Overview
- Eala won the first nine games and saved all four break points faced in a 6-0, 6-2 defeat of France’s Yasmine Mansouri.
- The result follows her Guadalajara WTA 125 title, pushing her unbeaten run to six matches across back-to-back events.
- With the victory, she improves two places to No. 59 in the WTA Live Rankings, with further gains possible with additional wins.
- Next she plays Argentina’s Julia Riera, ranked No. 188, with their head-to-head tied 1–1 heading into their first hard-court meeting.
- The SP Open is a debut WTA 250 and the first top-level women’s event in Brazil since 2016, where Eala is the No. 3 seed seeking her maiden tour-level singles title.