Coco Gauff vs Alexandra Eala\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI see why people want to root for her. I root for her when I\u2019m not playing her.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Those words came from the ever gracious Coco Gauff<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n She referred to Alexandra Eala<\/a>, the 20-year-old sensation from the Philippines backed by numerous, passionate fans wherever she plays around the world \u2014 just like the 19-year-old from Brazil, Joao Fonseca<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n After Eala\u2019s late-night comeback against Dayana Yastremska<\/a> in her Indian Wells debut on Friday, her followers on Instagram rose from around 960,000 to 967,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n Gauff knows what it\u2019s like to be in the spotlight herself, attracting attention ever since her junior days.\u00a0Now 21 and a two-time Grand Slam winner, the Floridian counts 2.3 million followers on Instagram.\u00a0<\/p>\n They begin the night session at Stadium 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n The numbers all added up in Gauff\u2019s favor in the Dubai quarterfinals last month, with the world No. 4 prevailing 6-0, 6-2 in 69 minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cCoco is an amazing player and playing at home,\u201d Eala, seeded No. 31, told reporters after downing Yastremska. \u201cI’m expecting a big crowd to rally behind her just because she’s amazing.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a tough match for me last time. I think she played really well. So all I can do is take the learnings that I have from our last match and try to implement that in our next one.\u201d<\/p>\n Eala tries for a fourth Top 10 win, a year after the lefty got her first two as a wildcard ranked 140th in Miami against Madison Keys<\/a> and Iga Swiatek<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff vs Alexandra Eala\u00a0 \u201cI see why people want to root for her. I root for her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-512116","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\/512116","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=512116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}