SEVEN-TIME SUPER BOWL CHAMPION TOM BRADY, TENNIS HALL OF FAMER KIM CLIJSTERS HEADLINE OWNERSHIP GROUP OF MAJOR LEAGUE PICKLEBALL EXPANSION TEAM

Revealed: Oct. 12, 2022 at 7:00 AM EDT

Brady and Clijsters be part of Knighthead Funds Management, LLC in the Purchase of a Key League Pickleball (MLP) Crew

 Watch the 2022 MLP period finale in Columbus this weekend, Oct. 14-16, on YouTube, MSG Networks, and CBS Sports activities Network

AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — An ownership group headlined by 5-time NFL Super Bowl MVP quarterback and entrepreneur Tom Brady and Former Entire world No.1 tennis participant Kim Clijsters has acquired an enlargement staff for the 2023 Major League Pickleball (MLP) time. The team, led by Knighthead Funds Administration, LLC, features co-founder of Knighthead Tom Wagner, acclaimed producer Matt Alvarez, Wall Avenue bond saleswoman Callie Simpkins, and economic advisor Kaitlyn Kerr, who will serve as Normal Supervisor.

“Tom Brady, Kim Clijsters, and Knighthead Cash Management are champions in their fields and will now be champions for Main League Pickleball,” said MLP Founder Steve Kuhn. “What really shines by in performing with these incredible people is their passion for the sport. We are thrilled to welcome them to our unequalled roster of strategic companions, who are individually and collectively instrumental in assisting us elevate qualified pickleball, showcase the joy it brings to thousands and thousands of folks about the world, and even further our ’40 by 30′ campaign – our mission to arrive at 40 million pickleball gamers by 2030.”

The growth staff is a portion of a 3-pronged advancement program for 2023, which will see 12 teams develop to 16, three events double to 6, and participant prize dollars and payouts surpass $2M. MLP is the conventional-bearer for pickleball in the United States, offering the highest-high quality and most enjoyable expertise in the activity as perfectly as the premier prize revenue payouts for every party to its players.

“Of class, I’m fired up at the financial commitment option,” reported Clijsters, the six-time tennis Grand Slam Winner who on a regular basis performs pickleball with Simpkins and Kerr. “But what excites me the most about turning into an MLP operator is that I get to aid form the future of pickleball, a activity I have appear to appreciate, with fantastic folks – who also occur to be some of my best friends. I am thrilled to aid showcase skilled pickleball and make an effects on the activity by means of my encounter gained in the leading ranges of expert tennis.”

With the investment decision from Clijsters, Simpkins, and Kerr, the new crew will also be 50% feminine-owned, a testomony to the league’s foundational mission of gender equality. MLP is 1 of, if not the only specialist sporting activities league the place men and women of all ages compete on equal footing. Co-ed teams enjoy two rounds of mixed doubles, in addition to men’s and women’s doubles, and could even have gentlemen and gals confront off versus each other in singles in a Dreambreaker™, a unique tiebreaker only uncovered in MLP.

The possession team provides even extra credibility to MLP’s currently stacked roster of higher-profile owners and strategic associates, who give unparalleled skills across advertising and marketing, media, amusement, branding, and far more.

Other crew entrepreneurs and companions incorporate NBA icons LeBron James, Draymond Green, and Kevin Really like, Tremendous Bowl Winner Drew Brees, entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk (Gary Vee), famed lecturer and investigation professor Brené Brown, co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks Marc Lasry, previous Planet No.4 tennis participant James Blake, healthcare government Molly Joseph, and from Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing New York and Founder and CEO of Serhant, Ryan Serhant.

The 2022 MLP period finale will see 48 players descend on Columbus, Ohio from October 14-16 to contend for the premier single-event prize purse ($319,000) in the record of pickleball, with the successful group taking dwelling $100,000. Enthusiasts can attend the occasion reside at Pickle & Chill in Columbus or capture all the action on YouTube globally, MSG Networks in NY, NJ, CT, and PA (group perform, quarterfinals and semifinals – Friday-Sunday) and CBS Sporting activities Network (finals – Sunday at 7:30pm ET).

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About Main League Pickleball
Key League Pickleball (MLP) is the very first of its type experienced team league and the common-bearer for the speediest-escalating sport in the United States. Led by Founder & CEO Steve Kuhn, MLP is dedicated to perpetuating the sport’s larger sized function in culture and permeating every single aspect of pickleball’s small business, promoting, and community relations. With iconic workforce homeowners, a co-ed team structure, an progressive draft, simple to understand scoring, groundbreaking broadcast top quality, and the highest prize cash activities in pro pickleball, MLP’s purpose is to elevate and improve the sport in every thing it does. For extra data on Key League Pickleball, stop by MajorLeaguePickleball.net and comply with Main League Pickleball on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest and YouTube.

About Knighthead
Launched in 2008, Knighthead is a diversified credit rating system which specializes in credit score assessment, sourcing, buying and selling, and restructuring. Knighthead has worked to generate a secure base of cash to support the small business and manages about $9 billion of assets across a wide variety of investment decision automobiles which include a long/limited evergreen motor vehicle, several shut-conclude credit rating vehicles, a committed True Estate Lending small business and an insurance coverage asset administration small business. Knighthead has places of work in New York, Greenwich CT, and West Palm Seashore, FL.

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