Alex Eala missed an opportunity to climb the WTA Rankings as she suffered a one-sided defeat in her opening match at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
The Filipina star was beaten 6-1, 6-4 by world No 25 Leylah Fernandez at the indoor clay-court WTA 500 event in Stuttgart on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
World No 45 Eala<\/a> was broken twice as Fernandez raced to a 5-0 lead en route to closing the opening set out in dominant fashion.<\/p>\n Fernandez secured two more breaks as she surged to a 5-2 advantage in the second set before she was broken for the only time when she served for the match.<\/p>\n Eala then saved two match points on her own serve at 3-5, but her 23-year-old Canadian opponent took her second opportunity to serve the match out.<\/p>\n In what was her first encounter with fellow left-hander Fernandez, Eala won just 46 of the 109 points (42%).<\/p>\n Fernandez will face either fifth seed Jasmine Paolini or qualifier Zeynep Sonmez in the second round in Stuttgart.<\/p>\n WTA Madrid Open 2026 Entry List: Sabalenka, Rybakina, Gauff, Swiatek, Eala headline; will Raducanu play?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n WTA Rankings Race To Riyadh: Andreeva climbs, Gauff drops, Swiatek outside top 10, Eala +3<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n Eala\u2019s first round exit in Stuttgart has seen her earn $13,211 in prize money and collect a single WTA ranking point.<\/p>\n The 20-year-old started the week as the world No 45, and she is now 44th in the Live WTA Rankings on 1,285 points.<\/p>\n If Eala had won her opening match, she would have collected 60 points \u2014 which would have lifted her to a projected ranking of 38th.<\/p>\n A run to the quarter-finals in Stuttgart would have earned Eala 108 points and seen her climb as high as 32nd in the Live Rankings.<\/p>\n Eala reached her career-high ranking of world No 29 last month after her run to the fourth round at the WTA 1000 in Indian Wells.<\/p>\n WTA Stuttgart prize money and ranking points breakdown<\/strong><\/p>\n Champion:<\/strong> \u20ac161,310 ($188,438) | 500 ranking points Eala is next scheduled to compete at the Madrid Open \u2014 the first clay-court WTA 1000 tournament of the season \u2014 which will begin on 21 April.<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Alex Eala and Iga Swiatek\u2019s paths have crossed at the perfect moment<\/a> The post Alex Eala: What ranking points & prize money did Filipina star earn at Stuttgart Open after 1R exit?<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alex Eala missed an opportunity to climb the WTA Rankings as she suffered a one-sided defeat in her opening match at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix. The Filipina star was beaten 6-1, 6-4 by world No 25 Leylah Fernandez at the indoor clay-court WTA 500 event in Stuttgart on Tuesday. World No 45 Eala was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}WTA Tour News<\/h2>\n
Eala\u2019s Stuttgart Open prize money and ranking points<\/h2>\n
\nFinalist:<\/strong> \u20ac99,565 ($116,309) | 325 ranking points
\nSemi-finalists:<\/strong> \u20ac57,395 ($67,047) | 195 ranking points
\nQuarter-finalists:<\/strong> \u20ac30,435 ($35,553) | 108 ranking points
\nRound of 16:<\/strong> \u20ac15,690 ($18,329) | 60 ranking points
\nFirst round:<\/strong> \u20ac11,309 ($13,211) | 1 ranking point<\/p>\nWhat next for Eala?<\/h2>\n
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