September 13, 2025 | 1:29am
MANILA, Philippines — All good issues, ultimately, come to an finish.
For Alex Eala, it’s her seven-match win streak and her run within the Sao Paulo Open.
Eala absorbed a shocking defeat within the quarterfinals of the Brazil event by the hands of Indonesia’s Janice Tjen, 4-6, 1-6, Saturday morning (Manila time).
The Filipina, who rose to a brand new career-high rating of fifty fifth on this planet, began off the match waxing scorching however seemingly misplaced steam to bow out of the competitors in opposition to her fellow Southeast Asian tennister, who’s rated 124th within the stay rankings.
Eala bagged the primary three video games of the match, going up 3-0.
However the 23-year-old Tjen seemingly flipped the swap, controlling the match and successful 11 of the subsequent 13 video games to seize the primary set, 6-4, then raced to a 5-1 lead within the second.
And with Eala serving, Tjen wouldn’t be denied as she completed it off with a booming return winner.
The Indonesian standout recorded two aces within the match. Whereas she had extra double faults, she punched in 23 winners in opposition to Eala’s 4.
Eala’s win streak began in Mexico, defeating Arianne Hartono, Varvara Lepchenko, Nicole Fossa Huergo, Kayla Day and Panna Udvardy to bag her first-ever WTA title.
In Sao Paulo, the Rafa Nadal Academy graduate beat Yasmine Mansouri and Julia Riera within the first two rounds.
Tjen, for her half, will now face off in opposition to both Solana Sierra or Francesca Jones within the semifinals.
