MANILA, Philippines \u2014 American netter Amanda Anisimova expects a packed stadium when she faces Filipino ace Alex Eala at the WTA 1000 Cincinnati Open third round (round of 32) at the Lindner Family Tennis Center P&G Center Court Monday night in Ohio, Tuesday morning in Manila.<\/p>\n
The match is set for 8:30 a.m. in Manila.<\/p>\n
World No. 10 Anisimova arranged her first encounter against No. 20 Eala after dispatching No. 50 Zeynep S\u00f6nmez, \u00a06-2, 6-3, in the second round (round of 64) last Sunday.<\/p>\n
Eala defeated world No. 77 Elena-Gabriela Ruse of Romania in their second-round clash, 6-1, 3-0 (ret.).<\/p>\n
“She’s been having such an incredible season, incredible year, and a very great player with a lot of fans, so I’m really looking forward to that,” said Anisimova in the court interview.<\/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 “I know that it’s probably going to be a very packed stadium, so yeah, I’m sure it’ll be really fun,” the 24-year-old added.<\/p>\n In a separate interview with the Tennis Channel, Anisimova said she looks to feed off Eala’s crowd energy.<\/p>\n \u201cShe has a great fan base and it looks like an incredible atmosphere every time she steps out to play a match. I\u2019m really, really looking forward to it,\u201d said the 4-time champ.<\/p>\n \u201cI love a packed stadium and I love a good atmosphere. I\u2019m sure it will be a great match, even though they will probably gonna be rooting more for her end. But I don\u2019t mind it and I\u2019ll try to thrive off of the energy.\u201d<\/p>\n The 21-year-old Eala swings for her sixth straight and 10th overall win against top 10 players at the expense of Anisimova.<\/p>\n Eala holds a 9-4 win-loss record against top 10 players.<\/p>\n The winner between Eala and Anisimova will face either world No. 8 Linda Noskova or No. 42 Clara Tauson in the fourth round (round of 16).\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANILA, Philippines \u2014 American netter Amanda Anisimova expects a packed stadium when she faces Filipino ace Alex Eala…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1696,7094,19510,4220,19512,1047,1035,1710,19511],"class_list":["post-52148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-amanda-anisimova","tag-amanda-anisimova","tag-anisimova","tag-braces","tag-clash","tag-crowd","tag-eala","tag-for","tag-in","tag-packed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52148","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=52148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}