Alex Eala reached a new career high in the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) rankings.
The Filipino tennis ace climbed to World No. 54, up four spots from her previous rank despite coming off an early exit at the Wuhan Open.
Eala bowed out in the first round of the Wuhan Open qualifiers, falling to Japan’s Moyuka Uchijima, 6-4, 3-6, 6-2, on Saturday.
‘Some crazy matches this week back to the drawing board with a bit more experience and a lot of sweat lost????,’ Eala wrote on Instagram on Saturday.
The 20-year-old Eala was coming off a hectic September that began with a maiden WTA title win at the Guadalajara 125 Open.
Eala, however, hasn’t been able to get over the hump since then.
The Rafa Nadal Academy graduate suffered a quarterfinal exit at the Sao Paolo Open before getting the boot in the Jingshan Open semifinal. She also lost in the quarterfinal at the Suzhou Open on Friday.