{"id":347824,"date":"2026-06-08T23:48:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=347824"},"modified":"2026-06-08T23:48:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:18:26","slug":"alex-eala-fresh-off-title-plays-zhang-shuai-at-queens-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/alex-eala-fresh-off-title-plays-zhang-shuai-at-queens-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Eala, fresh off title, plays Zhang Shuai at Queen&#8217;s Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"FOR_target_content\">\n<div id=\"attachment_680590\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-680590\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Philippines\u2019 Alexandra Eala celebrates winning her women\u2019s singles final match against Nikola Bartunkova on day nine of the Lexus Birmingham Open Championships at Edgbaston Priory Club, Birmingham, England, Sunday June 7, 2026. (Mike Egerton\/PA via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines\u2013Alex Eala jumped 4 places to World No. 33 in the most recent Women\u2019s Tennis Association (WTA) rankings ahead of her campaign on the HSBC Championships, formerly often known as the Queen\u2019s Club Championships in London.<\/p>\n<p>After winning the title within the WTA 125 Birmingham Open on Sunday night, Eala wastes no time and gets back into motion on Tuesday within the major draw of the Queen\u2019s Club Championships in London.<\/p>\n<div id=\"billboard_article\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<i id=\"art_cont\" style=\"color:#85A7BF;\">Article continues after this commercial<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<h4>READ: Alex Eala wins Birmingham Open title, ends Czech curse<\/h4>\n<p>The 21-year-old Eala battles China\u2019s Zhang Shuai, who\u2019s ranked sixty fourth, within the round-of-32.<\/p>\n<p>Eala survived Czech Nikola Bartunkova, 5-7, 6-3, 7-5, within the Birmingham final for her first victory against a Czech in 14 tries since turning pro in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Polish rising star Maja Chwalinska, who made a surprise run to the French Open final, was the most important mover within the rankings, soaring to twenty first from 114th.<\/p>\n<p>Russian ace and newly minted French Open champion Mirra Andreeva improved two spots to No. 6.<\/p>\n<p>Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka stays the top-ranked WTA player for the 89th consecutive week.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippines\u2019 Alexandra Eala celebrates winning her women\u2019s singles final match against Nikola Bartunkova on day nine of the Lexus Birmingham Open Championships at Edgbaston Priory Club, Birmingham, England, Sunday June 7, 2026. (Mike Egerton\/PA via AP) MANILA, Philippines\u2013Alex Eala jumped 4 places to World No. 33 in the most recent Women\u2019s Tennis Association (WTA) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":347825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[1568,1059,1569,1181,2303,1711,52636,1148,8242],"class_list":["post-347824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-alex","tag-club","tag-eala","tag-fresh","tag-plays","tag-queens","tag-shuai","tag-title","tag-zhang"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347827,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347824\/revisions\/347827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}