Alex Eala produces a powerful debut on this 12 months’s US Open. —UNITED STATES TENNIS ASSOCIATION
Alex Eala is spending her preseason coaching in Florida—as an alternative of again dwelling—the place she is competing in her final match for the 12 months as she embarks for a busy 2022 marketing campaign.
Final 12 months, Eala ready for the tennis season by coaching right here within the nation beneath nationwide staff coach Karl Santamaria.
She’s tweaking her schedule this time round as she unwinds from a season 20-tournament stretch that noticed her being sidelined attributable to harm.
The 16-year-old Filipino women hotshot crashed within the second spherical of singles competitors within the JA Plantation-Orange Bowl match on Thursday however is thru to the quarterfinals in doubles.
Not dangerous for Eala, who nursed an injured foot within the busy a part of the 2021 season.
“She has absolutely recovered from that and he or she’s able to compete right here [in Florida],” mentioned her father, Mike Eala.
Regardless of that lengthy layoff, Eala managed to maintain her Ladies’s Tennis Affiliation rankings at 527th, down from her highest standing of 505th in ladies’s singles.
Her stint in Florida will function her “cooling down” interval as she will likely be spending a number of weeks there to organize for subsequent 12 months’s marketing campaign, based on Mike.
Eala and companion Solana Sierra of Argentina will go up in opposition to Swiss Chelsea Fontenel and American Qavia Lopez 1 a.m. Saturday, Manila time.
The third seeds beat Russia’s Mirra Andreeva and USA’s Katja Wiersholm, 6-3, 6-2, within the second spherical.
Fontenel and Lopez obtained via the quarters with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Canada’s Mia Kupres and USA’s Sophie Llewellyn.
Eala, the World No. 3 in juniors, dropped a 6-3, 6-3 determination to Czech Republic’s Kristyna Tomajkova within the second spherical in singles.
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