Alexandra Eala on inspiring young women in sport ahead of Wuhan Open

Yes, so I am, like you said, the first Filipina to have won a WTA title and I like to think that, you know, that's kind of the start of the mark that I want to leave imprinted, I guess. You know, the most I can do, I feel, at the moment is to give back to my country and to my fellow Filipinos, is to just do my best and, you know, continue to work hard and try inspire people and show them that this possible just through the things that I do it's very difficult to say what my impact has been I like to think that it's been positive I've noticed not just in the Philippines but you know in my region Southeast Asia and Asia especially with a lot of these Asian women doing so great in sports women's sports especially has really risen in our region as of late in my opinion and I think you know to be surrounded by such amazing people and such inspiring women pushes me inspires me and I think it gives the youth a lot of options to you know to open their horizons and and you know dream big I think that this year's draw is very difficult very you know packed with amazing players of course this time of year we're also very all very motivated especially being here in Wuhan and my opinion is that there's not going to be any easy matches and so what I'm gonna try to do is take it match by match and try to you know focus one step at a time and try to bring out the best level that I can bring out