‘This Brady Guy’: Chris Evert, Eugenie Bouchard and Tennis Community Reacts to Tom Brady’s Crazy NFL Playoffs Game

It is not just the Australian Open that the tennis community has been watching lately. In fact, many stars from the tennis circuit have been keeping a close eye on the NFL Playoffs as well. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Los Angeles Rams engaged in a mouth-watering contest. NFL Legend Tom Brady’s Buccaneers staged a second-half comeback that almost saw them through to the finish line.

Sadly, the Tampa Bay team fell short 27-30 as the final whistle rang. Here are the best reactions from tennis stars about a game that had everybody on the edge of their seats.

Tennis stars react to NFL Playoffs game

The NFL playoffs surely are a sight to behold. The best teams in the league go head to head against each other in matches to remember. Moreover, there are always many shocking results, and comeback runs that nobody saw coming.

That was exactly the case today, when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were down 3-20 at one point against the Los Angeles Rams. However, there was much football left to be played in the match, especially for the Buccaneers.

As the Buccaneers went on a 24-10 run in the second half, they fell just short of a victory. Of course, the match itself got the world talking, and the tennis fraternity was no exception. 18-time Grand Slam champion Chris Evert took to Twitter to praise Tom Brady.

Canadian star Eugenie Bouchard tweeted that “this Bucs-Rams game” was one to keep an eye on. NY Times correspondent Christopher Clarey, writer of the biography on Roger Federer, too, was involved.

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Eugenie Bouchard remembers NFL-induced dates

Canadian tennis star Eugenie Bouchard reacted to a tweet that called back to an old incident. In 2017, Eugenie had agreed to go on a date with a student from the University of Missouri.

This was because the Atlanta Falcons seemed locked-in to win against Tom Brady’s New England Patriots. Thus, for the Patriots, winning seemed like a one-in-a-million shot. This is exactly why the university student asked her out on a date if the Patriots won.

Bouchard, confident in the Falcons, agreed, only to have the Falcons fall to the Patriots’ comeback by the end of the match. All said and done, the NFL Playoffs had taken another victim with their surprise results and comeback wins.

Today, as the Buccaneers staged their own comeback run to almost clinch the game, someone tweeted asking if there was anyone who was going to ask Eugenie on another date.

“Getting tweets like this neverrrr gets old,” Bouchard tweeted, laughing at the memory of 2017. No matter what, the one thing all athletes and viewers can agree on, is that the NFL playoffs surely get everybody’s hearts racing!

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