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Listen up, professional tennis gamers … Rich Paul is providing some free enterprise recommendation — explaining to TMZ Sports he believes a profession swap to pickleball might yield big advantages for athletes in the event that they formally traded in rackets for paddles.
Paul broke all of it down for us at LAX this week … a few month after he, Patrick Mahomes, Naomi Osaka, Nick Kyrgios and others joined forces to personal a Major League Pickleball group.
The founding father of Klutch Sports Group mentioned he believes the game is superior and about to take off — and famous that if a professional tennis participant made the swap over now, it would result in an enormous windfall of money and fame afterward.
“Those that play tennis which may be, you already know, common or a little bit bit above common could possibly be actually nice at this,” Paul mentioned. “It could also be a little bit extra profitable.”
He continued, “If I used to be somebody who performed a unique sport that was sort of, what I might say could be an evolution or considerably just like one other sport, and it was new, and it was scorching and profitable, I might check out it myself.”
MLP started in 2021 with simply eight groups — however as the game, performed on a smaller model of a tennis court docket with paddles and a plastic ball with holes in it, has grown … the org. expects to have 24 groups this 12 months.
Paul’s new squad might be one of many ’23 additions to the league … and he instructed us he is stoked for the potential it has, and the inflow of expertise that could possibly be headed its manner when folks understand it.
As for his finest good friend LeBron James — the King has additionally invested in MLP … and is scheduled to really compete towards Paul’s group this 12 months.
Game on!!