VIDEOS: Not a good day for ball boys and girls at Australian Open

Posted by A. Isaac on January 17th, 2012 at 10:30 am

As a ball boy or girl for a tennis tournament, your job is relatively simple. Provide balls at the appropriate time, towels when the players ask for it and above all, stay out of their way during play.

For one girl yesterday, her job also included pest removal. Watch as she hilariously tries to remove a cockroach during a match between Cedrik-Marcel Stebe and Lleyton Hewitt.

I don’t know about you, but I’m seeing an “Orkin girl” commercial in her future. This ball boy, however, well, he had his own troubles to deal with when a wicked backhand from qualifier Alexander Kudryavtsev just missed his head. Thankfully, his cat-like reflexes prevented a serious disaster.

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A. Isaac A. Isaac is the Senior Editor of Guyism.com. You may have seen him before on The World of Isaac or at a local beach showing off his man boobs. His claims to fame include eating 5 cheeseburgers in one minute, having a threesome with two Victoria Secret models, and being a world-class table tennis player. Unfortunately, the validity of some of those claims is under dispute.