Ukrainian tennis player Sergei Bubka revealed he cheated death after falling from a fourth floor apartment in Paris last month.

Bubka admitted he's lucky to be alive having suffered multiple fractures in a horrifying fall in the French capital's plush 16th arrondissement.

"The circumstances leading to the fall were all so unlucky, but since the accident I feel I have been really lucky," Bubka told

"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.