(UPDATE) FOLLOWING her singles and doubles titles at the International Tennis Federation (ITF) Women’s 100 Tennis Tournament in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain over the weekend, Filipina tennis superstar Alex Eala achieved a new career-high in the world rankings.
At the latest Women’s Tennis Association world rankings, Eala jumped to 143rd, 12 places better from her previous career best of 155th last week.
Eala’s previous career best came after appearances at the qualifying rounds in Wimbledon and the French Open.
Alex Eala PHOTO FROM ALEX EALA’S FACEBOOK PAGE
Before that, her career best was at 157th back in May, before slipping to 169th in June, climbing up to 162nd, then placed 155th on July 15, then achieving her new career best on Monday.
Over the weekend in Spain at Saturday’s doubles finals, Eala and French partner Estelle Cascino defeated the Bulgarian-Latvian pair of Lia Karatancheva and Diana Marcinkevica in three sets, 6-3, 2-6, 10-4, to clinch their second doubles title together, while on Sunday, the Filipina teenager won over Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva of Andorra in straight sets, 6-4, 6-4, to get her women’s singles title.
With the double win in Spain, Eala achieved her fifth professional singles title and her third in the doubles. All three of her doubles titles were won this year, with the two most recent titles paired with Cascino.
In a social media post, Eala said it was a “fairytale finish” to what was her best ITF tournament this year.