Salome Devidze

Salome Devidze is a Georgian tennis player turned professional pickleball player, born on 2 January 1986. She began tennis at five, moved to Florida as a child to train at the Chris Evert Tennis Academy and turned professional at sixteen, reaching a career high world ranking of 254 in singles and 250 in doubles. She was the youngest Davis Cup or Fed Cup match winner, at 13 years and 270 days, and has a win-loss record of 18 to 11 for Georgia in the Fed Cup. She has competed in the US Open, French Open and Wimbledon. After a chance game of pickleball during a visit to her brother she won her first professional gold medal within six weeks of picking up a paddle, and she has 36 pro medals on the PPA and APP tours, ranked number one on the APP and number five on the PPA.