Alex Eala vs Cristina Bucsa – 2025 US Open

Tennis historymaker Alex Eala wades additional into uncharted waters after her first profession Grand Slam foremost draw win as she faces doubles Olympian Cristina Bucsa of Spain within the 2025 US Open second spherical

MANILA, Philippines – Tennis historical past probably awaits the Philippines as Alex Eala gears up for her 2025 US Open second-round match in opposition to Spain’s Cristina Bucsa on Wednesday, August 27 (tentatively as early as 11 pm, Manila time) in Queens, New York.

Following a scintillating third-set comeback from down 5-1 in opposition to Denmark’s world No. 14 Clara Tauson to win her first profession Grand Slam foremost draw match, world No. 75 Eala now enters the second spherical because the on-paper favourite in opposition to the Ninety fifth-ranked Bucsa.

Rankings, nonetheless, don’t imply a lot when the true motion begins, and Bucsa definitely has a ton of motion in retailer, being a reigning 2024 Olympics doubles tennis bronze medalist and a seven-time Girls’s Tennis Affiliation Tour doubles titleholder.

Eala, in the meantime, is aware of all too effectively the hazards of underestimation as she had made a worldwide identify for herself after beating Grand Slam champions like Jelena Ostapenko, Madison Keys, and former world No. 1 Iga Swiatek in her iconic 2025 Miami Open giant-killing run.

Each with nothing to lose and every little thing to achieve, Eala and Bucsa — head-to-head foes 4 years in the past within the M15 Grenoble 2021 event in France — reenter Flushing Meadows with one mission: to maintain profitable so long as they presumably can.

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