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Eala loses steam, bows out in Wuhan
The Philippine Star
|October 05, 2025
Alex Eala folded to Moyuka Uchijima of Japan, 4-6, 6-3, 2-6, in Round 1 of the WTA1000 Dongfeng-Voyah Wuhan Open qualifiers to absorb her first early exit in the last five stops of the WTA Tour yesterday at the Optics Valley International Tennis Center in China.
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The fifth-seeded Eala, 20, who made the Top 8 of her last four tournaments, met a match in WTA No. 92 Uchijima by splitting the first two sets but was dragged to a deep 0-3 hole in the third and could not recover from there.
This story is from the October 05, 2025 edition of The Philippine Star.
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