{"id":807792,"date":"2026-10-19T18:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/807792\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T18:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:04:12","slug":"eala-snaps-losing-streak-in-ningbo-to-extend-breakout-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/807792\/","title":{"rendered":"Eala snaps losing streak in Ningbo to extend breakout 2026 season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before the 2026 season, the Philippines’ Alexandra Eala had won just 15 tour-level matches in her career. On Monday, the 21-year-old recorded her 34th tour-level victory of the season, defeating France’s Diane Parry in straight sets in the first round of the WTA 500 tournament in Ningbo, China.<\/p>\n

Eala and Parry exchanged early breaks in the opening set. However, from 3-3, the Filipino won seven consecutive games to build a 6-3, 4-0 lead before closing out a 6-3, 6-1 victory in 1 hour, 17 minutes.<\/p>\n

The win snapped a three-match losing streak for Eala, who had lost her opening matches in Singapore and Wuhan.<\/p>\n

She gets it done \u2705 Alexandra Eala defeats Parry 6-3, 6-1 and advances into the Round of 16 in Ningbo! #NingboOpen https:\/\/t.co\/rmHWtzKFGH<\/p>\n

\u2014 wta (@WTA) October 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Eala was the more consistent player, hitting 12 winners while committing nine unforced errors for a winner-to-unforced-error ratio of 1.33. Parry, meanwhile, hit 11 winners and made 25 unforced errors, recording a ratio of 0.44.<\/p>\n

“I’m very happy with my performance,” Eala said in her postmatch interview. “I think it was a really good first round, tough first round.<\/p>\n

“Diane is a great player and I think she’s had a really good year. Congrats to her for the year she’s done and really happy to be in the second round. I’m very happy to have won the first round.”<\/p>\n

As has been the case in nearly all her matches this year, the stadium was packed with Eala’s supporters, a turnout she acknowledged in her interview.<\/p>\n

“Thank you everyone. Thank you so much for the support. It really makes my job very fun, even in the difficult moments. I’m really happy to be here.”<\/p>\n

Eala will face either sixth-seeded Diana Shnaider or qualifier Yulia Putintseva in the second round. It would be her first meeting with either player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before the 2026 season, the Philippines’ Alexandra Eala had won just 15 tour-level matches in her career. On…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,1602,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-807792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-text","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807792","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=807792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}