Tennis Pros VS Pickleball Pros - Sock/Isner VS Irvine/Waters

Watch as Jack Sock and John Isner (both top men's professional tennis players) take on Jessie Irvine and Anna Leigh Waters (both top women's professional pickleball players) in an entertaining exhibition match.
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[@dan.m.8614]

So we learned today that most tennis semi pros or pros can come into this sport and beat actual pickleball pros with little training.

[@ardynites1733]

It’s only because they are playing women

[@Jacob-md7ym]

@@ardynites1733 bruh are u kidding pickleball is a joke

[@spencerfoster8847]

@@ardynites1733 lmao so what. men pickleball players would get destroyed by female tennis players

[@BGK2223]

Hardly a dominant performance, and both men had been playing PB for months at this point. Both were rated within top 20 of tennis doubles players at one point and have been beaten consistently by mens pro pickleball players.

[@spencerfoster8847]

@@BGK2223 at the same time it would be closer than if the tennis pros played the pickleball pros in tennis.

[@sdf1975]

I absolutely love pickleball and play it now more than tennis. The first thing I learned is serious pickleball players live within their own world and haven’t accepted that tennis is much, much more difficult than pickleball.

[@kakashihatake1029]

Probably true

[@davidnatoli4501]

Very well said

[@markconner5341]

Fair

[@DanKaschel]

It seems like you feel like this video supports that thesis. But what happened is that two (much!) bigger, faster, stronger players with a ton of transferrable skills and several months of practice beat two (much) smaller, weaker, slower players who had a lot more experience. Characterizing it as more than that is a stretch at best.

[@kyledeckman9128]

Well yea. I play PB cause it's easier to get into and find people to play with. Tennis requires loads more stamina and skill. BUT both are fun and require skill.

[@christian-gu5oq]

That commentator was so ignorant and biased at the start 😭😭

[@paprapple9398]

saying pickleball is FASTER? than TENNIS? xD

[@er98ah]

Not surprise there lol

[@pedromatos644]

First thing on my mind when I started to watch! Jezzzzzz they have no clue 😂

[@DanKaschel]

​​@@paprapple9398they were talking about rally length. Tennis rallies are much longer.

[@paprapple9398]

@@DanKaschel lol no they aint xD ...have you not heard of the "one-two" punch??

[@EmperorsNewWardrobe]

From tennis, remove: -distance run -speed of the ball -weight of the ball, especially with spins -kinetic chain in technique -precise footwork patterns to set up that kinetic chain -weighty racquet -years of training these things in order to keep the bloody ball in at any decent level

[@krish4225]

dont forget the more complex serve and returns

[@nesmanpro]

and mental strength dude! tennis players are the strongest minds of the sport world.

[@EmperorsNewWardrobe]

@@krish4225 true!

[@EmperorsNewWardrobe]

@@nesmanpro that’s also true, but I don’t think at a recreational level it applies so much. Sure, at the pro level, but that’s already much more specific

[@ianbuick8946]

Kinetic chain and minimum footworks still apply to PB. The rest i agree.

[@tysonkuresa5830]

lol the commentator just shows how they live in their own Pickle Ball reality. I grew up playing baseball and Soccer with a little tennis on the side, but playing pickle ball is sooo freakin' easy. If you're somewhat athletic you can go for hours.

[@godgunsandgoldens]

Playing is easy? If playing others on your level (competition), it’s as hard as the other team makes it.

[@LunaticSoldiers]

If you have played any sport, you know that your athleticism and stamina is determined by the level of your opponent. Soccer players can jog around for hours if their opponents don't actually make them exert effort and energy. Meanwhile, you can see professional Soccer players getting winded by half-time because they are being marked so hard. Same goes for every other sport. If you played Pickleball and didn't get a little winded, you didn't play Pickleball, you hit the ball around lol

[@matthewsinger6397]

YeH she immediately gave the women an out, saying they weren’t gonna play 100%, so when they lost they have an excuse. So exhausting and annoying

[@cscummingsiv]

The way she infantilized them was kinda sad and anti-female in its own way. Just gotta give seasoned ATP pros their credit and realize these guys are used to returning 130mph serves.. returning a pickleball back is a joke in comparison @@matthewsinger6397

[@YuzukiEba]

They adapted too fast and became pro pickleball player in the middle of a match. Evolution in the heat of the moment from the tennis players. No freaking way.

[@kevwwong]

Isner and Sock have played together before, and I think the instinct of knowing what your partner can do is something that translates well. As for the adjustment, I think that just comes from being an athlete. If something isn't working, you figure out how to adjust or you'll be taking the "L" rather quickly.

[@disqtunes]

Tell us your not an athlete without telling us your not an athlete! 😂 It's called ADAPTING to your opponent as with any sport! 🤡

[@kevwwong]

@@disqtunesyou're

[@heatherperleberg7816]

​@@disqtunes he said adapting already 🤡

[@leonardorosales8013]

😂😂😂😂 the commentator giving her opinion at the beginning, then the PROFESSIONAL pickleballers end up losing 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@whobru]

first they were women, second one of the girls is on only 16...they would have been completly destroyed by the men pros

[@Dogmen219]

I think you’re confused, sir. The commentator was correct. The women are professional Pickleball players, and they won easily.

[@Smoked541]

@@whobru u think top female tennis player whos are under 16 can't beat top male pickleball player in tennis? haha

[@mopitchbeast]

@@Dogmen219u better watch the whole match buddy

[@douglasmurdoch7247]

They’re women bruh. Jack sock and company already lost when they played the male pros

[@well....7751]

Lol the commentator got humbled

[@yukuhana]

The female commenter ended the video with: "Nooo..."

[@Shake_nBake805]

Not acknowledging tipped balls, getting in cheap serves...love the sportsmanship!

[@JCzzzzz]

Precisely. They never considered they are the top women's pair in their own sport. And yet they come up with a cheap serve just to win a point. And the lady in blue even gloat about their 6-0 first set. It's good the ladies didn't win

[@maartenvangenabeek1976]

4:50 did the announcer really say that tennis is slower than pickleball? What a joke

[@alessandrozito7047]

As soon as I heard that everything else she said after that I immediately discredited

[@sdmit2000]

she should try returning Isner's serve lol

[@crumdogmillion]

That was so insane

[@DaveNash]

tennis is slower than pickleball from a reaction time perspective. braindead

[@Flashjump]

I cannot believe my ears.. What a clown 😂

[@tucker3601]

John Isner being forced to serve a ball like that probably makes him angry

[@samisfun868]

ROFL

[@davidnatoli4501]

Tennis is a much more difficult sport. And yet they are both racquet sports. The tennis pros have lots more training money time and coaching…that will translate easily to pickleball and in the medium to long term they will have the advantage. Just practical experience and pragmatism, but it’s so fun to watch and choose sides and make conversation and controversy. Love it all enjoy everyone! And I enjoyed every minute of that match and the chat afterwards.

[@Conradcoffee]

One is a racquet sport one is a game with a paddle

[@DanKaschel]

​@@Conradcoffeethat distinction is irrelevant here

[@DanKaschel]

So many comments comparing the sports. People. These are male pro athletes playing against literal female children. Given those children are pros in their own rights, but the overwhelming advantage of speed, strength, and reach do not allow for any kind of comparison between the two different sports.

[@KandisSJGroup]

I think that American Football is harder than soccer and yet running around and kicking a ball is somehow a sport. Bowling is a sport. Vollyball is a sport. Running is a sport. Come on, it's running. My three year old can run. Is it because it's endurance? I think if you break a sweat doing it and it's competitive, it's a sport.

[@firesnake1804]

That is the most ignorant comment and I'm guessing you are an American who only watches American football. Try dribbling, passing and scoring with only your feet while you run and have the stamina to run a soccer field back and forth to guard your man. There's a reason why it's the world's sport and not American football. @@KandisSJGroup

[@alexanderhemming9148]

Ngl might be fine in the rules but serving before the other team is ready is unsportsmanlike in any sport especially in racquet sports. That really bothered me honestly

[@Shake_nBake805]

Same! There seems to be very little etiquette in this game.

[@zerocoke.zerodiabetes]

Indeed

[@OrvinReyes]

Wdy expect from a pedestrian game

[@kpopx21xtim]

Same. Never serve if your opponent isn't ready, it's like one of the top unwritten rules of any racquet sport etiquette

[@ChanGardeningToolPark]

Thought the same, but tbh the boys were confused on sides since they were stacking during that time. Gotta be able to recognize spots quicker

[@Bhaise]

It’s like they really tried to find the most biased commentators available

[@rogerroger3423]

first game of pickleball i ever watched (im from germany) and i was very suprised that the femal commentator was absolute sure, that the ladys will crush two tennispros :D must felt very unpleasent when she had to face the reality .

[@godgunsandgoldens]

Two men much bigger and stronger barely beating females is nothing to brag about.

[@ryder_tennis]

it doesn't matter really because theres nothing really difficult about pickleball@@godgunsandgoldens

[@therealbatman8085]

Uh they just beat "professionals" at their own game. I would say that's something to brag about.@@godgunsandgoldens

[@sebeazzurri]

@@godgunsandgoldens Beating 2 professional pickle ball players? That devoted most of their lives to pickleball? Ya Id say that is pretty impressive. Those men dont even play the sport..

[@fet6]

Men beat women all the time, I'm not even sure why they even matched up? Doesn't make any sense to me. Of course the men were going to win. Isner is like 6'7 or something and Jack Sock has been playing pickleball professionally for about a year now. Should have played mixed doubles in the first place.

[@leonardocerutti3]

6 month of training and sock is number 1 in the ranking

[@LunaticSoldiers]

We will see soon enough. Looks like he is retiring from Tennis to join the PPT.

[@siegjong759]

Imagine being a pro at ur game and playing non pros, but still playing serves like that when ur opponent isnt ready 😂

[@DavidShinabarger]

I think they did it for a laugh!

[@bsad3846]

@@DavidShinabargerstill took the point tho

[@user-hc7zb5gt1o]

What do you mean? If you can play tennis you can play pickleball the mechanics are the exact same. The only thing that changes are rules paddle and ball that's it everything is the same

[@bryanwells4063]

@@user-hc7zb5gt1o um... sure bro. Try to say the same thing about table tennis or badminton as well why dont you? Just the equipment change makes it a completely different game.

[@user-hc7zb5gt1o]

@@bryanwells4063 - You can not say the same for table tennis and badminton NOT all sports are equal or share similarities. Pickleball and tennis have similarities and are almost identical. Table tennis and badminton are almost opposite of each other. Tennis to pickleball is like running to bike riding, Baseball to softball, Jump rope to hopscotch. Table tennis to badminton is like archery to golf

[@babysauceproductions7433]

Girls: playing like their lives depend on it. Guys: just fooling around but still won the match.

[@JTGA38NG]

Jack Sock is amazing. His touch is incredible.

[@kyleklontz3214]

pause?

[@d0s25]

Yeah. His touch in the doubles tennis playing clearly shows it.

[@noelgenoway9360]

Isner did an AMAZING Job also!!!

[@sk-un5jq]

He could have been one of the greatest doubles players of all time had he decided to go that route.

[@stefandahl2872]

Okay now let them play a double against them on a tennis court.

[@firesnake1804]

The Pickleball players would not win one game and I would bet my life savings on that.

[@firesnake1804]

Jack Sock could sit out and Isner would just serve and it would be over.

[@nicoladc89]

Well, also 2 female pro tennis players would brutally lost against 2 men in a tennis match. Probably not a single woman in the world can return a Isner good first service.

[@bryanwells4063]

@@firesnake1804 they wouldnt be able to recieve a single serve lol

[@Fernando-vg4ym]

Tennis players can (obviously) adapt to pickleball much easier than vice-versa. For some reason it's much harder for a pickleball player who has never played tennis to pick up tennis. I like pickleball much better because it's a quicker game. I'm not saying the ball is faster but the court is much smaller.

[@nocapguy7380]

Bro at 4:30 they said that pickleball is faster than tennis 💀

[@DearDextra]

She is right, that's why the games are shorter because points get scored super quick. In tennis rallies last for minutes, very rare in pickleball. That's the reason pro singles pickle ball match is 2 hours at max and tennis can go upto 4 hours or more even.

[@michaelmcleod6203]

​@@DearDextraNone of this is true. Tennis rallies are usually short with points being finished within 2 to 3 hits from each players. Pickleball rallies tend to have more hits per rally. However, tennis tends to have more down time between points and between a first and second serve which doesn't happen in pickleball. Extended rallies are not the norm in tennis, but it's cool when they happen. Also, the scoring is entirely different, so comparing the amount of time for a match is just silly.

[@Michael-nc3ib]

Ball is always moving faster in Tennis where as the Point of Contact for the receiver is faster in Pickle Ball (only when both opponents are closest to the net and are hitting the ball as fast as they can). So yeah Tennis is much faster the majority of the time.

[@user-tx3fi5un1n]

“It’s not a tennis ball folks, that pickleball is coming fast” (Isner hits tennis serves regularly at 140mph)

[@nocapguy7380]

@@DearDextra I think the commentators meant the speed of the ball.. not the amount of time each point is

[@danielcunningham1523]

Now I wanna see the Brian Brothers try... and these girls play tennis 😂

[@nillivanilli2922]

LOL💀

[@0RANGOTANG]

Girls would get killed 💀

[@spencerfoster8847]

dont. the world isnt ready for that madness

[@jhndvdbr1]

The girl had to act like the girls were gonna dominate 😂😂😂

[@michaelmelamed9103]

Practiced my tennis skills in the park. Observed pickle ball being played. Got an expensive,factory second, racket with a long handle on amazon. Placed some lead in the throat. Practiced with the wall for 20 minutes. Joined in a doubles game. Men and mixed. No learning curve. Addictive. Like a giant ping pong 🏓 and tennis hybrid.

[@jamesm7705]

Yes absolutley true. Pb players live in their own world. I played tennis badminton and ping pong at colllege level competituve ranges. Pb was easy to pick up and trying to explain to pb playes how at the net its mostly basmintion. I whoop the ball at 200 mph at the net if it comes up high and they wonder what the hell that shot was..😂

[@kristianmcgill9457]

everyone here who is downing all pickle ball would get absolutely crushed by those 2 pros, it is like claiming you can play ping pong, when any above average person would destroy you, I am sure you guys can play for hours, but you aren't doing what they are doing in this video haha, I play soccer tennis and pickle ball, and there are differences people do not see, just have fun playing the game guys, not that serious

[@gabepoirot]

the silence by the commentator at the end LOL

[@akshayk2496]

bro the commentator were glazing them and then got trolled so hard

[@profast40]

Nice - to see people having fun!

[@dubmob151]

16:30 so in this game, as soon as the score is announced, the server can serve it up regardless of the other side being ready?

[@tynivinnie]

non athletes

[@jhndvdbr1]

Sock wanted to win isner was being respectful 😂

[@paulkim9858]

I really want to see two male pickle ball pros play against two female tennis pros in tennis and see how that goes

[@SkateQrew]

tennis laddies would wipe them if the pickler boys never played tennis at a high level

[@abhinav7sinha]

6-0 6-0 maybe 99999/100000 games.

[@greencreature]

The men wouldn't win a game

[@sk-un5jq]

Dudes would get roasted.

[@premxiong6497]

They'll be lucky to even return serves

[@honeynut4586]

Isner almost sold lol

[@CoIdnestea]

So when is the tennis match between these 4? Surely these pro pickleball athletes can compete at tennis right?

[@ImJayTeezy]

We really gonna look past how insanely awkward that ending handshakes were 🤣🤣🙌🏽

[@gcloading2112]

I mean this is embarrassing so can’t really blame them can we??😂😂

[@mitchellwassom2194]

Yes. Tennis is hard. Yes. Pickleball has far less steep of a learning curve. But I feel like the take home message here is simply that Isner and Sock are just also really good at pickleball. Those were some mad skills. Props.

[@steveG92]

I think any pro tennis player will be really good pickelball players though.

[@nicoalabat6670]

Federer would be amazing at this

[@matthewsinger6397]

I like how the female announcer immediately made an excuse for the women

[@ret4kind]

Now do it the other way and see if those girls will beat them on a tennis court.

[@DanKaschel]

Why. That's dumb.

[@excursioncouple]

lol Jack Sock laughing the whole game haha

[@masonguthrie1257]

While pickle ball can be fun all throughout my teen years we were playing this game on the tennis court at the service line (so smaller courts giving us less margin for error) and with actual tennis balls as a way to have fun after a 3 hour practice lol.

[@rotfled]

If it wasn't for the insufferable attitude of pickleballers I'd probably play it more. I'll stick with tennis until I'm 95 and can't move lol

[@DanKaschel]

Funny, I'm starting to feel that way about tennis players

[@whobru]

read all the comments from tennis lovers on here....feel the love

[@sebbiesydenham3077]

@@DanKaschel "tennis is a slower. When you're up by the kitchen line it all moves quick"💀female commentator is lost

[@ForceOfWill100]

@@DanKaschel It's almost never about the sport. Pickleball is incredibly fun, but frankly a lot of people (like these commentators) are so hell-bent on it being taken seriously that they make ridiculous claims attempting to equate it to tennis. Tennis is a more difficult sport. Saying that doesn't take anything away from the fun and skill of pickle ball, and the people who twist themselves into pretzels trying to deny that simple fact are typically the reason why people unfortunately mock the PB community.

[@DanKaschel]

@@ForceOfWill100 I agree that Tennis is a more difficult sport, but I don't agree with your reason for why people mock pickleball. They mock it because it's new, has a silly name, and got popular first with old people. And some insecure people mock it because it's rapidly growing in popularity while tennis is losing players.

[@MagnaMax77]

I used to coach tennis but hadn't played pickleball at all before playing some intermediate pickleball players about half my age. One of them said I was the best pickleball player he's played against before I told him I had never played before. It took a little adjusting wrt length of racket / paddle, bounce and weight of the ball, spin and bounce of the ball off the racket, but the game was much slower and easy to adjust to as time progressed. I actually looked like I knew what I was doing in the beginning before it actually became a reality. The game was more easy to adjust to than the rules.

[@FlamingosVerde]

Sad to see Isner serving like that

[@jonathan-77]

Funny hearing commentators being surprised male pro athletes are beating women pro athletes. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@coolpix222]

Tennis player here and a future pickleball player. I tried pickleball once and I can appreciate why all ages can play this game. You really don't need to cover much court and doesn't require must skill. Pickleball is great because there are so many to play with and is a much more casual sport. In tennis, there are much less players. The level of skill is 10 times higher and very frustrating to new players. It does not matter how athletic you are. It takes months to be half decent. And years to be highly competitive. I'm going to keep playing tennis until I can't play it anymore or if I can't find people to play with. I'll be ready for pickleball at 65. The one thing I am surprised to see is that players don't try to crush the ball with topspin or to hit topspin lobs towards the backline. Wondering why not?

[@karenv8351]

dinking is the game. Amateurs do lob much more, I am very successful with topspin lob and hard drives from baseline against many pb players who don't have a backhand.

[@nenadsaz]

The paddles are plastic and the ball slides off of it. There is a little bit of spin,but it wont help much if you want to create more bounce on the other side of the court and the ball is slow so if you clear the net the ball will fall in court anyhow unless you wildly swing.

[@IKGJDK]

Lol so the pickleball pros lost to tennis pros at a game of pickleball? 🤣🤣

[@markconner5341]

This is a GAME, not a SPORT. It's good for getting drunk and having laughs. Can't possibly compare to the physical taxation of playing tennis at the pro level, or even the 5.0 NTRP level.

[@proshepherd]

Yeah, but not to be underestimated for fitness. Jack Sock had sweat dripping off the back of his cap at the end.

[@samueltrinh3850]

This comment is definitely coming from an area of hate and trying to condescend. Is tennis more intense than pickleball? Yes. Agreed. Doesn’t make it not a sport. Is basketball more intense than tennis? Yes, ballers are way more atheistic. Does that mean tennis isn’t a sport? No. Can you drink and laugh while playing tennis, yes. I’ve played basketball and laughed and drank. For you to say pickleball isn’t a sport because your personal bias towards tennis is greater, is such an asinine comment. How about only MMA is a real sport because everything else is below it in terms of of aggressiveness and manliness. Or we can just listen to @markconnor5341 ‘s definition based on what he believes is a sport or not.

[@proshepherd]

@@samueltrinh3850 "Ballers are more athletic" ... Nikola Jokic has entered the chat 😂

[@DanKaschel]

Oh my goodness the elitist self delusion of tennis players

[@proshepherd]

@@DanKaschel Tennis players are objectively elite athletes to pickleball players.

[@Gadawg32]

ALW taking that BS serve point when the guys were still switching says a lot about her imo

[@Wanbon1]

now , now, It was all about fun..

[@nesmanpro]

Isner took it personal when the girls served (so dirty move) while the players were not ready yet

[@mattyy0o0]

This is begging for a curb your enthusiasm meme, that commentator in the beginning was back pedaling from her total confidence as soon as they started scoring points. Good game, very entertaining with the "underdog" tennis pros proving themselves

[@joshbryant7363]

Wow… we all learned a lot here… like A LOT.

[@DanKaschel]

Not judging from these comments

[@masterbaiter327]

Oddly oversized table tennis, bringing as many emotions as boule :D

[@user-vr1bk2nk1x]

Wdm there’s no tables

[@terrasai2857]

Isner is so tall. He needs to bend his knees instead of hunching his back so low lmao.

[@dthorne4602]

I love this female announcer: super bold before the match, two minutes into the match, umm, umm maybe it'll be a little closer than we had thought. Lol. The poor dear.

[@Jotaro-o]

Just the fact that they're not going to do the reserve by playing on a tennis court shows which sport is more difficult.

[@scottfong1729]

would be great to see the pickleball pros play Isner/Sock at tennis! I doubt the pickleballers would even win a point on their own. In fact they would probably need medical treatment getting hit by Isner's serve

[@cameronsammons8709]

"pickleball is faster than tennis"

[@kpopx21xtim]

Might have been in my head, but i think it was in the 3rd game, when sock was serving, it just looked to me like he was getting ready to hit a tennis serve, he had the stance and everything

[@oliverbarklund6470]

Lol she regretted changing that to win by 2 😂

[@overwatchgale4640]

The amount of mistakes Isner made is the only reason games were close-if Sock had another pro on his team it wouldn’t even be a match lol

[@tosmictakay7559]

Agree

[@apoetsbrain6794]

If they try this the other way round (on the tennis court), the video would be 5 minutes long max lol. It would be a summary of Isner's aces lol

[@deregew8597]

This is just a lose-lose situation for sock and isner. If they lost, people would be clowning on them for losing to women, but if they won, it would be expected and people would question why they didn’t go “easy” on them. You can clearly see them not hitting as hard as they can, it’s funny.

[@sethsmith6042]

not really tbh, its not their sport lol and lets be real if male pickleball players went against wta players theyd get destroyed unless they were competing tennis players (which tbf a lot of them are)

[@MeepMeep88]

32:26 lol... Give them another 3 days and they'll be friggin deadly...

[@luxon4]

tennis players were quite humble "if we ran that 50 times we'd prob only win once" like lmao we all know thats not true. woul.d be more interesting if they played mens though

[@DanKaschel]

I mean. They literally won this time bc ALW changed the rules on game point. So yeah I think their statement was fair.

[@dubmob151]

Is the game normally always played with 2 points spread to win or is this an option for the players to decide option at game time?

[@luxon4]

no pickleball format in any league in the world is win by 1 with side out scoring@@DanKaschel

[@sublime1558]

@@DanKaschel I definitely don't think the statement is accurate. Look how they adjusted from set 1 to the last two, they clearly had to adjust to playing this game at that level. They have more to learn about the sport than the pros so they would learn at a faster rate because they've played the game way less than them. So not only would it not be a 1/50, they would win more and more as they played more matches because they have so much to learn.

[@DanKaschel]

@@sublime1558 I'm not really sure what you're responding to. I just said in this case, they would have won if not for the last second gracious rule change.

[@michaelc3694]

11:23 kim clijsters? green scarf

[@kyledeacon5620]

woman announcer was painful to listen to ngl

[@catastrophiccarrots5626]

pickleball is literally just a tennis warm up (mini tennis)

[@edfenders926]

Isner and Sock can go now and play against table tennis world champions! Just laughing(: the game was really interesting and ladies play incredibly well

[@TheSuperDmyers]

Now do one where these ladies have to try and return Isners serve

[@spencermayer5971]

Those hands of Sock! Lol… I wonder if someone with the last name Glove played soccer and the commentator said, “Those feet of Glove!”

[@nueloblack]

Just to prove that pickleball is indeed easier, imagine a tennis match with two female pro tennis players against two male pro pickleball players. Guaranteed, female tennis players would win the tennis match.

[@MrPiotrV]

yeah, 6-0 lol

[@therealbatman8085]

Not just win, sweep the non pros

[@OrvinReyes]

100%. Regardless of gender non-pros have no business beating pros in non-contact and non-combat sports. Golf and bowling are other good examples where non-pro men will NEVER beat pro women.

[@haimingxu6922]

Im firmly anti pickleball, but I grew up in the area Colin Shick grew up in, he's a tennis legend where I'm from. He played NCAA D1 tennis and is a pro pickleball player. He'd honestly beat the top WTA players tbh.

[@MrPiotrV]

@@haimingxu6922 but that's different isn't it? ;) that's someone who plays both, not just a pickleball player

[@nesmanpro]

This is like when Ronnie O'Sullivan a snooker player, beat on a nine-ball match Earl Strickland, considered one of the best nine-ball players of all time 😂

[@davidhunternyc1]

Exactly, and Ronnie O'Sullivan beat the Black Widow at Straight Pool the first time he played.

[@theoteddy9665]

thats incredibly accurate comparison👍🙋

[@adriancadena2887]

I mean, these guys are former* tennis pros. Imagine them playing pickleball at their tennis prime

[@Niighht]

A good warmup before you play tennis... the real game.

[@michaelsheedy]

I have been a tennis player most my life, and pickleball won't interest me until my mobility really gets bad. Find watching pickleball boring also. But I can see why pickleball is popular and sll power to them unless you live next to pickleball courts.

[@aaronjenkins223]

And they guys arent even trying that hard xD

[@juancamilolopez4982]

Now put some Pickleball Pros to play Tennis!

[@guillaumeneri3614]

Tennis skills > other racket sports

[@ptb2055]

female commentator learned a biology lesson that day

[@DanKaschel]

But all the KZbin commenters learned was confirmation bias

[@dewman7477]

Women are not good at physical muscular sports but they have flexibility hence gymnastics they’re naturally better at those

[@futoore]

Now ask the pickleball players to play tennis

[@virgiliosaavedra87]

even badminton looks harder than this joke of a sport

[@sdmit2000]

They have thier funny little names for all these "shots"

[@isabellie2006]

the pickle ballers look like they play pickle ball. the glasses and space buns…

[@geraldblaster]

Awesome game, great match! -I wonder if they all just started boning each other after all was said and done!!

[@pickleball-oldmansinglespo1829]

Two men tennis players beat top ranked professional girl PB pros.

[@asced1860]

Isner is too tall for this sport

[@spencerfoster8847]

no hes not

[@sergiosarmiento4371]

​​@@spencerfoster8847well, he was too tall for tennis. The main thing that his height helped him was for the serve which for pickleball he doesn't need.

[@spencerfoster8847]

@@sergiosarmiento4371 pretty sad

[@sebeazzurri]

That woman commentator looks so bad HAHA. "The girls will win this". Those men are world class. The girls stood zero chance.

[@livingtribunal4110]

People who play Pickleball look like the type of people who can (or will) only ever play Pickleball.

[@kiriappeee]

Isner playing this game looks like an adult playing with a children's kitchen set. He's so tall and has to keep bending over so much 😅!!!

[@jamesbarger5241]

I play tennis and unfortunately the "sport" of pickleball is taking over many of the courts I play on. I've witnessed lots of people playing pickleball and have come to the conclusion that I'm the greatest pickleball player ever and I've never played.

[@ItsaMeGo]

that's because tennis and tennis players have been choking the sport out for decades. Better to use the increasingly empty space for something people actually want to play.

[@abutr3]

The number of unforced errors because of the size of isner is over 9thousans

[@petesampras2611]

did the female commentator say pickleball is faster than tennis? And, then use the word "periphial"....?

[@iJuubi]

The commentator is a little cringe, how tf she said that Pickleball is faster than tennis, seriously, is so fking easy in every single way.

[@dagma3437]

ooofff that was embarrassing. How many points did the boys win right down the center. Girls did not even think of adapting.

[@OX3YMORON]

Baby’s first racquet sport

[@VARMOT123]

Every half decent semi pro in tennis,table tennis,bacminton or squash would destroy these folks in pickeball

[@nickho077]

The glazing for the girls is just crazy💀

[@LP_0820]

I love playing pickleball, but the truth is that pickleball is far easier than tennis. That is why we are seeing these former tennis players crush pickleball players. Let's not pretend that's not true. But we need to stop putting each other down for the difficulty of it. If you enjoy a sport and have fun doing it, then do it and don't listen to anyone else trying to make you feel like your "out of shape" or "unathletic". Pickleball is a great sport. Tennis is a great sport. Can we all just have fun?

[@MrHall8]

sorry everyone if this hurt your feelings, but if those 2 ladies are PROs.. i feel this very very sad for this so called sport lol xD. Thats the slowest match i have ever seen, and i think padle is slow also. Also, seing Isners footwork and movement, its quite remarkable how he on the highest level in tennis could reach there with only his serve, cuz he cant move his body.. AT all.

[@MrBrad777c]

Wow the difference a year made for Sock!