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Tennis player Petros Tsitsipas sends cheeky request to Aston Villa star Alisha Lehmann on Instagram, she responded

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Published 15:17 23 Feb 2023 GMT

Tennis player Petros Tsitsipas sends cheeky request to Aston Villa star Alisha Lehmann on Instagram, she responded

Alisha Lehmann posted photos of herself and Switzerland teammates Geraldine Reuteler and Rachel Rinast on her Instagram profile.

Adnan Riaz

Adnan Riaz

Greek tennis player Petros Tsitsipas sent a cheeky request to Aston Villa Women star Alisha Lehmann on Instagram after spotting her playing tennis.

Lehmann was away on international duty with Switzerland Women and took the time to flex her tennis skills on the court, which she shared with her legion of Instagram followers.

The 24-year-old Aston Villa forward posted photos of herself and Switzerland teammates Geraldine Reuteler and Rachel Rinast posing with tennis racquets.

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Lehmann, who boasts a staggering 11.8 million Instagram followers, caught the eye of the 22-year-old Tsitsipas with her social media post.

“Let’s play Mixed [sic]?” Tsitsipas wrote to Lehmann in the comments, adding a tennis ball emoji and eyes emoji.

Aston Villa star Lehmann acknowledged Tsitsipas’ post and responded by accepting his invitation for a mixed double match.

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“Let’s go,” she responded, adding a laughing face emoji and a tennis ball emoji.

Lehmann, who previously played for West Ham Women and Everton Women, has captured a large following on social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok.

Petros Tsitsipas sent a request to Alisha Lehmann on Instagram, and the Aston Villa Women star responded to the Greek tennis player.
Alisha Lehmann/Instagram

The Switzerland international has insisted that she is more than a social media personality and believes she can use her platform to help promote women’s football.

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“England probably is the picture everyone should look at because I don’t think in other countries it increased that much,” Lehmann told talkSPORT.

“In Switzerland, for example, everyone’s still working, 90 per cent probably still work.

“I don’t think you can compare like anything between women’s and men’s football because it’s just so different how people look at us and how people look at them.

“It’s just not the same. Women’s football is always second-class. I don’t think you’ll ever be first class because I think a lot of people still think that men’s football is the first priority.

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“They don’t think about women’s football and I think that’s a big problem. Now social media is really helpful because people actually see, oh, we play football, we can play football.”

READ MORE:

  • Aston Villa star Alisha Lehmann says she is more than social media personality and is ‘proper footballer’
  • Alisha Lehmann asked Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi by fan, she didn’t hesitate with her response
  • Alisha Lehmann and Douglas Luiz have reportedly ‘split up’ after row over calendar
Featured Image Credit: Alisha Lehmann's Instagram/Alamy

Topics: Womens Football, Football, Tennis

Adnan Riaz
Adnan Riaz

Adnan Riaz is a journalist for SPORTbible. He studied for a B.A. in History at the University of York and followed it up with an M.A. in Multimedia Journalism at MMU. Before he started writing about sports, he spent over four years in the gaming press. He has worked for several publications, including Hardcore Gamer, LADbible and the Manchester Evening News. Follow him on Twitter to find out what he is working on next. Got a story tip for Adnan? Email him: [email protected]

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