Philstar.com
September 6, 2025 | 2:58pm
MANILA, Philippines — Tennis ace Alex Eala dished out a tour de pressure efficiency within the US Open and carved her identify in historical past as the primary participant from the Philippines to win a Grand Slam match within the Open period.
The 20-year-old Filipina sensation scored a 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (13-11) victory over 14th seed Clara Tauson in a well-known first-round victory spiked by a roaring combat again from 1-5 down within the remaining set.
Although she bombed out proper after by way of a 4-6, 3-6 loss to Spain’s Cristina Bucsa, Eala’s gutsy stand gained the hearts of not simply Filipinos on web site and all around the world but in addition foreigners who love fighters.
Her good exhibiting in Flushing Meadows served as spotlight of Pinoy athletes’ sterling marketing campaign in August and earned her the Philippine Sportswriters Affiliation’s nod as prime achiever of the month.
General, it was 31 days stuffed with milestones.
Girl Grand Grasp Janelle Mae Frayna delivered the primary worldwide ladies’s chess crown for the nation along with her triumph within the Girls Blitz occasion of the thirty first Abu Dhabi Worldwide Chess Competition.
Frayna went on an undefeated run, scoring eight factors from seven wins and two attracts, to reign supreme within the tourney that featured 120 members from 24 nations.
Rising triathlete Kira Ellis, 19, struck gold within the Ladies’s Junior Division within the 2025 European Triathlon Junior Cup in Riga, Latvia, posting a powerful time of 1 hour, 5 minutes, and seven seconds in her comeback competitors.
Philippine padelistas led by Johnny Arcilla made their mark by capturing the title within the Asia Pacific Padel Cup 2025 in Selangor, Malaysia. Workforce Philippines shut out Hong Kong within the finals, 3-0, to cap a spotless marketing campaign that noticed them dominate Pakistan 5-0, HK, 4-1 and host Malaysia 4-1 within the group stage, overpower South Korea within the quarterfinals, 5-0, then repeat in opposition to the Malaysians within the semis, 3-0.
Jiu-jitsu ace Kaila Napolis and pool whiz Chezka Centeno anchored a two-silver, two-bronze haul for the Philippine delegation within the World Video games in Chengdu, China.
Napolis took runner-up honors within the ladies’s 52kg Jiu-Jitsu Ne-Waza competitors, whereas Centeno positioned second within the ladies’s 10-ball occasion. Wushu fighter Carlos Baylon Jr. (males’s sanda 56kg) and sambo guess Aislinn Agnes Yap (ladies’s 80kg) joined them within the podium.
Alas Pilipinas claimed third place within the fifth Ladies’s SEA V-League in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand. The Filipina spikers beat Indonesia, 25-20, 25-20, 16-25, 25-13, en path to their third straight bronze within the annual competitors.