Summary Sergei Bubka said he is lucky to be alive after horrifying fall from a fourth-floor Paris apartment.
Ukraine tennis player Sergei Bubka said he is lucky to be alive after suffering multiple fractures in a horrifying fall from a fourth-floor Paris apartment.
The 25-year-old son of Ukraine s former Olympic and world champion polevault legend, and boyfriend of current women s number one Victoria Azarenka, plunged to the ground from the flat in the French capital s plush 16th arrondissement last month.
"The circumstances leading to the fall were all so unlucky, but since the accident I feel I have been really lucky," Bubka told www.atpworldtour.com.
"I was lucky to be alive and not have damaged anything major. I was lucky my friends found me and took me to a great hospital where they took great care of me."
Bubka was attending a friend s party when the accident happened.
After getting locked inside a bathroom, he leaned to look outside a window, hoping to reach the next room but lost his footing and crashed to the ground.
Bubka, the world number 186, underwent nine hours of surgery to repair the damage.
