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'no Name' Upsets The #1 Player On Both Pro Tours, In One Week | Alex Crum's Historic Pickleball Run
A 33 year-old tennis coach and part-time rapper with over 1m streams just walked in off the street and beat the #1 player on both pro tours
In the span of a week.
The Legend of Alex Crum aka AC Baby keeps growing
(Disclaimer: this article is informal with minimal formatting)
Who is Alex Crum
4-star tennis recruit in high school
Played 1 year at Dayton. Didn't pan out
Moved to Germany to coach. Moved back to the US, coaches tennis full time
Plays pickleball once a week
Unsigned
Deemed ‘no name’
Part-Time Rapper aka AC Baby (1m+ streams on Apple Music)
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Picked up a paddle at age 31
Enters the Atlanta PPA Tour men's singles qualifier at 33 years old (last week)
Wins the qualifier to make the main draw
Upsets Mota Alhouni and Zane Navratil to make round of 16
Takes down #1 Federico Staksrud (best player in the world)
Enters the APP Tour stop in NYC a week later
Upsets APP Tour #1 Chris Haworth (guy had just gone a full year without a loss in singles)
Will probably be coaching tennis on Monday.
