Happy Monday!

Today I'm writing to you from the 16-hour flight from Dallas to Seoul!

I decided to skip the St. George PPA Tournament since we’re going to be in Vietnam for about two weeks, but it looked really, really cool. I don't normally get FOMO for tournaments since I've gone to about 1000 of them at this point, but I had a little FOMO for this one.

Jenny and I left Austin around 6 AM on Saturday and won’t arrive until 10 PM Sunday in Hanoi…

Essentially, “losing” 2 full days! Yikes.

But it’s just in time to celebrate our two-year anniversary on Monday! Funny enough, we actually had Chanel (one of the best social media managers in Pickleball!) film and make our wedding video, and you can watch it on YouTube here!

Feels like forever ago and yesterday at the same time!

In other news, we spent all day at the emergency vet on Sunday.

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In the morning, her back legs stopped working properly, and she was drooling like crazy and trembling nonstop, so we took her to the emergency vet. They ran her bloodwork and said that everything was fine, but she ingested a large dose of THC 🤦‍♂️.

That's $650 we will never get back, but she’s fine now, and Jenny made a pretty funny TikTok that's going semi-viral, so that's good at least!

Here’s your video recap of PPA Utah Cup:

Big week in pro pickleball, and I wasn't even there for it.

Anna Leigh went down 0-10 in game 1 of the women's singles final and still almost came back. Chris Haworth is officially the new world #1 after just six months on tour. And Lea Jansen and Kate Fahey may have quietly stumbled onto the strategy that finally ends Anna Leigh's 120-match win streak.

Oh, and the crashout content was elite.

I break all of it down in this week's recap, including what that center-court strategy actually does to limit Anna Leigh's angles, why Ben and Gabe are no longer a gimme win, and a behind-the-back shot from Noe Kliff that you need to see to believe.

👉 Watch the full video here

Quick Hitters:

One more thing…

My buddy Andrew at Picklewave created a really cool pickleball bracket challenge. You pick each match for all 5 of the different divisions! We ran the very first one this week, and it was a ton of fun.

Definitely check it out, and check out the pro pickleball talk Discord channel that we created to talk all things pro pickleball!

Stay Legendary,

– Zane

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