(Montreal) Quebecer Eugenie Bouchard will likely swap her tennis racquet for another pickleball in 2024, the professional pickleball circuit announced Thursday.
“@geniebouchard, a star professional tennis player who has risen to No. 5 in the world in singles, will join the PPA Tour in 2024,” read the official Twitter account of the Tour, alongside a photo of the 29 year old athlete.
It is unknown at this time if this announcement will have an impact on her tennis career. Bouchard, from Westmount, is currently clocking in at 215e rank in the WTA World Rankings.
The 2014 Wimbledon finalist hasn’t played a singles match since being knocked out by American Danielle Collins in qualifying for the National Bank Open last month.
Bouchard is 9-9 so far in 2023, for a career-high record of 295-224. She won her only career title on the WTA Tour in May 2014 at the tournament in Nuremberg, Germany, after beating Czech Karolina Pliskova 6-2, 4-6 and 6-3 in the final.
Pickleball, also called light tennis in Quebec, is a racquet sport, played indoors or outdoors, in which two players (singles) or four players (doubles) hit a perforated hollow plastic ball at the above a 0.91 m high net using a full-face racket.
