Eala had to hold her nerve in the opening game of her match against Sawangkaew, staving off four break points as she quickly started to settle in to the contest.<\/p>\n
It wouldn\u2019t take her long to go on the offensive herself, claiming back-to-back breaks of her own before serving out the set at the second time of asking.<\/p>\n
Eala kept the pressure on in the second but had to be patient before seizing her chance. Another brace of breaks at 2-2 and 4-2, all but sealed the win for the young rising star.<\/p>\n
She is still yet to drop a set this week and has only been broken three times across three matches, in what is her first grass court tournament of the year.<\/p>\n
In the next round, she will play Rebeka Masaravo, who battled past Mary Stoiana in three sets earlier in the day.<\/p>\n
Masarova also knocked out reigning HSBC Championships title-holder and third seed Tatjana Maria in the second round.<\/p>\n
The other semi-final will be fought between fifth seed Nikola Bartunkova and Ashlyn Krueger.<\/p>\n
The Lexus Birmingham Open semi-finals will take place on Saturday 7 June. Live coverage of the WTA matches can be viewed on WTA Unlocked and ATP Challenger matches will be streamed on Tennis Channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eala had to hold her nerve in the opening game of her match against Sawangkaew, staving off four…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-623890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623890","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=623890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}