world No. 1 Naomi Osaka, 6-4, 6-2, to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-839309","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\/839309","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=839309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}