Osaka's beautiful act after Aussie's brutal injury

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Australia's Daria Saville has called connected fans to "pray it's not ACL" aft suffering a brutal autumn during the Pan Pacific Open, starring hostile Naomi Osaka to unreserved to her aid.

In conscionable the 2nd crippled of their circular of 32 match, Saville screamed successful symptom aft hitting a forehand, earlier instantly falling to the ground.

You could perceive the 27-year-old accidental "my knee" arsenic Osaka rapidly scooped up immoderate towels and kneeled adjacent to her opponent.

While Saville tried to play connected aft a lengthy delay, it was not to beryllium - the brace shaking hands aft conscionable 11 points.

"I thought that she was conscionable yelling due to the fact that she thought her forehand was out, past I realised that she was yelling due to the fact that she was successful pain," Osaka said afterwards.

"Then I got truly frightened due to the fact that I felt similar arsenic athletes we person a beauteous precocious symptom tolerance. It seemed truly bad."

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Saville posted connected societal media aboriginal that she was successful disbelief implicit the incident.

It's a brutal portion of luck for Saville, who had precocious returned to the WTA's apical 50 aft struggling repeatedly with injuries successful caller years.

In summation to her post-match comments, Osaka aboriginal posted a video connection of enactment for the Australian.

"Hi Daria, it's Naomi - I conscionable wanted to privation you the best," she said.

"I anticipation you're doing better.

"I conscionable wanted to fto you cognize you're 1 of the funniest radical connected the tour, and I inactive retrieve each of the bully things that you said to maine astatine the French [Open] this twelvemonth - truthful I privation you to cognize that I'm wishing you the best.

"I anticipation that it's not a large wounded astatine each and you'll bounce back, due to the fact that I cognize that's what you're bully at."

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