Rennae Stubbs snapped at Nick Kyrgios after he mocked her take on pickleball getting popular and athletes investing in it which she is against.
The former doubles player one criticized tennis players investing time, effort and money in pickleball as she doesn't see the appeal of it at all. She called it boring and explained she'd rather watch paint dry and Kyrgios mocked that take on Twitter by pointing out some athletes that invested in the sport and their successful business track record.
Stubbs snapped at Kyrgios in response pushing back heavily against his comments. She responded in the newest episode of her podcast:
“I’m not talking about basketball players investing in f**king pickleball, I’m talking about tennis players investing in pickleball. It’s like wait a second you think because LeBron and KD invested, then holy shit we should all be jumping onboard. No dude, they got play money, those guys have play money or somebody with a shit load of money, way more than LeBron and KD is giving them money to invest in a pickleball association"
She also commented on Clijsters getting involved:
"Her take is if we can get kids out on a tennis court and just be active, we are doing a good service and that’s all well and good and I understand that. But I said to Kim, why not promote, I mean Kim had a tennis academy, so she is put her money where her mouth is and a lot of that money for her academy was from her. I think since it’s almost closed down because of the fact that it’s really hard to provide them the money. So, my question to people in the tennis world is invest in stuff like that, you know? Don’t invest in pickleball, invest in Kim Clijsters academys of the world. She is a bad example because she isn’t invested in her own sport but she is right. We want people to be active, you can get them on a tennis court mate."