- Alex Eala faces Belgium’s Elise Mertens within the round of 32 of the WTA 500 Bad Homburg Open in Germany.
Bad Homburg Open schedule
June 22, Monday
- 11:30 p.m. – Alex Eala vs Elise Mertens
FILE – Alex Eala celebrates after a match within the Berlin Open. She beat Elena Rybakina and Elina Svitolina to succeed in the semifinals. –BERLIN OPEN PHOTO
MANILA, Philippines–Alex Eala returned to the highest 30 within the WTA rankings ahead of her debut on the Bad Homburg Open on Monday.
Eala jumped five spots to world No. 30 following a blistering campaign within the WTA 500 Berlin Open, where she reached the semifinals. She moved only a spot shy of matching her career-high rating of No. 29 last March.
The 21-year-old Eala looks to proceed her giant-slaying ways starting against former world No. 12 Elise Mertens of Belgium within the round of 32 late Monday night.
Alex Eala —WTA PHOTO
Alex Eala’s most memorable 2026 WTA run ended on Sunday morning in Manila when the Czech Linda Noskova needed just 69 minutes to bundle out the hard-fighting pride of the Philippines within the semifinals of the Berlin Open.
And that leaves the 21-year-old setting her sights on one other WTA 500 event starting Monday when she battles Elise Mertens within the round-of-32 of the Bad Homburg Open on the Spielbank Bad Homburg Centre Court.
There shall be no shortage of giants to cut down in Homburg in Germany, with former world No. 1 Iga Swiatek of Poland and newly crowned French Open champion Meera Andreeva ranked 1-2 within the event and where Eala will get a probability of facing Noskova again after taking a 6-2, 6-4 defeat in Berlin.
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