Tennis pros Jack Sock and Eugenie Bouchard team up at the PPA Tour Masters in California (Photo credit: Instagram @ppatour)
american tennis professional jack sock and canada’s eugenie bouchard Ready to pair in your next match PPA Tour Masters More and more tennis stars are cementing their place in the mixed doubles category. pickleball. The tournament’s qualifying rounds will conclude on January 6th, with the mixed doubles main round beginning Wednesday at 2:30 a.m. ET.
The PPA Tour Masters will be held in California from January 6th to Sunday, January 12th, and Sock and Bouchard will be the two biggest names competing in the tournament.
The PPA Tour Masters will be held at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California. This will be PPA’s first major event of 2025 and the first “major” event of the season.
This tournament is worth double points for PPA Tour professionals and is the key kickoff event of the season. The PPA Tour Masters is expected to be a very interesting one testing new pairs, including the Johns brothers who announced their parting ways last month.
PPA-contracted professional players with Gold Card status received an automatic bid into the main draw of the PPA Tour Masters single event. Pairs of signed professional players where both players have Gold Card status will also receive an automatic bid into the main draw of the doubles event.
Sock, who played in the fourth round of the French Open and US Open in 2015 and 2016, switched to pickleball in May 2023 and made his professional debut in singles, men’s doubles and mixed doubles at the PPA North Carolina Open. .
Bouchard, the 2014 Wimbledon runner-up, joined the PPA Tour last season. She was unable to repeat the success of her breakthrough season 10 years ago, when she reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open and French Open as well as the Wimbledon final.