Alex Eala served Manila its Sunday headline hot and early, with coffee brewing and pandesal fresh from the oven, dishing out a crisp 6-3, 7-6 win over Magda Linette to punch her ticket to the Round of 16 of the Miami Open.
The Philippine flags were back in full color at the Miami Open—and so were the handmade signs, louder now, prouder, and no longer surprised. Because Alex Eala isn’t sneaking up on anyone this time.
The desert run ended abruptly for Alex Eala — but not before the Filipina rising star left a clear signal that she belongs among the emerging elite in women’s tennis.
In the California desert, Alex Eala came searching for redemption. Two weeks after a straight sets defeat to Coco Gauff at the Dubai Tennis Championships, the Filipina star finally got it Sunday night at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells.
The University Athletic Association of the Philippines has cleared Ateneo de Manila University to compete in Season 89 despite the June 8 team-building tragedy in Dipaculao, Aurora that claimed the lives of student-athletes Rene Clert Baterbonia and Chukwuemeka Divine Adili, while imposing a lifetime ban on former Blue Eagles head coach Thomas Anthony Baldwin and suspending seven other members of the team’s coaching and support staff.
Accessibility is often measured in inches and angles, in ramps, elevators, doorways, and pathways. But its real measure is simpler. It is whether a place allows people to move through it with dignity, independence, and ease.
SMX Convention Centers is expanding its footprint as the Philippine business events industry gathers momentum, with visitor traffic rising 18 percent in the first half of 2026 and new venues in Cebu and Metro Manila set to add capacity.