{"id":428284,"date":"2026-05-06T13:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/428284\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:34:07","slug":"alexandra-eala-secures-first-career-win-in-rome-in-three-set-victory-against-magdalena-frech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/428284\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandra Eala secures first career win in Rome in three-set victory against Magdalena Frech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandra Eala is up and running at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/sport-events\/2026-atp-wta-tennis-internazionali-bnl-d-italia-rome\/\" 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Open 2026: Alexandra Eala secures first career win in Rome with three-set victory over Magdalena Frech&quot;,&quot;tag&quot;:&quot;[\\&quot;discipline-tennis\\&quot;,\\&quot;nischal-schwager-patel\\&quot;,\\&quot;noc-ph\\&quot;,\\&quot;newsclip\\&quot;,\\&quot;gender-female\\&quot;,\\&quot;results\\&quot;]&quot;,&quot;module_type&quot;:&quot;TextBlock&quot;,&quot;module_title&quot;:&quot;Italian Open 2026: Alexandra Eala secures first career win in Rome with three-set victory over Magdalena Frech&quot;,&quot;section_level_1&quot;:&quot;news&quot;,&quot;section_level_2&quot;:&quot;italian-open-2026-alexandra-eala-first-round-rome-magdalena-frech-result&quot;,&quot;discipline&quot;:&quot;discipline-tennis&quot;,&quot;odf_id&quot;:&quot;TEN&quot;,&quot;module_instance&quot;:&quot;Inline&quot;,&quot;module_id&quot;:null}\" data-tracking=\"click\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 Italian Open<\/a>, beating Magdalena Fr\u0119ch in two hours and seven minutes in their first round meeting.<\/p>\n<p>After storming to a first-set bagel, World number 42 Eala had to go the distance and emerged victorious in the decider, prevailing 6-0, 3-6, 6-4 at the\u00a0WTA 1000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/sports\/tennis\/\" 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Open 2026: Alexandra Eala secures first career win in Rome with three-set victory over Magdalena Frech&quot;,&quot;tag&quot;:&quot;[\\&quot;discipline-tennis\\&quot;,\\&quot;nischal-schwager-patel\\&quot;,\\&quot;noc-ph\\&quot;,\\&quot;newsclip\\&quot;,\\&quot;gender-female\\&quot;,\\&quot;results\\&quot;]&quot;,&quot;module_type&quot;:&quot;TextBlock&quot;,&quot;module_title&quot;:&quot;Italian Open 2026: Alexandra Eala secures first career win in Rome with three-set victory over Magdalena Frech&quot;,&quot;section_level_1&quot;:&quot;news&quot;,&quot;section_level_2&quot;:&quot;italian-open-2026-alexandra-eala-first-round-rome-magdalena-frech-result&quot;,&quot;discipline&quot;:&quot;discipline-tennis&quot;,&quot;odf_id&quot;:&quot;TEN&quot;,&quot;module_instance&quot;:&quot;Inline&quot;,&quot;module_id&quot;:null}\" data-tracking=\"click\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tennis<\/a> tournament on Wednesday (6 May).<\/p>\n<p>Philippines star Eala lost on her tournament debut in Rome last year against Marta Kostyuk, but there was no such issue this time, with just her third victory of the season&#8217;s clay swing. She converted six break points including on the final service of the match from\u00a0 world number 45 Fr\u0119ch of Poland.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old Eala will face 31st seed\u00a0Wang Xinyu in round two, seeking her first head-to-head victory after losing to the Chinese player in the Auckland semi-finals in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexandra Eala is up and running at the 2026 Italian Open, beating Magdalena Fr\u0119ch in two hours and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-428284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}