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Former tennis players similar Eugenie Bouchard (left) and Sam Querrey person recovered a caller athletics successful the signifier of the fast-growing athletics of pickleball. (Screengrabs via Instagram)
Eugenie Bouchard, the erstwhile World No.5 and 2014 Wimbledon finalist has recovered a caller emotion — the fast-growing athletics of pickleball.
Bouchard, present 30, is ranked 565th successful the satellite due to the fact that she is focussing much connected pickleball.
“I was like, you know, ‘I’d emotion to situation myself to effort thing new.’ And besides to beryllium a portion of thing that is truthful trending and increasing truthful much, that was truly appealing to me. It was besides thing I could bash portion inactive playing immoderate tennis tournaments. So that’s wherefore I was like, ‘Yeah, motion maine up,’” she told tennis.com
Bouchard competes successful the Pro Tour of Pickleball and has played conscionable 4 pro-level tennis matches successful 2024, according to tennis.com.
Bouchard, however, said that she was conscionable learning the ropes.
“I inactive person a agelong mode to spell but astatine slightest I consciousness similar I beryllium a small more,” Bouchard added.
Last period Bouchard reached her archetypal nonrecreational pickleball semifinal astatine the Rate Championships successful Las Vegas.
Bouchard is not the lone erstwhile apical tennis subordinate switching to pickleball.
Sam Querrey, the erstwhile World No.11 with 10 ATP singles titles, is present a pickleball subordinate and truthful is his chap American Jack Sock.
Querrey said that making the modulation is not arsenic casual arsenic immoderate tennis pros consciousness it is.
“It’s the nuances and the positioning, the changing of direction,” Querrey told ppatour.com. “It’s truthful galore small things. At the highest level, it’s a batch harder than it looks.”
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