Turkey’s Zeynep Sonmez says it’s extra necessary to be a “good human being than a great tennis participant” after speeding to assist a ball woman who fainted throughout her Australian Open match.

As Sonmez’s opponent Ekaterina Alexandrova served for the second set, the ball woman – stood beside the umpire’s chair – fell flat on her again earlier than shortly getting again up.

Sonmez sprinted over and helped stroll her over to the aspect of the courtroom, the place the teenager obtained medical consideration within the shade.

The ball woman managed to get again to her toes and was helped off courtroom by medical employees, with play resuming after a six-minute delay.

“She was actually struggling. She mentioned she was high quality but it surely was actually apparent she was not high quality,” Sonmez advised BBC Sport.

“So I went to seize her and mentioned ‘sit down and drink one thing, you are not high quality’.

“As we have been strolling she fainted so fortunately I grabbed her. She was actually shaking.”

Tennis Australia confirmed that the woman had obtained medical consideration on website earlier than going dwelling.

“I at all times say it’s extra necessary to be a great human being than a great tennis participant,” added world quantity 112 Sonmez.

“It was simply my intuition to assist her and I feel everybody would do the identical. I am blissful I bought to assist.”