Alex Eala attracts first-round bye at Canadian Open

Alexandra Eala of the Philippines celebrates after profitable a girls’s singles match towards Naomi Osaka of Japan on day six of the Mubadala DC Open 2026 at William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Heart on August 01, 2026 in Washington, DC. Emilee Chinn/Getty Photographs/AFP

MANILA, Philippines — Alex Eala received a first-round bye on the Canadian Open, which begins this week in Toronto.

The Filipino tennis ace, seeded twenty fifth within the WTA 1000 occasion, will face both Alycia Parks or a qualifier within the second spherical.

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Eala’s first assembly with Parks was within the first spherical of the Australian Open final January, succumbing to a 6-0, 3-6, 2-6 loss.

If Eala advances, she might face Wimbledon champion Linda Noskova, who has had the higher hand of their head-to-head. The Czech is 2-0 towards Eala, whom she swept within the Berlin Open semifinals final June and Indian Wells spherical of 16 in March.

On the Canadian Open final yr, Eala bowed out within the spherical of 128, shedding to Marketa Vondrousova, 6-3, 1-6, 2-6.

The Rafa Nadal Academy graduate is presently competing within the Mubadala DC Open in Washington, the place she simply dispatched four-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka, 6-4, 6-2 to succeed in her first profession WTA 500 closing.

Eala goes for the DC crown towards world No. 3 and match prime seed Jessica Pegula on Monday (Manila time) at 12 a.m.