{"id":13403,"date":"2026-01-18T08:13:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=13403"},"modified":"2026-01-18T08:13:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:13:04","slug":"australian-open-2026-zeynep-sonmez-helps-ball-girl-who-collapsed-during-her-win-over-ekaterina-alexandrova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=13403","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open 2026: Zeynep Sonmez helps ball girl who collapsed during her win over Ekaterina Alexandrova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Turkey&#8217;s Zeynep Sonmez rushed to help a ball girl who fainted during the qualifier&#8217;s surprise first-round victory over Ekaterina Alexandrova at the Australian Open.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As Alexandrova was serving for the second set to level the tie, the ball girl &#8211; stood beside the umpire&#8217;s chair &#8211; fell flat on her back before quickly getting back up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sonmez sprinted over to her and helped her walk over to the side of the court, where she received medical attention in the shade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ball girl managed to get back to her feet and was helped off court by medical staff, with play resuming after a six-minute delay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Russian 11th seed Alexandrova went on to win the set, but world number 112 Sonmez fought back from 3-0 down in the decider to complete a 7-5 4-6 6-4 upset on her fourth match point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is the biggest win of the 23-year-old&#8217;s career and moves her into the second round at Melbourne Park for the first time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Australian #Open #Zeynep #Sonmez #helps #ball #girl #collapsed #win #Ekaterina #Alexandrova<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey&#8217;s Zeynep Sonmez r&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}