{"id":76698,"date":"2026-07-29T07:57:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/alexandrova-collapses-on-court-during-defeat-as-memphis-heat-takes-toll\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T07:57:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:57:05","slug":"alexandrova-collapses-on-court-during-defeat-as-memphis-heat-takes-toll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/alexandrova-collapses-on-court-during-defeat-as-memphis-heat-takes-toll\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandrova collapses on court during defeat as Memphis heat takes toll"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Russian retires from match against Kristina Liutova<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Venus Williams and Katie Boulter beaten in Washington<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ekaterina Alexandrova collapsed on the court before retiring from her match against Kristina Liutova at the Memphis Classic due to heat-related illness.<\/p>\n<p>Alexandrova, the tournament\u2019s No 1 seed, was two points away from defeat to the 16-year-old Liutova, who was making her WTA debut. The temperature was around 97\u00b0F (36\u00b0C) in Tennessee as the two Russians played out a gruelling first-round match \u200blasting more than three hours.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jul\/29\/tennus-ekaterina-alexandrova-collapses-on-court-memphis-classic\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian retires from match against Kristina Liutova Venus Williams and Katie Boulter beaten in Washington Ekaterina Alexandrova collapsed on the court before retiring from her match against Kristina Liutova at the Memphis Classic due to heat-related illness. Alexandrova, the tournament\u2019s No 1 seed, was two points away from defeat to the 16-year-old Liutova, who was &#8230; <a title=\"Alexandrova collapses on court during defeat as Memphis heat takes toll\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/alexandrova-collapses-on-court-during-defeat-as-memphis-heat-takes-toll\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Alexandrova collapses on court during defeat as Memphis heat takes toll\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}