A welcome befitting a hero greeted Filipino tennis ace Alex Eala upon her arrival at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 on Sunday, July 12, following her historic run at the 2026 Wimbledon Championships. No less than Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) chairman Patrick “Pato”...
LONDON (AP) — Linda Noskova placed fingers in both of her ears to drown out the noise from the Centre Court crowd. She draped one of Wimbledon’s strawberry-red towels over her head. And eventually — after she had wasted five match points and a 5-2 lead and conceded the second set of a...
LONDON (AP) — Novak Djokovic didn 't dwell on Centre Court after getting dominated by Jannik Sinner in the Wimbledon semifinals. The 39-year-old Djokovic enjoyed a warm, smile-filled embrace with his 24-year-old opponent at the net after the 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 defeat Friday, July 10, quickly...
LONDON (AP) — Linda Noskova didn 't pay much attention to tennis as a kid until she watched Czech compatriot Petra Kvitova win the Wimbledon final in 2011. “That is maybe one of the first moments when I realized that such a sport as tennis exists,” the 21-year-old Noskova said after...
Tennis darling Alex Eala sizzled on the grass courts to show the way as Philippine athletes ended the first half of 2026 with a bang. Planting the seeds for more milestones to come at an even bigger stage, Eala won her second WTA 125 title at the Birmingham Open, slew giants in world No.2 Elena...
Alex Eala is set for a homecoming after a grueling grass-court campaign as she takes part in fan events starting next week. Telecommunication giant Globe first announced a fan meet on July 15 at Glorietta Activity Center in Makati City, where Filipinos are expected to see the tennis star in the...
LONDON (AP) — If he keeps playing like this, Arthur Fery might just become Wimbledon royalty. Fery grew up five minutes from the All England Club and now the 114th-ranked player is a semifinalist at the grass-court Grand Slam. The 23-year-old British player, who needed a wild-card invitation to...
LONDON (AP) — As Marta Kostyuk played on Centre Court at Wimbledon on Wednesday, July 8, her compatriots in Ukraine were dealing with another deadly attack by Russia on Kyiv. It 's been the same for much of Kostyuk’s run to the semifinals. On Monday, after Russian missiles struck...
LONDON (AP) — Side to side. Corner to corner. Novak Djokovic kept pushing Felix Auger-Aliassime back and forth along the Centre Court baseline at Wimbledon to retrieve one shot after another. Finally, on the 22nd shot of a grueling rally deep in a fifth-set super tiebreaker,...
House Speaker Isabela 6th district Rep. Faustino “Bojie” Dy III believes that "best is yet to come" in 21-year-old Alex 's Eala 's tennis journey. Dy joined the millions who hailed Eala for her recent Wimbledon run wherein she reached the round of 16 before bowing out. Along the way,...
Alex Eala surged to a career-best No. 28 in the WTA live rankings following her historic fourth-round run at the ongoing Wimbledon Championships. While the official rankings will only be released after the Grand Slam concludes on the weekend, the 21-year-old Filipina has already moved up four spots...
LONDON (AP) — On his first match point, Flavio Cobolli stepped up and unleashed a 135 mph first serve down the T that landed on the line and sent a puff of chalk into the air on No. 1 Court at Wimbledon. Fifth-seeded opponent Alex de Minaur could barely touch the serve and the Australian’s weak...
