{"id":136541,"date":"2025-09-14T10:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T10:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/136541\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T10:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T10:35:09","slug":"alexandra-eala-helps-wta-star-break-historic-23-year-record-after-defeat-in-sao-paulo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/136541\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandra Eala helps WTA star break historic 23-year record after defeat in Sao Paulo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Alexandra Eala\u2019s impressive winning streak has come to an end in Sao Paulo, after suffering a defeat in the SP Open quarterfinals. <\/p>\n<p>The Filipina has enjoyed a breakout season on the tour, having burst onto the scene at the Miami Open earlier this year, where she reached the semifinals after overcoming major champions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/madison-keys\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Madison Keys<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/iga-swiatek\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iga Swiatek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/Alexandra-Eala\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eala<\/a> recently became the first player from her country to win a match at a Grand Slam when she clinched an opening-round victory at the US Open against Clara Tauson.<\/p>\n<p>She followed the historic feat up with a maiden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/wta\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTA<\/a> 125 title at Guadalajara, but her winning streak has now been snapped in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"694\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2231898147-1024x694.jpg\" alt=\"Alexandra Eala of the Philippines celebrates match point against Clara Tauson of Denmark during their Women's Singles First Round match on Day One of the 2025 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.\" class=\"wp-image-124184\" \/>Photo by Sarah Stier\/Getty ImagesJanice Tjen ends 23-year-long drought against Alexandra Eala<\/p>\n<p>Eala was defeated by Janice Tjen in the last eight at the SP Open, falling to the 23-year-old 6-4, 6-1 in one hour and 12 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Tjen, playing just the second tour-level event of her career, is now the first Indonesian player to reach the semifinals of a WTA event in 23 years. <\/p>\n<p>She is the first to achieve the feat since Angelique Widjaja, who emerged victorious at an event in Pattaya City during the 2002 season. <\/p>\n<p>At the US Open, Tjen came through qualifying and claimed her first win on the WTA Tour against 23rd seed Veronika Kudermetova in round one, but bowed out to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/emma-raducanu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Raducanu<\/a> in her next match.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"600\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2231212233-1024x600.jpg\" alt=\"2025 US Open - Day 1\" \/>Photo by Robert Prange\/Getty ImagesAlexandra Eala\u2019s winning streak since the US Open <\/p>\n<p>After Eala suffered a second-round exit at the US Open to Cristina Bucsa, she has hit a hot run of form. <\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old dropped just one set en route to the final in Guadalajara, which came against US player Varvara Lepchenko in the second round. <\/p>\n<p>She sealed her fifth win at the tournament in the championship match against Panna Udvardy, coming back from a set down to win 1-6, 7-5, 6-3. <\/p>\n<p>In Sao Paulo, Eala won her first two matches comfortably in straight sets before she was knocked out by a defiant Tjen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexandra Eala\u2019s impressive winning streak has come to an end in Sao Paulo, after suffering a defeat in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[23967,101,118,56,54,55,6546],"class_list":{"0":"post-136541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alexandra-eala","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom","14":"tag-wta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}