Alex Eala exits Birmingham Open in her grass courtroom season opener

MANILA, Philippines — Alex Eala bowed out of the Lexus Birmingham Open after falling quick to Czechia’s Linda Fruhvirtova, 5-7, 7-6(5), 1-6, on early Wednesday (Manila time) within the United Kingdom.

Eala opened her grass marketing campaign at the unsuitable foot as she were given ruled by means of Fruhvirtova within the 3rd set after a grueling two-hour and 53-minute duel.

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Eala, lately the World No. 73, got here up quick within the tight opening set, however she were given the easier of the Czech netter in the second one the place she crawled her long ago from a 2-5 deficit within the tiebreak to drive a decider.

But the Rafa Nadal Academy product misplaced steam because the World No.152 Fruhvirtova finished the disenchanted to advance to the following around.

Eala additionally suffered from a primary around go out within the Women’s Tennis Association 125 doubles as she and Swiss spouse Rebeka Masarova yielded to Australia’s Ellen Perez and Storm Hunter, 4-6, 4-6, on Monday (Manila time).

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The 20-year-old Filipino tennis sensation went directly to Birmingham after a first-round go out in her French Open debut, the place she fell to Emiliana Arango, 0-6, 6-2, 3-6.

She additionally competed within the Roland Garros doubles with Renata Zarazua and reached the second one around simplest to be defeated by means of Olga Danilovic and Anastasia Potapova, 1-6, 3-6.