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!text-content\">\n                                Alex Eala and Jessica Pegula in the Washington Open final                            <\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div class=\"ciam-article-t365\"><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p>Alex Eala won the biggest title of her career after securing a comeback three-set win over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/jessica-pegula\">Jessica Pegula<\/a> in the Washington Open final in a match that was played over two days.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old dropped a tight, back-and-forth first set 6-4 on Sunday before the contest was called off for the day due to rain and lightning in the American capital, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/jessica-pegula\">Pegula<\/a> trailing 1-2 in the second.<\/p>\n<p>But when the encounter resumed on Monday afternoon, it was a very different story as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/alex-eala\">Eala<\/a>\u2018s pressure told as the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/us-open\">US Open<\/a> finalist dropped the second 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>All the momentum was with the unseeded player in the decider, with the left-hander grabbing an early break, and she never looked back as she won 4-6, 6-4, 6-0.<\/p>\n<p>Eala, who beat second seed Elina Svitolina and third seed Naomi Osaka along the way, secured her first WTA 500 title, which will give her a huge amount of confidence heading into the Canadian Open in the coming days. But for Pegula, this was a damaging defeat after being the better player on Sunday.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>More WTA Tour News<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/alex-ealas-popularity-compared-to-serena-williams\">Alex Eala hits impressive milestone that \u2018only Serena Williams\u2019 has achieved in the last 20 years<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/jessica-pegula-comments-alex-eala-washington-dc-open-final\">Jessica Pegula makes \u2018crazy\u2019 Alex Eala confession at Washington DC Open<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Want more from Tennis365? Add us as<span>\u00a0<\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=tennis365.com\" target=\"_blank\">a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Washington rankings points breakdown<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Prior to this tournament, Pegula was comfortably in third place in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/wta-tour\">WTA Tour<\/a> rankings, with Elena Rybakina and Aryna Sabalenka well clear of the chasing pack in second and first, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Eala, on the other hand, was at a career-high of 28 but after she won four matches on her way to the final, she rose to 24th.<\/p>\n<p>Victory saw her crash the the top 20 for the first time, overtaking French Open finalist Maja Chwalinska in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Eala is now up to 20th after earning a hard-fought 500 points, while\u00a0Pegula still picks up a respectable 325 of her own. The full rankings breakdown for the tournament is below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>First round:<\/strong>\u00a01<br \/>\n<strong>Second round:<\/strong>\u00a060<br \/>\n<strong>Quarter-final:<\/strong>\u00a0108<br \/>\n<strong>Semi-final:<\/strong> 195<br \/>\n<strong>Runner-up:<\/strong> 325<br \/>\n<strong>Champion:<\/strong> 500<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, Pegula remains on 6,625, which is 976 ahead of Coco Gauff in fourth but still 1,431 adrift of Rybakina, who is a further 494 points back from world No 1 Sabalenka.<\/p>\n<p>Eala jumps up to 2,106 points, and will be targeting the top 10 in the not so distant future.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Washington prize money breakdown<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This is the 14th edition of this tournament for women but the 57th for the men.<\/p>\n<p>The total prize money for the 32-man draw is $2,469,450 (\u00a31,838,999) but for the 28-strong women\u2019s field, it is down at $1,637,982 (\u00a31,219,805).<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s women\u2019s champion, Leylah Fernandez, earned $197,570 (\u00a3147,130) after beating Anna Kalinskaya but this time out, Eala pocketed $54,430 (\u00a340,539) more than that.<\/p>\n<p>Pegula, on the other hand, collected $155,000 as she falls to 11-13 in WTA Tour finals. Below is the full prize money breakdown for the Washington Open.<\/p>\n<p><strong>First round: <\/strong>$17,440 (\u00a312,984)<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Second round: <\/strong>$24,474 (\u00a318,220)<strong><br \/>\nQuarter-final: <\/strong>$47,750 (\u00a335,555)<strong><br \/>\nSemi-final: <\/strong>$90,900 (\u00a367,693)<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Runner-up:<\/strong> $155,000 (\u00a3115,428)<strong><br \/>\nChampion: <\/strong>$252,000 (\u00a3187,664)<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/aryna-sabalenka-major-tennis-change-canadian-open-return\">Aryna Sabalenka shares the major change she wants in tennis that would make it similar to Formula One<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Eala and Jessica Pegula\u2019s ranking points, prize money from Washington Open revealed Richie Mills 03 Aug 2026 6:01 PM Alex Eala and Jessica Pegula in the Washington Open final Alex Eala won the biggest title of her career after securing a comeback three-set win over Jessica Pegula in the Washington Open final in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,249],"class_list":["post-2075433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-tennis365-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2075433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2075433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2075433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2075433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}