Former NASCAR driver Danica Patrick announces pivot to tennis

Danica Patrick reached large heights during her standout NASCAR and IndyCar career. Now, the retired operator is taking her talents to a caller sport.

The 42-year-old precocious revealed she started taking tennis lessons. Patrick suggested her pivot to the caller athletics centered astir the imaginable semipermanent wellness benefits.

In 2018, Forbes cited a survey from Denmark that determined that radical who regularly play racket sports could widen their lives.

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Former IndyCar Series operator Danica Patrick during the 105th Indianapolis 500 astatine Indianapolis Motor Speedway.  (Mark J. Rebilas/USA Today Sports)

"All racket sports — on with progressive sports similar hoops and shot — are believed to assistance summation lifespan, though tennis stands retired among them all," according to the study.

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Patrick posted a video discussing the imaginable benefits of racket sports. 

"Hence the tennis lessons," she captioned the station to her Instagram story.

Danica Patrick during the 102nd Indianapolis 500 astatine Indianapolis Motor Speedway successful Indianapolis May 27, 20218. (Mark J. Rebilas/USA Today Sports)

In different caller societal media post, Patrick revealed she developed an involvement successful play astir 2 years ago. 

Danica Patrick during qualifying for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Camping World RV Sales 301 astatine New Hampshire Motor Speedway July 12, 2013, successful Loudon, N.H. (Jonathan Ferrey/NASCAR via Getty Images)

"I decided to really larn however to play play astir 2 years ago. Of people it's a small seasonal, mostly for vigor successful AZ but besides enactment and skiing! I thought I yet had it figured retired past fall. Then I forgot however to deed my operator to commencement the twelvemonth off…. Until astir 10 days ago. I remembered conscionable arsenic mysteriously arsenic I forgot," she captioned an Instagram post. 

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Patrick is the astir palmy pistillate successful car racing history. She made past erstwhile she became the archetypal pistillate operator to triumph a rod successful the NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR's highest level. She retired successful 2018.

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