{"id":415702,"date":"2026-06-09T12:41:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/?p=415702"},"modified":"2026-06-09T12:41:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:41:46","slug":"live-alex-eala-vs-zhang-shuai-hsbc-championships-round-of-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/live-alex-eala-vs-zhang-shuai-hsbc-championships-round-of-32\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: Alex Eala vs Zhang Shuai \u2013 HSBC Championships Round of 32"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After winning the Birmingham Open title, Alex Eala is back in action against China\u2019s Zhang Shuai in the WTA 500 HSBC Championships Round of 32 in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MANILA, Philippines\u2013Alex Eala jumped four places to World No. 33 in the latest Women\u2019s Tennis Association (WTA) rankings ahead of her campaign at the HSBC Championships, formerly known as the Queen\u2019s Club Championships, in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After winning the title in the WTA 125 Birmingham Open on Sunday night, Eala wastes no time and gets back into action on Tuesday in the\u00a0main draw of the Queen\u2019s Club Championships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 21-year-old Eala battles China\u2019s Zhang Shuai, who\u2019s ranked 64th, in the round of 32.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eala survived Czech Nikola Bartunkova, 5-7, 6-3, 7-5, in the Birmingham final for her first victory against a Czech in 14 tries since turning pro in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After winning the Birmingham Open title, Alex Eala is back in action against China\u2019s Zhang Shuai in the WTA 500 HSBC Championships Round of 32 in London. MANILA, Philippines\u2013Alex Eala jumped four places to World No. 33 in the latest Women\u2019s Tennis Association (WTA) rankings ahead of her campaign at the HSBC Championships, formerly known [&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-415702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415702","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=415702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415703,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415702\/revisions\/415703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}