LIVE: Alex Eala vs Elise Mertens - Bad Homburg round of 32

Alex Eala faces Belgium’s Elise Mertens in the round of 32 of the WTA 500 Bad Homburg Open in Germany.

Bad Homburg Open schedule

June 23, Tuesday

12:20 a.m. – Alex Eala vs Elise Mertens

Alex Eala returns to WTA top 30 ahead of Bad Homburg debut

FILE – Alex Eala celebrates after a match in the Berlin Open. She beat Elena Rybakina and Elina Svitolina to reach the semifinals. –BERLIN OPEN PHOTO

MANILA, Philippines–Alex Eala returned to the top 30 in the WTA rankings ahead of her debut at the Bad Homburg Open on Monday.

Eala jumped five spots to world No. 30 following a blistering campaign in the WTA 500 Berlin Open, where she reached the semifinals. She moved just a spot shy of matching her career-high ranking of No. 29 last March.

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The 21-year-old Eala looks to continue her giant-slaying ways starting against former world No. 12 Elise Mertens of Belgium in the round of 32 late Monday night.

Alex Eala riding high heading into Bad Homburg Open stint

Alex Eala —WTA PHOTO

Alex Eala’s most memorable 2026 WTA run ended on Sunday morning in Manila when the Czech Linda Noskova needed just 69 minutes to bundle out the hard-fighting pride of the Philippines in the semifinals of the Berlin Open.

And that leaves the 21-year-old setting her sights on another WTA 500 event starting Monday when she battles Elise Mertens in the round-of-32 of the Bad Homburg Open at the Spielbank Bad Homburg Centre Court.

There will be no shortage of giants to chop down in Homburg in Germany, with former world No. 1 Iga Swiatek of Poland and newly crowned French Open champion Meera Andreeva ranked 1-2 in the event and where Eala will get a chance of facing Noskova again after taking a 6-2, 6-4 defeat in Berlin.

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