Filipino player misses 4 Championship Point, lost the first WTA title

The Eastbourne Open 2025 Women's Women's Final is the competition between the two potential young players of the Women's Felt Village – Alexandra Eala (20 years old) and Maya Joint (19 years old). On the Devonshire Park, they brought the audience an extremely attractive and choking competition.

This match, Joints started better and at a time of 5-2 in set 1. Eala then suddenly the area rises strongly, breaks the break and pulls the set back to the struggle. However, Joints still have an important serve game to close the first set with a score of 6-4.

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Joint Champion Eastbourne Open 2025

Set Set 2, Eala regained his spirit, serve more stable and made the mistake of Joint. Here, Australian tennis players only reach 46% of the 1st serve, and only protect a single serve game. Meanwhile, Eala won 3 breaks to easily win 6-1.

Entering the decisive set, Eala broke the game at the beginning of Set 3, but Joint immediately responded with a series of 4 consecutive games. The match returned to the balance and tensions in the super long tie-break series, where Eala had 4 chances to win 4 Championship Point but all missed.

At the score of 10-10, Eala's left-handed left hand gave Match Point to the Joint. The Australian player launched a powerful serve and ended with a Winner left hand, closed the final after 2 hours 26 minutes of suffocation. The final ratio is 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (10).

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Eala missed 4 Championship Point, lost the first WTA title

With this result, Joints officially crowned at Eastbourne Open 2025. This is the second championship this year by Australian tennis player, after Rabat Open in May. Next week, she is expected to be in the top 50 WTA rankings.

Meanwhile, Eala still has a memorable week to become the first Philippine player in the history to participate in the final of a tournament of the WTA Tour system. With this achievement, she will rise to 56th in the world – the highest ranking in her career ever.

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