Mother-daughter duo Leigh and Anna Leigh Waters #AL have quickly become a pickleball sensation as they have racked up titles over the past few years competing as doubles partners (ABC News)
Saturday, October 29, 2022
Thursday, October 27, 2022
The Picklebowl 2022
1:36:52 Anna Leigh Waters/Danny Duncan vs Leigh Waters/Connor Shaw
THE BRUNSWICK NEWS: PickleBowl coming to Golden Isles for Georgia-Florida week
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
2022 PPA DC Open
Singles
Doubles
1:50:02 Anna Leigh Waters/Leigh Waters vs R. Johanson/M. Charity
55:05 Anna Leigh Waters/Leigh Waters vs Lea Jansen/Katherine Parenteau
Mixed Doubles
50:39 Ben Johns/Anna Leigh Waters vs H. Jones/C. Zalinski
2:38:22 Ben Johns/Anna Leigh Waters vs Spencer Smith/Alyse Jones
4:50:41 Ben Johns/Anna Leigh Waters vs Jessie Irvine/Jay Devilliers
3:10:43 Leigh Waters/Tyson McGuffin vs Lucy Kovalova/Matt Wright
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Meet the teen queen of professional pickleball
She plays doubles with her mom, is sponsored by Fila and says college can wait: Pickleball’s Anna Leigh Waters is the face of an exploding sport.
The Washington Post By Rick Maese
Anna Leigh Waters is 15 years old, which is almost a footnote considering all the unexpected turns and opportunities of the past year. Not long ago, she was a promising soccer player with her sights set on college, perhaps even the pros. That feels like a long time ago now.
Now she is one of the biggest stars in professional pickleball, her skyrocketing prospects aligning perfectly with the explosion of the sport.
Nearly every week, she’s posting wins in singles, doubles and mixed doubles, the “triple crown” at Professional Pickleball Association tournaments. She’s locked into major endorsements with bigger deals likely on the horizon and has played with the swimmer Michael Phelps, actor Jamie Foxx, boxing great Sugar Ray Leonard and golfers Scottie Scheffler and Jordan Spieth.
“The timing has been just absolutely perfect,” said her mother and doubles partner, Leigh Waters. “Between her age and the way her game is developing and the way the sport is developing, it’s all like coming together.” (Read More)
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
This Mother-Daughter Duo is Dominating the Pickleball Scene
FLAMINGO MAGAZINE by ERIC BARTON
South Floridians Leigh and Anna Leigh Waters are changing the face of the game from a retiree favorite to the most competitive sport on the court. Oh, and they can't stop winning.
For Leigh Waters, that moment all parents fear, and also hope will one day come to pass, happened at a restaurant called Chicken N Pickle.
It’s a place in Kansas that, as you might guess, serves fried chicken. It also has courts for pickleball, a sport that’s a mix between tennis and Ping-Pong.
This was in 2019, and Leigh, now 43 years old, had been playing pickleball for two years at that point. She was immediately good at it—so good that she went pro. She even quit her job as an attorney at a big firm to spend more time playing pickleball.
Then, she had that match at Chicken N Pickle. It was mixed doubles—the bronze medal match—and across from her on the court was her daughter, her best friend, her mini-me: Anna Leigh. Her daughter was only 13 at the time, but she was also getting good. Very good.
At the time, this was perhaps the most important tournament in pro pickleball history with the biggest prize money yet. The mixed-doubles champs would split $10,000 at this tournament, the Franklin Pickleball Masters. Leigh Waters was, as she still is today, one of the top-ranked pickleball players in the world. And yet still, Anna Leigh won, which was the first time she’d beaten her mom. (Read More)
Thursday, October 13, 2022
PPA Tour Roundup - Celebrity Pro-Am
Commentary: Leigh Waters/Tony Romo/Dave Fleming
42:53 Dirk Nowitzki/John Isner vs Jorden Spieth/Scottie Scheffler
56:26 Dirk Nowitzki/Lea Jansen vs Meghan Dizon/Tony Romo
1:01:57 Dirk Nowitzk/Riley Newman vs Tony Romo/Spencer Smith
1:15:15 Anna Leigh Waters/Scottie Scheffler vs Jordan Spieth/Catherine Parenteau
1:24:05 Ben Johns/Scottie Scheffler vs Jordan Spieth/Tyler Loong
1:35:49 Lea Jansen/Jordan Spieth vs Jessie Irvine/John Isner
1:41:42 Dirk Nowitzk/Riley Newman vs Jay Devilliers/John Isner
1:49:43 Anna Leigh Waters/Jordan Spieth vs Jessie Irvine/John Isner
2:00:11 Ben Johns/Jordan Spieth vs Jay Devilliers/John Isner
2:09:59 Dirk Nowitzki/John Isner vs Jorden Spieth/Scottie Scheffler
Sunday, October 9, 2022
2022 PPA Las Vegas Championships
Singles
5:56:00 Anna Leigh Waters vs Catherine Parenteau (Gold)
2:52:40 Anna Leigh Waters vs Mary Brascia 5:41:15 Anna Leigh Waters vs Irina Tereschenko
Doubles
2:28:11 Anna Leigh Waters/Leigh Waters vs Anna Bright/Parris Todd (Gold)
2:38:18 Anna Leigh Waters/Leigh Waters vs Yana Grechkina/Regina Franco Goldberg
Mixed Doubles
1:08:16 Anna Leigh Waters/Ben Johns vs Catherine Parenteau/JW Johnson (Gold)
2:02:06 Ben Johns/Anna Leigh Waters vs Vivienne David/Zane Navratil 5:03:24 Ben Johns/Anna Leigh Waters vs AJ Koller/Callie Smith 8:05:10 Ben Johns/Anna Leigh Waters vs Lindsey Newman/Riley Newman
6:42:26 Tyson McGuffin/Leigh Waters vs Lindsey Newman/Riley Newman
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