{"id":48403,"date":"2026-06-08T02:54:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/alexandra-eala-wins-birmingham-open-clinches-second-wta-singles-title\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T02:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:54:19","slug":"alexandra-eala-wins-birmingham-open-clinches-second-wta-singles-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/alexandra-eala-wins-birmingham-open-clinches-second-wta-singles-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandra Eala wins Birmingham Open, clinches second WTA singles title"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom &#8212; Alexandra Ila won her second WTA 125 singles title on Sunday with a hard-fought victory over doubles partner Nikola Bartunkova in the Birmingham Open final.<\/p>\n<p>Top-seeded Ila fought back from a set down to defeat Bartunkova 5-7, 6-3, 7-5.<\/p>\n<p>Aira, who turned 21 last month, has become a global sensation among many in the Filipino diaspora since reaching the semifinals of last year&#8217;s Miami Open.<\/p>\n<p>Her fan base then expanded again when she defeated Clara Thorson in the first round of the U.S. Open after a long third-set tiebreak for her first major victory.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks later, Aira won the Guadalajara 125 Open, becoming the first woman to represent the Philippines to win a challenger-level WTA title.<\/p>\n<p>Aira, who is based at the Rafa Nadal Academy in Spain, attracted further attention at this year&#8217;s Australian Open, the closest Grand Slam to the Philippines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom &#8212; Alexandra Ila won her second WTA 125 singles title on Sunday with a hard-fought victory over doubles partner Nikola Bartunkova in the Birmingham Open final. Top-seeded Ila fought back from a set down to defeat Bartunkova 5-7, 6-3, 7-5. Aira, who turned 21 last month, has become a global sensation among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[5943,2871,1840,2945,32,415,24,361,52,122],"class_list":["post-48403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-alexandra","tag-birmingham","tag-clinches","tag-eala","tag-open","tag-singles","tag-tennis","tag-title","tag-wins","tag-wta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}