Alex Eala beat the defending Wimbledon champion — and she did it as the first Filipino ever to step onto Centre Court as a seeded player.
In Manila, bars and gyms that normally screen basketball switched their screens over to Wimbledon. When Eala closed out the third set against Iga Świątek, phone footage from one watch party showed the room on its feet, grown men in office clothes screaming into the TV, a toddler being held up by her father to see the screen. Clips of the moment were shared tens of thousands of times before Eala had even left the court.
