Tennis is Andrea Petkovic's primary passion. If she wasn't chasing the bouncing ball, Petkovic would have pursued her palate to her dream job: taste tester.
She concedes her restaurant reviews might be a bit sketchy though.
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"That would be my dream job. If I was not a tennis player, I'd be a restaurant-tester," Petkovic reveals in this video interview with host and Tennis Now friend Nick McCarvel at the Volvo Car Open in Charleston. "I'd just walk from restaurant to restaurant, test the food, the wine, I mean 'test.' I'd write 'Wine was okay, I think, because I don't remember because of wine.' "
Petkovic, whose father was a top singles standout for South Carolina, has a taste for southern cooking.
"I fry everything at home," Petkovic concedes.
Before the sixth-seeded Petkovic played her opening-round match against Monica Puig tonight, the 2014 Charleston champion sat down with good buddy and 2007 champion Jelena Jankovic for this Uncensored Charleston interview. Hilarity ensued.
Asked what path she would have pursued if not for tennis, Jankovic replies "housewife."
"For a little bit, I'd like to be a housewife," Jankovic says. "I'd have to get myself going and do something. I love design."
"I would (design) some sexy outfit for (you)," Jankovic tells Petkovic. "So (you) can get some cute guy."
"We should finish this up, it's getting out of hand," a laughing Petkovic replies.
Charleston has became an annual site of clay-court magic and interview mayhem for the pair.
This is the sequel to the classic Charleston interview Petkovic and Jankovic conducted last year.
Watch Jankovic pretty much run out of fingers counting down everything she eliminated from her diet, while Petkovic recounts her visit to a New York City sports bar to experience American college football amid rabid Florida State fans.