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Alexandra Maniego Eala is a Filipino professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of No. 56 by the WTA, achieved on June 30, 2025, making her the highest-ranked Filipino player in WTA Tour history and the first Filipino player to reach the top 100 in the WTA Rankings. Juniors: First Filipino Grand Slam champion
Alexandra Maniego Eala is a Filipino professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of No. 56 by the WTA, achieved on June 30, 2025, making her the highest-ranked Filipino player in WTA Tour history and the first Filipino player to reach the top 100 in the WTA Rankings.
Juniors: First Filipino Grand Slam champion
At the age of 12, Eala won the 2018 Les Petit As 14-and-under tournament, beating Linda Nosková in the finals. She made her junior major debut at the 2019 US Open. She was named the 2019 Milo Junior Athlete of the Year. Eala won the 2020 Australian girls’ doubles event, partnering Priska Madelyn Nugroho. They defeated Živa Falkner and Matilda Mutavdzic in the final. Eala peaked in the junior rankings at No. 2, after reaching the semifinals at the 2020 French Open girls’ singles competition.
In September 2022, Eala became the first Filipino player to win a junior Grand Slam singles championship and the only Filipino with multiple junior major titles. She defeated the No. 2 seed, Lucie Havlíčková of the Czech Republic, in the girls’ singles final of the US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York.
Juniors Grand Slam performance
Grand Slam performance – singles:
Australian Open: 3R (2020)
French Open: SF (2020)
Wimbledon: 2R (2021)
US Open: W (2022)
