When Alexandra Eala earns a Top 10 win, another often follows in short order. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that one day after upsetting Elena Rybakina, the 21-year-old collected another, defeating World No. 8 Elina Svitolina 6-3, 6-4 in 1 hour and 23 minutes to reach the Berlin semifinals for the first time.<\/p>\n
Berlin:\u00a0Scores<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Order of play<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Draws<\/a><\/p>\n The victory is the sixth Top 10 win of her career and sends her into her second grass-court semifinal. After failing to serve out the match on her first attempt, she steadied herself and held off a late push from Svitolina to secure her spot in the last four.<\/p>\n “Elina is a huge fighter, and I’ve seen it many times,” Eala said in her on-court interview. “I’ve been watching her since I was a kid, so to be able to compete with her today is such an honor, and I really admire her. She’s a mother, and I find her to act with such elegance and strength, and I’m really lucky to have had this match today.”<\/p>\n Next up is a second WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz meeting with Linda Noskova, who defeated Paula Badosa 6-1, 6-3 in 68 minutes earlier Friday to reach her second grass-court semifinal. It will be a rematch of their recent Indian Wells encounter, where Noskova dropped just two games.<\/p>\n More to come…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Alexandra Eala earns a Top 10 win, another often follows in short order. So it shouldn’t come…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105,4277],"class_list":["post-501430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501430","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=501430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}