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Filipina tennis star Alex Eala pulled off a thrilling win over Australia’s Talia Gibson, 4-6, 6-2, 6-0, in the Toray Pan Pacific Open round of 16 match in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, October 28.

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00:00Filipina tennis star Alex Ayala pulled off a thrilling win over Australia's Talia Gibson
00:05in the Torre Pan-Pacific Open Round of 16 match in Tokyo, Japan on Wednesday, October 28.
00:10Ayala lost the first set to the world number 38, 4-6 but bounced back in the next two sets,
00:16winning 6-2, 6-0 to seal the victory. She will now face Diana Schneider of Russia in
00:21the quarterfinals on Friday, October 30. Before Ayala made her Torre Pan-Pacific Open debut,
00:26she suffered a second-round exit at the Ningbo Open in China on October 22.

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