Australian teenager Maya United saved four championship points at an exciting final-set-breck to defeat the Alexandra Eela of the Philippines and win the Eastbourne title at the beginning of her tournament.

Joint, 19, who had a match point of his own, escaped by 7-6 in tie-break, won 6-4 1-6 7-6 (12-10) and won him to the top 50 in the world for the first time, finishing 41th in 10 places.

Meanwhile, the runner-up EALA became the first Philipina to play in the final of the WTA Tour event and a 20-year-old is also looking lucky for big things. His run in the finals lifted him from 74th to 56th in the ranking.

The joint was later missed in the day when the doubles ended in the Beatten team in the final.

He and his partner, Taiwan’s nine-time grand slam winner Hasih Su-Vai, were defeated by the Czech-Kazakh pair Mary Buzkova and Anna Denilina 6-4 7-5.

The joint was expecting the first player to win both single and doubles title in Eastborn in the same year as Check Janna Novotna did so in 1998 – weeks ago they won both incidents in Wimbledon.