Filipino tennis ace Alex Eala continued her mastery over Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, 6-3, 6-4, to enter the semifinals of the WTA 500 Mubadala DC Open in Washington Saturday morning (Manila time).<\/p>\n
Eala displayed her wares and resolve in the second frame when she came back from 0-2 and 1-3 deficits to steal the set and win the match over Svitolina.<\/p>\n
World No. 28 Eala put No. 10 Svitolina away with a service hold and a break, as she clearly owned the 20-time champion’s number for the second time following her quarterfinals win at the Berlin Open that yielded the same score last month.<\/p>\n
Eala now raised her record against top 10 players to 8 wins against 4 losses.<\/p>\n
Eala will next face 4-time Grand Slam champion and former world No. 1 Naomi Osaka in the semifinals on Sunday.<\/p>\n
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By signing up with an email address, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to the Terms of Service<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tournament third seed and world No. 13 Osaka defeated Elisabetta Cocciaretto, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, in their quarterfinals encounter.<\/p>\n The other semifinals duel is between No. 3 Jessica Pegula and No. 17 Diana Shnaider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Filipino tennis ace Alex Eala continued her mastery over Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, 6-3, 6-4, to enter the semifinals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[41997,43706,96,8,85,6892,43704,43707,43705],"class_list":["post-67243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-osaka","tag-eala","tag-faces","tag-in","tag-japan","tag-osaka","tag-over","tag-repeats","tag-semis","tag-svitolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}