title: Alexa Szvitacs
text: # Alexa Szvitacs
  
  Alexa Szvitacs (born 1 August 1990) is a Hungarian para table tennis player and former World Junior bronze medalist.
  
  ## Illness
  
  In August 2018, Szvitacs suddenly fell ill at home with a high fever and nausea. Her brother phoned for an ambulance and took her to hospital in Debrecen for life saving surgery. She developed toxic shock syndrome which resulted in the amputation of her left forearm and all of her toes and was diagnosed with tarsal tunnel syndrome, she was in rehabilitation for months afterwards.
  
  