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The Philippine prodigy won the world s second player shock

2:42pm, 12 May 2025More Sports

The impressive victory of Eala when she won the two 7-5 words from the position of 2-4. The 19 -year -old girl became the first Filipino to the WTA 1000 semi -finals and will join the top 100 world next week. Eala is also the third case in the history of Miami expansion thanks to a special ticket.

Swiatek is more appreciated than before the match but has made it difficult for Eala right from the first games. The maneuvering style of the Southeast Asian tennis player makes the shots out of two corners of Swiatek regularly resolved. The bad serve also made the number two seeds many times watching the juniors pay the ball Winner. On the day of unstable serve, Swiatek lost all four games delivered in the set, including a white game. Save two of these four points helps her make a difference to win 6-2 in the first set. The match then continued to witness many struggling games, when no one created the advantage of delivered. Swiatek performed continuous changes but could not wear the physical strength of 19 -year -old juniors. On the contrary, she herself exhausted when she could not keep up with the speed game of Eala. The decision to attack the opponent's two serve brought the Philippine tennis player 19 points in 25 times of delivery. But she showed his bravery shortly after that, by winning three games to support the ball to end the match with a score of 7-5. After winning the match-point, Eala could not hold back the tears of happiness, before coming to the hands of the senior.. In the last game, the world's number two player broke three consecutive times and suffered a third defeat to an opponent outside the top 100 at an official WTA Tour event. Only 23 years old but Swiatek is facing a very fierce competition from the emerging junior group. Eala will continue to write a fairy tale in the semi -final against Emma Raducanu or Jessica Pegula. In the upper branch, the first semi -finals were determined when the number one seed Aryna Sabalenka met Jasmine Paolini.

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