Alex Eala Won the First Set Again. Wuhan Still Hasn’t Given Her a Win.
Alex Eala won the first set, then lost to No. 217 Han Shi 6-4, 3-6, 3-6 in Wuhan. That’s the third straight event where she won the opening set and lost.
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Alex Eala Got Sharapova, Chanel, and a Pass From the WTA. Wuhan Is Where She Needs a Win.
Alex Eala heads into the Wuhan Open fresh off Sharapova’s podcast and cleared by the WTA. Now she needs her first-ever main-draw win there.
Alex Eala Made Her Paris Fashion Week Debut at Chanel, With Her Mom Beside Her
Days after her Asian Games bronze, the tennis star sat front row at Chanel’s Spring/Summer 2027 show in Paris with her mother, Rizza.
Alex Eala Got Called Overrated. Then Beijing’s Top Two Lost.
Alex Eala lost to a world No. 85 in the Asian Games semifinal and got called overrated. Days later, the world No. 1 and No. 2 lost in Beijing.
Alex Eala Waited Five Hours for Her Asian Games Debut. The Match Took 55 Minutes.
Rain was the hardest part of Alex Eala‘s Asian Games debut on Monday. Her match was set for center court at Nagoya’s Higashiyama Park Tennis Center, in front of fans. Instead, the weather held it up for about five hours and moved it twice: first to the show court, then indoors to Court C, a court normally used for practice. Once play started, it was over quickly. Eala beat Thailand’s Patcharin Cheapchandej 6-1, 6-0 in 55 minutes and closed the match with an ace. A Practice Court for the Player Who Gave Up Beijing The Asian Games, Asia’s largest multi-sport event, comes around every four years, and playing this one cost Eala something. It overlaps with the China Open in Beijing, a WTA 1000 event, the tier just below the four majors that top-ranked players are required to enter. Skipping it could get her fined or docked ranking points by the WTA (Women’s Tennis Association), a trade-off ElysPlanet covered when she made the call. The Philippine Tennis Association (PHILTA) put it simply: “She chose to …
Alex Eala Won the First Set. Tatiana Prozorova Won the Biggest Match of Her Career.
Alex Eala won the first set, then lost to No. 180 Tatiana Prozorova 6-4, 5-7, 3-6 in Singapore. Next: an Asian Games gold chase that’s still unresolved.
Alex Eala’s Front-Row Seat Was Worth $502,000. Filipinos Have Been Fighting Over That Chair for 17 Years.
Brands now put a dollar figure on a front-row seat. How a Manila blogger, two rival fashion-week regulars, and a tennis star each got theirs. Alex Eala sat front row three times in one week at New York Fashion Week. The first was Tory Burch, days after her US Open run ended. Next came Michael Kors at the Museum of Modern Art, where she was seated beside Anna Wintour, the longtime Vogue editor who had praised her interest in fashion a month earlier. The third was Calvin Klein, where she sat in a white button-down and off-white slacks next to actress Sadie Sink and singer Tate McRae. A week later came the number. Karla Otto, the brand-building agency, cited figures from the influencer analytics platform Lefty putting Eala’s presence at the Calvin Klein show at $502,000 in earned media value for the brand. That’s a strange price to put on a 21-year-old in a chair, and a fairly honest one about what the front row has turned into. Insiders still watch the clothes from it, …
The Philippines Wanted 8 Golds at the 2026 Asian Games. It Finished With 4 Golds and 29 Medals.
Team Philippines set out for eight golds in Aichi-Nagoya and finished with four: two from Carlos Yulo, one from EJ Obiena and one from Jeus Yape. Its 29 medals placed it 16th.
Alex Eala Skipped a Mandatory WTA 1000 for the Philippines. PHILTA Says the WTA Didn’t Sanction Her.
Alex Eala skipped the mandatory China Open to play the Asian Games for the Philippines. Indonesia’s Janice Tjen made the same request and was denied; PHILTA says the WTA did not sanction Eala.
Alex Eala Landed on the Front Page of the New York Times. Then She Sat Front Row at NYFW for Tory Burch.
A New York Times front page, a CBS Mornings sit-down, and three NYFW front rows — Alex Eala’s New York had nothing to do with tennis.