Alex Eala did not just play tennis on a sticky Manila night. She surfed the noise, stared down the pain, and converted Rizal Memorial into a very loud, very personal launchpad.
Alex Eala was one point from the ASB Classic final, one swing from crossing another threshold. Instead, the Auckland night tilted the other way, and the semifinal of the season’s first WTA 250 turned into a bruising lesson in fine margins.
Filipina tennis star Alexandra Eala barely allowed the clock to catch its breath at the ASB Classic on Thursday, needing just 63 minutes to dismantle Croatia’s Petra Marcinko 6-0, 6-2 and stride into the quarterfinals of the WTA 250 event, her first of the 2026 season.
Under the merciless noon sun of Bangkok, Alex Eala didn’t just play tennis—she settled unfinished business 26 years in the making. The 20-year-old Filipino star dismantled Thailand’s Mananchaya Sawangkaew, 6–1, 6–2, to end the Philippines’ long gold-medal drought in women’s singles at the Southeast Asian Games.
The Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) confirmed Wednesday it expects to complete full payment for the P2.7-billion sale of its combined stake with subsidiary Corporate Information Solutions Inc. (CIS) in CIS Bayad Center Inc. to Kayana Solutions Inc. by April next year.
St. Luke’s Medical Center-Global City has been designated a World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO) Training Center, becoming only the third facility of its kind in Southeast Asia and expanding the Philippines’ capacity to train specialists in advanced digestive and liver care.
FedEx Philippines has been named one of HR Asia’s Best Companies to Work for in Asia for the fourth consecutive year, earning three additional honors for workforce transformation, sustainability and technology adoption.
BPI Wealth is widening access to investments for ordinary Filipinos while preparing global retirement products that would allow investors to diversify overseas using pesos.