AAP Delray Beach Open Pro Women's Final On CBS Sports Network

2021 Northpointe Bank APP Delray Beach Open

Pro Women's Doubles Gold Medal Final

Leigh Waters/Anna Leigh Waters vs. the World's #1 woman, Simone Jardim/#2 ranked Catherine Parenteau

CBS Sports Network Saturday April 3rd at 8pm EST

AAPTV Presents THIRD SHOT DRIVE STRATEGIES with Leigh Waters

 

One of the most effective shots in pickleball, Coach Dominic Catalano dives deep with Leigh Waters to understand strategies behind the third shot drive.

Sun-Sentinel: Delray Beach Pickleball Open attracts 835 competitors

Leigh Waters reaches to return a shot as her daughter Anna Leigh looks on in the Women’s Pro Doubles event in the $60,000 Delray Open Pickleball Open, an APP Tour Professional and amateur event, which took place March 18-21 at the Delray Beach Tennis Center. (Gary Curreri/Contributor)

 Delray Beach Pickleball Open attracts 835 competitors  

“It is pretty cool, especially to have it in our hometown where it all started for us,” Leigh said. “It’s a $60,000 tournament and a lot of people came because we are hosting it and we are really excited about the opportunity. I love playing with Anna Leigh. The day she wants to move on (from playing with her) is the day I become her coach.”

“The Pro-Celebrity event was so much fun,” she said. “It benefited the first responders and obviously we are so thankful for them and the past year has been extra special. We just mixed around and we were running from court to court mixing in and everybody was having a blast. I think we raised a lot of money for them.”

Leigh Waters said it was nice to return to some sense of normalcy with the tournament. They opted to take the year off last year when COVID-19 hit. 

Anna Leigh, who takes online classes and is a ninth-grader (a year ahead), said it is incredible to be a professional pickleball player at her age.

“I get to travel around the world playing pickleball,” she said. “I get to do it with my mom too and I am making experiences that I wouldn’t have had if I didn’t play pickleball.

“There are a lot more people coming in who are really good,” Anna Leigh said. “The sport is evolving as more people are coming in. The game is getting faster and some of the points are really incredible.” 

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APP Delray Beach Pickleball Open

$60k Delray Beach Pickleball Open March 18-21

Hosted by Paddletek's Leigh & Anna Leigh Waters & Engage Pickleball's Steve Kennedy

Livestreaming starts Thursday March 18

CBS Sports Network will be broadcasting the Women's Pro Doubles Final Saturday Night!

Inside WORLD Pickleball TV Show Promo Reel

WPTV News Channel 5: Professional pickleball tournament kicks off in Delray Beach

Sun-Sentinel: Delray Beach Pickleball Open attracts 835 competitors

TeamWaters Are Multi-generational Role Models

APP Delray Beach Open YouTube Playlist Match List With Highlights

Match highlights with a three minute interview at the end

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Pickleball Fire Magazine March 2021

 

 Leigh and Anna Leigh Waters are featured on the cover of Pickleball Fire magazine. 

Feature Article: Winning with Aggressive Pickleball 

Leigh wrote an instructional article for the March issue entitled, "5 Tips For Attacking Dinks".

As you probably know by now, Anna Leigh and I are known for being aggressive and playing an attacking game. Attacking the dink is a big part of our aggressive strategy.
You don’t have to play like us or become a “banger” to incorporate the dink attack.
In fact, adding this type of attack to a finesse game will create that element of surprise and unpredictability that wins so many free points. Let’s look at some tips that will help you become successful in attaching dinks from your opponent. (Read More)

#TeamWaters Tuesday Talks Car conversations with #AL

 

Time Code Discussion List

• 0:37 Talk about that exercise you do at cross training. The one that's like so torturous. Where you're actually on the ground and somehow you're like a contortionist with the one leg up on a chair. (Thursday Session: Video)
• 2:02 Do you know what next week is? APP $60,000 Delray Beach Open
• 2:35 How is it different when you have a tournament at home?
• 3:55 What do you think about playing in that stadium?
• 5:06 Tell them about where we went yesterday for linner. Why do we have linner?
• 7:46 This weekend was pretty exciting. (Photo)
• 9:12 Talk about your (soccer) position.
• 9:50 It's the finals. So you can't tie.
• 12:24 The penalty kick: What is going through your head?
• 14:13 When you go out to drill, in pickleball, do you just kind of want to go out and hit all the shots. Like I want to dink every which way. I want to drop every which way.
• Take some drives and then play a couple points. Or do you like to go out and only want to focus on this shot and I want to do all the drill around this shot and I want to get better?
• 15:27 What happens when you practice sloppy?
• 15:37 What this coach said is - practice makes permanent.

#TeamWaters Tuesday Talks Car conversations with #AL #2

#TeamWaters Thursday Thoughts Car Conversations with #AL

 

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Simone Jardim Florida Grand Slam

Women's Doubles 

8:03 Jessie Irvine/Irina Tereschenko vs Leigh Waters/Anna Leigh Waters (Highlights)

3:31:51 Jessie Irvine/Irina Tereschenko vs Leigh Waters/Anna Leigh Waters (Highlights)

 

Mixed Doubles 

• 50:18 Tyson McGuffin/Leigh Waters vs Lucy Kovalova/Matt Wright
• 2:11:18 Tyson McGuffin/Leigh Waters vs Steve Deakin/Catherine Parenteau
• 2:47:31 Tyson McGuffin/Leigh Waters vs Corrine Carr/Joey Farias
• 3:16:24 Tyson McGuffin/Leigh Waters vs Lucy Kovalova/Matt Wright