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Ball girl takes classic catch at Open
Forget Steve Smith's screamers on the cricket field, a ball girl at the Australian Open may have taken the catch of the summer.
The girl was working during last night'Advertisement
s epic semi-final between Novak Djokovic and Stan Wawrinka when her silky-smooth skills momentarily upstaged the stars.Having had a ball slapped roughly in her direction by Wawrinka, she showed lightning-quick reflexes to lunge backwards and take the ball at full stretch with her right hand.The catch sparked warm applause from a sell-out crowd on centre court and has since made the girl a mini-celebrity as footage of the screamer circulates online.
