NAPLES, Fla. — Andre Agassi received his skilled pickleball debut a day after turning 55, teaming with 18-year-old Anna Leigh Waters to defeat a pair of even youthful teenagers 11-8, 11th of September, 11-7 within the combined professional division on the U.S. Open Pickleball Championships on Wednesday.
Agassi is an eight-time Grand Slam champion who retired from skilled tennis in 2006. He was inducted into the Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Fame 5 years later.
He has participated in made-for-TV pickleball exhibitions with different former tennis gamers and could be seen pitching pickleball tools through social media.
Agassi might be a studio analyst for TNT Sports activities in the course of the semifinals and finals on the French Open this 12 months. He received the title at Roland Garros in 1999 to finish a profession Grand Slam.
Pickleball is a mixture of tennis and pingpong. It shortly rose from almost nothing to greater than 13 million gamers in the US in just some years.