{"id":886736,"date":"2026-09-07T12:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T12:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/886736\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T12:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T12:48:13","slug":"philippine-tennis-sensation-alexandra-eala-looking-forward-to-having-fun-at-asian-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/886736\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippine tennis sensation Alexandra Eala looking forward to having \u2018fun\u2019 at Asian Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Philippines sensation Alexandra Eala said she cannot wait to experience the \u201creally fun environment\u201d of the Asian Games after a battling defeat in the third round of the US Open.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The rising 21-year-old will be favourite to win women\u2019s singles gold when the Games begin in Japan on September 19.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At the previous edition of the Games, in 2023 in China, Eala went home with bronze medals in singles and mixed doubles.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Much has changed for Eala since, last month becoming the first player from the Philippines to win a WTA singles crown and now ranked 18 in the world.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Her groundbreaking exploits have made her a superstar back home.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI love playing and competing with the Philippines team,\u201d Eala said after her agonising three-set loss to United States teenager Iva Jovic in New York on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"China\u2019s Zheng Qinwen will not defend the title she won in Hangzhou. Photo: Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/9efa3a83-ef5d-4453-9f08-e4e70cf332e2_9c2a2243.jpg\" title=\"China\u2019s Zheng Qinwen will not defend the title she won in Hangzhou. Photo: Reuters\"\/>China\u2019s Zheng Qinwen will not defend the title she won in Hangzhou. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philippines sensation Alexandra Eala said she cannot wait to experience the \u201creally fun environment\u201d of the Asian Games&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[307649,30434,85574,8580,49,48,95,85034,2454,1522,24456,3430,2053,307648,150548,82,593,772,151221],"class_list":["post-886736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-aichi-nagoya","tag-alexandra-eala","tag-asian-games","tag-beijing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-china-open","tag-japan","tag-los-angeles","tag-naomi-osaka","tag-new-york","tag-philippines","tag-singapore-open","tag-southeast-asian-games","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-united-states","tag-zheng-qinwen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886736","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=886736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}