Alex Eala Pro Career Tracker

Alex Eala Pro Career Tracker

I’ve been following Alex Eala’s career since her run at the 2025 Miami Open - watching a Filipina rise through the WTA ranks in real time is something I never thought I’d get to do in my lifetime, and I’m glad I started keeping notes when I did. This page is my running scrapbook for it. I update it when something happens worth pinning, not on a schedule.

At a glance

The numbers I refresh first when something breaks on Twitter at 2am - everything else on this page is detail.

  • Career highs: No. 20 singles · No. 88 doubles
  • WTA titles: 3 (2025 Guadalajara 125, 2026 Birmingham 125, 2026 Washington 500)
  • Best Slam (singles): Wimbledon 2026 - Round of 16
  • Notable firsts: First Filipina in a Grand Slam main draw; first Filipina to win a Slam main-draw match (US Open 2025); first Filipina seeded at a Grand Slam (Wimbledon 2026); first Filipina to reach a Grand Slam fourth round in the Open era (Wimbledon 2026); first Filipina in a WTA 1000 semifinal (Miami 2025); first Filipina in a WTA 500 quarterfinal (Abu Dhabi 2026); first Filipina in a WTA 500 semifinal (Berlin 2026); first Filipina to reach a WTA 500 final (Washington 2026); first Filipina to win a WTA 500 title (Washington 2026); first Filipina in the WTA top 20; first Filipina in the WTA top 100

Player Profile

I keep all of these open during Slams because WTA’s site is best for live scores and Tennis.com is easier for digging through old draws.

WTA Rankings

Rankings lag reality by a week sometimes - I still screenshot the career-high moment because you forget how fast the climb felt.

Singles:

  • Career High: No. 20
    • Highest-ranked Filipina in WTA history
    • First Filipina to reach the WTA Top 20

Doubles:

  • Career High: No. 88

Grand Slam Main Draw Results

Wimbledon 2026 is the run I still can’t quite believe - Swiatek on Centre Court, then Paolini ending it in three.

Singles

Doubles

  • 2026

    • Wimbledon - with Nikola Bartunkova
      • 1st Round, l. Jelena Ostapenko/Sofia Kenin 6-3, 3-6, 1-6 | wtatennis.com

  • Australian Open - with Ingrid Martins

    • Completed the set of Grand Slam doubles main draws with her Australian Open debut
    • 1st Round, l. Shuko Aoyama/Magda Linette 6-7(3), 6-2, 3-6 | wtatennis.com | ausopen.com

  • 2025

    • Wimbledon - with Eva Lys
      • 1st Round, l. Quinn Gleason/Ingrid Martins 4-6, 2-6 | wtatennis.com

Best Performances in WTA Tournaments

Slams are in the section above. This is the week-to-week grind where the ranking actually moves in preparation for the Grand Slams.

Singles

Doubles

  • 2026

    • Bad Homburg (WTA 500, Grass) - with Venus Williams
      • Partnered with seven-time Grand Slam singles champion Venus Williams
      • Quarterfinals, l. Tereza Mihalikova/Olivia Nicholls 3-6, 2-6 | wtatennis.com
      • Round of 16, d. Catherine Harrison/Alexandra Osborne 6-3, 6-4 | wtatennis.com
  • Abu Dhabi (WTA 500, Hard) - with Janice Tjen
    • Semifinals, l. Tereza Mihalikova/Olivia Nicholls 4-6, 2-6 | wtatennis.com
    • Quarterfinals, d. Cristina Bucsa/Shuai Zhang 6-3, 6-3 | wtatennis.com
    • Round of 16, d. Leylah Fernandez/Kristina Mladenovic 7-5, 3-6, 10-6 | wtatennis.com

  • 2025

    • Guangzhou (WTA 250, Hard) - with Nadiia Kichenok

      • Semifinals, l. Katarzyna Piter/Janice Tjen 7-6(4), 3-6, 5-10 | wtatennis.com
      • Quarterfinals, d. Polina Kudermetova/Kamilla Rakhimova 6-3, 7-5 | wtatennis.com
      • Round of 16, d. Emily Appleton/Qianhui Tang 6-4, 6-2 | wtatennis.com

    • Rome Open (WTA 1000, Clay) - with Coco Gauff

      • Partnered with Coco Gauff; lost to defending champions Jasmine Paolini / Sara Errani
      • Quarterfinals, l. Jasmine Paolini/Sara Errani 5-7, 6-3, 7-10 | wtatennis.com
      • Round of 16, d. Tyra Caterina Grant/Lisa Pigato 6-2, 6-3 | wtatennis.com
      • Round of 32, d. Alexandra Panova/Fanny Stollar 6-3, 6-1 | wtatennis.com

  • 2024

    • Ningbo (WTA 500, Hard) - with En-Shuo Liang

      • Quarterfinals, l. Giuliana Olmos/Alexandra Panova 1-6, 2-6 | wtatennis.com
      • Round of 16, d. Ekaterina Alexandrova/Kateřina Siniakova w/o | wtatennis.com

    • Guadalajara (WTA 125, Hard) - with Kimberly Birrell

      • Quarterfinals, l. Katarzyna Piter/Fanny Stollar 4-6, 4-6 | wtatennis.com

    • Warsaw (WTA 125, Hard) - with Darja Semenistaja

      • Quarterfinals, l. Weronika Falkowska/Martyna Kubka 4-6, 5-7 | wtatennis.com

    • Canberra International (WTA 125, Hard) - with Laura Pigossi

      • Semifinals, l. Kaylah McPhee/Astra Sharma 6-7(1), 3-6 | wtatennis.com
      • Quarterfinals, d. Anna Bondar/Celine Naef w/o | wtatennis.com
      • Round of 16, d. Sara Errani/Renata Zarazua 5-7, 6-0, 10-6 | wtatennis.com

Matches Against Grand Slam Champions

I started this section after Miami 2025 because I kept losing track of who she’d already beaten. Two wins over Swiatek now - I still double-check before I tweet.

Iga Swiatek

Grand Slam Titles:

TournamentYear(s)
Wimbledon2025
French Open2020, 2022, 2023, 2024
US Open2022

Matches:

Naomi Osaka

Grand Slam Titles:

TournamentYear(s)
Australian Open2019, 2021
US Open2018, 2020

Matches:

Elena Rybakina

Grand Slam Titles:

TournamentYear(s)
Australian Open2026
Wimbledon2022

Matches:

Coco Gauff

Grand Slam Titles:

TournamentYear(s)
French Open2025
US Open2023

Matches:

Barbora Krejcikova

Grand Slam Titles:

TournamentYear(s)
Wimbledon2024
French Open2021

Matches:

Linda Noskova

Grand Slam Titles:

TournamentYear(s)
Wimbledon2026

Matches:

Madison Keys

Grand Slam Titles:

TournamentYear(s)
Australian Open2025

Matches:

Marketa Vondrousova

Grand Slam Titles:

TournamentYear(s)
Wimbledon2023

Matches:

Jelena Ostapenko

Grand Slam Titles:

TournamentYear(s)
French Open2017

Matches:

Matches Against Other Top 20 Players

Champions get the section above. These are the top-20 fixtures that haven’t happened yet or only happened once - the ones I’m watching when draws drop.

Ekaterina Alexandrova

Matches:

Leylah Fernandez

Matches:

Iva Jovic

Matches:

Marta Kostyuk

Matches:

Magda Linette

Matches:

Victoria Mboko

Matches:

Elise Mertens

Matches:

Karolina Muchova

Matches:

Jasmine Paolini

Matches:

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

Matches:

Jessica Pegula

Matches:

Elina Svitolina

Matches:

Clara Tauson

Matches:

Donna Vekić

Matches:

Qinwen Zheng

Matches:

Matches to Watch Out For

Draw roulette - no H2H yet, or only one meeting years ago. Andreeva is the one I circle because of the 2022 junior US Open final.

  • Amanda Anisimova - Career High No. 3; 2025 Wimbledon semifinalist
  • Bianca Andreescu - Career High No. 4; 2019 US Open Winner
  • Mirra Andreeva - Career High No. 5; 2026 French Open Winner; Alex Eala defeated her in the 2022 Junior US Open final
  • Paula Badosa - Career High No. 2
  • Belinda Bencic - Career High No. 4; Olympic gold medalist; 2026 Rome semifinalist
  • Lois Boisson - Career High No. 34; 2025 French Open semifinalist
  • Maja Chwalinska - Career High No. 21; 2026 French Open finalist
  • Sofia Kenin - Career High No. 4; 2020 Australian Open Winner
  • Emma Navarro - Career High No. 8; 2025 Strasbourg Winner; rising American top-20 fixture
  • Emma Raducanu - Career High No. 10; 2021 US Open Winner
  • Aryna Sabalenka - Career High No. 1; 2024, 2023 Australian Open and 2024 US Open Winner
  • Diana Shnaider - Career High No. 11; 2026 Roland Garros semifinalist; 2025 Monterrey champion

I’ll keep updating this when the news merits it. Glad this page exists for the nights I want the matches in one place instead of scattered tabs.

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