Major League Pickleball, or MLP, is a professional pickleball league that was formed in 2021 by Steve Kuhn in Dripping Springs, Texas. In its first year the league had eight teams and drew both APP and PPA players. In its second year it grew to twelve teams, although the PPA no longer allowed its players to take part. Each team consists of two men and two women, chosen through a dual snake draft designed to make the teams as competitive as possible. The winning team at each of the competitions scheduled for 2022 was to win 25,000 dollars for each team member and to be awarded the Pritchard Cup. The league expanded to sixteen teams in 2023, with expansion teams bought by figures from other sports, among them NFL quarterbacks Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes, tennis player Naomi Osaka and NBA players LeBron James and Kevin Durant. In 2023 MLP and the Professional Pickleball Association were brought together under one umbrella organization, the United Pickleball Association.
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MLP was formed in 2021 by Steve Kuhn in Dripping Springs, Texas
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Professional pickleball tours and leagues
A professional pickleball league, Major League Pickleball (MLP), was formed in 2021
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MLP was formed in 2021 by Steve Kuhn in Dripping Springs, Texas
View the SourceAnna Leigh Waters (Wikipedia)
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In the Major League Pickleball, Waters was a number one draft pick
Catherine Parenteau (Wikipedia)
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will be competing in the PPA Tour and the Major League Pickleball Tour (MLP)
Donald Young (tennis) (Wikipedia)
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is an American professional pickleball player with the American PPA Tour and Major League Pickleball
Julian Arnold (Wikipedia)
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MVP award at the Major League Pickleball 2023 event as part of the LA Mad Drops
Travis Rettenmaier (Wikipedia)
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Rettenmaier in 2022 became the first owner/player of a Major League Pickleball team
Vivian Glozman (Wikipedia)
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competing on the Association of Pickleball Players (APP) Tour, the PPA Tour, and in Major League Pickleball (MLP)
Yates Johnson (Wikipedia)
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is an American tennis player and major league pickleball player
Zane Navratil (Wikipedia)
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including four Major League Pickleball titles
Andrei Dăescu (Wikipedia)
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He later expanded his career to include playing in both the Professional Pickleball Association (PPA) tour and Major League Pickleball (MLP)
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