Eight-time Grand Slam champion Andre Agassi has a message for tennis players who are still skeptical about giving pickleball a try.

"I would tell them get over it as soon as possible, because eventually they will," he said, during Saturday's broadcast of the Jenius Bank Pickleball Championships semifinals on Pickleballtv.

The tennis legend didn't stop there, of course, sharing the rationale behind his thinking.

And tennis enthusiasts should pay close attention.

"There's a pounding that tennis takes on your body from a rotational perspective that you don't have to deal with quite as much when you get on the pickleball court, so time will eventually get you to pick up the paddle. But the transition is seamless in a lot of ways, and then it challenges the mind in a lot of ways because you have to unlearn," explained Agassi. "I hate to say it, but all tennis players have PTSD, and there's something about being back in the foxhole and grinding your mind to unlearn something that is so entrenched. I think the fun that a tennis player has coming over starts with how well they know a paddle face, but then it ends up with them going through the process of maximizing what they can do, what they can't do, shot selection, reverse engineering, having to unlearn, right? It's just so healthy for the mind, the body, and it adds years to your life. It's given me a new lease on life."

Drop the mic with that ringing endorsement.

The former World No. 1 on the ATP Tour speaks so highly of America's fastest-growing for all the right reasons.

"There's a lot to experience and to explore at this stage of the growth of pickleball, like where it's really going. Participation side, it's still at this neophyte level. This is going global, and that's how I came into it. I played it during the whole lockdown. It brought my family together. I made friends. It was about community," emphasized Agassi. "Nobody's intimidated to try it. You could teach it easy, even if you're not that good at it yourself. It just brought our community together, brought our family together. Being involved with partners [like JOOLA and Life Time] that really see it the same way, like let's raise the water for all boats, I've always said that tennis and padel and pickle, they all can play nicely in the sandbox."

We couldn't agree more.