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Eala on a high in Sao Paulo
The Philippine Star
|September 10, 2025
Alex Eala inched closer to her previous-career best ranking in the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) after a breakthrough feat in the WTA125 Guadalajara Open in Mexico over the weekend.
The 20-year-old Filipina pride officially improved to No. 61 as per the updated WTA rankings ahead of her first-round duel in the WTA250 Sao Paulo Open in Brazil.
Eala, seeded No. 3, was up against qualifier and WTA No. 380 Yasmine Mansouri of France in the opener tentatively set at 4:30 a.m. today.
This story is from the September 10, 2025 edition of The Philippine Star.
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