Alexandra Eala made all kinds of history with her breakthrough run at the Miami Open over the last two weeks, but even though the tournament is now over, she’s not done breaking records.
After reaching the semifinals of the WTA 1000-level tournament, she rises from No. 140 to No. 75 on the new WTA rankings today, soaring past her previous career-high of No. 134 to make her Top 100 debut.
And with that, she becomes the first woman from the Philippines ever to break into the Top 100, since WTA rankings began in 1975.
At 19, she’s the second-highest-ranked teenager on the current WTA rankings, after only 17-year-old Mirra Andreeva, who’s No. 7.
And there’s no reason the Filipina trailblazer can’t keep blazing her trail up the rankings throughout the year—between now and the end of the year last year she only had one tour-level win, a first-round win over Lesia Tsurenko in Madrid. She has one ITF title to defend in July.
