Genie Bouchard weighed in her opinion about the recent survey data that shows that a large majority of American amateur tennis players think they could win a game against a professional tennis player, just like her. Along with her opinion, Bouchard shared a video from Tennis Channel where Andy Roddick and Andrea Petkovic smash the results of the survey.”People are so delusional it’s crazy,” Genie Bouchard wrote on the X messaging platform.
People are so delusional it’s crazy https://t.co/k0PzP0qifa
— Genie Bouchard (@geniebouchard) August 13, 2023
As illustrated on the Tennis Channel, here are the percentages of players that think they could win a game against a professional:
71% of all players;
82% of players between ages 18-24;
47% of players above age 55.
“This is insane.
If I had so much self-confidence in my tennis game as these people who were surveyed, I would have won Wimbledon seventeen times, minimum. This is absolutely insane. There is no chance. I played an Ohio University champion back in 05′ or 06′ cuz the guy was writing a book about what could be needed to compete with a pro.
I beat him with a frying pan, a frying pan. This is insanity on the highest level. If you play at your club and you didn’t play division 1 tennis, you cannot win a game off of Novak Djokovic. Stop it. I’m sitting here as a 40-year-old.
I won 32 times on tour. I cannot win a game off of Novak Djokovic right now. And you can’t either,” Roddick said on Tennis Channel.
Kyrgios also reacted to the survey’s results
Just like Bouchard, Petkovic, and Roddick, Nick Kyrgios couldn’t restrain himself to mock the results of the survey.
“Hahahahaahah,” Kyrgios wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
American supreme self-belief, tennis version… pic.twitter.com/9j8QEYkm4d
— Jon Wertheim (@jon_wertheim) August 8, 2023
