Anna Leigh Waters: 2026 Rankings, MLP Team and Career Record

Anna Leigh WatersPPA World No. 1 (women) · 2026 MLP: New Jersey 5s

2026 MLP MVP. Has not lost a singles match since 30 May 2024 — 25 straight golds and 124 straight match wins as at 27 May 2026.

PPA world ranking

Anna Leigh Waters is World No. 1 on the PPA’s composite ranking with 21,555 points. That number weights gender doubles at 50%, mixed at 35% and singles at just 15%, from a player’s best 14 results over 52 weeks. We explain what that formula does to the standings here.

Captured 3 September 2026. The PPA rankings page carries no update date of its own.

Where Anna ranks, and how the season went

Independent per-discipline ratings from PickleWave, alongside every professional match played this season. Refreshed automatically.

DUPR 6.7 doubles.

Ratings and records are PickleWave’s per-discipline model, refreshed automatically — an independent rating built from professional match results, not an official tour ranking. Records cover all professional play in the season shown, not one tour. Mixed doubles is a single combined pool of men and women.

Career titles

194 PPA Tour titles, on the tour’s own all-time leaderboard — counted across all five pro divisions, with both partners credited on a winning doubles team. The full list and why we don’t use the PPA’s per-player splits.

2026 MLP season

Finished the 2026 Major League Pickleball season on the roster of the New Jersey 5s — full roster, draft class and every transaction.

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