Alex Eala in motion within the W100 Bengaluru in India. PHOTO: tennis_karnataka/Instagram
MANILA, Philippines — Alex Eala took down Arianne Hartono of the Netherlands, 6-2, 6-2, to open her W100 Bengaluru marketing campaign on Wednesday in India.
The 19-year-old Filipino broke a 2-2 tie within the first set by profitable 4 straight video games to attract first blood.
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Eala introduced the momentum within the second with a scorching 5-0 begin earlier than the Dutch stopped the bleeding just for the previous to get the job accomplished and sweep her technique to the spherical of 16.
It was Eala’s third win over Hartono in all of their previous conferences.
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The Rafael Nadal Academy product, the No.5 seed of the event, battles Slovenia’s Dalila Jakupovic within the second spherical.
Eala not too long ago suffered a first-round exit within the Australian Open with a 5-7, 2-6 loss to Jana Fett of Croatia final January 7.
However she not too long ago achieved her career-high within the Ladies’s Tennis Affiliation world rankings, rising to No. 136.
