{"id":740066,"date":"2026-08-16T19:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T19:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/740066\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T19:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T19:02:19","slug":"alex-eala-praises-perfect-fan-in-dinosaur-costume-at-canadian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/740066\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Eala praises &#8216;perfect fan&#8217; in dinosaur costume at Canadian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>  Published  August 16, 2026 8:49pm  <\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=gmanetwork.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"gma-preferred-source-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">  Add GMA on Google <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. <\/p>\n<p>Alex Eala knows a perfect fan when she sees one \u2014 and sometimes, a dinosaur costume helps.<\/p>\n<p>The Filipino tennis star gave another shout-out to the fan who caught her attention at the Canadian Open, this time describing him as her \u201cperfect fan\u201d in a video posted by the Cincinnati Open\u2019s social media account.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had the perfect fan last week,\u201d Eala said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was wearing an inflatable blue dinosaur kind of suit, and he had a Filipino flag caped [over him]. He was dancing in the stands, he put his leg up on the railing, he was shaking it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou were a perfect fan,\u201d Eala added.<\/p>\n<p>The fan had already caught Eala\u2019s attention during the Canadian Open, where she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/sports\/othersports\/997831\/alex-eala-talks-about-her-new-canadian-open-fan-the-dinosaur\/story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">previously called the person a \u201clegend\u201d for the enthusiastic support.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now in Cincinnati, Eala will face Amanda Anisimova in the Round of 32.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014JKC, GMA News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published August 16, 2026 8:49pm Add GMA on Google Make this your preferred source to get more updates&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[57731,101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-740066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-alex-eala","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740066","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=740066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}