ALEXANDRA “ALEX” EALA bowed out of the junior girls singles competition but remained in contention in doubles at the US Open in Flushing Meadows, New York.
The 16-year-old Eala and Belgian partner Hanne Vandewinkel take on against Americans Madison Sieg and Elizabeth Coleman on Saturday morning (Manila time) instead of Friday morning—because of inclement weather—US Tennis Association’s Billie Jean King Center in New York.
Eala suffered a heartbreaking loss to Switzerland’s Sebastiana Scilipoti, 5-7, 3-6, in the singles in quarterfinals which was delayed a few hours because of rains.
The 18-year-old Scilipoti advanced to the semifinals against sixth seed Kristina Dmitruk of Belarus, a 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 quarterfinal winner over Croatian Petra Marcinko.
Eala, a scholar of Rafael Nadal Academy, drew a bye in the tournament, beat American Charlotte Owensby, 6-3, 6-3, in the round-of-32 and Greek Michaela Laki, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4, in the round-of-16.
Eala won the French Open junior girls doubles crown with Russian Oksana Selekhmeteva last June and the Australian Open doubles title with Indonesian Priska Nugroho in January 2020.
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