Steffi Graf, Andre Agassi take home $1 million prize pool and electric guitars after beating Maria Sharapova, John McEnroe in Pickleball Slam 2.

Steffi Graf, Andre Agassi take home $1 million prize pool and electric guitars after beating Maria Sharapova, John McEnroe in Pickleball Slam 2.

Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi downed Maria Sharapova and John McEnroe in the final of Pickleball Slam 2 to take home the $1 million prize money. The Graf-Agassi duo won the final 11-7, 13-11.

The event, which took place in Seminole Hard Rock Casino, Hollywood, Florida, on Sunday (February 4) featured three doubles matches between two teams. Graf and Agassi spearheaded one team while Sharapova and McEnroe led the other.

In the first doubles match, Agassi partnered Jack Sock, with the duo beating McEnroe and James Blake 11-7, 9-11, 11-8. The next match saw Graf and Sock clinch a 9-11, 11-8, 17-5 victory against the duo of Sharapova and Blake. The victors were rewarded a point per match.

As a result, Graf and Agassi went into the final match against Sharapova and McEnroe leading 2-0. In the final, the husband-wife duo came out on top with an 11-7, 13-11 scoreline in their favor. The win helped the tennis power couple’s team to the $1 million prize pool. They were also presented with electric guitars following their victory.

After sweeping the event alongside his wife, Agassi talked about the two sports — tennis and pickleball — happily coexisting.

“The sports themselves, they can live and play happily in the sandbox. There’s no reason why a tennis player can’t have a paddle in their bag and pull it out at any time. Courts are everywhere now, and I think that’s less and less”, Andre Agassi said, via USA Today Sports.

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