NEW YORK — The U.S. Open up has arrived in New York City, and Miami is creating waves as the Miami Pickleball Club, AYS and Lotte Lodge held their yearly Lotte Palace Invitational.
Venus Williams, Carlos Alcaraz, Holger Rune, and other tennis stars — just to name a handful of — attended the celebration and CBS Information Miami’s Harry Cicma experienced an possibility to catch up with some of the legends as they performed some pickleball in advance of the U.S. Open up.
Cicma to start with asked the world’s No.1 tennis player Carlos Alcaraz about his initial time in the pickleball courtroom.
“Effectively let’s see — I hear that this activity is heading to be fantastic for the guys with excellent arms in tennis. It’s going to be fun for sure,” he mentioned. “So, it is let’s test.”
This year’s U.S. Open up will be all enterprise for the players in the draw, but they appreciated the chance to choose their minds off the levels of competition all through this pickleball exhibition.
“I won’t be able to wait to perform from [the] Globe No.1 player in tennis, you know, let’s see how it goes,” mentioned the world’s No. 5 player Ons Jabeur. “It’s a excellent activity, so I’m certainly heading to delight in it, there are a large amount of palms in it, and I like that.”
“You have the very best palms and angles in tennis, so how does that translate to Pickleball?” Cicma questioned.
“That assists a great deal for guaranteed, that allows me be completely ready to make a insane photographs and I have tried out it at the time, so I believe this activity suits actually nicely,” Jabeur answered.
“I’m seriously grateful to be equipped to be here and ideally it really is likely to be a fantastic two week below,” Alcaraz added
Pickleball earning waves right here, as properly as the Miami Pickleball Club, as the U.S. Open up is on us.
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