Further proof that being super rich doesn’t make you good at tennis, or anything else really. Bill Ackman, a billionaire and the CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, got his ass kicked in his first pro-tennis doubles debut. Ackman’s partner, four-time Grand Slam champion Jack Sock, wasn’t enough to help lift the duo to a single set victory in a game that lasted “a little over an hour.”

Bill Ackman made his pro-tennis debut, entering a competitive ATP doubles tournament alongside four-time Grand Slam champion Jack Sock.

In a little over an hour it was all over, a straight-set defeat to Bernard Tomic and Omar Jasika. Former World No. 1 Andy Roddick, now a… pic.twitter.com/zV6cd7Blny

— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) July 10, 2025

Ackman posted to Twitter after the embarrassing defeat, saying he experienced “his first real experience with stage fright,” before he bragged he “regularly play(s) with mid-20-year-old D1 college players and recently retired pros on a familiar court with no audience with none of the same symptoms.”

Okay, nerd. This might be the most embarrassing instance of, “I did it, but you didn’t see it” I’ve ever heard of in my life.

I can speak in front of an audience of a thousand people or in a TV studio on a broad range of topics without any preparation and without a twinge of fear, but yesterday I had my first real experience with stage fright.

I found myself on a tennis court in a live streamed…

— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) July 10, 2025