Filipino teen Alexandra Eala stuns Iga Swiatek to make Miami Open semifinals

The Associated Press

· Posted: Mar 26, 2025 4:44 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

Teenager Alexandra Eala pulled disconnected different upset astatine the Miami Open connected Wednesday erstwhile she knocked disconnected five-time Grand Slam champion and second-seeded Iga Swiatek 6-2, 7-5 successful the quarterfinals.

The 19-year-old left-hander, who received a chaotic paper into the WTA 1000 lawsuit successful Miami Gardens, Fla., is the lone Filipino subordinate connected the nonrecreational tennis circuit and entered ranked 140th.

During this history-making run, Eala reached her archetypal WTA semifinals by beating her 3rd large champion, this clip successful 1 hr 37 minutes.

Along the way, she defeated 2017 French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko and reigning Australian Open champion Madison Keys, who is ranked No. 5. That was Eala's archetypal triumph implicit a top-10 player.

Then Eala won connected a walkover successful the 4th circular implicit Paula Badosa, giving her added rest.

Swiatek broke Eala successful the match's archetypal game, but the teen broke close back. The archetypal 2 games took 15 minutes to play.

On acceptable point, Swiatek rapped a forehand long, ending the acceptable successful 42 minutes and putting Eala 1 acceptable from the semifinals, wherever she volition look either Jessica Pegula of the U.S. oregon Emma Raducanu of Britain, who play Wednesday night.

Though Eala represents the Philippines, she has lived the past six years successful Mallorca, grooming astatine the Rafael Nadal Tennis Academy.