{"id":346894,"date":"2025-12-13T19:02:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T19:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/346894\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T19:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T19:02:17","slug":"alex-eala-gets-first-round-bye-in-sea-games-womens-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/346894\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Eala gets first-round bye in SEA Games women&#8217;s tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.ph\/tag\/alex-eala\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">ALEX Eala<\/a> advanced to the quarterfinals of the women\u2019s singles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.ph\/tag\/tennis\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">tennis<\/a> event without lifting a racquet in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.ph\/tag\/sea-games\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">33rd Thailand Southeast Asian Games<\/a> after receiving a first-round bye.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old Filipina, ranked No. 52 in the world and the highest-ranked player in the field, will face the winner of the match between Malaysia\u2019s Shihomi Leong and Laos\u2019 Aliya Vongdala in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>Her former tormentor and fellow rising star Janice Tjen of Indonesia, the world No. 53, also drew a bye as the women\u2019s singles draw featured limited entries.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in mixed doubles, Eala and partner Francis Alcantara likewise secured a first-round bye.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/contents.spin.ph\/image\/resize\/image\/2025\/12\/09\/eala-bagunas-poc-1765295388.webp\" data-caption=\"\" data-photographer=\"POC Media Pool\" data-illustrator=\"\" alt=\"Alex Eala and Bryan Bagunas act as flagbearers for Team Philippines during the opening rites of the 33rd SEA Games.\"\/><\/p>\n<p> ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW  \u2193 <\/p>\n<p>MORE FROM SPIN<\/p>\n<p>                \t<a href=\"#\" article-url=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t                    <img decoding=\"async\" article-image=\"\" src=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                \t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eala is aiming to improve on her bronze-medal finish in the previous SEA Games.<\/p>\n<p> CONTINUE READING BELOW  \u2193 <\/p>\n<p>Get more of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.ph?ref=article_boilerplate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">latest sports news &amp; updates<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.ph?ref=article_boilerplate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SPIN.ph<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NOTICE ON UNAUTHORIZED AND UNLAWFUL USE, PUBLICATION, AND\/OR DISSEMINATION OF SPIN.PH CONTENT: Please be notified that any unauthorized and unlawful use, publication, and\/or dissemination of Spin.ph\u2019s content and\/or materials is a direct violation of its legal and exclusive rights to the same, and shall be subject to appropriate legal action\/s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALEX Eala advanced to the quarterfinals of the women\u2019s singles tennis event without lifting a racquet in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[32893,163906,99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-346894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alex-eala","9":"tag-sea-games","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}