Filipino tennis ace Alex Eala is on a collision course with newly-minted Wimbledon champion Linda Noskova of Czech Republic at the National Bank Open in Toronto, Canada.<\/p>\n
The draw, held early Saturday in Manila, revealed Eala and Noskova’s potential third-round clash in the tournament which will run from Aug. 2 to 13.<\/p>\n
As seeded players in Toronto, both world No. 28 Eala and No. 7 Noskova secured first-round byes and earned direct entries to the second round. Should they hurdle their respective first opponents, Eala and Noskova will battle for the third time in the WTA Tour.<\/p>\n
Having Noskova’s number in their junior days, Eala could not translate it to the pros yet as she lost to the Czech netter in their first two matches: 2-6, 0-6 at Indian Wells round of 16 last March and 2-6, 4-6 at the Berlin Open semifinals last June.<\/p>\n
Tournament No. 25 seed Eala stares at a potential rematch in the round of 64 against American Alycia Parks who faces a qualifier to start her campaign.<\/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 Eala yielded to world No. 68 Parks at the Australian Open first round, 6-0, 3-6, 2-6, last January.<\/p>\n No. 6 seed Noskova will face the winner between world No. 73 Caty Mcnally and a qualifier in the round of 64.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Filipino tennis ace Alex Eala is on a collision course with newly-minted Wimbledon champion Linda Noskova of Czech…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16860,16858,16859,1047,1710,8714,1516,8422,285,2468],"class_list":["post-45285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wimbledon","tag-champ","tag-collision","tag-course","tag-eala","tag-in","tag-noskova","tag-on","tag-toronto","tag-wimbledon","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45285","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=45285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}