Former world No 1 Caroline Wozniacki has spoken to Tennis365 about Alex Eala after the Filipina\u2019s impressive 2026 Wimbledon campaign.<\/p>\n
Eala\u2019s run to the fourth round at this year\u2019s Wimbledon Championships is the best Grand Slam result of her career to date.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old crushed world No 75 Renata Zarazua 6-1, 6-2 in the opening round for her first-ever victory at Wimbledon<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the second round, Eala prevailed 3-6, 6-2, 6-0 against 87th-ranked Maya Joint \u2014 who beat Serena Williams in the first round.<\/p>\n Eala<\/a> then stunned world No 3 and 2025 Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek 7-6(9), 6-2 in the third round on Centre Court for her seventh career win against a top 10 player \u2014 and first at a Grand Slam.<\/p>\n Her run at the All England Club ended with a close 4-6, 6-4, 3-6 loss to world No 17 Jasmine Paolini in the last 16.<\/p>\n Having started the tournament as the world No 32, Eala is set to climb to a new career-high ranking of 28th when the WTA Rankings update next week.<\/p>\n Wimbledon 2026 heroes: Alex Eala and Arthur Fery take the plaudits after memorable moments<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Alex Eala told to copy Novak Djokovic as expert spots key change to unlock Grand Slam dream<\/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 Wozniacki, who won the 2018 Australian Open, gave a glowing appraisal of Eala\u2019s game when asked about her potential in an interview at the All England Club.<\/p>\n \u201cWell, I think she has great potential,\u201d the Dane told Tennis365.<\/p>\n \u201cShe has a good, all-round game. Great from the baseline. I think it helps her that she\u2019s a leftie, with her serve obviously not being great \u2014 that\u2019s her biggest place for improvement.<\/p>\n \u201cBut it does help that she has that leftie slice, and it does give trouble to the opponents.<\/p>\n \u201cI like her attitude, I like the way that she has great tennis IQ.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd I think we\u2019re going to see her for many, many more years.\u201d<\/p>\n Eala amassed a 12-4 record during a fruitful 2026 grass-court season, having won a Challenger event in Birmingham and reached the semi-finals at the WTA 500 in Berlin prior to Wimbledon.<\/p>\n Following her loss to Paolini, Eala said: \u201cThere are so many positives.<\/p>\n \u201cWell, one I think is how I\u2019ve handled pressure. I mean, there\u2019s pressure every week, right? Of course, the more you want to win, I think the more kind of like pressure goes along with that.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m happy with how I faced it head on. I think I kept cool when I needed to control my emotions.\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Kyle Edmund doubles down on calls for a radical tennis rule change at Wimbledon<\/a> The post Alex Eala gets glowing \u2018great potential\u2019 verdict from Caroline Wozniacki after Wimbledon run<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former world No 1 Caroline Wozniacki has spoken to Tennis365 about Alex Eala after the Filipina\u2019s impressive 2026 Wimbledon campaign. Eala\u2019s run to the fourth round at this year\u2019s Wimbledon Championships is the best Grand Slam result of her career to date. The 21-year-old crushed world No 75 Renata Zarazua 6-1, 6-2 in the opening […]<\/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-2474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474","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=2474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Wimbledon News<\/h2>\n
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