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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

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Major League Pickleball

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