{"id":240182,"date":"2026-01-18T22:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T22:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/240182\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T22:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T22:20:09","slug":"ball-girl-collapses-in-australian-open-heat-as-players-rush-to-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/240182\/","title":{"rendered":"Ball girl collapses in Australian Open heat as players rush to help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt was just my instinct to help her and I think everyone would do the same. I\u2019m happy I got to help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">When they resumed, qualifier Sonmez stunned Alexandrova 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 for the biggest win of her career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">The 23-year-old made headlines at Wimbledon last year, becoming the first player from Turkey to reach the third round at a Grand Slam in the Open era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">She will play either American wildcard Elizabeth Mandlik or Hungary\u2019s Anna Bondar next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">Temperatures have been known to soar past 40C during the Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">They are forecast to reach a high of at least 36C this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt was just my instinct to help her and I think everyone would do the same. I\u2019m happy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[141398,806,1135,30642,42501,2837,141397,141394,132086,6868,11583,3191,5838,1364,78,10543,111,139,69,5493,10538,10702,21532,14732,42370,141396,213,10809,38666,61,1316,102,141395],"class_list":["post-240182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-alexandrova","tag-as","tag-australian","tag-ball","tag-collapses","tag-during","tag-ekaterina","tag-fainted","tag-firstround","tag-girl","tag-halted","tag-heat","tag-help","tag-her","tag-in","tag-match","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-open","tag-play","tag-players","tag-rush","tag-rushing","tag-soaring","tag-sonmez","tag-sports","tag-sunday","tag-temperatures","tag-to","tag-when","tag-with","tag-zeynep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}