OVER THE WEEKEND, Chris Quinn from Greystones has become an overnight viral sensation around the world after he was invited on to return a serve at Wimbledon on Friday.

The hilarious clip has been viewed many millions of times across YouTube and Facebook, and covered by virtually every major sports news outlet globally:

All the players, the fans and Chris himself were creasing themselves laughing throughout

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And when a Belgian website tweeted about the moment, tagging Kim Clijsters, Chris got back with a lovely message for her

@chrisquinnirl @chrisquinnirl

The best:

Thank you for going easy on me with the serve. You have made me a bigger hero to my 3 daughters who worship you BTW.

<3

Once a GIF of the incident made it to the front page of Reddit last night, the “wholesome” tweet was one of the top voted comments.

Clijsters responded to yesterday afternoon – just as the story was going viral

Sound on and off the court.

What a moment to remember.

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