{"id":444983,"date":"2025-03-26T19:03:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=444983"},"modified":"2025-03-26T22:12:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T22:12:36","slug":"history-making-teen-stuns-swiatek-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=444983","title":{"rendered":"History-making teen stuns Swiatek in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teenager Alexandra Eala pulled off another upset at the Miami Open when she knocked off five-time grand slam champion and second-seeded Iga Swiatek<\/a> 6-2, 7-5 in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old left-hander, who received a wild card into the WTA 1000 event, is the only Filipino player on the professional tennis tour and entered ranked 140th.<\/p>\n

During this history-making run, Eala reached her first WTA semi-finals by beating her third major champion, this time in 1 hour, 37 minutes.<\/p>\n

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Along the way, she defeated 2017 French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko and reigning Australian Open champion Madison Keys, who is ranked No.5. That was Eala\u2019s first win over a top-10 player.<\/p>\n

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Then Eala won on a walkover in the fourth round over Paula Badosa, giving her added rest.<\/p>\n

Swiatek broke Eala in the match\u2019s first game, but the teenager broke right back. The first two games took 15 minutes to play.<\/p>\n

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On set point, Swiatek rapped a forehand long, ending the set in 42 minutes and putting Eala one set from the semi-finals, where she will face either Jessica Pegula of the US or Emma Raducanu of Britain, who play Thursday AEDT.<\/p>\n

Though Eala represents the Philippines, she has lived the last six years in Mallorca, training at the Rafael Nadal Tennis Academy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Teenager Alexandra Eala pulled off another upset at the Miami Open when she knocked off five-time grand slam champion and second-seeded Iga Swiatek 6-2, 7-5 […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":444985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=444983"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444988,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444983\/revisions\/444988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/444985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=444983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=444983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=444983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}