Move over, Rocky Balboa—Alex Eala’s training routine is here to make your morning coffee feel like a nap. The tennis world has been buzzing with rumors about the rising Filipina star’s top-secret preparation methods. And now, finally, the truth has been “revealed”… by someone who saw her running stairs at dawn and immediately tweeted about it like they discovered a national treasure.
According to sources (read: a sweaty fan with a blurry iPhone), Alex Eala starts her day before the sun rises—jogging, stretching, and hitting groundstrokes with the intensity of someone trying to smash her way into the WTA Top 20 before breakfast. Add in whispers of cold plunges, tactical meditation, and allegedly skipping Jollibee for protein shakes, and suddenly we’ve got ourselves a clickbait goldmine.
The headline screams “secret,” but in reality, this is what elite athletes do. There’s no underground lab. No training with Shaolin monks (yet). Just a young, hungry player grinding harder than most people scroll through Instagram.
But of course, the internet wants drama. “Is she overtraining?” “Is this healthy?” “Who really wakes up at 4:45AM?” Um, champions. That’s who.
So yes, Alex Eala is out here waking up before your alarm even thinks about going off—and that’s why her future rivals should probably stop sleeping on her… literally.
You don’t need to “believe” her 5AM grind. Just wait till you see it on a scoreboard.