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

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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)

Alexander Crum - The Player that Played Too Well in PPA Atlanta

Alexander Crum had a great run from the qualifying rounds of the Veolia PPA Atlanta Pickleball Championships all the way to the quarterfinals. He now finds himself in a pickle.

The Dink PickleballErik Tice

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.