THE Philippines\u2019 Alexandra Eala will be in the qualifiers of the Eastbourne Open in Great Britain.<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old Eala will seek a slot in the main draw of this WTA 250 event, after coming off a first-round loss to world no.31 Magda Linette in the Nottingham Open.<\/p>\n
Eala, ranked no.77 in the world, is preparing for the Wimbledon Open. This will be part of her buildup.<\/p>\n
And she believes that the level of her game needs to be better.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy level is there and I show that at times, but there are certain reasons why these players are top 10 and I\u2019m not there yet,\u201d said Eala.<\/p>\n
The tournament will have its 50th edition at Devonshire Park from June 23 to 28.<\/p>\n
Last year, Daria Kasatkina won the tournament,\u00a0 when she beat Emma Raducanu in the quarterfinal, Jasmine Paolini in the semifinal and Leylah Fernandez in the final.<\/p>\n
The WTA event is a 32-player singles\u2019 draw tournament. Three players will gain entry thanks to a wildcard, while six spots are reserved for those playing in the qualifying event.<\/p>\n
Kasatkina is currently no. 16 in the world will be the top seed.<\/p>\n
The other seeds are Barbora Krejcikova (17), Jelena Ostapenko (19), Sofia Kenin (29), Magda Linette (31), Peyton Stearns (34), Raducanu (36) and Rebecca Sramkova (38).<\/p>\n
Organizers are yet to confirm the wildcards for the tournament, while the qualifying draw is also still to be confirmed.<\/p>\n
Reigning Wimbledon champion Krejcikova, Raducanu (2021 US Open winner), Sofia Kenin (2020 Australian Open champion) and Jelena Ostapenko (2017 French Open) are among those who have won a major.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE Philippines\u2019 Alexandra Eala will be in the qualifiers of the Eastbourne Open in Great Britain. The 20-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[49649,748,81021,393,4884,1144,14966,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-200524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-alexandra-eala","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-eastbourne-open","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-northern-ireland","16":"tag-philippines","17":"tag-scotland","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114717091654787559","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}