{"id":22760,"date":"2026-06-22T07:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T07:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/22760\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T07:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T07:43:08","slug":"manila-bulletin-eala-enters-top-30-in-wta-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/22760\/","title":{"rendered":"Manila Bulletin &#8211; Eala enters Top 30 in WTA rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    Published\u00a0Jun 22, 2026 02:31 pm\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>                At A Glance<\/p>\n<p>                            The 21-year-old jumped five notches after an impressive semifinal run at the 2026 Berlin Open a few days ago, where she stunned veterans Donna Vekic, world No. 2 Elena Rybakina and world No. 8 Elina Svitolina before yielding to world No. 13 Linda Noskova.<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mb.com.ph\/manilabulletin\/uploads\/images\/2026\/06\/22\/110646.webp\" alt=\"Alex Eala (File Photo\/ AP)\" onerror=\"this.src=\" https:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Alex Eala (File Photo\/ AP)<\/p>\n<p>Alex Eala boosted her Wimbledon Championships buildup after propelling to No. 30 in the latest Women\u2019s Tennis Association (WTA) rankings.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old jumped five notches after an impressive semifinal run at the 2026 Berlin Open a few days ago, where she stunned veterans Donna Vekic, world No. 2 Elena Rybakina and world No. 8 Elina Svitolina before yielding to world No. 13 Linda Noskova.<\/p>\n<p>Her latest ranking is just one rung below her career-best No. 29 attained just last March.<\/p>\n<p>Eala has been making progress on the grass court, winning her second WTA singles title at the Birmingham Open &#8212; a WTA125 event &#8212; two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Fatigue caught up with her at the HSBC Championships after Birmingham, where she lost in the second round to good friend and now world No. 17 Iva Jovic.<\/p>\n<p>She eventually recovered in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>Eala is currently competing in the Bad Homburg Open in Germany, where she is battling Belgian veteran Elise Mertens in the opening round at press time.<\/p>\n<p>She is also scheduled to compete in the doubles in a highly-anticipated partnership with tennis icon Venus Williams.<\/p>\n<p>                    Related Tags<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published\u00a0Jun 22, 2026 02:31 pm At A Glance The 21-year-old jumped five notches after an impressive semifinal run&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[8897,1047,822,8895,1710,4718,8896,282],"class_list":["post-22760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-elina-svitolina","tag-8897","tag-eala","tag-elina-svitolina","tag-enters","tag-in","tag-rankings","tag-top","tag-wta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}