A MOTHER'S MOTIVATION

From Flow Tenni



"My mother didn’t teach me how to hold a racket; she taught me how to SURVIVE when the air runs out." 

In the deafening roar of Abu Dhabi, with the pressure closing in, Alex Eala froze for a second. Her eyes found one person: her mother, Rizza—a former SEA Games swimmer who once conquered the deep blue. At 2-5 down, when Alex felt she was finally "sinking," her mother’s old words surfaced like a lifeline: “When you feel like you’re drowning, that’s when you’re closest to the shore.”

Alex wasn't just playing an opponent; she was fighting her own limits. She saw her mother in those old lanes—lonely, powerful, and relentless. That bloodline transformed a Match Point for her rival into a springboard for a historic comeback. She fought to repay the woman who stepped into the shadows so that Alex and her brother Miko could stand in the light.

But what has the tennis world buzzing isn't the scoreboard. It happened after the final point. As Alex hugged her mother, she froze. Rizza whispered just three words into her ear. Not about tennis, not about the win... Read more 👇👇

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