🇵🇭Alex Eala in 2026:
✅ Career-high World #15
✅ Highest-ranked Southeast Asian WTA player in history
🏆 1st WTA 500 title (Washington – hard court)
🏆 2nd WTA 125 title (Birmingham – grass)
🥉 Asian Games bronze medalist
🎾 Competed in all 4 Grand Slam tournaments for the first time
🎾 Wimbledon 4th-round appearance (best finish by a Filipino player in a major singles tournament in the Open Era)
🎾 4 quarterfinal finishes
🎾 2 semifinal finishes
🎾 1 final finish
🎾 Reached the doubles quarterfinals alongside THE 🇺🇸Venus Williams
🎾 2 doubles semifinal finishes
🔥 7–3 record against Top 10 players
🔥 Defeated the reigning Olympic gold, silver & bronze medalists
🔥 Defeated 3 Grand Slam champions
🔥 Finally broke her losing streak against Czech players at tour level (1-10)
🔥 Recorded a career-high 9 aces in a single match
John Gabriel retweeted
Alex Eala is through to the quarterfinals in Hong Kong 🤗
She defeated Tereza Valentova 6-4, 7-6(7) 👏
#PHKTO2026
Alex Eala is now free from the Czech curse lol
Congrats, Alex!
#HongKongOpen
John Gabriel retweeted
It is my honor and privilege to be headed to the US Senate to serve the great state of Michigan.
Michigan, we did what they said couldn’t be done. We won. Together. Now the real work begins.
John Gabriel retweeted
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