The family of a US doctor and his son attacked in a violent bashing after watching the Australian Open has broken its silence about the "horrible" incident.
Acclaimed physician Edmund Pribitkin, 52, was with his son, Edik, 17, at the Queen Victoria Gardens on Wednesday about 11:30pm when they were allegedly attacked by a gang of teenagers.
Dr Pribitkin was left with serious head injuries and placed in an induced coma while his son was concussed with a broken nose. Both are now in a stable condition at The Alfred.
His daughter, Tesa Pribitkin, told Nine News it was "horrible" to realise what had happened to them while they visited the Australian Open — which was a lifelong dream.
"They didn't seem to want their possessions or anything because my brother and dad offered them but they sort of just kept hitting them repeatedly," she told Nine News about the gang that were originally asking for cigarettes.