FILE–Alexandra Eala of the Philippines. –Geoff Burke-Imagn Photographs
MANILA, Philippines — Alex Eala bowed out of the Lexus Birmingham Open after falling brief to Czechia’s Linda Fruhvirtova, 5-7, 7-6(5), 1-6, on early Wednesday (Manila time) in the UK.
Eala opened her grass marketing campaign on the fallacious foot as she received dominated by Fruhvirtova within the third set after a grueling two-hour and 53-minute duel.
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Eala, at the moment the World No. 73, got here up brief within the tight opening set, however she received the higher of the Czech netter within the second the place she crawled her approach again from a 2-5 deficit within the tiebreak to power a decider.
However the Rafa Nadal Academy product misplaced steam because the World No.152 Fruhvirtova accomplished the upset to advance to the subsequent spherical.
Eala additionally suffered from a primary spherical exit within the Girls’s Tennis Affiliation 125 doubles as she and Swiss accomplice Rebeka Masarova yielded to Australia’s Ellen Perez and Storm Hunter, 4-6, 4-6, on Monday (Manila time).
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The 20-year-old Filipino tennis sensation went straight to Birmingham after a first-round exit in her French Open debut, the place she fell to Emiliana Arango, 0-6, 6-2, 3-6.
She additionally competed within the Roland Garros doubles with Renata Zarazua and reached the second spherical solely to be defeated by Olga Danilovic and Anastasia Potapova, 1-6, 3-6.
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