{"id":410846,"date":"2026-06-08T09:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/?p=410846"},"modified":"2026-06-08T09:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:30:14","slug":"eala-captures-birmingham-open-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/eala-captures-birmingham-open-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"Eala captures Birmingham Open crown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>MANILA<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Filipino top seed Alexandra Eala ruled the Birmingham Open after beating fifth seed Czech Nikola Bartunkova 5-7, 6-3, 7-5 , Sunday night at Edgbaston Priory Club in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The World No. 37 secured her second WTA 125 title after the&nbsp;2025 Guadalajara Open in Mexico and first on grasscourt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was a really tight moment and I knew that if I didn\u2019t go for it, Nikki would go for it,&#8221; Eala said&nbsp;of the break points she faced in the final game before winning the title.&nbsp;&#8220;It\u2019s one of those days where a little bit of luck and intention was what got me through.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eala teamed up with Bartunkova in the doubles where they lost to No. 2 British pair Dart Harriet and Maia Lumsden, 4-6, 6-2, 11-9, in the first round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eala defeated Swiss qualifier Rebeka Masarova, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, to reach the championship round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the quarterfinal, she downed Thai Mananchaya Sawangkaew, 6-3, 6-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eala also beat Sawangkaew, 6-1, 6-2, in the final of the Southeast Asian Games in Thailand last December, ending the Philippines&#8217; 26-year gold medal drought in women&#8217;s singles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eala&#8217;s other victories were over Australian Priscilla Hon, 6-0, 6-2 (Round of 32) and Russian Alina Charaeva, 6-2, 7-5 (Round of 16).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, World No. 69 Bartunkova turned back Dart (3-6, 6-3, 7-5) in the first round; compatriot Gabriela Knutson, 6-4, 7-6 (4), in the second round; British Mika Stojsavljevic, 6-4, 6-7(8), 7-6(4), in the quarters; and American Ashlyn Krueger, 6-4, 7-6(7) in the semis.&nbsp;<em><strong>(PNA)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA&nbsp;\u2013 Filipino top seed Alexandra Eala ruled the Birmingham Open after beating fifth seed Czech Nikola Bartunkova 5-7, 6-3, 7-5 , Sunday night at Edgbaston Priory Club in the United Kingdom. The World No. 37 secured her second WTA 125 title after the&nbsp;2025 Guadalajara Open in Mexico and first on grasscourt. \u201cIt was a really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410869,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410846\/revisions\/410869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}