Legendary coach Rick Macci has assessed that one area of Alex Eala\u2019s game \u201cneeds reconstructive surgery\u201d as he also made a ranking prediction.<\/p>\n
Eala extended her winning streak to seven matches with a hard-fought 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 victory over world No 70 Caty McNally in the third round of the Canadian Open on Friday.<\/p>\n
The Filipina star defeated 71st-ranked Alycia Parks in her opening match at the WTA 1000 tournament in Toronto.<\/p>\n
Eala<\/a> arrived in Canada after she won five matches to capture her first-ever career title at the WTA 500 in Washington DC.<\/p>\n The 21-year-old climbed to a career-high ranking of world No 20 following her title run in Washington, and she is up to 14th in the Live WTA Rankings after her two victories in Toronto.<\/p>\n Macci, a former coach of Serena and Venus Williams, analysed Eala\u2019s game and backed the rising star to become a top five player.<\/p>\n \u201cHer movement is the X factor on the road to the mountain top,\u201d Macci wrote in a post on his X\/Twitter account.<\/p>\n Alex Eala gives fitness update after rolling ankle as she reveals \u2018high hopes\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Alex Eala\u2019s ranking, prize money, sponsors and her next tournament<\/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 \u201cThe PHILIPPINE MACHINE controls and dictate a lot but when not her agility and mobility can be bought.<\/p>\n \u201cNo player checks every box but Alex has enough firepower to hug the baseline and take away time and hit laser angles on a dime. Top 5 is around the bend as her new best friend.\u201d<\/p>\n In another tweet, Macci doubled down on his praise for Eala\u2019s baseline firepower while arguing the left-hander should make a technical change to her serve.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Philippine Machine is earning a lot of green and her on the rise firepower is some of the best we have seen,\u201d wrote the American.<\/p>\n \u201cHer movement can be exploited and make her pay but because of her elite ball striking she still has the final say.<\/p>\n \u201cHer serve needs reconstructive surgery to become a laser and if this happens she add another taser.\u201d<\/p>\n Macci recently claimed that Eala could be a future world No 1.<\/p>\n \u201cShe is not afraid to pull the trigger and go bigger under the gun and that is another reason she could someday be number one,\u201d he assessed.<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Jimmy Connors gives his honest opinion on Alex Eala\u2019s game and massive fan support<\/a> The post Alex Eala told one area of her game \u2018needs reconstructive surgery\u2019 as she gets ranking prediction<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Legendary coach Rick Macci has assessed that one area of Alex Eala\u2019s game \u201cneeds reconstructive surgery\u201d as he also made a ranking prediction. Eala extended her winning streak to seven matches with a hard-fought 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 victory over world No 70 Caty McNally in the third round of the Canadian Open on Friday. The […]<\/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-2606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606","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=2606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}WTA Tour News<\/h2>\n
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