{"id":471021,"date":"2025-12-25T15:42:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T15:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/471021\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T15:42:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T15:42:26","slug":"fresh-from-sea-games-golden-conquest-eala-in-macau-for-mgm-tennis-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/471021\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh from SEA Games golden conquest, Eala in Macau for MGM Tennis Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                           <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philstar.com\/authors\/1806312\/john-bryan-ulanday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Bryan Ulanday<\/a> &#8211; Philstar.com<\/p>\n<p>December 24, 2025 | 2:09pm<\/p>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2014 It\u2019s a triple celebration abroad for the great Alex Eala.<\/p>\n<p>Eala arrived in Macau Wednesday to celebrate her gold medal campaign in the 33rd\u00a0Southeast Asian Games, the Christmas Day, and her historic stint in the 2025 MGM Macau Tennis Masters next week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMade it,\u201d Eala posted on her Instagram account with a \u2018Merry Christmas\u2019 greetings as backdrop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d love to share the joy of winning gold with you guys at the 2025 MGM Macau Tennis Masters.\u00a0The holidays are for sharing\u2014come spend them with us on court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old Filipina will have a short break with her family for Christmas in the sprawling Chinese city before shifting her focus to the prestigious exhibition tournament from December 27-28 featuring the legends of the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Eala, the\u00a0WTA No. 53, is one of the invited rising stars in the event that will implement captain\u2019s teams, men\u2019s and women\u2019s singles as well as mixed doubles tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>The lefty sensation will face world No. 9 Mirra Andreeva of Russia in the women\u2019s singles on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first meeting for the world\u2019s young stars since Eala beat Andreeva, 6-4, 6-0, in the quarterfinals of the 2022 US Open, which she ultimately won to become the first Filipina junior Grand Slam champion.<\/p>\n<p>Eala and Andreeva also teamed up for a second-round finish in the double of the same event.<\/p>\n<p>Before that, she will also figure in the mixed doubles with ATP No. 253 Jerry Shang of China, clashing against the 18-year-old Andreeva and ATP No. 182 Yibing Wu, also from China.<\/p>\n<p>Eala is coming off a one-gold, two-bronze campaign in the SEA Games last week in Nonthaburi, Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>She bagged bronze medals in the women\u2019s team event with Stefi Aludo, Alexa Milliam, Tennielle Madis and Shaira Rivera as well as in the mixed doubles with Ni\u00f1o Alcantara.<\/p>\n<p>Eala saved her best for last, scoring a 6-2, 6-1 romp of home bet Manachaya Sawangkaew in the women\u2019s singles finals to become the first Filipina SEAG champion since Maricris Fernandez in 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Bryan Ulanday &#8211; Philstar.com December 24, 2025 | 2:09pm MANILA, Philippines \u2014 It\u2019s a triple celebration abroad&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":471022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[19824,62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-471021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alex-eala","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115780972946066689","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}