Anna Leigh Waters has made historical past once more . . . nicely, form of.
To be actual, Anna Leigh Waters’ buying and selling card made historical past, when somebody purchased it for USD $45,000 on eBay. Mentioned merchandise is a 2023 Leaf Pickleball Premier Version card of the 18-year-old Waters, who’s broadly thought to be the pickleball GOAT on the ladies’s facet.
Leaf itself confirmed in its verified X account that the sale is a “pastime file”, and is “one of the crucial costly Leaf playing cards ever bought.”
“Anna Leigh Waters’ BEST ever card simply bought for $45,000—a pastime file, and one of the crucial costly Leaf playing cards ever bought,” the cardboard producer wrote on X. “Leaf is the house of the first ever Pickleball card, and the game is just getting greater!”
That Waters’ buying and selling card bought for that a lot shouldn’t come as a shock. The pickleball prodigy is already the winningest participant in PPA Tour historical past with 168 profession gold medals, and can seemingly add a lot extra within the years forward as she enters her athletic prime. Waters can also be one of the crucial well-liked and charismatic gamers within the sport, and has change into an final ambassador of it.
The vendor of the one-of-a-kind Waters buying and selling card goes by the username “grimmbunny”, and has put one other Anna Leigh Waters card—this time from NetPro—on sale. It may be purchased for USD $60,000, or for the very best supply. And if the cardboard is something like that of Leaf, then it simply may set a brand new file.
