Andre Agassi, after a day and two matches, saw the first exit of the professional Pickleball.
Honorary Hall Tennis player and partner Anna Leigh Waters competed in Naples, FLA in the US open Pickleball championships.
Trang Huynh-Mcclain and Len Yang defeated Agassi and Waters 7-11, 11-4, 11-7 to advance to the quarter-finals.
“I’m really excited,” Huynh-Mcclain said to the Pickleball channel on Youtube. “Andre Agassi was my growing idol, so it’s really extraordinary. At the beginning of the tournament, if I could play them mixed, so it was real and really fun to play with Len. And he just did an extraordinary job. And I’m happy to go out with a win.”
Early on Wednesday, Agassi, who was 55 years old on Tuesday, sent 18-year-old Waters, the world’s number 1 female pickle player, 13-year-old Stevie Petropouleas and 16-year-old Tristan Dussault 11-8, 9-11, 11-7.
The Honorary List Winning Eight Grand Slam championship during his tennis career, Agassi played Pickleball with only an amateur capacity before this tournament. He was greatly relying on the waters.
“I was coming here with Anna Leigh, I was more tense than a gypsy with a gypsy.” He said. “A metaphor for this life: Choose your partners well.”
Agassi’s unfamiliar error allowed the Petropouleas-Dussault duo to flatten the match before going to the third game. However, Agassi’s team won six of the first eight points before gathering to connect the opponents.
Inundaunded, Agassi-Waters tandem returned to the services and fled four points in a row on the way to win the match.
Huynh-mcclain and Yang will oppose Richard Livornese and Riley Bohnert in the quarter finals. Livornese and Bohnert defeated 11-9 and 11-6 in 16 games.
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