Conversely, 20-year-old Eala’s confidence has grown, thanks to a year with victories over top-10 players, and more recently, reaching the final at Eastbourne in her pre-Wimbledon grass warm-up. Eala remains the highest-ranked Filipino player in WTA tour history, and the first from her country to reach the top 100 in WTA rankings.

Photo: @alex.eala instagram Filipina tennis trailblazer takes a set off defending champion Krejčíková LONDON — History was made on Centre Court as Alexandra “Alex” Eala became the first Filipina in

Barbora Krejcikova has come back to avoid becoming the second consecutive Wimbledon women’s champion to lose in the first round a year later