Filipina tennis ace Alex Eala is assured of at least a bronze medal in the 19th Asian Games after completing a comeback against Japan's Kyoka Okamura, 0-6, 7-5, 6-0, Wednesday at the HOC Tennis Centre in Hangzhou, China.
But she dug deep and powered her way through to a 7-5 second set to keep her semifinals hope alive.
Eala appeared like she was about to drop her first game in the third set after going down 40-0 in the fifth game.She completed the comeback and took a fifth game to have a 5-0 lead in the third set.Eala will face the winner between World No. 23 Qinwen Zheng of China and Korea's Park Sohyun, who will play also Tuesday.
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