{"id":730400,"date":"2026-08-07T12:24:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/730400\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T12:24:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:24:21","slug":"alexandra-ealas-impact-on-tennis-praised-by-naomi-osaka-and-coco-gauff-as-she-soars-into-canadian-open-third-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/730400\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandra Eala&#8217;s impact on tennis praised by Naomi Osaka and Coco Gauff as she soars into Canadian Open third round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Naomi Osaka: &#8220;It is so cool that Alex is building a new community&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Such is the case no matter where in the world she plays, plenty of fans were roaring Eala home in her tournament opener. It is something other competitors have praised since her breakout.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters after her own second-round success,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/naomi-osaka\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Naomi Osaka<\/a>\u00a0recalled walking past a packed-out practice court with fans eager to get a glimpse of Eala.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s awesome,\u201d said the former world No. 1, who lost to Eala in the semi-finals of last week&#8217;s Mubadala DC Open.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re so kind too, her fans. I think she\u2019s playing late tonight [Wednesday] and some of them were on my court cheering for me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just felt really grateful, it\u2019s so cool that she is building a new community. Her fans probably watch tennis enough now to have other favourites, too \u2013 it\u2019s amazing and great for the tournament, because she sells a lot of tickets.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/coco-gauff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coco Gauff<\/a>, who fended off competition from compatriot\u00a0Kayla Day in the second round, was equally full of praise for this new demographic of supporters.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old, who has faced Eala numerous times, has urged other players to embrace the exposure she is bringing to the WTA Tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I\u2019ve said this before, I\u2019ll say it again: I think the demographic that Alex is bringing to the sport of tennis is so great,\u201d\u00a0she told the media. \u201cI think all of us should really embrace that, because we\u2019re all benefiting from it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust to see a nation of people, who maybe don\u2019t always feel represented in this sport, really see themselves out there, I think it\u2019s incredibly inspiring. It makes it fun for me to go out there and just play.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Naomi Osaka: &#8220;It is so cool that Alex is building a new community&#8221; Such is the case no&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-730400","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\/730400","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=730400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}