LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Nelly Korda didn’t take long to get comfortable with the celebrity/athlete pairings at the Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions.
She was grouped with Mardy Fish in the first round.
“We had a lot to talk about,” Korda said.
A lot of tennis to talk about.
Fish was just named the U.S. Davis Cup captain. Korda’s father, Petr Korda, won the 1998 Australian Open, and her mother, Regina, is a former Czech Republic Olympian in tennis.
Fish was 16 and playing the Australian Open Juniors when Petr won there.
“I had never met Nelly, but I know her father well, and he knows how much I love golf,” Fish said.