Chris Haworth joins the pod, UPA Contracts are discussed and the pod goes in a new direction.

About Chris Haworth:

-Has beaten Ben Johns multiple times as well as Federico Staksrud

-He holds the record for most singles titles on the APP (10)

-Went 1 year without losing a singles match

-Grew up in Oklahoma

-Played baseball before playing tennis in HS

-Played tennis for Oklahoma State

-Has won singles gold medals on both tours

-Now that Grayson is off the APP the difference in points between you and the next player is 4400, which is almost more than the next two players combined.

Follow Chris: https://www.instagram.com/chrishaworth.pb/

Details on the UPA Contracts: https://www.thedinkpickleball.com/the-upa-is-negotiating-new-pro-contracts-what-it-means-and-who-is-affected/

SEGMENTS:

0:00 INTRO

1:28 Pod Updates

6:03 Chris Haworth Background

8:40 Chris’s Singles Style (Short Points)

9:58 The Idea Pickleball Height

12:49 Getting Better at Doubles

18:59 Future Partners

21:55 Training in Oklahoma

25:43 Singles or Doubles?

30:59 Not losing a match for a whole year

33:27 Surviving 3 Events in one Tournament

36:05 The “Top 50 Rule” Barring Chris from the UPA

37:46 Brandon French

41:29 Playing International Pickleball

43:04 Rapid Fire

49:10 Aspen and Pickleball Porn

54:07 APP Newport

55:53 UPA’s New Contracts

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Jill Braverman and Kristin Walla discuss timely pickleball topics, news, advice, and humor. Equal parts humor, entertainment, and instruction. If you love pickleball, you'll love this podcast.

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Learn from the most creative player in pickleball: @thejackmunro joins the pod. We dive into his origin story of being the youngest ever 5.0 player (before ALW), how he got dubbed “Junior Mint” (just don’t call him that anymore), how his hands got so fast, how he likes to train, where his content strategy comes from and how to fix a backhand.

Jill and KW break down the dollars and “sense” of signing a PPA contract for a player like Grayson Goldin. We do a deep dive on why a pro player who isn’t having success on the APP would sign on the PPA tour. Catch our recap of the APP NYC (Jack won double gold!) and K-Dubs wrote a Pickleball poem!

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3:00 Pickleball: The Poem

5:50 App NYC

20:49 The Grayson Goldin Example

30:18 Jack Munro Rapid Fire

35:00 Junior Mint, The origin story

50:25 Day Trading and Pickleball

53:25 Do you want to play the PPA?

1:03:00 Lefty Magic and Fast Hands

1:13:40 How to fix your backhand

1:23:25 Outro/Bloopers

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Jill Braverman and Kristin Walla discuss timely pickleball topics, news, advice, and humor. Equal parts humor, entertainment, and instruction. If you love pickleball, you'll love this podcast.

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The #1 Female Player on the APP, recent record-breaking 70 medal winner, mother of two (plus a pup), and Jill's doubles partner, Megan Fudge joins the pod! Finally!!

Megan weighs in on winning, training, traveling the world and parenthood in an RV?!? Find out the secret to her endless energy.

Also, Jill and KW break down the US Open experience. The highs and the lows and the McGyver job K-Dubby had to do in the middle of the event! Also, APP Cincy where Megan broke her record in style with a GOLD medal with Jill and a Silver medal with Jack Munro.

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May 20-21 New Jersey

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Oct 25-29 Mexico!

SEGMENTS:

0:00 Intro/Coming Up

2:00 Upcoming Events/Camps

5:00 US Open Revenge Tour

12:10 APP Cincinatti Revenge Tour 2.0

15:30 The next Jorja Johnson?

17:30 Ben Johns Tanking Fines

18:40 Fan comments: a guide

20:20 KW US Open Experience

28:40 Megan Fudge, y'all!

33:30 Always the foreigner

37:00 Nightmares become a dream

48:40 Breaking JW's Record and Puzzles

54:40 Partnership with Jill

57:00 Playing Left vs Right

1:02:30 Playing the Waters

1:11:10 Slice and the future of pb style

1:13:10 Megan's secret to energy

1:20:20 Outro

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Jill Braverman and Kristin Walla discuss timely pickleball topics, news, advice, and humor. Equal parts humor, entertainment, and instruction. If you love pickleball, you'll love this podcast.

Reach out: thispblife@gmail.com

Camp inquiries: jillybcamps@gmail.com

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