Red Bull Racing’s third man, Robert Doornbos, is set to join in the tennis action in the week leading up to the season opening Australian Grand Prix when he joins the likes of local hero and RTed Bull teammate, Mark Webber, and sister racer, Toro Rosso man Scott Speed for the Melbourne Pit Stop Tennis Pro Am match.

Before Robert launched his motorsport career by attending the 1998 Belgian Grand Prix, the young Dutchman was looking into becoming a tennis pro in The Netherlands. Therefore, he didn’t take long to think about his answer when long when he was invited by Dutch broadcaster RTV Rijnmond to visit the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in his hometown of Rotterdam and after watching the game between Ferrer and Roche, the young F1 racer was very keen to play against one of RTV’s reporters as the cameras rolled.

Now that he has been invited by the Mark Webber Challenge Foundation to take part in the Melbourne Pit Stop Tennis Pro Am game on the Tuesday before the Australian GP, he simply couldn’t pass up the opportunity to join in the fun alongside Webber, Speed, Albers, Wurz, Heidfeld and double world champion Fernando Alonso, who will also attend the event.