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!text-xs !text-content\">\n                                Alex Eala with inset of Caty McNally                            <\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div class=\"ciam-article-t365\"><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p>Alex Eala has once again been given top billing at the Canadian Open as her third-round match against Caty McNally will also be staged on Centre Court<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old is certainly living up to the hype as, barely 48 hours after winning her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/everything-alex-eala-said-after-winning-washington-dc-open\">maiden WTA Tour singles<\/a> title by defeating Jessica Pegula in the rain-delayed Washington DC Open final, she continued her winning run with a win over Alycia Parks in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/alex-eala-has-already-had-a-major-effect-on-the-canadian-open-without-even-playing\">Eala fever gripping the tennis world<\/a>, organisers are cashing in on her popularity as her army of Filipino fans is filling stadiums whenever she plays and it was no different during her opener against Parks.<\/p>\n<p>That match took place on Centre Court on Wednesday evening and those in charge of the scheduling in Toronto have no reason to change the winning recipe as the Eala-McNally encounter will also take place on the feature court at Sobeys Stadium on Friday.<\/p>\n<h2>Order Of Play<\/h2>\n<p>Four matches are set to take place on Centre Court on 8 August with current Australian Open champion and world No 2 Elena Rybakina and American Ann Li starting the action at 12:30 local time (16:30 GMT).<\/p>\n<p>That match will immediately be followed by the fifth seed and reigning French Open champion Mirra Andreeva\u2019s clash with local hero Leylah Fernandez.<\/p>\n<h2>WTA News<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/alex-eala-ranking-prediction-phillipines-hero\">Alex Eala rankings prediction: Why the hero of the Philippines may have to wait for dream breakthrough<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/wta-tour\/coco-gauff-wta-gender-sex-testing-policy-upset-attack-trans-community-start-date-pegula\">Coco Gauff backs WTA\u2019s gender sex testing policy but upset it is used to \u2018attack the trans community\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fourth seed Coco Gauff and Maria Sakkari will kick off the evening session at roughly 19:00 (23:00 GMT) before Eala and McNally step onto the court for the final match of the day and that encounter is likely to get underway at 20:30 (0:30 GMT).<\/p>\n<p>However, if the Gauff-Sakkari match takes a couple of hours to complete, then the start of the Eala-McNally match will be pushed back.<\/p>\n<h2>Who Is Caty McNally?<\/h2>\n<p>The American currently sits at No 70 in the WTA Rankings, 20 spots below her all-time best of 50 that she achieved in June this year.<\/p>\n<p>McNally, who beat qualifier Tatjana Maria in three sets in the first round, booked her place in the third round with a stunning victory over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/alex-eala-golden-opportunity-canadian-open\">newly crowned Wimbledon champion Linda Noskova<\/a> as she defeated the sixth seed 7-6 (7-5), 6-1.<\/p>\n<p>The win over Noskova was only her second top-10 victory with the other one coming against Victoria Mboko at the Madrid Open this year.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old is yet to reach a singles final on the WTA Tour, although she does have nine doubles titles to her name. She has also finished runner-up at back-to-back US Open as she was a losing finalist alongside Coco Gauff in 2021 and with Taylor Townsend the following year.<\/p>\n<p>World No 25 Eala and McNally will meet for the first time on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/wta-tour\">WTA Tour<\/a> on Friday and the winner will face either Townsend or 12th seed Belinda Bencic in the fourth round.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Eala: A look at her next opponent Caty McNally and order of play for third-round match Shahida Jacobs 07 Aug 2026 9:15 AM Alex Eala with inset of Caty McNally Alex Eala has once again been given top billing at the Canadian Open as her third-round match against Caty McNally will also be staged [&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-2081831","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\/2081831","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=2081831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2081831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2081831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2081831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}