Written by: Erik Tice
It feels like a year and a half since San Clemente, the last MLP event this year. It will be exactly 94 days from the Super Finals at San Clemente to the first day of MLP Atlanta.
Instead of news about billionaires fighting over tours, people who have never played pickleball making six figures (playing pickleball) and professional players’ strife, it will be exciting to see REAL. LIVE. MAJOR LEAGUE PICKLEBALL.
Rumors surrounding MLP Atlanta are that there may be some MLP 2024 signed players that are planning to boycott Atlanta. As we do not have confirmation of those player names and if this boycott will actually happen, all predictions in this article are as if every player who is contracted to play, plays.
First, we will look into the Premier Level event predictions and then follow up with Challenger Level in a later article.
Group Play
Group A
Bay Area Breakers | Texas Ranchers | Orlando Squeeze | Atlanta Bouncers
Team Recaps:
Bay Area Breakers: Lea Jansen, Etta Wright, Rafa Hewitt, Connor Garnett
Jansen and Wright should be a women’s team that can dominate. They can each play both sides at an extremely high level and they are both very good in mixed. Rafa is coming off of one of the craziest performances in recent history at PPA…
