Watch: Jodie Burrage helps ball boy who nearly fainted during a Wimbledon match

Jodie Burrage, a British tennis player, won hearts with a fantastic gesture during her first-round Wimbledon match against Lesia Tsurenko on Monday. One of the ball boys nearly fainted at the start of the second set of the match. Burrage stopped the game to attend to him. She also gave him candy and energy gel before the ball boy was assisted off the field.

"He just said he was feeling really faint. He couldn't actually really talk. It was quite distressing to see. Just tried to get him some sugar, gave him a Gatorade and a gel. The gel is not the nicest thing, so they managed to find some Percy Pigs sweets somewhere along the line in the crowd, which he got down and then started to feel better," Burrage was quoted saying by CNN.

The 23-year-old, though, was defeated by Tsurenko in the opening round, 2-6, 3-6. The video of her helping the ball boy has surfaced on the internet.

Here is the video

"il y a 1 heure à Wimbledon et un garçon de balle s'est partiellement effondré et le jeu s'est arrêté alors qu'il a du mal à respirer. Il fait vraiment chaud 🥵 à Wimbledon aujourd'hui. Il fait 15 degrés !! C'est donc probablement la raison" https://t.co/PFAs4ZuiDf pic.twitter.com/mGoJEh5vis

— Cynthia Cassandre Colibri (@NaraShi13876794) June 27, 2022

In the meantime, Serena Williams will return to playing singles tennis after a year's break on Tuesday. All eyes will be on the seven-time champion in her comeback match. She will play unranked Harmony Tan of France in her first singles encounter since suffering an injury that caused her to withdraw from her first-round match last year.

The 40-year-old won her last Wimbledon singles title six years ago, but she played in the finals in 2018 and 2019. The American, who was handed a wildcard for this year's competition, has 23 Grand Slam singles titles to her name, one less than Margaret Court's all-time record.

Rafael Nadal, the men's tennis star, will also return to the competition after a three-year absence. The 2008 Wimbledon winner has admitted that he would miss competing against tennis archrival Roger Federer.

“I mean, we shared lot of important things together. It’s difficult in some ways to think of tennis in the last 15-20 years without thinking about the rivalry that we have. I think in some way we push each other. I always wanted to think that my motivation never comes to me because of others, that it’s a personal motivation,” he said as quoted by The Times of India.