Anna Leigh Waters

[1] She was the youngest professional pickleball player in history at age 12, and is known for playing doubles in a team with her mother, Leigh Waters.

Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, she moved with her family to Clinton, North Carolina, as an infant, where she spent the first eight years of her childhood.

In 2017, during Hurricane Irma, her family temporarily visited her grandparents in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where she and her mother began to play pickleball.

She has also played pickleball games with swimmer Michael Phelps, actor Jamie Foxx, boxer Sugar Ray Leonard, and golfers Scottie Scheffler, Jordan Spieth.,[2] she also played against football legends Larry Fitzgerald and Danny Wuerffel, and NHL player Kris Draper.

In 2021, she also won gold in singles at the Newport Beach Showcase, Orlando Cup, and Texas Open, as well as the Margaritaville USA Pickleball Nationals Championship.

[6] In 2022, Waters and her mother were in the first nationally televised pickleball match in history on CBS Sports, in which they defeated Lucy Kovalova and Callie Smith at the Skechers Invitational Summer Championship at the Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles.