Former tennis pro Sam Querrey and the D.C. Pickleball Team open the 2023 MLP season on Thursday in Arizona.
, according to the most recent report by the Sports & Fitness Industry Association. MLP’s high-profile investors are betting the sport — a combination of tennis, badminton and table tennis — is more than a passing fad, with Steve Kuhn, who founded the league in 2021, setting a goal of 40 million players at all levels by 2030.with the rival Professional Pickleball Association’s VIBE league in November and expanding to 24 teams, MLP’s six-event 2023 schedule kicks off Thursday in Mesa, Ariz.
At his first pro pickleball event in Rancho Mirage, Calif., two weeks ago, Querrey, who has played recreationally for about five years, lost his first-round singles, doubles and mixed-doubles matches. Afterward, a fan approached him to say he should be more humble and that he wasn’t good for the sport.“Of course, he was out there in the front row watching,” Querrey said. “There’s a curiosity factor.”Pickleball first popped up on D.C.
“A lot of these people had the same experience,” Porter said of MLP’s star-studded lineup of investors. “You’re seeing pickleball everywhere you go, and this is an opportunity to be part of something and take it to the next level.”
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