Think your tennis background's going to save you on the pickleball court? Think again ... 'cause Genie Bouchard says the two sports aren't even remotely the same!!
The tennis star explained it all to TMZ Sports while out in Las Vegas for Super Bowl week ... saying straight up her talent with a racket did not instantaneously transfer over when she picked up a pickle paddle.
"People think there's an automatic transition from tennis to pickleball and there's not," she said. "It's a completely different sport."
Genie, of course, knows all about it firsthand.