NAPLES, Fla. — Andre Agassi collected two of his eight Grand Slam tennis titles on the US Open and now he’ll be competing at a distinct racket occasion with that identify.
Agassi, who retired from skilled tennis in 2006 after taking part in his final match at Flushing Meadows, will line up alongside teenager Anna Leigh Waters within the combined professional division on the US 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 might be seen pitching pickleball gear through social media. This shall be his first skilled pickleball look.
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He gained the tennis US Open in 1994 and 1999, accomplished a profession Grand Slam by successful at the very least one championship at every of that sport’s majors and was inducted into the Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Fame in 2011.
It was introduced earlier this month that Agassi shall be a studio analyst for TNT Sports activities in the course of the semifinals and finals on the French Open this yr.
Pickleball is a mixture of tennis and ping pong that makes use of paddles and a wiffle ball. It shortly rose from practically nothing to greater than 13 million gamers in the USA in only a few years.
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