Atin Ito First Filipino Community Newspaper in Ontario
MANILA, Philippines — Alex Eala is headed to the semifinals of the W40 Petange in Luxembourg after beating the Netherlands’ Jasmijn Gimbrere, 6-3, 6-2, Friday night (Manila time).
The two tennisters started the first set at a 2-2 deadlock.
The Filipina tennis ace, however, won three straight games as she took a 5-2 lead.
After dropping the eighth game, Eala found her bearings and took the first set as she overcame a 40-15 deficit.
The momentum was carried by the 18-year-old Filipina to the second set as she took a 5-0 lead.
Gimbrere, however, took the sixth and seventh games to put herself on the board, 5-2.
Gimbrere tried to claw back into the game, but Eala’s mastery was too much, and the Filipina seized the second set and the match.
Eala will be facing Germany’s Anna-Lena Friedsam in the semifinals.
The 29-year-old is currently ranked 114th in the world in singles’ play.
The German just defeated Belgium’s Amelie Van Impe, 6-4, 6-2, also on Friday night.
— Ralph Edwin Villanueva
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