Sam Querrey might need been envious — so he did as Eugenie Bouchard did.
Early this week, the Canadian-born tennis and pickleball participant Bouchard turned heads with a photoshoot during which she was sporting, you guessed it, a inexperienced bikini whereas working in a yard.
“Sundays are for yard work,” she captioned her Instagram publish as she raked leaves and sprayed a water hose.
Properly, Querrey, a former U.S. tennis star who retired in 2022 and present pickleball participant, did his personal model of the photograph collection, making the identical actual poses out in a yard however topless and in a inexperienced bathing swimsuit.
“How’d I do @geniebouchard? @si_swimsuit I await your name,” he wrote in his caption.
Not solely did Bouchard seemingly love the photographs, however she commented on the Instagram publish with a name to motion.
“Let’s do a joint photograph shoot subsequent time,” she wrote.
On her Instagram Story, she shared the photographs of Querrey just a few occasions, writing in a single publish: “Screaming, crying throwing up” all in capital letters.
She then added that Querrey is her “fav particular person on the planet!!!!!”
Social media appeared to get a kick out of Querrey’s photographs, with tennis participant Alison Riske-Amritraj commenting on the principle publish: “Unsuitable kini,” in jest.
Querrey gained 10 profession singles titles and ranked as excessive as No. 11 on the planet within the ATP rankings throughout his profession that noticed him win 385 matches earlier than his retirement in 2022.
He then joined pickleball’s PPA Tour — which Bouchard is now a part of — in 2023.
Bouchard mentioned in January she will not be retiring from tennis however including pickleball as one other endeavor to her athletic profession.
However that didn’t imply the previous No. 5-ranked WTA participant wasn’t nervous for her first PPA match in January.
“I’m like that child going to a brand new faculty who goes to the cafeteria and doesn’t have any mates or know the place something is,” Bouchard instructed ESPN then. “I’m fully nervous. I’m a wreck. I’m nervous for enjoying, in fact, as a result of that is so new to me.
“However past that, I’m undoubtedly anxious slightly bit and questioning what it’s going to be like strolling round a match or a locker room.”
