{"id":727312,"date":"2026-08-04T15:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/727312\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T15:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:24:09","slug":"alexandra-eala-rising-tennis-star-most-exciting-player-on-wta-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/727312\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandra Eala: Rising tennis star ‘most exciting player on WTA tour’"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2022, Eala was on the cover of Vogue Philippines after becoming the first Filipina to win a junior Grand Slam title.<\/p>\n

But it was her victory over Swiatek in the quarter-finals of the Miami Open in 2025, that brought a new passion for tennis to the Philippines.<\/a><\/p>\n

There has been a lot of love for the young star from her community, with queues to see her play growing and fans following her all over the world.<\/p>\n

There are more than 75,000 members of the Filipino community in Washington, with a further four million across the US who will be watching her in the US Open in late August.<\/p>\n

“To all the Filipino fans that came out and have supported, you guys are helping grow tennis around the world,” Pegula said after the match.<\/p>\n

Fellow Filipino and former boxing champion, Manny Pacquiao, wrote on social media that her comeback showed the “heart of a Filipino” before calling her “our new champion”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2022, Eala was on the cover of Vogue Philippines after becoming the first Filipina to win a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-727312","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\/727312","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=727312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}