{"id":715980,"date":"2026-07-28T20:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T20:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/715980\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T20:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T20:04:09","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\/uk\/715980\/","title":{"rendered":"Ekaterina Alexandrova collapses on court during three-hour match against Kristina Liutova at WTA Memphis Tennis Classic | Tennis News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ekaterina Alexandrova collapsed on court in the third set of her WTA Tour match against Kristina Liutova at the Memphis Tennis Classic.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>The world No 19 Alexandrova couldn&#8217;t continue, though, and was forced to retire &#8211; handing 16-year-old Liutova victory in her debut match on the WTA Tour.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Sky Sports News has contacted the WTA for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ekaterina Alexandrova collapsed on court in the third set of her WTA Tour match against Kristina Liutova at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-715980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}