November 26, 2021: Top Pickleball Live Streaming Network Posts

Last week, the top Pickleball Live Streaming Network posts:

New IFP Ambassador at Large: Lee Whitwell (Country Representative: Gibraitar)

2021 APP Next Gen San Antonio: Singles

 

9:01 Hayden Patriquin vs JP Lane 33:22 Jack Foster vs Carson Loehr 1:08:29 Ethan Jauschneg vs JW Johnson 1:33:15 Yana Grechkina vs Maggie Brascia 2:05:41 Gabriel Tardio vs Jack Foster 2:42:20 Maggie Brascia vs Mary Brascia 3:11:30 Gabriel Tardio vs JW Johnson 3:38:25 Yana Grechkina vs Mary Brascia 4:04:39 Dylan Frazier vs Gabriel Tardio 4:52:55 Dylan Frazier vs JW Johnson

2021 APP Next Gen San Antonio: Doubles

 

2:30 Porter Barr/Hayden Patriquin vs Watt Stone/Luke Plough 1:01:47 Alejandro Esquivel/Alex Trevino vs Jack Foster/JP Lane 1:33:40 Maggie Brascia/Mary Brascia vs Jorja Johnson/Yana Grechkina 2:10:34 Amanda Hendry/Ivy Tschetter vs Maggie Brascia/Mary Brascia 2:47:46 Gabriel Tardio/Hercilio Cabieses vs Porter Barr/Hayden Patriquin 3:21:26 Maggie Brascia/Mary Brascia vs Jorja Johnson/Yana Grechkina 4:11:25 JW Johnson/Josh Elliott vs Gabriel Tardio/Hercilio Cabieses 4:52:34 JW Johnson/Josh Elliott vs Dylan Fraizer/JD Young

2021 APP Next Gen San Antonio: Mixed Doubles

 

13:07 JW Johnson/Mary Brascia vs Maggie Madigan/Jake Faryniarz (Commentary: Lee Whitwell, Lauren McLaughlin) 39:19 Jack Foster/Amanda Hendry vs Brooklyn Copenhaver/Brian Hickman

1:03:17 Dylan Frazier/Yana Grechkina vs JW Johnson/Mary Brascia 1:53:54 DJ Young/Maggie Brasica vs Jorja Johnson/Watt Stone 2:35:05 Dylan Frazier/Yana Grechkina vs DJ Young/Maggie Brasica (Commentary: Julie Johnson, Lauren McLaughlin) 3:23:16 JW Johnson/Mary Brascia vs Jorja Johnson/Watt Stone 3:48:16 JW Johnson/Mary Brascia vs DJ Young/Maggie Brasica 4:52:47 JW Johnson/Mary Brascia vs Dylan Frazier/Yana Grechkina (Commentary: Lee Whitwell, Lauren McLaughlin)

November 19, 2021: Top Pickleball Live Streaming Network Posts

Last week, the top Pickleball Live Streaming Network posts:

Takeaways from the PPA Tour Masters

Highlight Reel (10+ mins)

2021 PPA Masters

Mixed Doubles GOLD Medal

Riley Newman/Lindsey Newman Pickleball vs. Matt Wright/ Lucy Kovalova

Watch All PPA Masters Matches Streamed On YouTube

NML Pickleball Rankings 2.0 – Singles

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It’s been a hot minute since we have done any rankings but the people have been asking for them! After promising new rankings for a while, we are here to deliver. Over 6 months of tournaments have elapsed since our last installment of rankings and it really is fascinating to see how much has changed in that period of time, which is keeping in the spirit of the rapid evolution of pickleball. We’re splitting up our rankings into three parts just like last time- singles, mixed doubles and doubles. We have singles today, mixed doubles will be posted tomorrow and we’ll start off your Monday next week with the doubles rankings – that is what people in the business call a tease folks. So here it is, the second installment of the definitive NML PIckleball player rankings.

For your additional reading pleasure, here are the links to our previous rankings – Singles Rankings 1.0, Mixed Rankings 1.0, Doubles Rankings 1.0

Top 5 Women

1. Anna Leigh Waters – The last time we did player rankings, we asked the question, why doesn’t Anna Leigh play more singles? This was after the US Open, where she had taken bronze in singles, but it was her first time playing singles this year. Since then she has competed in singles in every tournament she has played in. In her last 7 tournaments, Anna Leigh has come away with 5 gold medals and 2 silver medals, so it is safe to say she has found her stride in singles. Her rolling shots tend to keep opponents on their heels, and her great court coverage allows her to keep a lot of balls in play, forcing opponents to hit more shots than they would like to. When returning serve, I think she needs to continue to work on coming to the net consistently and forcing opponents to make difficult passing shots. #1 or not, always things to improve. (Read More)

Pickleball - The Fastest Growing Sport in America

 

The Sports Medicine Orthopod
Calvin Song, a Fresno St tennis coach and Selkirk-sponsored Pickleballer, joins us to break down this wildly popular phenomenon.

We talk evolution of the game, the mass appeal, how it is viewed in the tennis community, and it’s future. Could it be the next Olympic sports?

Calvin offers his unique perspective as someone who plays and coaches both tennis and pickleball, the differences and similarities not only in the sports themselves but in the injuries we see in Sports Medicine.

APP Tour receives endorsement of newly formed Super Senior Pro Council

A newly formed Super Senior Pro Council chaired by Mark “Yoda” Friedenberg and co chaired by Chris Powers have endorsed the APP Tour as the tour for the Super Seniors.

The APP Tour, the Official Pro Partner of USA Pickleball, has also received the endorsement of the Senior Pro Council earlier this fall.

“APP’s vision for the Super Senior Pros will be to grow, embellish and showcase these pioneer leaders in our sport by offering two “pilot” tour stops early in the 2022 calendar with our tier I tournaments in Delray Beach, Florida (60 & above) and Prescott, Arizona (65 & above)”, says CEO & Creative Founder Ken Herrmann.

APP will add prize money for these talented pros and their tour will be treated and respected just like the amateur, pro and senior pro tours currently established with APP.

“The Super Senior Council is thrilled to collaborate with Ken Hermann and APP”, says Powers.
“We are confident that this is going to be a win-win for everyone and thank you Ken Hermann and your fantastic APP team for ALL you do to represent not only amateurs, Pros and Senior Pros, but now Super Senior Pros as well.”

“For the Super Seniors, the future is now! Thank you Ken Hermann for believing in the Super Seniors! They will enhance the APP Tour by showcasing the Super Seniors to all players, spectators and video viewers and further grow this exciting game we all love!” says Mark Friedenberg.

The Super Senior Pro Council consists of six individuals, many of whom have been inducted into The Pickleball Hall of Fame. (Facebook Post)

Members are:
Mark “Yoda”Friedenberg (Chair)
Chris Powers (Co Chair)
Cookie Drake
Jim Hackenberg
Hillary Marold

Jon Post 

NOTE: On October 10, the Senior Pro Council announced their APP Tour endorsement.

Pickleball Podcast 90 - Lee Whitwell 2021 Major League Pickleball MVP

 

Eddie and Webby Interview with Lee Whitwell, 2021 Major League Pickleball MVP 

Discussion Topics

7:00 Major League Pickleball 9:38 New Partnerships 11:40 What made your MLP team so special? D- on paper, A+ Performance 11:56 Oldest pro player 13:18 At the end of the day, the word pickle is in our sport 14:54 Having fun 15:59 The singles format 17:32 Team Clean Tie-Breaker 20:19 Match-ups 23:12 Are you dangling that carrot? 25:11 Ripping That Shot

27:23 Being mic'd up 30:01 More feedback regarding live mics 31:55 Fines if you cussed on camera 32:40 Lee's Signature Move

33:29 APP Tour - Next Gen 34:43 SoCal Classic 36:10 70 year old dudes 38:13 Getting the MLP MVP Award 42:34 Lee is not from America 43:10 Moving to Oregon and discovering pickleball 45:56 Playing at the pro level 50:08 In Pickleball, there is no such thing as a winner

51:23 Reset, reset, Erne!! 52:06 If I was playing against Anna Leigh... 54:31 Spartan Lee!! As One!!!! 56:50 Coming to the USA 58:09 Living in the USA - What shocked you? 59:12 San Diego/Bend, OR/Florida/Europe

1:01:05 What's next - 2022 1:04:20 NextGen: Julie/Jorja/JW Johnson How to interview correctly Shape and form Next Generation 1:07:56 Egomaniacs 1:09:17 MLP cuss fines 1:10:11 How does Pickleball get to the next level? Growth 1:16:02 Tennis players coming into the scene 1:17:07 Worst match experience 1:19:44 Partnership strategy 1:24:29 Lee I got to tell you... 1:26:39 Beer City Open 2021 1:28:06 Congrats on your success - For the record: 1st interview since MLP 1:29:09 Closing comments

2021 Major League Pickleball: Lee Whitwell MVP

 

Lee Whitwell World of Pickleball - MLP MVP Thank you

Lee Whitwell, 47, Named 2021 Major League Pickleball Season One MVP 

Day 1

Team Clean vs Chimeras

2:43:11 Callie Smith/Corrine Carr vs Anna Leigh Waters/Lee Whitwell

2:50:14 Highlight 2:52:11 Highlight 2:54:21 Highlight 2:55:25 Highlight 2:57:30 Highlight (Highlight Reel Work In Progress - Seeking Highlight Helpers) 2:58:00 Highlight 2:59:58 Highlight 3:02:20 Highlight 3:02:52 Highlight 3:03:28 Highlight 3:04:28 Highlight ATP

4:21:48 Lee Whitwell/AJ Koller vs Adam Stone/Corrine Carr

4:21:49 4:34:31

4:37:20 4:43:00 4:43:43 4:54:22 Singles (Lee Whitwell Highlights)

4:54:43 4:59:08 AL 4:59:33 4:59:52 5:00:22

ATX Pickleball vs Chimeras

7:44:57 Catherine Parenteau​/Yana Grechkina vs Anna Leigh Waters/Lee Whitwell 8:27:48 Catherine Parenteau​/Tyler Loong vs AJ Koller/Lee Whitwell

Day 2

Team BLQK vs Chimeras 

2:45:15 Andrea Koop/Irina Tereschenko vs Lee Whitwell/Anna Leigh Waters 4:23:08 Andrea Koop/Rob Nunnery vs Lee Whitwell/AJ Koller

Team Rally vs Chimeras 0:05 Susannah Barr/Jessie Irvine vs Lee Whitwell/Anna Leigh Waters 1:19:12 Dylan Frazier/Susannah Barr vs Lee Whitwell/AJ Koller

Day 3

The Lions vs Chimeras 14:58 Lee Whitwell/Anna Leigh Waters vs Michelle Esquivel/Lauren Stratman 1:17:36 Lee Whitwell/AJ Koller vs Collin Johns/Michelle Esquivel 1:43:52 Singles

Lee Whitwell does it again!! She takes 4 out of 8 points against Jay Devilliers to lead the Chimeras to victory in the singles tie-breaker. They are now 5-0 and she is 10-0 in her doubles matches. Highlight Point

Chimeras vs Discovery Warriors

11:31:20 Lee Whitwell/Anna Leigh Waters vs Lea Jansen/Vivienne David

Lee Whitwell/AJ Koller vs Vivienne David/Zane Navratil (Not Recorded)

Day 4

Chimeras vs Pickleball Ranchers 4:06:47 Lee Whitwell/Anna Leigh Waters vs Leigh Waters/Lindsey Newman 5:27:32 Lee Whitwell/AJ Koller v Riley Newman/Lindsey Newman 6:02:31 Singles

Resources

• Finals: Doubles Highlight Point - Lee Slams Home A Winner
• Eddie and Webby Interview Nov. 15, 2021
• The Kitchen Interview Nov. 30, 2021
• MLP Lee Whitwell Highlight Reel (43+ mins)