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. This page is my running scrapbook: career-high rankings, the matches I’ll always remember, head-to-heads with Grand Slam champions, and upcoming matchups I’m watching for. 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. 28 singles · No. 88 doubles
  • WTA titles: 2 (Guadalajara 125, Birmingham 125)
  • 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 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 semifinal (Berlin 2026); 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. 28
    • Highest-ranked Filipina in WTA history

Doubles:

  • Career High: No. 88

Best Performances in WTA Tournaments

Slams get their own section below. This is the week-to-week grind - the 125s and 500s where the ranking actually moves.

Singles

Doubles

  • 2026

    • Bad Homburg (WTA 500, Grass) - with Venus Williams

    • Abu Dhabi (WTA 500, Hard) - with Janice Tjen

  • 2025

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

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

      • Lost to defending champions Jasmine Paolini / Sara Errani
      • Quarterfinals, l. Paolini/Errani 7-5, 3-6, 7-10 | wtatennis.com
      • Round of 16, d. Grant/Pigato 6-2, 6-3 | wtatennis.com
      • Round of 32, d. Panova/Stollar 6-3, 6-1 | wtatennis.com

  • 2024

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

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

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

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

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

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:

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:

Karolina Muchova

Matches:

Jasmine Paolini

Matches:

Jessica Pegula

Matches:

Elina Svitolina

Matches:

Clara Tauson

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; Alex Eala defeated her when she won the 2022 Junior US Open
  • Paula Badosa - Career High No. 2
  • Belinda Bencic - Career High No. 4; Olympic gold medalist; 2026 Rome semifinalist
  • Sofia Kenin - Career High No. 4; 2020 Australian Open Winner
  • Emma Navarro - Career High No. 8; 2025 Strasbourg Winner; rising American top-20 fixture
  • Naomi Osaka - Career High No. 1; 2021, 2019 Australian Open and 2020, 2018 US Open Winner
  • 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. 15; 2026 Roland Garros semifinalist; 2025 Monterrey champion
  • Qinwen Zheng - Career High No. 5; 2024 Olympic gold and Roland Garros finalist

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