Tennis icon Alicia Molik rushes to assist ball lady after she collapsed reside on TV

Two-time Grand Slam doubles champion Alicia Molik rushed to assistance from a collapsed ball lady throughout a reside TV interview. Molik, 42, was within the midst of being unveiled as the brand new match director of the Adelaide International in her homeland of Australia.

Molik, who gained the 2005 Australian Open and the 2007 French Open in doubles, was about to reply to her interviewer when onlookers gasped in shock as a ball lady fell to the bottom behind her.

The former Olympic bronze medallist was first on the scene, rolling the lady onto her aspect and reassuring her till paramedics rushed in to assist. She is now believed to be recovering in hospital.

Prior to the incident, Molik expressed her gratitude for touchdown a task with affect over tennis in Adelaide.

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“Tennis is part of my everyday DNA and to have the opportunity to be a part of a world-class tennis event in the city where I grew up is really something special,” she mentioned.

“This is a chance for me to give back to the community that supported me throughout my on-court career and still to this day. The last decade with the Australian Billie Jean King Cup team has prepared me for this next challenge.

After retiring in 2011, the Aussie spent a decade leading her nation’s Billie Jean King Cup team. And although they fell in the group stages of this year’s tournament, Molik has spoken positively about the state of female tennis in Australia.

“In the final 10 years, we went from having a No.4 on the earth in Sam Stosur to a No.1 in singles in Ash Barty, who began and completed her profession below my tenure,” she said. “Now we’ve one other [doubles] No.1 in Storm Hunter, and Ellen [Perez] has hit one of many highest factors in her doubles profession as effectively. It’s in an extremely wholesome spot.”