{"id":475958,"date":"2025-12-28T00:07:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T00:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/475958\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T00:07:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T00:07:16","slug":"eala-splits-opening-matches-in-macau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/475958\/","title":{"rendered":"Eala splits opening matches in Macau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                           <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philstar.com\/authors\/1806312\/john-bryan-ulanday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Bryan Ulanday<\/a> &#8211; The Philippine Star<\/p>\n<p>December 28, 2025 | 12:00am<\/p>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2014 Alex Eala went 1-1 in her first two events last night as she heads\u00a0to a gigantic duel against world No. 9 Mirra Andreeva of Russia at the 2025 MGM Macau Tennis Masters at the Macao Forum.<\/p>\n<p>Eala helped Team Li Na of China to a 4-2 win over Team Conchita Martinez of Spain in the captain\u2019s challenge but bowed in the mixed doubles events against a pair of stronger male players on a last-minute change after the withdrawal of Andreeva.<\/p>\n<p>Andreeva was feeling under the weather, prompting\u00a0ATP No. 14 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain to step in with WTA No. 182 Yibing Wu of China in powerful duo for a close 7-5, 7-6(1) win against WTA No. 53 Eala and ATP No. 253 Jerry Shang of China.<\/p>\n<p>But Eala stood her ground even against ATP players, proving her stature as one of the world\u2019 rising stars with so much potential at 20 years of age.<\/p>\n<p>Eala earlier teamed up with Shang and British star Jack Draper (ATP No. 10) for Team Li Na in a huge win over the stacked squad of Fokina, ATP No. 19 Jakub Men\u0161\u00edk of Czechia and Wu.<\/p>\n<p>Up next for Eala is women\u2019s singles duel against Andreeva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Bryan Ulanday &#8211; The Philippine Star December 28, 2025 | 12:00am MANILA, Philippines \u2014 Alex Eala went&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":475959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[19824,62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-475958","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\/115794283232167477","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475958","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=475958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}