Alex is lucky to come from a family that likes sports. Mike and Reza, who are her parents, both played sports when they were young.
In October 2020, when she was only 15, the tennis player was ranked second in the ITF junior World Ranking. She is a rising star in the sport.
Eala has an older sibling who works in the same field. Miko Eala, who is 18 years old, says that he will play tennis at Penn State University.
She is the chief financial officer for Globe Telecom right now. Her mother, Rizza, won a bronze medal in the 100-meter backstroke at the Southeast Asian Games in 1985.
Mike and Rizza Maniego-Eala raised Alex Eala
Alex thinks she is lucky to have come from a different family than her parents. Mike and Rizza, who are her parents, played sports when they were young.
Rizza, who is currently the Chief Financial Officer of Globe Telecom, won a bronze medal in the 100-meter backstroke at the Southeast Asian Games in 1985.
Alex’s aunt was related to the late Noli Eala, who was the judge for the Philippine Basketball Association. Her younger brother Michael (Miko) Eala is a good tennis player at Pennsylvania State University in the United States.
In 2020, when Miko went to Portugal for the Lousada Junior Cup II, he brought the Doubles Championship with him. He also won the 2019 Hellenic Bank Masters Tennis Academy competition in Cyprus. Miko also won the junior men’s singles title at the 2018 CPSP-Philta International Junior Tennis Championship. This moved him up to number 98 in the ITF junior world rankings.
Alex Eala’s parents give him steady help and support
Mike Eala knows how to talk to his daughter after a game, win or lose.
After going to nine of Alex’s 20 tournaments on different continents, the proud father learned this. The whole family comes here often to see her play. This kind of support is rare in sports in the Philippines. But a skill like Eala is also a gift.
Mike said that his daughter had made it harder for many girls in the Philippines who want to play tennis. Mike said that he tries to be with his daughter as much as possible because he wants to help her reach her goal of becoming a great tennis player on the international stage.
After Alex and his older brother Mikko got scholarships to the Rafael Nadal Academy in Mallorca, Spain, Mike and his wife Rizza stopped hanging out at the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex for age-group events and started hanging out in facilities that had been updated.
Her whole family is into sports
People on both sides of the tennis pro’s family are well-known athletes in the Philippines, so she is no stranger to sports. Her mother, Rizza Maniego-Eala, won the bronze medal in the women’s 100-meter backstroke at the Southeast Asian Games in 1985.
Rizza’s sister and brother play or played tennis for the University of the Philippines (UP) national team. Alex’s older brother Miko is on the rise as a tennis player at the Rafael Nadal Academy.
Miko, who was 17 at the time, almost made it to the main draw of the 2020 Australian Open juniors, but he lost in the finals.
He also won the Hellenic Bank Masters Tennis Academy tournament in Cyprus in November of last year. He dedicated the win to his late grandfather Bobby Maniego. This person taught the two Eala siblings how to play tennis. Alex is also linked to Noli Eala, who was a sports commentator and PBA commissioner from 2003 to 2005. Eala ran the professional basketball league.
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Alex Maniego Eala, a tennis player, was born in the Philippines on May 23, 2005. She is of Filipino descent.
Ella got a combined ITF junior ranking of 4 on February 3, 2020. Eala’s whole family is good at sports. Rizza, her mother, won a bronze medal in the 100-meter backstroke at the Southeast Asian Games in 1985. She is now the Chief Financial Officer of Globe Telecom. Her brother Michael Francis II is a young tennis player who is on the rise.
Alexandra Eala was named the 2019 Milo Junior Athlete of the Year at the San Miguel Corp.-Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA) Annual Awards Night.
Eala had a great start to this year, coming off a great 2019 season in which she qualified for her first Grand Slam event at the US Open. She also moved up in the global juniors circuit rankings and won her first Grand Slam title.
Alex Eala’s place in the world tennis rankings
Alex is now 587th in the world, up from 505th in August of last year. She has also won a women’s ITF championship. She has made it to the semifinals of a girls’ Grand Slam singles match and won the girl’s doubles titles at the Australian and French Opens (2020 French Open).
At this point in his career, this is especially true for Alex. Last season, she had trouble with a foot injury and COVID-19. Right now, she’s having trouble because her team is focusing more on women’s circuit events.
People used to say that athletes’ parents were “always there,” but Mike said that Alex’s parents try to stay away from his coaches.
Mike said that Alex’s family would try to be as close to her as possible in the future, when they want to be there to “watch her play the finals of a grand slam tournament.”
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The 17-year-old Filipina, who was the 10th seed, beat the unseeded Canadian in 1 hour and 17 minutes, which was one of the fastest games of the first round.
Early on, Eala was able to keep up with Xu. They were tied at 3-4 in the first set before the older player won the next two games to take control of the match.
Eala beat Xu 3-0 in the second set and went on to win the match easily. She had 17 wins, which was more than twice as many as the Canadian, who only had 8.
MANILA, Philippines – Alex Eala, who is only 14 years old, won the 2020 Australian Open juniors doubles title on Friday, January 31. This makes her the first Filipina to win a Grand Slam.
Eala had a great 2019, where she won her first Grand Slam title at the US Open. This year, she got off to a great start by climbing up the world juniors rankings and winning her first Grand Slam title.
Tuesday, February 4, was the first time in Eala’s tennis career that she was ranked No. 4.
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Her whole family is a sports star
SPORTS FAMILY. Miko, his mother Rizza, his son Alex, and his father Michael Francis attend the 2020 Australian Open. Photo from Rizza Maniego-Facebook Eala’s
The tennis star is used to sports because both of her parents are famous athletes in the Philippines. Alex Eala is getting better at PH tennis.
Her mother, Rizza Maniego-Eala, won a bronze medal in the 100m backstroke at the Southeast Asian Games in 1985.
Rizza’s sister used to swim for the national team, and her brother used to swim for the national team but now plays tennis for the University of the Philippines (UP) tennis team.
Miko, Alex’s older brother, is also learning how to play tennis at the Rafael Nadal Academy.
Miko, who is 17 years old, almost made it to the main draw of the Australian Open juniors tournament in 2020, but he didn’t. He lost in the finals.
He also won the Hellenic Bank Masters Tennis Academy tournament in Cyprus last November. He gave the win to his late grandfather Bobby Maniego, who introduced both Eala siblings to tennis before he died.
Alex is also related to Noli Eala, who was the commissioner of the PBA from 2003 to 2005 and was a sports commentator before that.
She goes to the Rafael Nadal Academy
IMPROVEMENT. Thanks to the Rafael Nadal Academy, Alex Eala’s skills keep getting better. Photo from the Facebook page of Rafael Nadal Academy
Alex was seen by scouts from the Rafael Nadal Academy, which is run by the 11-time Grand Slam champion himself, after he got a wild card into the 2018 Roland Garros juniors tournament qualifiers.
The Filipina teen netter and her brother Miko finally got scholarships, and since September 2018, they have been going to the American International School of Mallorca, which is inside the academy.
Alex said that the academy was the best place for her to improve her tennis skills because it had a regular training schedule and hitting partners from all over Europe.
“I think that the Academy helped me a lot. Since I moved, my tennis has gotten a lot better, and I think my serve and my confidence have gotten a lot better, too,” she said.
She will be able to get ready for the high-level women’s tournaments she wants to play in by March with the help of her coaches at the academy.
She is going to play in two junior Grand Slams
SURPRISE RUN. Alex Eala made it to the third round of the singles event at the 2020 Australian Open. Photo from the Facebook page of Rafael Nadal Academy
Alex first got into the main draw of a Grand Slam by playing in the qualifying tournament. He did this for the 2019 US Open juniors.
But the Filipina only made it to the second round because she lost in straight sets to the Australian Annerly Poulos.
Alex got into her second junior Grand Slam in 2020. She started the year as the No. 9 player in the world juniors circuit, which gave her a wild card into the main draw of the Australian Open.
Alex wanted to do better than her last Grand Slam run, which she did when she made it to the third round of the singles tournament.
But even though she lost in the singles, Alex’s run at the Australian Open wasn’t over. She and her longtime partner Priska Nugroho of Indonesia won the doubles title, making history.
With the win, Alex became the world’s No. 4 junior tennis player for the first time in his career.
The team of Eala and Nugroho beat a top-ranked pair
Alex Eala moves up in the ranking of the best juniors in the world. Photo from the Facebook page of Rafael Nadal Academy
When Eala and Nugroho played the top-ranked pair of Kamila Bartone and Linda Fruhvirtova in the semifinals of the 2020 Australian Open juniors doubles, not many people thought they would go all the way.
But the Southeast Asian pair came back after losing the first set and came back from being down 7-1 in the tiebreaker to make it to the finals.
Eala said of the tough semifinal match, “I don’t know if it was really a miracle.”
“There were times when I didn’t think I would win, but I kept my energy up and stayed positive the whole time.”
Eala and Nugroho easily beat Slovenia’s Ziva Falkner and Britain’s Matilda Mutavdzic in the finals, which took 49 minutes and was the shortest finals match in the history of the Australian Open.
The winning team of Eala and Nugroho began on Instagram
CHAMPIONS. Alex Eala (on the left) and Priska Nugroho are happy that they won the title. Picture by Roman Pilipey/EPA-EFE
Alex said that the partnership between Eala and Nugroho for the Australian Open didn’t start until they met on Instagram.
“She just sent me a message on Instagram asking to work together, and since we’re close and have worked together before, my team and I thought it was a good idea, and it was,” said Eala.
Luckily, Eala’s team from the Rafael Nadal Academy agreed to work together, and both teams were amazed by the results.
But this isn’t the first time Eala and Nugroho have played together in the world juniors circuit. In 2017, the Southeast Asian pair won the Doubles Team of the Year Award and went on to win 8 titles, including the Grand Slam. – Rappler.com
