A Fan Favorite <\/p>\n
Angling for a closer look, some peered through fencing on adjacent courts, eager to see the rising talent up close. Others settled into seats on a neighboring court, watching intently as Eala unleashed her thunderous signature forehand.<\/p>\n
Eala, the first Filipina to win a main draw match at a Grand Slam at last year’s US Open, is also the highest-ranked player in her nation\u2019s history. She cracked the Top 100 last year following a breakout run to the Miami Open semifinals, earning high-profile victories over No. 2-ranked Iga Swiatek and No. 5-ranked Madison Keys along the way.<\/p>\n
Her next stop was the Top 50, a massive milestone achieved in November of last year. <\/p>\n
She has started 2026 on a mission, reaching three quarterfinals in the first two months of the season \u2014 matching her total from all of last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fan Favorite Angling for a closer look, some peered through fencing on adjacent courts, eager to see…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-502514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502514","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=502514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}