{"id":832281,"date":"2026-07-28T21:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/832281\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T21:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:59:12","slug":"ekaterina-alexandrova-collapses-on-court-during-three-hour-match-against-kristina-liutova-at-wta-memphis-tennis-classic-tennis-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/832281\/","title":{"rendered":"Ekaterina Alexandrova collapses on court during three-hour match against Kristina Liutova at WTA Memphis Tennis Classic | Tennis News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ekaterina Alexandrova collapsed on court in the third set of her WTA Tour match against Kristina Liutova at the Memphis Tennis Classic.<\/p>\n

Alexandrova, who was top seed at the tournament, was 5-4 down in the third set of a three-hour match in temperatures that reached 34 degrees Celsius, when the match had to be stopped and she had a lengthy treatment.<\/p>\n

The world No 19 Alexandrova couldn’t continue, though, and was forced to retire – handing 16-year-old Liutova victory in her debut match on the WTA Tour.<\/p>\n

The teenager was seen in tears at the conclusion of the match. She will next play American Maya Joint in the Round of 16.<\/p>\n

Sky Sports News has contacted the WTA for comment.<\/p>\n

Hewitt, 17, wins first ATP Tour match in Washington DC<\/p>\n

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\n Cruz Hewitt won his first ATP Tour match against Marcos Giron<\/p>\n

Former world No 1 Leyton Hewitt’s son Cruz Hewitt won his first match on the ATP Tour at the Mubadala DC Open, beating Marcos Giron 6-3 6-4 in the first round.<\/p>\n

Cruz Hewitt, who was born in 2008, becomes the youngest player to win a match at the DC Open since Kei Nishikori in 2007, with Nishikori, now 36, winning his first match at this year’s edition of the tournament on Monday.<\/p>\n

As a result, Cruz Hewitt has risen 255 places, from No 612 to No 357, and faces fellow Australian and world No 6 Alex de Minaur, or world No 51 Stefanos Tsitsipas next.<\/p>\n

Watch the Mubadala DC Open LIVE on Sky Sports Tennis. Get Sky Sports<\/a> or stream with no contract on NOW<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ekaterina Alexandrova collapsed on court in the third set of her WTA Tour match against Kristina Liutova at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-832281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}