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\u201cI think this year it seems like she\u2019s finding more consistency with her results. She\u2019s beaten quite a few top players this year, including myself.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to dynamic play, Eala has emerged as a charismatic competitor, who has drawn enthusiastic and vocal Filipino fans to her matches around the world.<\/p>\n
The Alex Army rivals the Fonseca Force, Brazilian fans who come out in vocal support of Joao Fonseca, as a fan force in today\u2019s tennis.<\/p>\n
In fact, when it comes to pure passion and vocal support for their player, you can argue the Alex Army has already outpaced other notable fan forces we\u2019ve seen in recent years: the Genie Army, the Carota Boys, the Halepenos, the Netheads, the Samurais and the J-Block.<\/p>\n
You\u2019d probably have to go back to Guga Gang, the festive crew of Brazilian fans who turned Gustavo \u201cGuga\u201d Kuerten matches into festive tennis carnivals banging on drums and singing in unison, to find a fan base so passionate about their player that they can sometimes become a collective chorus in the play.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just think it\u2019s so refreshing and nice to see how well she\u2019s handled all of the kind of fandom and stardom that\u2019s come with her being from the Philippines and how they\u2019ve really embraced her,\u201d Pegula said. \u201cIt\u2019s crazy how she deals with it every single week, which just shows her maturity as a player and as a person.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a lot of respect for her, and I like her a lot. I think she\u2019s a really nice girl. Yeah, it\u2019s cool to see what she\u2019s brought to the women\u2019s game, and yeah, she\u2019s great.\u201d<\/p>\n
Richard Pagliaro. Richard Pagliaro is Tennis Now Managing Editor. He is a graduate of New York University and has covered pro tennis for more than 35 years. Richard was tennis columnist for Gannett Newspapers in NY, served as Managing Editor for TennisWeek.com and worked as a writer\/editor for Tennis.com. He has been TennisNow.com managing editor since 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jessica Pegula on essential elements to Alexandra Eala’s success at age 21. By Richard Pagliaro | Monday, August…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-844285","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\/844285","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=844285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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