Jessica Korda's Family History and Multisport Childhood Journey

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00:00Last part of this interview, we got to talk about is your family history, which is, uh,

00:07it's so interesting.

00:08Like, I didn't realize until just doing some just basic research before talking with you

00:12today, Jess, of your Czech background.

00:15I didn't know, I thought like just like full on American Jessica Korda, but I didn't, you've

00:20played for like the Czech team.

00:21Um, Oh, wow.

00:22You really did something.

00:23Yeah.

00:24I, I was like, what in the world, how did I miss this?

00:27But if most of, I mean, we got Nellie, we got Sebastian, who's an incredible men, male

00:33tennis player.

00:34And then your parents who, you know, your, your dad, Peter, is it pronounced Peter?

00:38I assume that's what we're missing an E in there.

00:42So I just was making sure it wasn't something else.

00:44And then your mother who was a fantastic woman's tennis player.

00:47So I guess my first question in this would be having two tennis parents, were you pushed

00:54into anything as a kid?

00:56Because I heard you say earlier that five years old, you're swinging a golf club.

01:00I would imagine that tennis would be something that's easily like, Hey, Jess, you're the

01:03first let's get that tennis racket going.

01:06Um, they never pushed us to play a specific sport.

01:10Um, we were always encouraged to play all sports.

01:13I mean, I did gymnastics, figure skating, um, golf, tennis, ski, like we did all the

01:21sports as soon as we were able to.

01:23Like we were encouraged to do everything.

01:26And then whatever kind of fell into our lap in terms of the love for is what we ended

01:32up doing.

01:33Um, I love gymnastics and figure skating, but with an almost six foot frame, I did not,

01:39they did not see that as a future for me.

01:42So, and living in Florida, you know, that's just, again, not something that was, was a

01:48feasible goal.

01:49So I was encouraged to play like golf and tennis, and I did not like tennis at all.

01:56I love watching it.

01:57I, the rumor is I didn't like to sweat, which haha jokes on me because you also sweat and

02:02golf.

02:03Um, but I just loved golf because I was able to play with everybody.

02:09Like I could go play with my grandpa.

02:10I could go play with my dad.

02:11I could go play with the kids.

02:12My age, most of my friends are five years older than me or four or five years older

02:17than me.

02:18So I was playing off the guys tease and, um, as an eight year old, like tip tipped

02:24out, but I was able to play, you know, with these cool kids and I loved every moment of

02:30it.

02:31And that's like what motivated me to play golf is I could play with anybody and everybody.

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