Lee Whitwell burst onto the scene when playing Major League Pickleball. As the oldest player on a team, she was even voted the Most Valuable Player of the league. This is a fun episode where she also provide lots of tips to help improve your game.
In this episode, we discuss:
- What Lee’s friend had to do to get her to play Pickleball
- Why she thinks there are more differences between tennis and Pickleball than similarities
- Why Lee was the closer in tennis and why she is not in Pickleball
- What she does not want to do on the Pickleball court when playing the young professionals
- What it means to construct a point in Pickleball
- Lee’s experience in Major League Pickleball (MLP) and why she did not watch the draft
- Why she wanted to be the sacrificial lamb when playing singles in MLP and what her strategy was to succeed
- What it was like playing doubles with 14-year-old Anna Leigh Waters