Alex Eala's bid to play in a women's Grand Slam tournament in tennis got off to a bad start.

At the Australian Open qualifiers, the Filipino tennis ace yielded to Japanese Misaki Doi, 6-4, 6-7(1), 3-6 to exit the tournament in just the first round on January 9.

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