The fans have made their choice, and Alexandra Eala is your Star of the Swing for the grass-court season. Eala captured nearly 90% of the vote, finishing ahead of a field of contenders that included newly crowned Wimbledon champion Linda Noskova.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old from the Philippines set her trajectory early, opening the grass swing by winning her second career WTA 125 title at the Lexus Birmingham Open. Eala navigated a week of rain delays to defeat Nikola Bartunkova in a three-set final, then carried that momentum into Germany, where she reached the semifinals at the WTA 500 in Berlin.<\/p>\n
Eala followed that with her best Grand Slam performance to date at Wimbledon. Seeded No. 29, she became the first player from the Philippines to reach the second week of a singles major in the Open Era. Her standout moment came in the third round on Centre Court, where she defeated defending champion Iga Swiatek 7-6(9), 6-2.<\/p>\n
Though her run ended in the Round of 16 with a close three-set loss to Jasmine Paolini, Eala\u2019s five-week stretch pushed her to a career-high ranking of No. 28 on the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Finishing second and third in the fan voting were the two women who played in the all-Czech final at SW19: Wimbledon champion Linda Noskova and runner-up Karolina Muchova.<\/p>\n
Noskova, 21, secured her first Grand Slam title with a 6-2, 5-7, 6-3 victory on Centre Court. Muchova extended the match by recovering from a break down in the second set to force a third\u00a0before Noskova pulled away.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fans have made their choice, and Alexandra Eala is your Star of the Swing for the grass-court…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593,5452],"class_list":["post-815537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}