Barely five years ago, Alex Eala was a 15-year-old prodigy from the Rafael Nadal Academy, armed with a booming forehand and a fire that refused to dim. Today, she’s cracked the Top 50 — the highest ranking ever achieved by a Filipino tennis player.
The hopes of Alex Eala for another title run this season came to a halt in Suzhou, where she was edged out in a taut, seesaw battle by Swiss veteran Viktorija Golubic, 6-2, 2-6, 6-7.
Alex Eala is headed to the quarterfinals of the Sozhou WTA 125, but not before surviving a three-set knife fight against Belgium’s Greet Minnen—a seasoned bruiser with a cannon for a serve and just enough wildness to make things interesting.
A Negros Occidental lawmaker is pushing for an immediate increase in the country’s ethanol-blended fuel from 10 percent (E10) to 15 percent (E15), calling it a “practical and timely” solution to rising fuel prices and the worsening crisis in the sugar sector.
Mead Johnson, a United Kingdom-based nutrition company, is relocating its Philippine headquarters to Uptown Bonifacio in Taguig City, underscoring continued demand for premium office space from multinational firms.
Jobin-SQM Inc. (JSI), part of Nickel Asia Corp.’s clean energy unit Emerging Power Inc. (EPI), has handed over P4.44 million to the Peninsula Electric Cooperative (Penelco) to fund the expansion of power lines in Bataan.
Farmers in Camarines Sur now have a more affordable and reliable way to water their crops after the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) turned over P332 million worth of solar-powered irrigation systems.