Filipino tennis star Alex Eala returns to Grand Slam action as the No. 2 seed in the 2020 Roland Garros juniors competition on October 4 to 10 in Paris, France.

Eala, a 2020 Australian Open juniors doubles winner, looks to get back into the momentum after the cancellation of this year’s Wimbledon and US Open juniors due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 15-year-old netter will battle for the singles title against juniors world No. 1 Victoria Kasintseva of Andorra and juniors world No. 6 Elsa Jacquemot, who will be playing on home soil.

Eala, who currently ranks world No. 4 in the juniors tennis circuit, will be returning to the Grand Slam tournament she debuted in back in 2018.

She was offered a wildcard by International Tennis Federation (ITF) board member and Fédération Française de Tennis (FF Tennis) president Bernard Giudicelli to the French Open juniors after her 2018 Le Petits As triumph.

Prior to the pandemic, the Filipina made history by capturing the 2020 Australian Open doubles championship with long-time partner Priska Nugroho of Indonesia.

The Southeast Asian duo defeated the top-ranked pair of Latvia’s Kamila Bartone and Czech Republic’s Linda Fruhvirtova in the semis to cruise through the final.

Eala is currently a scholar at the Rafa Nadal Academy in Mallorca, Spain where she studies and trains. – Rappler.com