Unified Tennis Philippines national junior team players Alexandra Eala and Michael Francis “Miko” Eala dropped a pair of three-set setbacks in varying fashions but impressed a lot by barging into the finals of the International Tennis Federation (ITF)-AGS Junior Tennis Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia recently.

The unranked Alex, 13, bucked the odds and toppled seeded bets on her way to the girls’ singles finals but fell short of her comeback bid against top seed Priska Nugroho of Indonesia, yielding a 2-6, 6-4, 1-6 decision in the ITF Group 4 tournament.

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