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Alex Eala overcame Antonia Ruzic in straight sets at the Hong Kong Open to reach the semi-finals and climb to a career-high world ranking of 16.
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Alex Eala continued her remarkable run at the Hong Kong Open on Friday, dispatching Croatia's Antonia Ruzic 7-6(7), 7-5 in a hard-fought quarter-final clash.
The Filipino star was made to work for every point. Both players held firm through the opening games before a flurry of breaks disrupted the rhythm. Locked at 6-6, Eala held her nerve in a tense tiebreak to edge the first set.
The second set followed a similar script. Ruzic seized an early advantage, but Eala dug deep - reeling off three straight games to seal the match and her place in the last four.
The result propels Eala to a career-high world ranking of 16, accumulating 2,327 points to leapfrog Naomi Osaka in the standings.
Next up is a semi-final showdown with fourth seed Maria Sakkari, who earlier dispatched Aliaksandra Sasnovich in her own quarter-final. It promises to be a stern test of Eala's surging form.
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