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

Mother-daughter pickleball duo are transcending the sport

 

Chierstin Susel, Channel 12  (KPNX-TV, NBC)

PHOENIX — Pickleball is no longer your grandfather’s sport. Mother-daughter duo Leigh and Anna Leigh Waters are proof.

The duo picked up the sport back in 2017 when they evacuated their home in Florida due to Hurricane Irma and stayed with Leigh’s parents for a couple of weeks. 

Leigh’s dad introduced them to the sport and from there they were hooked.

“I think we played like morning, noon and night for two weeks straight while we were up there and the rest is history,” said Leigh.

Leigh is a former collegiate tennis player and her 14-year-old daughter also picked up the sport which made it an easy transition to pickleball, but they never imagined it would take them to where they are now.

They were on their way to winning three straight majors when the COVID-19 pandemic hit and halted sports, now they’re hoping to pick up where they left off.

They’ve returned with a new clothing sponsor and are now not only fierce but fashionable competitors that get noticed everywhere they go.

“We’re like totally into fashion,” said Leigh. “We get to pick our own patterns, what you see us wearing we’ve actually picked out and helped design along with the company (Faye+Florie).  

Together, they’ve helped transcend pickleball, the fastest-growing sport in the country. 

The duo competed in the PPA Foot Solutions Arizona Grand Slam Qualifier this weekend. 

2021 Professional Pickleball Association (PPA) Foot Solutions Arizona Grand Slam Qualifier

 

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 Professional Pickleball Association Arizona Grand Slam Qualifier Promo Reel.

Highlight Point: TeamWaters vs Jessie Irvine/Irina Tereschenko (Watch Match, Highlight Reel)

The First Three Shots of Pickleball

 

Coach Toui Pomsouvan uses Anna Leigh's game footage to showcase "The First Three Shots Of Pickleball"