Rennae Stubbs, who has been outspoken in her objection to pickleball, recently outlined her views on tennis players investing in the new sport.
Pickleball is a new sport that combines elements of tennis, badminton and ping pong. Pickleball has received backing from a number of athletes, including Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Andy Murray and John Isner. Naomi Osaka, Nick Kyrgios and Kim Clijsters have all invested in the sport.
She had earlier taken to Twitter to express her feelings about tennis players investing in Pickleball, declaring that she would not invest in a pickleball franchise and would never watch the sport on television. On the latest episode of The Rennae Stubbs Tennis Podcast, she elaborated on her reasons for making the Twitter comment.
She claimed that she believes tennis players are being paid to promote pickleball and that if they were investing their own money, they could build tennis courts or make charitable donations. She also referred to pickleball as the ‘NFT of tennis’.
Rennae Stubbs’ tweet about tennis players investing in pickleball appeared to be a jab at Nick Kyrgios, Naomi Osaka and other players who had acquired stakes in teams that play in the Major League Pickleball (MLP) 2023.
Kyrgios refuted Stubbs’ assertion by pointing to the investments made in the sport by LeBron James and Kevin Durant, two of the biggest names in basketball, making the case that they have a superior understanding of what to invest in.
Stubbs responded to Nick Kyrgios by referencing Tom Brady and Naomi Osaka’s disastrous FTX investments (a cryptocurrency exchange). Naomi Osaka and Tom Brady, among many others, were recently named in a class-action lawsuit as the FTX cryptocurrency exchange, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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