Aussie tennis icon exposes 'unacceptable' abuse

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Todd Woodbridge has called retired an online troll who said it was a "shame" that his caller bosom attack didn't "end" the Australian tennis legend.

Woodbridge condemned the connection sent connected Instagram portion helium was connected commentary work for Nine astatine the Australian Open, describing the troll's behaviour arsenic "unacceptable".

"Matt didn't similar my commentary alongside Jim Courier but this benignant of behaviour is unacceptable and needs to beryllium called out," Woodbridge tweeted from Melbourne.

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The connection from the troll said: "Just (an) aged has been trying to enactment successful the limelight. Shame (the) bosom onslaught didn't extremity you".

Woodbridge suffered a mild bosom onslaught astatine the property of 51 successful October past year.

He was moving retired astatine location erstwhile helium began to consciousness an unusual feeling successful his chest.

"I'd done a spot of a warm-up, started to bash immoderate weights, and I got a spot of a feeling, similar 1 digit being pushed into the mediate of my chest," Woodbridge told told Wide World of Sports astatine the time.

"I tried to shingle it out, similar you bash sometimes, reasoning it's travel from moving out, but it wouldn't spell away.

"It started to dispersed crossed my chest. It wasn't pain, it was similar a dense pressing. I was abbreviated of breath, got the sweats, I felt nausea which made maine spell airy white."

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Woodbridge warned radical against being complacent with their health.

"The connection is don't enactment disconnected what you've been saying you'll do. A time becomes a week, which becomes a month, past six months, and earlier you cognize it a twelvemonth has gone by and you haven't done what you request to bash for your health," Woodbridge said.

"The astir important happening to retrieve is you request to bash it not conscionable for yourself, but for your household and your friends.

"They are the ones who'll instrumentality it hard if thing does happen."

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