NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Andre Agassi collected two of his eight Grand Slam tennis titles on the U.S. Open and now he’ll be competing at a different racket occasion with that identify.
Agassi, who retired from skilled tennis in 2006 after enjoying his final match at Flushing Meadows, will line up alongside teenager Anna Leigh Waters within the blended professional division on the U.S. Open Pickleball Championships subsequent week in Naples, Florida.
Agassi, who turns 55 subsequent week, has participated in made-for-TV pickleball exhibitions with different former tennis gamers and could be seen pitching pickleball gear by way of social media. This can be his first skilled pickleball look.
He gained the tennis U.S. Open in 1994 and 1999, accomplished a profession Grand Slam by successful a minimum of one championship at every of that sport’s majors and was inducted into the Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Fame in 2011.
Pickleball is a mixture of tennis and ping pong that makes use of paddles and a wiffleball. It rapidly rose from practically nothing to greater than 13 million gamers in the USA in just some years.
