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PODCAST SPECIAL - GOAT Debate Part 2
Welcome back to part two of a special edition of the ATP Podcast focussing on the Greatest of All Time, the GOAT. Presenter Seb Lauzier is back with former WTA Player Jill Craybas and tennis journalist and author of biographies on both Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, Chris Bowers and having discussed the numbers and how they stack up, in this concluding edition of the podcast, the team discuss the intangibles - consistency, dominance, mentality, as well as looking at contributiong factors such as the surfaces, fitness regimes and the difference between women's success and men's.Presenter Seb LauzierGuests - Chris Bowers and Jill CraybasAudio inserts - Cedric Pioline, Jeremy Chardy, Jackson Withrow, Paul Haarhuis, Ivan Ljubicic and Pablo Andujar.Chris Bowers 'Greatest of All Time' presentation - https://chrisbowers.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Greatest-paper-03NOV2023.pdf
12/31/2023 • 36 minutes, 27 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Cecilia Fillol On Her Son Nicolas Jarry
Candy Reid speaks to Cecilia Fillol, mother of Chilean player Nicolas Jarry
12/28/2023 • 12 minutes, 5 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Strength And Conditioning Trainer Jez Green On Seb Korda, Andy Murray And Alexander Zverev
Strength and Conditioning trainer Jez Green speaks to Jill Craybas about what he's learnt working with the likes of Seb Korda, Andy Murray And Alexander Zverev.
12/27/2023 • 21 minutes, 29 seconds
PODCAST SPECIAL - GOAT Debate Part 1
First came the Australian giants Lew Hoad, Ken Rosewall, Roy Emerson, Margaret Court and Rod Laver, then the electricity of Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova, the athleticism and power of Pete Sampras, Steffi Graf and their countless rivals before the entrance of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams who together took title-winning standards to a whole new level. This year Djokovic has achieved a feat many considered out of reach in equalling Margaret Court’s record 24 singles major titles, but do titles alone define Greatness, or are there other factors at play when we go in search of the Goat – the Greatest of All Time?How should the Greatest be judged? Success? Substance? Style? Celebrity? Presenter Seb Lauzier is joined for a two-part special by esteemed tennis journalist and author of biographies on both Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, Chris Bowers and WTA player turned tennis commentator and reporter, Jill Craybas tpo discuss and debate those very questions.Presenter Seb LauzierGuests - Chris Bowers and Jill CraybasAudio inserts - Ivan Ljubicic, Jeremy Chardy, Brad Stine, Paul Haarhuis and Craig O'ShannessyChris Bowers 'Greatest of All Time' presentation - https://chrisbowers.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Greatest-paper-03NOV2023.pdf
12/24/2023 • 33 minutes, 55 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Andres Vial On Helping Felix Auger-Aliassime Maintain His Body
Wellness manager and physio Andres Vial speaks to Candy Reid about working with Felix Auger-Aliassime
12/21/2023 • 9 minutes, 3 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Neville Godwin On Coaching Alexei Popyrin
Chris Bowers catches up with Alexei Popyrin's coach, Neville Godwin
12/20/2023 • 9 minutes, 45 seconds
PODCAST SPECIAL - The Growth Of Tennis
Welcome to the second of a series of ATP Podcast specials. This week presenter Chris Bowers looks at the development of tennis away from the court, from its global appeal, to the various innovations and its ambition to reach new audiences on new platforms. To help us along this journey we’re joined by tennis glitterati including Cedric Pioline, Nick Kyrgios, Paul Haarhuis, Brad Stine, Ivan Ljubicic and many more. Headlines are...PAUL HAARHUIS ON THE WORLDWIDE NATURE OF THE SPORT - ’Tennis is doing really well internationally, worldwide. If you look at the amount of countries that play it, it’s the second biggest sport in the world when it comes to viewer average and viewer interest in the game, so that means you’re heading in the right direction’.CEDRIC PIOLINE ON INNOVATIONS AT THE ROLEX PARIS MASTERS - ’There are several things like here we have an entrance show with tunnel lights and music and the music is the decision of the fans through the app. They choose which music they would like along with the colours, so I think it’s very interesting and very interactive’.NICK KYRGIOS ON ENTERTAINMENT - ‘You look at the NBA side of things, when people arrive to the stadium, arrive to practice, what they leave in. It kind of gives the fans an idea of what type of personality they are and you can kind of relate to those players a lot more than you can do with tennis players’.IVAN LJUBICIC ON DIFFERENT FORMATS - ‘I’m a huge chess fan and chess over the last five to ten years has become popular because they introduced faster speed moves, different formats and why this is interesting is that it has shown that you can introduce the faster formats without damaging the classic ones’.BRAD STINE ON COURT SIZE AND RACQUETS - ’The court doesn’t change and the physics of what you can do is limiting, so if there are any changes, again it goes back to the racquets and the racquet technology’.
12/17/2023 • 36 minutes, 24 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Ivan Ljubicic On His Role With The French Tennis Federation
Roger Federer's former coach Ivan Ljubicic speaks to Chris Bowers about his new role with the French Tennis Federation and also discusses the state of the modern game and how it compares to the past.
12/13/2023 • 17 minutes, 14 seconds
PODCAST SPECIAL - Tennis Past, Present And Future
The first of a series of ATP Podcast specials focusing on various aspects of the game and to kick things off we look at how tennis was played and viewed 20-30 years ago, how it is currently and how we think it might shape up in the future and to do that presenter Chris Bowers is joined by some of the greatest minds on the circuit including Roger Federer’s former coach, Ivan Ljubicic, top 10 player Radek Stepanek, who after spending time coaching Novak Djokovic and Grigor Dimitrov, can now be found helping young American Sebastian Korda with his game and Tommy Paul’s current coach Brad Stine, who in the early 90s alongside Jose Higueras, helped Jim Courier reach world number one.IVAN LJUBICIC ON THE SERVE - ’The biggest difference is the serve. This is one shot which has deteriorated over the years and the reason for that is that people used to serve big and now I think that has changed completely and people are now just serving ok’.IVAN LJUBICIC ON STYLES - ‘Our sport is too complex to end up having the same kind of players in the future, so I think our sport will keep evolving and will always be interesting’.RADEK STEPANEK ON PHYSICALITY - ‘Look at Novak Djokovic, he’s pushing his physicality with every year and he’s putting youngsters on the edge, so to be physically prepared, you need to be disciplined and to have good rest and recovery'BRAD STINE ON RECOVERY - ‘It’s a factor that’s become a very big aspect of the game and even people outside the top 100 now are travelling with a physio and the physio has become a very significant aspect of a team’.IVAN LJUBICIC ON TENNIS IN THE FUTURE - ’We need to think in every single aspect, do we include the data, do we include the way of working on the tennis court, do we need to include the way of working in the gym? There are many things we need to question’.RADEK STEPANEK ON TENNIS IN THE FUTURE - ‘I hope the creativity will be there, the emotions will be there, the rivalries will be there and in terms of how it’s going to look, who know where racquets will be in ten years time, who know where balls will be, what surface, what formats? I don’t know where we’ll be in ten to fifteen years. I don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow’.BRAD STINE ON TENNIS IN THE FUTURE - ’The game right now is in very, very good hands. People are always worried about generational change, but it doesn’t change the sport. You go to the Grand Slams and the Masters 1000 events and the drama and quality of tennis that being produced on the courts creates narratives that are exciting for people to watch and follow’.
12/10/2023 • 30 minutes, 35 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Leading Physiotherapist Marc Bender
Having moved from his native New Zealand and spent the past 30 years in Britain, Chris Bowers sits down with leading sports physiotherapist Marc Bender to discuss his work across multiple sports and in-particular tennis, where he's worked with the likes of Tim Henman, Andy Murray and Seb Korda.
12/6/2023 • 14 minutes, 13 seconds
Medjedovic Is Next: Serbian Triumphs At NextGen ATP Finals
HAMAD MEDJEDOVIC ON HIS TEMPERAMENT - ‘I’m trying to keep relaxed, but I’m very emotional on the court and I want to win every match I’m playing and sometimes you get nervous, but I’m fighting with myself, with my emotions on the court and I’m trying to be as positive as I can be, so this is my main goal’.ARTHUR FILS ON LEWIS HAMILTON - ‘He’s an unbelievable champion and it’s crazy what he’s doing from where he’s from. He’s my idol since when I was young and I’m really not doing like him, but I’m always looks and what he’s doing and everything he’s doing is nice’.DOMINIC STRICKER ON HIS LACK OF CONSISTENCY - ‘We’re going to work on that as that’s important to play the next steps and so I can play my best tennis everyday, so If I’m going to do that I will get higher in the ranking again, everything is going to get more solid and more opponents are going to have a problem against me’.LUCA VAN ASSCHE ON HIS STUDIES AT UNIVERSITY - ‘I’m studying in Paris and It’s going well, I passed the last exams. I’m trying to find the good time to study as it takes a lot of energy and my priority is tennis, but when I have time and energy I’m studying and then the big parts are the pre-season and outside of tournaments’.LUCA NARDI ON ITALIAN TENNIS - ‘We are having a very good period for Italian players including the Davis Cup. It pushes me to be a better player and to reach the other players in front of me’.FLAVIO COBOLLI ON SUPPORTING AND PLAYING FOR ROMA WHEN HE WAS YOUNGER - ‘It’s my big passion and I have a lot of tattoos of Roma. I started to play football when I was young, but now I can’t because of tennis’.ALEX MICHELSEN ON HIS RAPID RISE UP THE RANKINGS - ’Starting the year at 600 in the world I never thought I’d be here, but starting there and then getting to 300 by March, April and then just climbing and climbing and then July I went from 240 to 140 and then all of a sudden I’m not going to college, I’m going pro’. ABDULLAH SHELBAYH ON REPRESENTING JORDAN - ‘I think it’s good pressure to have. Any pressure in sport when you are doing better than you thought I think I can’t really complain about it because it shows that I’ve improved a lot throughout the years. It pushes me even harder to work even harder to achieve more things for my country’.PLUS THE NEXTGEN PLAYERS TAKE US THROUGH THE LATEST RULE INNOVATIONS THAT THEY LIKE AND THE ONES THEY ARE STRUGGLING WITH- Podcast presented by Seb Lauzier- Interviews by Candy Reid- Rules feature by ATP Media
12/2/2023 • 47 minutes, 51 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Simone Tartarini On Coaching Lorenzo Musetti
Lorenzo Musetti's long-time coach Simone Tartarini speaks to Chris Bowers about his player's development and hopes for the future.
11/29/2023 • 10 minutes, 51 seconds
PODCAST - NextGen ATP Finals Preview
TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR ADAM HOGG ON THE NEXTGEN ATP FINALS IN JEDDAH - ’The event has build a head of steam over the past five, six years and we’re really excited now to take the sport to a new marketplace in Saudi and to be the first professional tennis event in the Kingdom. It’s a huge opportunity’.DOUBLES STAR EDOUARD ROGER-VASSELIN ON THE FRENCH PLAYERS - ‘In France we were so lucky to have Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Gael Monfils, Gilles Simon and Richard Gasquet who were top ten, top twenty for so many years and that makes all the young guys think that if they want to be part of the french tennis history, they have to be that good’.JOURNALIST LORENZO ERCOLI ON THE ITALIAN PLAYERS - ‘We have right now a lot of players, not only in the top hundred, but also in the top two hundred and I think the big change was first of all in the preparation with players, they started to help private teams and that was very helpful’.JOURNALIST NEBOJSA VISKOVIC ON HAMAD MADJEDOVIC - ‘He’s a talented guy, a good junior but not top, but now he’s improving with small and steady steps and his work ethic is phenomenal'ABDULLAH SHELBAYH ON REPRESENTING TENNIS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA - ‘I try to not put too much pressure on myself but having Ons Jabeur and Mailk Jaziri is something very inspiring for me and I also had the same coach as her before and that pushes me forward. Watching more Arabic players come to the tour is something very special’.- Podcast presented by Seb Lauzier- Interviews by Jill Craybas and Seb Lauzier
11/25/2023 • 42 minutes, 39 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Bryan Shelton On His Son, Ben
Former tennis player Bryan Shelton speaks to Chris Bowers about his son Ben's progression through the ranks.
11/22/2023 • 10 minutes, 53 seconds
PODCAST - Ruthless Djokovic Claims Record Seventh Nitto ATP Finals Title
NOVAK DJOKOVIC ON WINNING A RECORD SEVENTH NITTO ATP FINALS CROWN - ‘Very special, one of the best season’s I’ve had in my life no doubt and to crown it by beating the hometown hero in Jannik who has played amazing tennis this week is phenomenal’.NOVAK DJOKOVIC ON FINISHING YEAR-END NO 1 - ’It’s amazing because starting the year I knew schedule-wise I wouldn’t being playing the tour as much as other players, so I didn't know if I fancied my chances to end the year as number one, but I was fortunate to play so well in those eleven or twelve tournaments I participated in, I accumulated a lot of points’.JANNIK SINNER ON HIS RACQUET - ’The racquet is the most important tool for every tennis player and what I look for is good speed, but also good control and I try to produce the spin by myself a little bit, so I have to feel the racquet in the right way, but for me it’s more important how fast the ball goes out of the strings and obviously you need a lot of control because every year the courts and balls are getting so much faster’.CRAIG O’SHANNESSY ON THE ITALIAN TENNIS FEDERATION EMBRACING DATA - ‘Italy have decided they are going to be the number one country that follows analytics and they are not going to guess about the sport, they are all in’.RAJEEV RAM AND JOE SALISBURY ON WINNING THE NITTO ATP FINALS DOUBLES EVENT FOR THE SECOND TIME IN A ROW - ‘We love this place, this is the biggest tournament we play on the ATP calendar all year and to win it twice in a row is something we would never have thought of and we’re so proud of’.COACH DAVID O’HARE ON RAM & SALISBURY WORKING THROUGH A SLUMP EARLIER IN THE YEAR - ’The reality is it’s a relationship and managing a relationship and it got to a point where they needed to have conversations with one-and-other. We had really good conversations after Wimbledon and then after Washington we had a good honest conversation and then the vibes changed completely after New York and in this sport, winning is everything’.ROHAN BOPANNA ON HOW HE’S ABLE TO PLAY AT THE TOP AT THE AGE OF 43 - ’The number one thing is my mental strength, the ability to adapt to situations on where the game really challenges me and I’m grateful that my brain is thinking because at times, as tennis players, the brain switches off and you go on instinct and thankfully that aspect is one of my biggest strengths, along with recovery’.NIHESH BASAVAREDDY ON BEING A NITTO ATP FINALS HITTING PARTNER AFTER INJURY - ‘When I was eleven years old my kneecap dislocated and I tore part of the cartilage in my knee, so I had surgery on that and then I tore my meniscus in the same knee and then last year I was having wrist injuries, so I had wrist surgery to repair a torn ligament’.EDOUARD ROGER-VASSELIN ON THE 2024 PARIS OLYMPICS - ’To be in Paris, to live in Paris and have all the people coming from all over the world for sports, it’s a once in a lifetime opportunity and that’s why I’m looking forward to it and if I can play there, it will be amazing, but just to be in Paris will be incredible’.PLUS, JEREMY CHARDY, THOMAZ BELLUCCI, OLIVER MARACH & PABLO ANDUJAR SPEAK TO JILL CRAYBAS ABOUT LIFE AFTER RETIREMENT- Podcast presenter Seb Lauzier- Interviews by Ursin Caderas, Jill Craybas & Chris Bowers
11/19/2023 • 55 minutes, 9 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Nitto ATP Finals Hitting Partner Gonzalo Bueno
Jill Craybas sits down with Nitto ATP Finals hitting partner Gonzalo Bueno to find out more about the youngster from Peru.
11/16/2023 • 20 minutes, 49 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Rohan Bopanna On The Secret To His Longevity
Indian tennis player Rohan Bopanna speaks to Chris Bowers about the secret of his longevity
11/15/2023 • 13 minutes, 57 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Getting To Know Santiago Gonzalez
Candy Reid catches up with Mexican star Santiago Gonzalez to find out more about the 40-year-old Nitto ATP Finals player.
11/14/2023 • 11 minutes, 54 seconds
PODCAST - 2023 Nitto ATP Finals Preview
NOVAK DJOKOVIC ON BEING WORLD NUMBER ONE - ‘If you’re aiming to be top five, top ten, top fifteen in the world and want to reach a certain level of consistency and that’s your goal, that’s fine but it’s completely different story if that’s your goal and that’s all that interests you and I was never interested in being anything other than number one’.MARCA TENNIS EDITOR JOAN SOLSONA ON HOW YOU CAN COMPARE CARLOS ALCARAZ TO RAFAEL NADAL - ‘In terms of style of game they are totally different, but of course Alcaraz is only twenty and when Nadal was twenty, he had two or three Grand Slams, so we can compare it in that way. Both of them start winning at a very young age, but you know, Alcaraz sees Nadal no as a rival, but a an idol’.JANNIK SINNER ON PLAYING IN FRONT OF A HOME CROWN IN TURIN - ‘For sure the crowd is behind me and obviously I will try my best to make them happy and win as many matches as possible, but in a way I have to enjoy the moment, it’s going to be a good moment for me and hopefully it’s going to be a good tournament’.DANIIL MEDVEDEV ON THE NITTO ATP FINALS BEING A ROUND ROBIN EVENT - ‘You play against the best players in the world, so sure it’s going to be tough for you. The round robin changes, if you lose a match, you get another chance, but when you go into the tournament it's to try to not lose this match’.ANDREY RUBLEV ON HOW HE’D LIKE TO PLAY BEST OF FIVE SETS AT THE TOUR FINALS - ’There you don’t play that many matches, in total only five matches and if they have like in the Slams one day play, one day not play, best of three sets, I don’t know, best of five I like the feeling, or at least the final’. ALEXANDER ZVEREV ON MAKING IT TO TURIN AFTER INJURY - ‘In the beginning I was nowhere near making Turin, I was just thinking about how to win matches and it kind of turned around in the summer for me and from then on it was kind of fun to play tennis matches again’. HOLGER RUNE ON THE BIGGEST LESSON HE’S LEARNT THIS YEAR - ’Stability in life. To have a team that is there for the right reason and that they are there for you. I feel it is important as a player that you have the people around you that you feel you can always learn from and you respect them one hundred per cent’.STEFANOS TSITSIPAS ON GIVING A PEP TALK TO A YOUNGER STEFANOS - ’This is going to be a long difficult, but enjoyable journey. Try to love the game as much as you can, just think positively, don’t let negativity drown you and stay on your feet, even if you get punched’.RAJEEV RAM AND JOE SALISBURY ON THIER INDIFFERENT YEAR - ‘It’s tough to say it’s not a good year when you win a Grand lam, but overall we’ve not been happy with how a lot of it has gone and had we not won the US Open then it would have been a very poor year by our standards’.SANTIAGO GONZALEZ ON PLAYING ELITE TENNIS AT THE AGE OF FORTY - ‘If you’d have asked me the question two year ago I would have said that forty is a good year to quit but now I’m playing my best tennis, I’m healthy, I have no injuries, I’m enjoying travelling, I’m enjoying playing, I’m enjoying competing, so I would say I have another two or three years at least’. GUSTAVO KUERTEN ON WHAT IT’S LIKE TO END THE YEAR AS WORLD NUMBER ONE - ‘It was for sure the best achievement for me as a human being. The passion, the love, the emotion, going to my mother to give her back the hug that brought us the number one sport in the world’.- Presented by Seb Lauzier- Interviews by Chris Bowers, Candy Reid, Jill Craybas and Ursin Caderas- Djokovic, Medvedev, Tsitsipas, Sinner and Gustavo Kuerten features by ATP Uncovered
11/12/2023 • 1 hour, 40 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Jiri Lehecka On Learning From Tomas Berdych
Young Czech player Jiri Lehecka talks about his development and working with his coaching team including Michal Navratil, Radek Stepanek (not the former player) and former top five star Tomas Berdych.
11/8/2023 • 11 minutes, 54 seconds
PODCAST - Djokovic Wins 40th Masters 1000 Title & The Nitto ATP Finals Field Is Set
NOVAK DJOKOVIC ON TAKING TIME AWAY FROM THE TOUR - ‘I’ve played professional tennis over twenty years now and I’m so grateful that tennis has allowed me to build an incredible platform and I try to make the most of the weeks that I’m not playing, spend time with family and rest my body, and I’ve definitely rested my body!'STEFANOS TSITSIPAS ON QUALIFYING FOR TURIN - ‘It’s a whole celebration of the best of the best in our sport. We get together and focus on the fact that we are the best in the world focussing on this mega trophy and it means a lot being able to qualify every year. I would consider it probably a bigger thing than a Grand Slam honestly’. ALEXANDER ZVEREV ON QUALIFYING FOR TURIN - ‘It’s just the prestige to be there, one of the best eight players in the world. One of the great things with this tournament is that you play one of the eight best players right from the off and that is one of the best things about it’.HOLGER RUNE ON HAVING BORIS BECKER AS A COACH - ‘It’s been great working with Boris Becker and what you can see on the court is what we’ve been working on. We have made a few adjustments to come back on track a little bit and whilst I still haven’t found my best level, we are definitely building’.ROMAN SAFIULLIN ON BEING A PROLIFIC JUNIOR AND HIS SLOW ASCENT ON THE MAIN TOUR - ‘I had many problems with health and big injuries and it was difficult to come back and after injuries I had to start over again and let’s say everyone has a different life and I had a harder life, but hopefully I’ll catch up and be able to get into the top 10’.NATE LAMMONS ON WHY HE AND DOUBLES PARTNER JACKSON WITHROW HAVE RISEN UP THE RANKINGS - ‘Definitely I’m playing shots that I wouldn’t have played before, but mostly it’s about playing with a partner for a long time, knowing what they can do in different moments and we’re also riding a wave or everything being new, as well as the level being up there’.PLUS GRIGOR DIMITROV AND GAEL MONFILS BUILD THEIR FANTASY TENNIS PLAYERS, COURTESY OF ATP UNCOVERED- Podcast presented by Chris Bowers- Interviews by Chris Bowers- Features by ATP Uncovered
11/5/2023 • 38 minutes, 41 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Wesley Koolhof & Neal Skupski On Their Year
Wesley Koolhof & Neal Skupski speak to reporter Chris Bowers about their year which included a Grand Slam title at Wimbledon.
11/1/2023 • 19 minutes, 28 seconds
PODCAST - Rublev, Ljubicic, Vicente, Khachanov and Rune
FERNANDO VICENTE ON ANDREY RUBLEV’S BELIEF - ‘I think he really believes, but the problem in all of these quarter-finals, in seven of them we didn’t really have a chance because we faced better players and he was young, but in one of them against Marin Cilic, he didn’t really act good in the fifth, but he’s ready to cross the line’.IVAN LJUBICIC ON BEING BACK ON TOUR AS A COACH AND CONSULTANT - ‘I’m back on tour as ever since Covid with Roger Federer he didn’t really travel much. Everything is more involved now but I love it, I love the tour, I’ve been on tour for more than 25 years now and I’m not planning to go anywhere’.LUCA VAN AASCHE ON HIS AMBITION - ‘In five years I hope that I will be a Grand Slam winner, number one in the world and that I will be a very famous player, a loved one, so yes, that’s it’.KAREN KHACHANOV ON DEALING WITH THE MENTAL SIDE OF THE GAME - ‘It’s a process but I would say that you don’t over think, you just focus on the current process. On a daily basis you can get stressed in a way, more nervous that you can’t control and it becomes like a hurricane from week-to-week and from last year I feel like I’m in more control’.HOLGER RUNE ON BORIS BECKER JOINING HIS TEAM - ‘Boris and I have known each other for some years and he was writing to me, showing me that he liked me as a person, as a player, so the last few weeks we’ve got in touch and hopefully we can be successful’. MIKE JAMES ON HIS ROLE AS PERFORMANCE ANALYST - ‘We’re trying to pull everything together to try to gain five or six points a tennis match and if you’re talking about someone like Holger Rune, you’re at Everest base camp, you can see the summit, so how do you buy an extra two hundred points a season to get to number one in the world’.PLUS ATP UNCOVERED LOOK BACK ON HOW HOLGER RUNE WON THE 2022 ROLEX PARIS MASTERS- Podcast presented by Chris Bowers- Interviews by Chris Bowers, Seb Lauzier, and Candy Reid- Features by ATP Uncovered
10/29/2023 • 40 minutes, 29 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Mike James, Performance Analyst At Mouratoglu Academy
Performance analyst at Mouratoglu Analytics and Mouratoglu Academy, Mike James speaks to ATP Podcast presenter and reporter Candy Reid about the marginal gains in the sport and working with Dane, Holger Rune.
10/27/2023 • 10 minutes, 36 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Jurij Rodionov On Learning to Harness His Natural Talent
Candy Reid catches up with young Austrian, Jurij Rodionov
10/25/2023 • 7 minutes, 49 seconds
PODCAST - Paul, De Minaur, Auger-Aliassime, Lehecka, Rune & Ruud
TOMMY PAUL ON THE CAMARADERIE BETWEEN AMERICAN PLAYERS - ‘For me it’s all fun and I think for almost all of us. I mean I think if I was on tour without any Americans, I don’t know how long I’d play the sport, as I have so much more fun by just having them here’.ALEX DE MINAUR ON HIS STRONG 2023 - ‘I’m definitely not taking it all for granted. It’s a pretty good position to be in, but as with everything with life, when you get to a certain spot you want more and so that’s the kind of stage i’m at now, I can see a lot of goals of mine getting close and so I’m trying to push as hard as I can to achieve them’.FELIX AUGER-ALIASSIME ON THE NEED FOR PERSPECTIVE - ‘People say this must be the toughest year I’ve had, but not so much because I feel like I’ve been fortunate to play good tennis in the past few years, be healthy, enjoy my tennis and travel the world and yeah, this year has been more difficult result-wise, but I’m feeling good and I feel positive about my game and I know with time, results will come ’.ARTHUR FILS ON HIS AMBITION - 'I started to take tennis seriously around ten or eleven years old and I knew I was going to be a good tennis player and my dream was to be number one and win some Grand Slams, so I’m on the way'JIRI LEHECKA ON LEARNING TO ADAPT TO THE MAIN TOUR - ’The consistency at the very top level is a very hard thing to do, but a very important one to do. The physical game is one of the most important things in tennis as well and it’s very hard to beat a guy who’s physically very good, but the mental game is the most important one, because if you are not ready mentally, you have nothing to do on the court’.ANEKE RUNE ON BEING PART OF HOLGER'S TEAM - ‘I thought that when he was a teenager he would say that he was good on his own, but somehow, when you become better and better, the more you need people you can trust and my only interest in Holger is that he does good, so when he comes to me and asks for an honest opinion, he always get one’.CASPER RUUD ON THE RACE TO TURIN - ‘I’m currently sitting at number ten in the race so it’s going to be a couple of important tournaments coming up now. I’m still technically in the race and still have a chance to qualify, but there’s obviously a bit of pressure on the line, but I’m going to give it a go, come in clutch and finish very strong this year’.- Show presented by Chris Bowers- Interviews by Paul King and Jill Craybas- Features by ATP Uncovered and ATP Media
10/22/2023 • 32 minutes, 52 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Aneke Rune On Holger's Development And Mentality
Holger Rune's mum Aneke sits down with Jill Craybas to discuss all manner of subjects including growing up in Denmark, his mentality and his desire to become the world's best tennis player.
10/18/2023 • 20 minutes, 30 seconds
PODCAST - Roger Federer Exclusive Plus Reaction To Shanghai
HUBERT HURKACZ ON VOLLEYING - ‘Definitely it’s important for my game you know because I can serve pretty big and that definitely helps to set up another shot as I can follow to the net, so as long as I can be aggressive from the base line, I can come to the net’.GRIGOR DIMITROV COACH JAMIE DELGADO ON HIS PLAYER - ‘He’s got all the shots and he’s been using his slice well to set up his best shots, but most players play better when they are being pro-active and looking to make things happen a little bit and definitely as the year has gone on he’s been getting better and better at that’.GRIGOR DIMITROV ON MANAGING HIS BODY - ‘I like to go to the gym even when I have days off, but keeping the body fresh is all I’m trying to do to be honest, so I’ve been focussing on good rehab, going to the beach and doing a lot of massage, stretches and trying to keep the body up-to-speed, whilst not getting soft at the same time’.JANNIK SINNER ON QUALIFYING FOR TURIN - ‘It’s just incredible and it’s tough to think about this when you’re young. Two years ago I had the chance to play there, but that was because of Matteo Berrettini hurting himself and it is a different feeling when you make it in the official eight and I’m very much looking forward to it’.ROGER FEDERER ON RETIREMENT - ‘I didn’t have any plans because I was always trying to come back, but now for six months I have had much more control of my schedule, I like being with other people and I like being with my family, so things are great’.ROGER FEDERER ON RAFAEL NADAL - ‘I am very relaxed on-and-off-site, whereas he has an incredible intensity and he was like a tiger in the cage and he’s going around and there’s always stuff to do for him and you could always tell he had a match on his mind’.ROGER FEDERER ON CARLOS ALCARAZ - ‘He’s still young and everything he’s achieved is fantastic and not just on clay, but on hard and beating Djokovic at Wimbledon, that is no joke. We didn’t really need to prove that point, but that is another major plus on his cv. He’s going to lose from time-to-time, but he’s got an unbelievable game and an unbelievable future ahead of him’.PLUS ANDREY RUBLEV BUILDS THE PERFECT PLAYER AND BEN SHELTON SPEAKS ABOUT HOW HE GOT INTO THE GAME- Podcast presented by Chris Bowers- Interviews by Ursin Caderas, Jill Craybas and Chris Bowers- Features by ATP Uncovered
10/15/2023 • 41 minutes, 45 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Yen-Hsun Lu On Coaching Zhizhen Zhang
Former player Yen-Hsun Lu, known as Rendy Lu on tour, talks to Ursin Caderas about coaching upcoming Chinese star, Zhizhen Zhang.
10/11/2023 • 11 minutes, 42 seconds
PODCAST - Underway In Shanghai
TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR MICHAEL LUEVANO ON THE RETURN OF THE SHANGHAI MASTERS - 'Tennis is huge in China, it is the last untapped market. They’ve embraced a new generation of players and now they are more educated, they’re younger, we have the youngest audience demographic on the entire ATP Tour in terms of fans, so we’re going to be the best Masters 1000 event in the world'ATP CHAIRMAN ANDREA GAUDENZI ON TENNIS IN CHINA - ‘China is a very big market and tennis is a global sport, so our presence here in China is really important for us because we want tennis to become a popular sport in the entire world. Having a premium event of this size is really important to try to get more kids to play tennis and more fans to engage'BEN SHELTON ON HIS RAPID DEVELOPMENT- ‘When you’re in the moment you’re not really focussing on it as much and right now I’m just focussing on improving and onto the next, so I’m not really giving myself time to think about where I was’.HOLGER RUNE ON HIS DIP IN FORM - ‘Firstly my mind is to get back to my level and from there start improving again and it would be great to say that after a good and then not a good year to at least say that I finished in Turin'JANNIK SINNER ON HIS PLAN FOR THE REST OF THE SEASON - ‘We try to take this last part of the season as trying to improve, trying a couple of new things on court and making a couple of things happen already for next year so that next year can start in a good way'STEFANOS TSITSIPAS ON WHAT WINNING THE NITTO ATP FINALS IN 2019 GAVE TO HIM - ‘I look back to these moments that I debuted in before, the year-end tournament and I saw so many positives come out of this and I gain so much that it pushed me through’.ALEXANDER ZVEREV ON WINNING IN CHENGDU RECENTLY - ‘Just happy to win another title as it’s still my comeback year and it’s been going great so far and important points for Turin, so I’m happy to be here and playing great tennis'TAYLOR FRITZ ON THE RACE TO TURIN - ‘I have points to defend, but I’m not paying attention to the points because obviously the goal is to be top eight and honestly what it’s going to take is some big results’.ALEX DE MINAUR ON THE RACE TO TURIN - ‘It’s plain and simple for me, it’s all about myself and if I want to qualify I have to go deep in tournaments and it’s all about me'CASPER RUUD ON LEARNING FROM DEFEAT TO CARLOS ALCARAZ - ‘Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like I know next time I play him I’ll know all the answers to his game, but next time I’ play him I’ll try to beat him. He’s one of the few guys where you really feel kind of different out there on court' PLUS FEATURES WITH CHINESE STARS, ZHIZHEN ZHANG, QINWEN ZHENG & YIBING WU
10/7/2023 • 38 minutes, 55 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Zhizhen Zhang On His Development
Jill Craybas meets upcoming Chinese star Zhizhen Zhang.
10/4/2023 • 12 minutes, 27 seconds
PODCAST - Asia Swing Special
YOSHIHITO NISHIOKA ON THE BENEFITS OF A HIGHER RANKING - ‘Before I was seeded at Grand Slams I was looking at the draw ceremony and thinking that I didn’t want to play Djokovic or Medvedev and those top players, but now that I’m seeded I don’t have to think about that and then I can focus on my tennis for the first few rounds’.YIBING WU ON MAKING SACRIFICES - ‘In the past two years I’ve only been home once and I didn’t have that much time because I’m now based in Florida. It’s very tough not to see family, but sometimes you have to make sacrifices to achieve your goals’.ZHIZHEN ZHANG ON IS TENNIS IDOLS - ‘All the time was Roger Federer, but there was one moment for Safin because they had a great match in the Australian Open semi-finals as they had a five-setter, so in that period it was for Safin a little bit, but all the rest was for Roger’.JUNCHENG SHANG ON HIS PARENTS - ‘My dad was a professional footballer and my mum played table tennis, they were both professional, so I was lucky to have two athletes with me telling me their experiences and that’s been helping me a lot’.BENJAMIN EBRAHIMZADEH ON HIS COACHING PHILOSOPHY - ‘As a coach you need to understand the person first. You need to understand how to talk to them, how to approach them and you need to understand their story a little bit, because the story comes out in the stress moments. It’s easier to have the understanding sometimes of why things are happening, because when you have certain situations in your life, they can be expressed in the match’.
9/30/2023 • 35 minutes, 41 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Benjamin Ebrahimzadeh, Coach Of Chun-Hsin Tseng
Jill Craybas speaks to Chun-Hsin Tseng's coach, Benjamin Ebrahimzadeh about his young player from Taipei and also his coaching philospohy.
9/27/2023 • 14 minutes, 20 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Juncheng Shang On Breaking Through Onto Tour
Chinese Juncheng 'Jerry' Shang speaks to Jill Craybas about what it's like trying to break through onto the main tour.
9/27/2023 • 9 minutes, 40 seconds
PODCAST - Team World Clinch Laver Cup Victory
This week’s show focussing on the Laver Cup. Chris Bowers is joined by tennis commentator and former WTA player Sam Smith to look back over the event and discuss its place in the tennis calendar. They also introduce a number or interviews and features. Headlines are...TEAM WORLD CAPTAIN JOHN MCENROE ’This is something that I’ve believed in from the beginning and to me it was like a no-brainer and I worry that our sport doesn’t understand what It has sometimes and I believe the name Rod Laver is a name we should always use to our advantage and Roger Federer and why this thing isn’t at the top of the chain for all players to play, I don’t know’.TEAM EUROPE CAPTAIN BJORN BORG - ’This is the most important week for me every year and to pick the right players for the competition is very important and the important thing it that we need different players, different styles, different personalities to get into the Laver Cup’.FELIX AUGER-ALIASSIME ON TENNIS IN CANADA - ‘My dad owns a tennis academy in Quebec City and the interest and number of kids just keeps on growing. I was last week in the National Tennis Centre in Montreal and the gym was full of kids and the courts were full of kids everywhere’.CASPER RUUD ON HOW LAVER CUP HAS A SPECIAL PLACE IN HIS HEART - ‘You know when I played Laver up the first time I had just reached the top ten for the first time, so I was very excited about that and I’ve been able to stay there now for two years and it has just given me more belief that I belong at this stage, that I belong among the top players in the world and play tennis on the biggest stages and Laver Cup is definitely one of the biggest stages we play throughout the year’.GAEL MONFILS ON THE ENTERTAINMENT SIDE OF THE GAME - ’Some haters say that trick shots disrespect the opponent but first, it’s not disrespect because to hit a trick shot you have to be super-focussed so you don’t hurt yourself and when you try something different, it’s harder than something simple, but the main thing I’d say to the haters is focus on yourself’.MIKE RUSSELL ON MANAGING A PLAYING SCHEDULE - ‘We all discuss what’s better what we think is best for his body and tennis, but the difficult thing with scheduling is that as your ranking increases, you get more opportunities and so the off season, where you could have an eight week off season, you then have a whole bunch of exhibition tournaments and events that you can play in and which makes a good financial incentive, so it’s hard to say no to those, so factoring those in and still have proper training weeks physically and focussing on your tennis is hard for everyone’.PLUS IN AN EXCLUSIVE FEATURE, ATP UNCOVERED LOOK AT THE RETURN OF TENNIS TO CHINA- Podcast presenter, Chris Bowers- Podcast guest, Sam Smith- Interviews by Chris Bowers, Candy Reid and Ursin Caderas- Feature by ATP Uncovered
9/24/2023 • 35 minutes, 31 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Shintaro Mochizuki On His First Steps on Tour
Japanese Shintaro Mochizuki speaks to our reporter Jill Craybas about his time as a young child who first picked up the raquet at the age of three, to his time now trying to break through onto he main tour.
9/20/2023 • 19 minutes, 18 seconds
PODCAST - Rick Macci Special
This week Candy Reid interviews legendary tennis coach Rick Macci in a podcast special. Headlines are...RICK MACCI ON COACHING KIDS - ‘It’s all the other things that stick with the kids that help them become a better doctor or lawyer, or treat their kids better or you know, I help kids get better grades or get off drugs or treat people better. To me I don’t just change strokes, I change lives and that’s the best feeling in the world’.RICK MACCI ON WORKING WITH PARENTS - ‘It’s not only about teaching kids, I teach the parents and that’s the art of coaching. Think about it, they eventually start telling me what to do, how crazy is that? But I tell people I should be in the Hall of Fame just for dealing with Richard Williams for four years! You have to have a certain personality just dealing with the cast of characters, Jim Pierce, Stefano Capriati, Richard Williams, keeping your hands around that, that’s the tough thing’.RICK MACCI ON SERENA WILLIAMS - ‘When she was ten, Serena wasn’t that good. I had ten thousand parents look at that video and say that their kid was better then that, but they didn’t see what was under the hood. There were arms, legs and head all over the place, but when I said to play competitive points, the whole landscape changed, there was a rage. You don’t judge the book by the cover. It’s what I saw under the hood which was the wildcard and that’s why she’s going to be the greatest of all time’.RICK MACCI ON ANDY RODDICK - ‘His thirst for competition was like no other. The guy was so competitive, the wiring to compete, which is the wildcard really to handle the pressure, his competitive thirst, he was a mosquito, he just wouldn’t leave you alone. He was never going to be a Sampras or a Chang, but I think he over-achieved and people didn’t appreciate him as much until we haven’t really had another male American Grand Slam Champion since’.RICK MACCI ON HIS COACHING PHILOSOPHY - ‘I tell people I’ve been wrong a lot and that’s why I’m right more than most people. There’s motivational signs all over the Rick Macci tennis centre like 'Winners find a way, losers find excuses’ and that’s the power of one word, one sentence or one moment in time, that maybe can influence a child’s life. It’s not where you start, it’s where you finish and if you love what you do and you have passion, that will keep pushing you forward’.
9/17/2023 • 34 minutes, 36 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Ivan Dodig On His Career
Jill Craybas sits down with Croatian doubles players Ivan Dodig to talk about the many successes in his career and what he's learnt from over two decades at the top.
9/13/2023 • 20 minutes, 10 seconds
PODCAST - More History For Djokovic
JILL CRAYBAS ON MORE HISTORY FOR NOVAK DJOKOVIC - ‘It’s amazing when you start talking about all those numbers because you almost can’t wrap your brain around what he’s achieved. I just feel like every time he steps on the court he’s breaking records and I just don’t know how he finds something consistently deep in himself to do it over and over again, it’s just incredible’.JILL CRAYBAS ON DANIIL MEDVEDEV - ‘He’s had a great tournament. He said on the court that if Djokovic, Nadal and Federer weren’t there he’d have more titles and Djokovic said that he’ll get more and I agree with him, I think Medvedev will get at least a couple more, if not more than that’.JILL CRAYBAS ON BEN SHELTON - ‘He’s so electric on the court, he’s got a big game, huge serve, huge forehand, but to be able to tie it all together and have that consistency throughout the two weeks is a great sign for him’.JILL CRAYBAS ON CARLOS ALCARAZ’S MATURITY - ‘He’s not afraid to show his vulnerability, which I think is huge because that for me is how he has been able to get over some of the losses that he has had and be able to back it up very quickly. Roland Garros was a great example admitting that the pressure and stress got to him, cramping against Djokovic and then what does he go and do, beat Djokovic in five sets at Wimbledon’.RAJEEV RAM ON BEING THE FIRST THREE-TIME SUCCESSIVE CHAMPIONS SINCE 1912 - ‘I was told in press that that was the last time that that happened. I just knew that it hadn’t happened in the Open era, someone said that, but yes, 1912 is a long time ago’.JILL CRAYBAS ON COCO GAUFF WINNING THE WOMEN’S SINGLES TITLE - ‘It was amazing to watch, Coco did a great job of digging in, relying on her speed and really defending but hitting shots to make Sabalenka go for more and by the end of the match she was just playing with confidence. She’s such a great role model, she just gets it and she thanked Billie Jean King on the court when she received the cheque she said that that was because of her and I thought that was a great moment’.- Podcast presented by Chris Bowers- Podcast guest Jill Craybas- Ram and Salisbury interview by Chris Bowers
9/11/2023 • 35 minutes, 13 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Younes El Aynaoui On His Career And Coaching Hugo Gaston
Moroccan player Younes El Aynaoui speaks to Jill Craybas about his career, coaching french player Hugo Gaston and his hopes for the future.
9/6/2023 • 18 minutes, 4 seconds
PODCAST - Halfway Through The 2023 US Open
The latest ATP Podcast with Chris Bowers and Jill Craybas. The duo look back on the first week of the US Open and ahead to week 2. As well as the studio discussion, there are also interviews and features with some of the home players hoping for a good second week, including...FRANCES TIAFOE ON HIS CAREER GOALS - ’There’s only two things that I’ve really wanted to do in this game and you know that’s to win a Grand Slam and to be top ten in the world and to be halfway done is incredible and now I’ve just got my eyes on the prize for that one last thing'BEN SHELTON ON ADJUSTING TO LIFE ON TOUR - ‘It’s been crazy my life changing from a college kid and living in one place all the time to living in hotels around the world and being on planes every week and seeing all these new places, but I’ve really enjoyed it'PLUS TAYLOR FRITZ ON WHAT HE EATS, AND THE AMERICAN ALSO GOES HEAD-TO-HEAD WITH STEVE JOHNSON, ANSWERING QUESTIONS ABOUT THE GREAT PETE SAMPRAS- Presenter - Chris Bowers- Guest - Jill Craybas- Interviews by Jill Craybas and Candy Reid- Features by ATP Uncovered
9/2/2023 • 45 minutes, 49 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - J.J. Wolf Profile With Jill Craybas
ATP Podcast reporter Jill Craybas sits down with American J.J. to find out more about the youngster including his hopes and aspirations and thoughts on tennis as an entertainment product.
8/30/2023 • 13 minutes, 56 seconds
PODCAST - 2023 US Open Preview
Presenter Chris Bowers is joined by former WTA player Jill Craybas to look ahead to the US Open and to discuss how the draw will impact certain players progression and whether it’s Djokovic and Alcaraz against the field. As well as the studio discussion, the team also introduce interviews and features with the following...CARLOS ALCARAZ ON WHY HE’S ALWAYS SMILING - ‘I try to enjoy every moment and not only on court. Doing all this kind of stuff is part of your job as well and I try to enjoy and it’s something that I really wanted as a kid to be here, so it’s time to enjoy, to realise where I am and to have a smile all the time’.CASPER RUUD ON THE IMPORTANCE ON NOT JUST FOCUSSING ON GRAND SLAMS - ‘After Wimbledon I know this is the second part of the year, it’s time to play well and the race for a lot of things is going to be on, so it’s an exciting and hectic part of the year now with the US Open, Beijing 500, Shanghai 1000, Tokyo 500, Paris 1000, so there’s a lot of points at stake and if you do well you have the chance to climb up the rankings and really finish the year in a strong way’.MIOMIR KECMANOVIC ON LEARNING FROM NOVAK DJOKOVIC - ‘I just love the way he competes on the court and fights through everything, it’s really inspirational. Physically I admire that he can get to any ball and it doesn’t matter where he is, that thing is going to go in no matter what and then mentally, he’s just so much stronger than everybody. Nothing can get to him and the way he prepares for matches is just on another level’.- Podcast presenter - Chris Bowers- Podcast guest - Jill Craybas- Interviews by Jill Craybas and Paul King- Miomir Kecmanovic feature by ATP Media
8/27/2023 • 37 minutes, 41 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Todd Martin On His New Role And Memories Of Coaching Novak Djokovic
Former World Number 4 Todd Martin speaks to Jill Craybas about his new role as Tournament Director of the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati and Head of Tennis for Beemok Sports and Entertainment. Martin also opens up about what it was like to coach a young 22-year-old Novak Djokovic.
8/23/2023 • 16 minutes, 9 seconds
PODCAST - Djokovic Stuns Alcaraz For Cincinnati Title
NOVAK DJOKOVIC ON ADAPTING TO HOT CONDITIONS - ‘When it’s really warm on the hard court the heat is absorbed in the surface, so the subjective feeling on the court is 10-20 degrees higher then it is on the outside of the court, so you have to deal with all these different things, but you train for that’.TODD MARTIN ON NOVAK DJOKOVIC’S RELENTLESSNESS - 'Novak has had a couple of long stretches where I don’t think anybody has been more difficult to beat. He defends better than anyone else and he has a mind, when he is focussed, that’s impenetrable’.STEFANOS TSITSIPAS ON TURNING 25 - ‘I feel older obviously, wiser and much happier than I was a few years ago in terms of being out here and doing what I really love. I feel this is my home and I embrace every single bit of it’.BEN SHELTON ON FOOD - ‘It’s really important for me that it’s not all about counting calories because it’s good to eat a lot with how much we’re training as tennis players and if you can just keep it clean then you can eat as much as you want if you’re eating good things that are healthy, so I’m not worried about the volume, but just how clean the food is that I put in my body’.MATTEO BERRETTINI ON GETTING OVER INJURY FROM A MENTAL PERSPECTIVE - ‘Injuries are always tough and unfortunately in my career I’ve had many and every time I thought I wouldn’t make it and then I made it, so you have to learn how to react. Suffering a little bit and really feeling what makes you sad helps you to get better and back on track’.PLUS, DANIIL MEDVEDEV ANSWERS FANS QUESTIONS, COURTESY OF ATP UNCOVERED- Podcast presented by Seb Lauzier- Interviews by Jill Craybas, Paul King and Chris Bowers- Features by ATP Uncovered
8/21/2023 • 30 minutes, 36 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Mackenzie McDonald On His Lessons From Tour
American Mackenzie McDonald speaks to ATP Podcast reporter Jill Craybas about the lessons he's learnt since breaking through on tour.
8/16/2023 • 10 minutes, 53 seconds
PODCAST - Sinner Claims First Masters 1000 Crown
JANNIK SINNER ON HIS INSPIRATIONS - ‘I was a skier and I know Lindsey Vonn a little bit and her career showed a lot of hard work, passion and comebacks and I also read the book of Zlatan Ibrahimovic which is also a very good story, but there are so many, LeBron James, I’m not following so much basketball, but it’s so nice’.ALEX DE MINAUR NOTES TO HIS YOUNGER SELF - ‘Take it easy, don’t put a lot of pressure on yourself and enjoy the moment. If you’re playing these tournaments it means you have the level to play the best in the world, so just believe in yourself. Also, don’t dwell on the past. Live in the present and have a memory of a goldfish, because you’re going to lose a lot of tennis matches’.ALEJANDRO DAVIDOVICH FOKINA ON HIS GOALS - ’This year I want to be more stable on tour and to win more matches. I did half a year and I hope, if the first title comes, it’ll be more easy for me to believe I can win a title. I have done a lot of quarter-finals and it’s a little bit of a push for myself that I have to win those next two matches, so I hope that higher level is going to be more consistent’.DAVIDOVICH FOKINA’S COACH JORGE AGUIRRE ON THE IMPORTANCE OF PSYCHOLOGY - ’Sport and life are the same. The key is to understand the person, Alejandro in this case, and helping him to grow, to make the days easier and understand his personality. All these players are tornados, without that it’s not possible to be here, but that you should use in the right way as this energy is so strong’.GAEL MONFILS ON HIS CHANGE OF PERSPECTIVE - ’To have my baby girl, it’s tough for me to travel, so I’m home with her, different perspective, different goals. My priority was to best the best I can in tennis and it still is, but now my first priority is to know that my family and of course my daughter is good, feels good and then tennis is second in a way’.TOMMY PAUL ON WHAT HE EATS TO FUEL HIS BODY - ‘When I wake up the first thing I eat is an omelette, but before that, first thing’s first I get my cup of coffee along with a cup of water. For coffee I’m a black drip coffee guy, but everyone makes fun of me because I don’t really like fancy coffee, I can go gas station coffee and be happy’.J.J.WOLF ON HIS MOTIVATION - ‘We have a ton of athletes in my family and we have a ton of methods that we talk about, but the one similarity that we talk about is that we all have one thing that they remember before they step on court and I have a cousin who’s very special, he can’t talk, he was supposed to never be able to walk, so all of us were taught when we were very young is to play for those who can’t’.- Podcast presenter - Seb Lauzier- Interviews by Jill Craybas, Ursin Caderas and Candy Reid- Alejandro Davidovich Fokina Feature by ATP Media- Alex De Minaur & Tommy Paul features by ATP Uncovered
8/13/2023 • 38 minutes, 54 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Milos Raonic On His Long Road Back From Injury
Canadian Milos Raonic speak to Chris Bowers about the injuries that kept him away from the game for two years.
TAYLOR FRITZ ON THE REASON FOR HIS CHARGE UP THE RANKINGS - ’My average level has gone up a lot. Before I had to be playing really good for things to come together for me to have a big week or have big wins. Now if I’m mentally turned on, I can beat a lot of players when I’m maybe not even playing my best’.GRIGOR DIMITROV ON HIS RENEWED VIGOUR - ‘I’m enjoying the sport and I’m enjoying what I’m doing and still to be up there among the top players is a great achievement, but I believe the best is still to come. I feel the youth in my legs since I’ve put in better results in the gym and overall I’ve been able to be consistent, so in a way I’m in a better position than the younger guys, because I have the experience as well’.ANDY MURRAY ON HIS MENTAL RESILIENCE - ‘I guess it’s one of the benefits of going through injury that, whilst I haven’t got back to the level that I wanted to, yet, I’ve had the opportunity to talk to other people from other sports and just being able to talk to them has been one of the positive things. A lot of fans come up to me to talk to me about that side of things as well so it’s definitely motivating to me’.FRANCES TIAFOE ON HUMILITY - ‘I’m very comfortable in my own skin. I know what I overcame to even be at this point, to play at these events, so you know I’m Frances, I’m me in every room that I walk into, I’m blessed to be in the position that I am and now, being one of the best players in the world, I don’t take that for granted’.FELIX AUGER-ALIASSIME ON THE BIGGER PICTURE - ‘Like many young players, you’re always focussed on your career and achieve more and compete and win and this year it feels funny, it feels like I didn’t play as much and I had a lot of time at home to think and it gave me a nice perspective to enjoy the other parts of my life and it was a beautiful thing actually’.FREDERIC FONTANG ON ON CONFIDENCE - ’There are two parts in the confidence, the self-confidence that you need to have whatever external things happen and the other part is the more you are winning, the less hesitation you have, so you need to have both’.PLUS - DOMINIC THIEM BUILDS HIS PERFECT PLAYER, COURTESY OF ATP UNCOVERED- Podcast presented by Seb Lauzier- Interviews by Richard Connelly, Jill Craybas, Chris Bowers & Candy Reid- Thiem feature by ATP Uncovered
8/6/2023 • 0
EXCLUSIVE - Christopher Eubanks On Returning To America After His Run At Wimbledon
American Christopher Eubanks speaks to reporter Jill Craybas about his fantastic run at Wimbledon a few weeks ago and what's happened since.
8/2/2023 • 7 minutes, 2 seconds
PODCAST - Southern Hemisphere Special
In the second of our two-back-to-back specials focussing on various aspects of the game, this week Chris Bowers and Jill Craybas are joined by Australian doubles player Matt Ebden and Argentine, Francisco Cerundolo to talk about the logistics of being a player from the Southern Hemisphere having to ply their trade all over the world. Headlines are…MATT EBDEN ON LEAVING AUSTRALIA TO PLAY TENNIS - ‘When I was breaking through I was very quickly into the four month trips to the US and the six month trips to Europe, or at least two, three, four months minimum and that just became the norm. You couldn’t just leave Australia and just do two or three months, the costs made it not worth it, so there were many trips that left me homesick and pretty wrecked’.FRANCISCO CERUNDOLO ON HOW SUCCESS ON COURT LEADS TO A MORE RELAXED LIFE OFF IT - ‘Once you get into the top one hundred, top fifty, it’s easier because you have a calendar that’s almost the same and you know in advance what you are going to play, so that’s easier for us as you can arrange your life. Once you get better and improve your ranking it gets easier off the court and then on the court you feel better because you’re playing bigger events, you win matches, so it’s better overall’.FRANCISCO CERUNDOLO ON HIS DESIRE TO PLAY MORE TOURNAMENTS IN SOUTH AMERICA - ‘We only have two tournaments in Argentina at ATP Tour level in then in Rio and Chile, so there’s almost a month you can play there and I really like it. Some players feel pressure when you play at home, but I don’t feel like that. I hope we can have the Davis Cup in Argentina one day and I know now in Challengers and Futures we have more tournaments in South America, so that’s super nice, so hopefully South America can keep growing up’.- Show presented by Chris Bowers and Jill Craybas- Podcast guests Matt Ebden and Francisco Cerundolo
7/30/2023 • 21 minutes, 32 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Sven Swinnen, Coach Dominic Stricker
Jill Craybas speaks to Dominic Stricker's coach Sven Swinnen about his player's development and about training with Roger Federer as a youngster.
7/26/2023 • 15 minutes, 2 seconds
PODCAST - Doubles Special
This week in a slightly different change to the format, Candy Reid and Chris Bowers sat down with World Number One doubles pair, Wesley Koolhof and Neal Skupski to discuss the health of the doubles game and how it might grow and develop in the future. The team also speak to legendary coach and doubles master tactician, Louis Cayer and this year’s Roland Garros doubles champion, Austin Krajicek.WESLEY KOOLHOF ON HOW TO PROMOTE THE DOUBLES GAME - ’The biggest thing is marketing. Obviously the singles guys are the big stars and we also need the big stars to play doubles as well to get more viewers, but I think mainly the marketing side of doubles could be looked at’.NEAL SKUPSKI ON DOUBLES GLOBAL NATURE - ’The points are going to be a lot shorter, quicker around the net, a lot of fun points, it’s a completely different game. It depends on where we go in the world, for example when we go to America we tend to see a lot more fans come just to watch the doubles and places around the world as well, certain countries. Doubles just needs to be shown more on tv to get us out there’.LOUIS CAYER ON HOW THE DOUBLES GAME HAS CHANGED OVER THE YEARS - ’The game has changed a lot. When I started there was less than ten percent of the serves staying back in doubles, now it’s over sixty percent. It’s very normal now for top singles players and even some doubles players to stay back because of the quality of the return’.AUSTIN KRAJICEK ON REACHING NUMBER ONE EARLIER IN THE YEAR - ‘It’s been a goal of mine to win a Grand Slam and being number one ever since I was a kid. Sometimes it didn't feel it’s attainable and it was a surreal thing, just for a week as Wesley Koolhof and Neal Skupski passed me by, but I can always say I was number one and hopefully I can get back there’.- Show presented by Candy Reid- Interviews by Candy Reid, Chris Bowers and Jill Craybas
7/23/2023 • 40 minutes, 4 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Coaching Masterclass From Joe Salisbury's Coach, Justin Sherring
Candy Reid is joined by coach Justin Sherring who works with Joe Salisbury on the ATP Tour, having previously worked with Jack Draper at a young age. Justin talks Candy through what he's learnt from working at the top level.
7/19/2023 • 28 minutes, 18 seconds
PODCAST - Alcaraz Dethrones Djokovic At Wimbledon
Former WTA players Jill Craybas and Lucie Ahl, as well as commentator Peter Marcato join presenter Chris Bowers to talk about Carlos Alcaraz dethroning Novak Djokovic in an epic Wimbledon final, as well as to look back over all the other various talking points from a dramatic two weeks of action
7/16/2023 • 38 minutes, 15 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Neal Skupski On Murray, Wimbledon And Being Coached By His Brother
Doubles Number 1 Neal Skupski speaks to Chris Bowers about growing up watching Roger Federer and Andy Murray, his dreams of one day playing at Wimbledon and his views on being coached by his older brother Ken.
7/13/2023 • 9 minutes, 47 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Kyle Edmund On Injury, Wimbledon, Commentary And The Future
Kyle Edmund speaks to Jill Craybas about recovering from wrist Injury, getting into TV commentary and the future.
7/11/2023 • 17 minutes, 23 seconds
PODCAST - Halfway Through Wimbledon 2023
TIM HENMAN ON FALLING IN LOVE WITH WIMBLEDON - ‘When I reflect on the whole journey of my mum taking me to Wimbledon when I was six for the first time, I saw Bjorn Borg play in 1981 and that was when I made my one-and-only career decision, so then fifteen years later to play on Centre Court for the first time and to be a British player and have that support, It was always going to be special’.TIM HENMAN ON PLAYING WITHOUT PRESSURE - ‘I always joked that when I was getting blamed for the weather at Wimbledon, expectation was too high! You control the controllables. I’ve always been interested in the psychology of sport and the mind and pressure is all self-inflicted. In 1995 I got disqualified from Wimbledon and I accidentally hit a ball girl when we were playing a doubles first round. The next day I was sharing a flat with another player and he went out and bought all the newspapers and I sat there in the morning reading them all and it was horrific and I said to myself there and then, I will never read a newspaper ever again because it’s their opinion and why would I be influenced by a journalist who’s never played the game, so from that moment on I never listened to outside voices’.TIM HENMAN ON HENMAN HILL - ‘So in 1996 it was when the old court number one was knocked down and when the new court was constructed and there was a lot of moving of earth and they sort of piled the earth and that was when this hill was formed and they put the big screen up and I was playing my matches then and getting into the second week and that was when it became known as Henman Hill and it’s another amazing connection for me with the Championships’.- Show presented by Chris Bowers- Podcast guests Peter Marcato and Jill Craybas- Tim Henman interview by Jill Craybas
7/8/2023 • 45 minutes, 7 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - British Doubles Pair Henry Patten And Julian Cash
British Doubles pair Henry Patten and Julian Cash speak to reporter Candy Reid about making the transition from Challenger to main tour.
7/5/2023 • 12 minutes, 6 seconds
PODCAST - 2023 Wimbledon Preview
CARLOS ALCARAZ ON PLAYING ON GRASS - 'You know for me it’s great because I just have to focus on the movement and not on my style. If I move well I think it’s going to be great. I used to watch Federer on grass, I watched videos because you want to be like Federer, but it’s impossible, but he is my role model on grass. The elegance that he hits the shots that he plays, he moved really well and made the tennis on grass easy’.HOLGER RUNE ON DREAMING ABOUT PLAYING AT WIMBLEDON - ‘I have always dreamt about winning this tournament and I think one day it will suit me well. I like to play aggressive and come forward to the net, which in theory should work well on the grass, but I want to be happy and not too stressed when I play and it’s very important to stay positive’.MATE PAVIC ON FOLLOWING IN GORAN IVANISEVIC’S FOOTSTEPS - ‘We all grew up in Croatia on Goran’s Wimbledon in 2001 and that kind of sticks to you that Wimbledon is there, that’s Wimbledon and everything else is down, you want to win it since you were a kid, you’re dreaming of it since a kid and it’s a special feeling’.TIM HENMAN ON THE CHANGE HE WOULD MAKE TO THE GRASS SEASON - ‘If I could change one thing in the sport it would be the variation of surfaces. I think we’ve got too uniform, so I would make grass a little quicker. It was becoming a bit or a serving competition when I was playing and was that appealing, but the level of tennis these days is phenomenal, but it’s too one dimensional’.STEFANOS TSITSIPAS ON THE THREAT NICK KYRGIOS POSES - ‘You know Nick Kyrgios is a threat because on a good day he can play great tennis, he doesn’t play all year and then just shows up on one tournament on grass, serves big and plays like he has nothing to lose, so he is a very tricky opponent to play against’.STEFAN EDBERG ON HIS EARLY MEMORIES OF WIMBLEDON - ‘I can still remember the time when I first got to Wimbledon in 1983, when you walk on top of that hill, you actually see Wimbledon, just the site, seeing Wimbledon in front of you was the thing that you dreamt about going to one day’.- Show presented by Chris Bowers- Podcast guest Jill Craybas- Interviews by Richard Connelly, Seb Lauzier, Chris Bowers and Jill Craybas- Edberg & Wilander feature by ATP Uncovered
7/1/2023 • 33 minutes, 4 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Matt Ebden On His Wimbledon 2022 Title
Matt Ebden speaks to Richard Connelly about his run to the Wimbledon doubles title last year alongside fellow Australian, Max Purcell.
6/28/2023 • 12 minutes, 34 seconds
PODCAST - Alcaraz, Bublik, Federer, Korda, Krajicek And Many More
CARLOS ALCARAZ ON RETURNING TO WORLD NUMBER ONE BY WINNING QUEENS - ‘Right now I’m feeling better then at the beginning of the week and of course recovering the number one spot give you extra motivation going into Wimbledon. It gives you extra confidence, but it doesn’t change too much if I play Wimbledon as number two or number one’.ALEXANDER BULIK ON WINNING THE TITLE IN HALLE - ‘Well it means the world to me. I’ve been struggling for health and now having this for a reward, I don’t take it for granted. I thought it would be nice to win this tournament one day and I’m really, really happy’.ROGER FEDERER ON TENNIS TODAY - ‘I’m very surprised by how often and frequently I check scores, three times a day maybe, I’m really into it. I think there’s some great matches going on and I think the level of play is going up more and more, again and again and it’s nice to see the new generation challenging the likes of Novak and Rafa’.SEB KORDA ON RECOVERING FROM HIS WRIST INJURY - ‘Hoping that my wrist gets used to playing again and hopefully I don’t have so many aches and pains. I was a little worried coming into the grass season because the ball slides a little more on the grass and you can catch it later, but everything is going well so far’.ALFIE HEWETT ON HIS POSITIVE MINDSET - ‘Obviously I’ve got this condition and was told I have to be in a wheelchair, so obviously as a seven-year-old that was very difficult to process but it’s made me learn a lot about myself, strength can come in many different ways and It’s all about perception in many ways. You can perceive a situation to be a lot worse than it is and I’ve learnt with the tennis to be more optimistic about what’s around the corner’.COACH MIKE RUSSELL ON HOW GRASS-COURT TENNIS HAS CHANGED FROM WHEN HE WAS PLAYING - ‘Grass is exponentially slower. My first Wimbledon you couldn’t even have a rally from the baseline, it was literally who could get to the net faster, all serving and returning, so now there’s a lot more movement, you really have to have good leg strength and good mobility, flexibility, because you’re put in awkward positions because of some of the bounces and that’s really been the biggest change I’ve seen on the grass’.PHYSIO WOLFGANG OSWALD ON GRASS-COURT FITNESS - ‘We can’t get as much volume gym-wise because you’re coming straight from clay. It’s tough to do the grass court stuff at the end of the clay, so you have to micro-dose some stuff it, some pre-hab in the warm-up, some strengthening stuff, you can just go, like in other sports, a few week’s of lead-up, we don’t have that luxury’.RICHARD KRAJICEK ON PETE SAMPRAS - ‘We played ten times and I beat him six times. I liked playing against him and because of my serve I wasn’t afraid of anybody and his coach said to my coach that he didn’t like playing me because he didn’t get the locker room win’.PLUS…GRASS-COURT TENNIS FEATURE BY ATP MEDIA AND ANDREY RUBLEV FEATURE BY ATP UNCOVERED
6/25/2023 • 43 minutes, 55 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Paul Haarhuis On Dutch Tennis
Holland David Cup Captain Paul Haarhuis speaks to our reporter Richard Connelly about how the game is progressing in the country.
6/21/2023 • 8 minutes, 27 seconds
PODCAST - Sliding From Clay To Grass
RICHARD KRAJICEK ON THE CHANGE TO HIS GAME THAT IGNITED HIS CAREER - ‘I changed to a one-handed backhand and it wasn’t that great a shot, It didn’t make a big improvement in my game, but what it did do is that it was so vulnerable that people were attacking my backhand, so the only way to avoid someone coming into the net on my backhand is if I beat them to it and that’s when I became a serve and volley player’. DUTCH JOURNALIST DAVID AVAKIAN ON TENNIS IN HOLLAND - ’Tennis is the second sport, Football is the number one and then you have things like Field Hockey and Cycling, but it grew during covid again and it’s been paired with Padel a lot, but I prefer the balls on the strings, it’s just better then that flat thing’.COACH MARIUSZ FYRSTENBERG ON TENNIS IN POLAND - ‘A lot of things changed with Agnieska Radwanska started to play well, then we had Jerzy Janowich who was an iconic player and right now Iga Swiatek and Hubie Hurkacz are here, so I think we’re safe for years to come’.PLUSHolger Rune builds his perfect player, assorted players make their grass-court predictions, Hubert Hurkacz speaks about his relationship with food and commentators Chris Bowers, Mark Woodforde and Lucie Ahl try to name what the world’s top five will look like in five years time #top5infive- Podcast presented by Seb Lauzier- Interviews by Kate Flory, Seb Lauzier, Richard Connelly- Features by ATP Uncovered and Kate Flory
6/17/2023 • 0
EXCLUSIVE - Austin Krajicek On His Love For Paris And Ultra Running
2023 Roland Garros champion Austin Krajicek speak to Chris Bowers about his love for playing in Paris and how his ultra-running compliments his tennis fitness.
6/14/2023 • 12 minutes, 40 seconds
PODCAST - Djokovic Wins Historic 23rd Major Title
MARK WOODFORDE ON NOVAK DJOKOVIC'S PLACE IN HISTORY - ‘For me that’s the tie-break between the trio, Federer, Nadal and Djokovic, the amount of Grand Slams and they all deserve to have that title, the greatest of all-time, but he has elevated himself alone finally. He was the third person in this group, so it has been a tremendous journey until now where he’s in the clear’.MARK WOODFORDE ON CASPER RUUD - ‘He’s the one that’s won the most clay court matches recently, the most clay court tournaments and he’s learnt from losing to Nadal last year and if Novak wasn’t here this year, along with Nadal’s absence, the Norwegian could have been lifting the trophy’.LUCIE AHL ON THE DJOKOVIC v ALCARAZ MATCH - ‘It was an unbelievable two sets and I think Djokovic would have admitted that physically he was struggling after two sets and I didn’t expect that to happen to Alcaraz, so I think we’re going to remember that Alcaraz cramped and forget what happened in the first two sets and also perhaps forget that we should never write off Djokovic’.ALEX CORRETJA ON CARLOS ALCARAZ’S PARENTS - ’They educated him in a way that he feels like he’s not more important than anyone else and they also let the coaches do their job and I think this is very important and of course, I think this is very important, they tell him everyday how important it is to be grateful to people and to be well educated’.ROLAND GARROS DOUBLES CHAMPION AUSTIN KRAJICEK ON PARIS - ‘Paris is now officially my favourite city and continues to deliver, so I would absolutely say it’s my favourite place to play at the moment and it’s just an amazing venue. I really have a good feeling here in Paris and we like to play on clay and it suits our game well and I think we’ve been playing some good stuff’.- Podcast presented by Chris Bowers- Podcast guests Mark Woodforde and Lucie Ahl- Interviews by Chris Bowers
6/11/2023 • 1 hour, 40 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Jan Zielinski On His Doubles Career
Polish player Jan Zielinski speaks to Candy Reid about teaming up with French player Hugo Nys and doing well at the 2022 US Open and 2023 Australian Open.
6/7/2023 • 12 minutes, 25 seconds
PODCAST - Halfway Through Roland Garros 2023
CHRISTOPHER CLAREY ON RAFAEL NADAL’S EXPLORATORY SURGERY - ‘I’m assuming one of Nadal’s specialists could only do it on that day because no one in their right mind would chose to do exploratory surgery the night before their birthday. It sounded like it was more an investigative thing, but it’s very rare to do it, so I think Rafa’s grasping for answers a little bit right now’.LUCIE AHL ON THE POTENTIAL OF ALCARAZ PLAYING DJOKOVIC IN THE SEMI-FINALS - ‘We’ve only had one match where they’ve played each other because of various reasons, so I think everyone is hoping that it happens, I’m looking forward to it. Alcaraz is playing unbelievably well. Djokovic hasn’t dropped a set, but every match he’s had to go to at least one tie-break and there’s a potential issue with his leg, but as we’ve seen so far, I think he’ll find his way through and I don’t think that one will disappoint if they do make it through to the semis’.CHRISTOPHER CLAREY ON GAEL MONFILS - ‘Like all of us I’ve followed Monfils throughout his career and he is a big moment, big setting character and obviously all the things he’s been through with his wife and Ukraine and having his first child, and Gael’s an empath, so I’m sure he’s felt all of that and so all of the emotions when he came back from 4-0 down in the fifth the other night, that was extraordinary as he shook Baez’s hand and then he just lost it in a beautiful way’.LUCIE AHL ON SOME LESSER-KNOWN NAMES PROGRESSING IN THE DRAW - ’The depth in the men’s game has got a lot stronger and the Challenger level is tough and we’re starting to see players make the transition through. It’s easy sometimes to see players like Alcaraz and think that’s everyone’s path. Once the lower ranked players start to come through and you see a few more shocks, they will start to get some belief as well’.CHRISTOPHER CLAREY ON TAYLOR FRITZ SHUSHING THE FRENCH CROWD - ’That was bottled up that reaction he had at the end of that match. He had has his full dose of the french language there after three-plus hours, he’d had more than enough and In some ways I don’t blame him. With someone like Taylor that fire had to come out, but we’ll see what price he has to pay with the french public going forward, because they’ll remember that, him shushing them after beating their player’.Podcast presented by Chris BowersPodcast guests - former New York Times Tennis Correspondent, Christopher Clarey and former British number one, Lucie Ahl
6/3/2023 • 38 minutes, 42 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Mansour Bahrami On His Love Of Tennis
One of the game's great entertainers speaks to reporter Jill Craybas about how he forst got into tennis and his continuing love affair with the game.
5/31/2023 • 21 minutes, 54 seconds
PODCAST - 2023 Roland Garros Preview
STEFANOS TSITSIPAS ON COMPARING CARLOS ALCARAZ TO RAFAEL NADAL - ‘He gets to every ball on the court, he covers pretty much half of the planet when he plays, so they have a lot of similarities and I think he can be the next Rafael Nadal of our tennis’.HOLGER RUNE ON WHETHER HE’S A PERFECTIONIST - ‘I am, especially on the practice court, match court not as much, which is good, because I feel like on the match it’s not about how it looks and how you hit the ball, it’s more about finding solutions to win. I don’t think about tennis 24/7, but I think about what’s necessary for my tennis 24/7’.STAN WAWRINKA ON THE ADVICE HE’D GIVE TO HIS YOUNGER SELF - ‘Keep dreaming, keep passionate about the game that you love. Don’t forget it’s a game that you started to enjoy with your friends. From a young age I always put a lot of pressure on myself and I think it was the pressure that I put on myself that I was struggling to deal with completely’.HUGO NYS ON HIS DOUBLES PARTNERSHIP WITH JAN ZIELINSKI - ‘It’s not easy to find a good doubles partner. It’s like in life you know because you have to get along on the court, off the court and when you lose tough matches you have to stay together. I’ve spent five years on the tour in doubles and this is the first time I’ve built something big with someone’.- Show presented by Chris Bowers and WTA player Tamira Paszek- Interviews by Ursin Caderas and Candy Reid- Features by ATP Uncovered and Kate Flory
5/27/2023 • 46 minutes, 34 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Marc-Andrea Huesler On Life In The Top 100
Chris Bowers speaks to Swiss number 1 Marc-Andrea Huesler about life as the top-ranked Swiss male tennis player and how he copes with the different levels of the tour.
5/24/2023 • 15 minutes, 31 seconds
PODCAST - Daniil Medvedev's First Clay Court Title
DANIIL MEDVEDEV ON HIS GROWING APPRECIATION OF CLAY COURTS - ‘Friendship, I don’t think I love it, I love hard courts, my only love, in tennis of course, but I definitely like clay courts much more now’.HOLGER RUNE ON HIS DESIRE TO BE THE BEST - ‘If you try to see always the big picture, rather than the small picture, you will understand why I have to do this. Without tennis I’m sure I wouldn’t have the same mentality as I have today, so it’s kind of built who I am and I fell in love with it from the beginning’.STEFANOS TSITSIPAS ON SACRIFICES - ‘I have been very professional in my everyday life and somehow I wish I could be more relaxed in that sense and let go, but at the same time it’s a blessing that I get to be so professional and get to experience pressure in my everyday life, because I feel it makes me better, but there are times when you get fed up with the routines’.FABIAN MAROZSAN ON HIS VICTORY OVER ALCARAZ - ‘Everything was perfect, the crowds, the weather, it was amazing and I don’t know what happened during the points. I just hit back every ball and just tried to do my best and it just happened, so I don’t know what to say. He’s the best in the sport so I’m really happy about this’.MAGDA LINETTE’S COACH MARK GELLARD ON HOW TENNIS SHOULD USE DATA MORE - ’Tennis is quite far behind in a lot of these things and I think as coaches we don’t use half the resources we should be using and a lot of it is how we interpret the information. What I’ve done with Magda the last few years if focus less on the opponent and instead focus on what we do well. Statistics are good for two reasons, they tell you what almost always happens and what hardly ever happens’.FELICIANO LOPEZ ON NADAL - ‘I feel sad that at this stage of his career he can’t do what he really loves to do, which is playing tennis. I saw Roger Federer last year when he had to retire and the way he did it was very sad and I just hope this isn’t going to be the same for Rafa and whenever he recovers from his injury it’s going to be great news and I just want him to play tennis and finish his career on his own terms and I don’t think it’s going to be nice to see another case similar to Roger’.JANNIK SINNER ON HOW PLAYERS VIEW THE ABSENCE OF RAFAEL NADAL - ‘You can see it from the draw, when you see Rafa or Novak in the draw it makes a little bit of difference for sure because you know what they are capable of, but in another way, slowly the new generation is coming to mix up the draw, so it is good’.NOVAK DJOKOVIC ON THE NEW GENERATION - ’New generation is here already. Alcaraz is number one from Monday and I think it’s good for our sport that we have new faces and new guys coming up, it’s normal. I’m personally still trying to hang in there with all of them and I still have the hunger to keep going, so let’ see how far I’m going to play’.- Show presented by Seb Lauzier- Interviews by Ursin Caderas and Candy Reid- Features by ATP Uncovered and Kate Flory
5/21/2023 • 31 minutes, 4 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Mariusz Fyrstenburg On Tennis In Poland
Poland's Davis Cup Captain Mariusz Fyrstenberg speaks to Candy Reid about his own career and tennis in the country.
NICOLA PIETRANGELI ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HIS PLAYING DAYS AND TODAY - ‘It’s a different game. Before you had to know how to play tennis, this is a physical game. Before you had talent and then you became an athlete, today you’re an athlete and if you have talent it’s better’.NOVAK DJOKOVIC ON HIS BIGGEST RIVAL - ‘I can’t take anybody else but Nadal as my biggest rival, as long as Nadal is playing, as long as I’m playing, Nadal is always my biggest rival regardless of the ranking or what’s going on on tour. I have tons of respect for Alcaraz and there’s some other players, but Nadal and myself go back a long time, so definitely he comes in front’.CARLOS ALCARAZ ON WINNING THE LAUREUS WORLD BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR AWARD - ‘It was amazing but it was crazy for me to receive that big award and being surrounded by great athletes, great people, it was unbelievable for me. As Federer, Rafa, Djokovic did, they won multiple Laureus Awards, but the big ones, but starting from the bottom, it’s great to represent tennis’.FABIO FOGNINI ON RETAINING THE FIGHTING SPIRIT - ‘The last few years after my injury and after the pandemic of course, I didn’t win so many matches, but I want to make a present to myself and I don’t want to close my career with injuries. I have something special here in my head, so I would like to fight until I reach this goal’.JANNIK SINNER ON HIS SELF-BELIEF - ‘I have a different mindset and I’m not scared to say that I can win big, big matches. I’m here, I can do it, but you have to have the right respect for every single player and emotional-wise it’s not easy, but I want to push myself to the limits and I know I can show some very good tennis’.LORENZO MUSETTI ON HIS MEMORIES OF WATCHING FEDERER IN ROME - ‘I have one picture in my head that reminds me of me watching Federer playing doubles on the courts that are now practice courts and I was looking at him like my inspiration and now when I play on that court, I always remember him playing there and moving and having the steps on court where I’m going now’.LUCA NARDI ON LEARNING TO ADAPT HIS GAME AT THE START OF HIS CARRER - ‘For sure my gaming is changing a little bit. I learned to be more of a defender sometimes because I work a lot physically and I won a lot of matches when I didn’t play that well but I had the physical power’.ITALIAN TENNIS FEDERATION’S LUCA SBRASCINI ON GETTING KIDS INVOLVED IN TENNIS - ‘We’ve had 60,000 kids during these two weeks and for us that’s a big success. The secret is to create an event, within the big event and our main objective is to involve a lot of kids, we reach out to clubs and schools and we have a lot of projects that we involve within these events’.STEFAN EDBERG ON ROME - ‘It’s a good place to place to play, you know you feel like tennis belongs here, it’s like playing at Wimbledon, that’s where tennis belongs as well and there are certain places in the world where you feel that this is special and this is one of the places’.STEFAN EDBERG’S RECIPE FOR SUCCESS - ‘Well first of all you need to have good people around you and you need to have a vision and you need to have a team that looks after you on and off the court and you need to keep your passion going, but you also need a little bit of luck’.- Podcast presented by Seb Lauzier- Interviews by Ursin Caderas, Richard Connelly and Jill Craybas
5/13/2023 • 41 minutes, 5 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Mark Gellard On Coaching Magda Linette
Reporter Candy Reid speaks to coach Mark Gallard about working with world number 19, Magda Linette, Life on tour and how he got into tennis coaching in the first place.
5/10/2023 • 33 minutes, 26 seconds
PODCAST - Alcaraz Defends Madrid Title
CARLOS ALCARAZ ON RETAINING HIS MUTUA MADRID OPEN TITLE - ‘For me it’s so special to lift the title here in Madrid, in front of my home crowd, in front of my family, my friends, it’s a thing I will never forget’.JOURNALIST DAVID AVAKIAN ON JAN-LENNARD STRUFF’S REMARKABLE RUN TO THE FINAL IN MADRID - ‘He told me that he wasn’t an early riser like Carlos is, he wasn’t that good when he was younger and he’s been putting his game together over the years, 2019 is a year that he keeps pointing to as a great year for him, so it’s just a very careful way of building a career’.JANNIK SINNER ON LORENZO MUSETTI - ‘It’s always tough to play against a friend and it’s tough for both of us when we have to play against each other. I feel like he is improving a lot and it’s always nice to see where the level is and I have the feeling that every time I play against him I can see where I have to improve and I can give him the same feeling’.MATTEO BERRETTINI ON HAVING NEVER PLAYED JANNIK SINNER AT TOUR LEVEL - ‘In general our relationship is great, we text each other, we practice together, when we have the chance we play doubles together, so it’s really like a healthy relationship and we help each other to raise our level and that’s why it would be even better to play against each other’.LLOYD GLASSPOOL AND HARRI HELIOVAARA ON THEIR SLIDING DOORS MOMENT IN ROME LAST YEAR - ‘Without it of course it would have been a different kind of spring because we would have had less points and probably wouldn’t get into one or two tournaments because our ranking wouldn’t have been that high, but most importantly we wouldn’t have had the confidence of beating the number one team in the world’.- Podcast presented by Seb Lauzier- Podcast guest - Tennis commentator and journalist, David Avakian- Interviews by Seb Lauzier, Ursin Caderas and Richard Connelly
5/7/2023 • 30 minutes, 34 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - David Witt, Coach Of Jessica Pegula
Candy Reid speaks to David Witt about what he's learnt coaching current WTA star, Jessica Pegula as well as the things he took from coaching Venus Williams for ten years. In this wide-ranging interview, Candy starts by asking David about his views on Frances Tiafoe performoing the role of hitting partner to Jessica at the United Cup at the beginning of the year.
ANDREY RUBLEV ON WINNING HIS FIRST MASTERS 1000 TITLE IN MONTE-CARLO - ‘I feel a bit looser because I’ve done something that I was looking for a long time and I feel a bit less weight on the shoulder, but there is so much work that I need to do and now we’re already in Madrid’.ANEKE RUNE ON HOLGER’S DEVELOPMENT - ‘I think for us it’s been step-by-step and now it’s just bigger titles. Two years ago it was Challengers and Future titles, which for us in the team was still big, but looking at his level now, the results match the level he has today’.HOLGER RUNE ON HIS PASSION - I’ve gotten the chance to show my passion on the court and show who I am when I play and I like it you know. It’s part of my game style to have this energy on the court and I feel good when I’m pumped and I feel good to play this way’.ALEXANDER ZVEREV ON WINNING TOURNAMENTS MORE THAN ONCE - ‘I think there are places that suit some players better then others and it’s also like a comfortable place where you’re going back and know you’re going to play well. There’s definitely places where you step on the court and you know you’re going to feel better than the previous week.BEN SHELTON ON GETTING USED TO LIFE ON TOUR - ‘Every place that I get to is a new experience, you know going to the Lisbon airport, that was the first airport in Europe that I’ve been in, but I’m lucky that my coach and physio have done this many times, so to have them with me to help guide me is very, very important’.DANIIL MEDVEDEV ON WHY HIS GAME ISN’T SUITED TO CLAY - ‘I could talk for hours but first of all you have to adjust to every shot because every bounce could be a bad bounce and you never know when it’s coming and some players are easy to adapt to this, but that’s not my case. I like when it’s a clean stroke and that’s what I need in my game. The movement is definitely different, because you have to slide and be ready for the next shot and that’s what I do not good enough’.ABDULLAH SHELBAYH ON HIS DESIRE TO REPRESENT ARABIC PLAYERS - ‘I try to not put too much pressure on myself but having Ons Jabeur and Malek Jaziri and Ons as one of the best in the world is very inspiring for me. Honestly to see more Arabic players coming to the tour is very special and I hope I can reach the heights that Ons has reached and even more hopefully’.DAVID WITT ON ON THE BENEFITS ON JESSICA PEGULA TRAINING WITH FRANCES TIAFOE - ‘We hit with Frances Tiafoe one time and I think it’s good for both of them because Frances is so happy-go-lucky, so it let’s Jess know that you don’t always have to be so serious, but at the same time Jess makes him be more serious, so they bounce off each other’.PLUS, ANDY MURRAY ANSWERS FANS QUESTIONS IN AN ATP UNCOVERED FEATURE - Presenter: Seb Lauzier- Interviews by Seb Lauzier, Ursin Caderas, Paul King and Candy Reid- Andy Murray Feature by ATP Uncovered
4/30/2023 • 39 minutes, 3 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Christian Zahalka On Coaching Yoshihito Nishioka
Christian Zahalka speaks to Jill Craybas about coaching Yoshihito Nishioka and what he's learnt from decades in the game.
4/26/2023 • 17 minutes, 56 seconds
PODCAST - Masterful Alcaraz Makes It Title Number Two In Barcelona
CARLOS ALCARAZ ON WINNING THE BARCELONA OPEN BANC SABADELL TITLE - ’This is something that I was talking about with my team before the match, to stay relaxed, to want to play the tough moments, to forget the mistakes and to be myself on the court’.STEFANOS TSITSIPAS ON LEARNING FROM PREVIOUS DEFEATS TO RAFAEL NADAL IN BARCELONA - ’The first time I played him I just wasn’t ready, I didn’t pick it up yet, but the second time was the most memorable one in terms of the intensity that I brought onto the court and the experience that I had from previous encounters. He brought the best out of me that day and I was so close and it was so disappointing to finish that match with a loss’.TOMMY ROBREDO ON RAFAEL NADAL AND BARCELONA - ‘Well it’s his club also, so maybe the people don’t know but Rafa, the license of his tennis is from the membership of this club, obviously he had been winning here for twelve years, but he has been winning everywhere on clay, but it’s special that we felt that Rafa is part of the club, part of the city and that makes it special as well’.FELICIANO LOPEZ ON MAKING BARCELONA PART OF HIS FAREWELL YEAR - ‘I came to Barcelona when I was very young and I used to come here to train with the pros because they were calling the federation and asking for some young players that they needed to play with and I used to come here and I was dreaming that one day I could play this tournament and it’s very nice that I can come here twenty yers after my first time here to be able to play one more time’.DR RUTH ANDERSON ON PLAYERS MENTAL HEALTH - ‘Mental Health affects one in four people in the general population, experiencing mental health symptoms is an everyday experience for all of us, so it’s a common experience and athletes aren’t immune to that and certainly need to manage that and on top of that there is the increasing recognition around your psychological ability being just as important as your physical, technical and tactical ability to work on’. FRANCES TIAFOE ON BEING SUPPORTED BY LEBRON JAMES - ‘LeBron has said some cool stuff to me like keep going, keep believing, you know, cliched stuff but it means so much more coming from him and you know, it’s just cool for those upper echelon guys to see me as one of the best. He’s like that guy for me, you know everyone has that guy and no matter how many times I see him it’ll never be normality for me and little things like that is probably why I won the tournament in Houston’. TAYLOR FRITZ ON GETTING USED TO PLAYING ON CLAY - ‘I feel like I’ve never really hated being on red clay, green clay, can’t stand it, but red clay, I’ve always like it, maybe not my best surface but you know I feel like I’ve had some good results on it, but no matter how good I feel on clay, for a lot people it’s what they grew up on and I’ll never feel as good on it as they do, but I just have to make up for it by playing even better’.- Podcast presented by Seb Lauzier- Interviews by Ursin Caderas, Jill Craybas and Richard Connelly- Barcelona 70th Anniversary Feature by ATP Media- Commentary by Nick Lester
4/23/2023 • 42 minutes, 10 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Ruth Anderson, The ATP'S New Director Of Well Being And Mental Health
Jill Craybas sits down with Ruth Anderson, the ATP'S new Director of Well Being and Mental Health to dicsuss every aspect of a player's mindset.Taken from the MindHQ.com website:Ruth has developed her expertise working as a psychologist and manager within welfare services, the mental health sector, and elite sport. With unique experience in both mental health and high performance sport, Ruth understands what is required to make change, and achieve maximum potential in all areas of life.Ruth’s career began leading teams in the welfare sector, providing services to disadvantaged young people and families, and delivering a range of psychological services and programs on mental health units for children, adolescents, and young adults. Transitioning her skills into the high performance sport environment, Ruth has worked within the elite sport industries in both Australia and the United Kingdom, and at all levels of international competition. For 8 years Ruth worked at the Australian Institute of Sport as a Senior Sport Psychologist, and established and managed the national athlete counselling service. Working across a variety of sports, and teams, including the Great Britain and Australian Cycling Teams, Tennis Australia, Paddle Australia and Diving Australia Ruth gained extensive expertise in elite sport performance. Holding roles at the last four Olympic Games, Ruth was the Head of Psychology Services for the Australian Olympic Team at the Olympic Games in Beijing, 2008 and London, 2012; the Lead Psychologist for the British Cycling Team for the Olympic Games in Rio, 2016; and Director of Psychology for the Australian Olympic Team for the Tokyo Olympic Games, 2021. Now based in London, Ruth is the Director Player Wellbeing for the ATP Tour.Ruth’s PhD investigated automaticity as the optimal psychological state for peak performance, and her research with elite athletes has been published internationally. Ruth’s research portfolio includes projects and publications across a range of areas related to sport performance and well-being including peak performance, automaticity, psychological recovery, athlete homesickness, and pain assessment and coping. Applied publications have been the areas of critical incident management and grief and loss. Ruth’s book, The Cycling Mind, has been published by Bloomsbury Publications, London.
4/19/2023 • 29 minutes, 20 seconds
PODCAST - Rublev Rallies To Maiden Masters 1000 Title
ANDREY RUBLEV ON WINNING HIS FIRST MASTERS 1000 TITLE - ‘I have tears man, I don’t know what to say to be honest, I’m just happy finally, struggling so much to win these Masters 1000 tournaments. Losing 4-1 and love 30, sitting with break points and thinking there is no chance to win and then…I don’t know man’. Today it was, if you’re going to lose, at least believe until the end and in the end I was able to do it’.HOLGER RUNE ON DEALING WITH EXPECTATIONS - ‘People are starting to expect more and more, but most of all I have high ambitions within myself and that’s the most important thing, but for sure, you’ve just got to improve as much as you can every day and if you think about winning and losing too much, that can just distract your mindset’.JANNIK SINNER ON HIS PHYSICALITY - ‘We have worked so much in the off season, in the gym and in the physical part which give me a lot of confidence now. Also tennis-wise I think it gives me something new, so let’s see how it goes on the clay season’. LORENZO MUSETTI ON BEATING NOVAK DJOKOVIC - ‘I’m struggling not to cry because it’s really an emotional win because it was a really long match, not easy conditions, so I’m really, really proud of myself and I’m struggling not to cry because it’s still a dream for me’.NOVAK DJOKOVIC ON THE MASTERS 1000 CATEGORY - ’Those are the biggest events we have on the ATP Tour and you want to play your best at the Masters 1000 events. Of course I pride myself with the amount of tournaments at the 1000 category that I’ve won and I always try to go further’.MATT EBDEN ON THE EXCITEMENT OF PLAYING ON TOUR - ‘It’s so exciting to see all of our Masters tournaments grow and grow and grow. Obviously a number of them going to two weeks now and becoming like huge features on the calendar that all the fans can follow, so I suppose the ATP are trying to grow them in line with the Slams so that we have the Slams, the Masters and all our big tournaments all year round and not just the Slams’.CASPER RUUD ON HIS INCONSISTENT FORM - ‘It’s frustrating but at the same time, I’m not going to say I predicted it was going to happen, but your whole career is not going to be a joyful ride, there will be some down and hopefully more ups then downs, but the last month hasn’t been what I wanted, but hopefully we’re on a new surface and I can shake things off’.PLUS IN AN EXCLUSIVE FEATURE, ATP MEDIA TAKE A LOOK AT HOW THE TOP 10 HAS A VERY DIFFERENT FEEL TO IT IN 2023AND…SPORTS STARS USAIN BOLT AND GEORGE RUSSELL SAMPLE THE ATMOSPHERE AT THE MONTE-CARLO COUNTRY CLUB- Podcast presented by Seb Lauzier- Interviews by Paul King and Richard Connelly- Features by ATP Media
4/16/2023 • 30 minutes, 58 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Sebastiaan Van Bentum On Tallon Griekspoor's Improved Fitness
Fitness coach Sebastiaan Van Bentum speaks to Richard Connelly about working with top 40 player, Tallon Griekspoor.
4/12/2023 • 22 minutes, 12 seconds
PODCAST - 2023 Clay Court Swing Preview
ALEJANDRO DAVIDIOVICH FOKINA ON WHAT HE’S BEEN WORKING ON OFF COURT - ‘It’s more things in my serve, the fear that I had when I was a kid, the tense moments when I have the match and it turns around and goes to the opponent, it’s not easy. Some player's focus for 24 hours on tennis, but I don’t like’. SEBASTIAAN VAN BENTUM ON WORKING ON TALLON GRIEKSPOOR’S DURABILITY - ‘He is a really explosive guy, really stong, pure muscle, but he was not always available for tournaments and you can be the best in the world, but if you are not available for tournaments, you cannot win points, so the challenge was to get him to be able to play twenty five tournaments in a year and at least three tournaments in a row’.ALEXANDER ZVEREV ON HIS RETURN FROM INJURY - ‘It’s kind of been a break, I’ve been injured, not dead so I’ve not been reborn again or something like that. It’s still the same old me and I still want to win these tournaments and I’m going to do everything I can to do so’.PLUS ATP UNCOVERD GET PREDICTIONS FROM A NUMBER OF TOP PLAYERS AHEAD OF THE CLAY SEASON- Podcast presented by Chris Bowers- Interviews by Jill Craybas, Richard Connelly and Seb Lauzier- Clay Court feature by ATP Uncovered
4/9/2023 • 33 minutes, 25 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Tennis Writer Joel Drucker
Over the course of his 35-year writing career, Oakland-based Joel Drucker’s work has appeared in a variety of media outlets. These include broadcast venues such as HBO, CBS, Tennis Channel, as well as dozens of print publications, ranging from the New York Times to Tin House, Huffington Post, Salon, the San Diego Reader, Los Angeles Magazine, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, East Bay Express, Cigar Aficionado, Forbes FYI and People. His primary topics have been sports, popular culture and business. In this engaging conversation with ATP Podcast reporter and former WTA player Jill Craybas, Drucker speaks about his favourite tennis memories and where he thinks the game is heading.
DANIIL MEDVEDEV RETURNING TO HIS DOMINANT BEST - ‘Confidence, I managed to work hard and last year I didn’t manage to be consistent throughout the whole tournament many times and here In Miami I managed to play a lot of great matches throughout the tournament’.JANNIK SINNER ON CARLOS ALCARAZ - ‘Every time we play we have good matches, every time until now is a close match and so I learn many things from him and I learn many things from him, he makes ma a better player and I think at the moment he is on a higher level’. JOURNALIST JOEL DRUCKER ON WHERE THE GAME IS GOING - ‘We see people like Carlos Alcaraz and so I think the game is going to be more all-court hopefully. I hear a phrase often, the game of today and I don’t want to be the game of today, I want to be the game of tomorrow. The game of tomorrow is going to continue to involve some of these incredibly lethal ground strokes, however there will also be slices and players coming into the net’.CHRISTOPHER EUBANKS ON LEARNING FROM SERENA WILLIAMS - ‘I’ve never seen a laser-like focus like practicing with her and it also made me a lot more focussed. The way that she could dial in on every single ball is even something i’d be missing on my own practices. Just having that awareness that I need to lock in, I need to focus I think was the biggest thing and there’s not that many people that I’ve practised with who have had that level of focus’.SEBASTIAN BAEZ ON LEARNING FROM HIS COACH, SEBASTIAN GUTIERREZ - ‘I have found on him, like a teacher and he’s not like a normal teacher, he’s my coach on life. You have a career of a tennis player of maybe fifteen years, or ten and after that you are a person. He always tries to teach me that it’s impossible to be a good player if you’re not a good person’.PLUS, MICHAEL MMOH TALKS ATP UNCOVERED THROUGH WHAT HE TAKES WITH HIM ON HIS TRAVELS - Show presented by Seb Lauzier- Interviews by Ursin Caderas, Jill Craybas and Candy Reid- Mmoh feature by ATP Uncovered
4/2/2023 • 41 minutes, 42 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Wayne Ferriera On His Career And Coaching France Tiafoe
South African Wayne Ferreira won more than 500 matches during a pro career that spanned from 1989 to 2005 and saw him rise as high as world No. 6. Ferreira posted six victories over 14-time Slam champ Pete Sampras in his prime, including four straight between 1995 and 1998, when the American was in the midst of his record stretch as the year-end No. 1.Ferreira had a little iron man in him too, having set the all-time mark for the most consecutive Grand Slam appearances in men’s tennis. He played in 56 straight majors, surpassing the previous record of 54 held by Swede Stefan Edberg. But Ferreria, now 50, may have found his true calling in his role as a coach, as a mentor to American Frances Tiafoe and in this wide-ranging discussion with ATP Podcast reporter Jill Craybas, Ferriera speaks about his career and what he's learnt along the way that now helps his young player.
FRANCISCO CERUNDOLO ON HIS AMBITIONS - ‘The first thing I put on myself is to try to do as well as last year, to maintain top 40 top 30, but if I can say something I would like to reach the top 20 and reach the second week of a Grand Slam’.BRAD STINE ON TOMMY PAUL’S RUN TO THE 2023 AUSTRALIAN OPEN SEMI-FINALS - ‘He did have a bit of a good draw. I want to see Tommy continue to beat the top guys, to get through and to make it to a semi with a draw that’s a tough draw. It was extremely satisfying, I don’t want to take anything away from it, but I do think we have to keep progressing and getting better so hopefully we can keep making firsts and they become the norm, not the firsts’. BEN SHELTON ON HIS GAME STYLE - ‘It’s really important that I play an aggressive game style and find my way to net, incorporate the serve and volley, so that’s been something I’ve been focussing on and combine that with footwork and my return of serve and I would say they are the three areas I’m focussing on’.ANDREY RUBLEV ON HIS BURNING DESIRE TO WIN - ‘It comes naturally since I was a kid, I always hated to lose no matter what I was doing, but now it is only with tennis, with the rest I don’t care, sometimes I lose on purpose to make others happy, but with tennis I still hate to lose’.JUNCHENG SHANG ON WORKING WITH KEI NISHIKORI’S FORMER COACH DANTE BOTTINI - ‘He’s brought a lot of positive thinking. I’m a positive guy outside of the court but sometimes a little negative thinking about the bad side of my tennis, so he’s taught me how to think positive after each point, even when I’m down and not playing good’.BJORN BORG ON NOVAK DJOKOVIC - ’Novak I think he might win one or two more Grand Slam tournaments, who knows, but what he is doing for tennis in general is unbelievable. He’s still pushing the limits, he wants to be the greatest, win more tournaments and break all the records in tennis history, he’s a fantastic player’.BJORN BORG ON HIS SON LEO - ‘I was hoping he’d pick another sport and he started to play soccer, but then he wanted to play tennis so whatever he wants to do. He’s playing tennis, he loves tennis, he has a big heart for tennis, he’s motivated, he’s nineteen so he has many more years. Sometimes I go to my son and I say to him that he can ask me if he has any questions about tennis and my son says I don’t know anything about tennis, so thank you very much!' PLUS CASPER RUUD ANSWERS FANS QUESTIONS, COURTESY OF ATP UNCOVERED- Podcast presented by Seb Lauzier- Interviews by Ursin Caderas, Mike Cation, Nick McCarvel and Seb Lauzier- Ruud feature by ATP Uncovered
3/25/2023 • 40 minutes, 23 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Mike Bryan With Jill Craybas
In this exclusive conversation, former WTA player Jill Craybas catches up with one half of the legendary Bryan Brothers team, Mike Bryan.
3/22/2023 • 30 minutes, 44 seconds
PODCAST - Alcaraz Wins Indian Wells, Returns To World No.1
CARLOS ALCARAZ ON HIS INDIAN WELLS VICTORY AND RETURNING TO WORLD NUMBER ONE - ‘It means a lot to me to recover the world number one is crazy for me, but especially to lift the trophy here means a lot. I said before, I love this tournament and I really enjoy my time here, so for me it’s amazing to complete these ten days like this’.JANNIK SINNER ON HIS PHYSICAL AND MENTAL STRENGTH - ‘We’ve put a lot of work in, much more physically than tennis-wise, so many hours in the gym and I’ve also worked on the mentality as well, trying not to have so many problems in my head, so this is a lot of work to do, especially in the next couple of years, this is going to be very important for my future’.WAYNE FERREIRA ON FRANCES TIAFOE’S NUTRITION - ‘Frances has had to cut back and he’s actually been doing a good job, but he’s still, in my opinion, not doing as well as he should be on the breakfasts, but he’s not on a specific diet, he’s just trying to eat as well as he can’.TOMMY PAUL ON THE AMOUNT OF AMERICANS COMING THROUGH - ‘We’re all playing really good tennis and as the year goes on hopefully we’ll keep going up in our rankings and I think there will be more American’s in the top 20 soon too and I think it’s a really exciting time. Breaking into the top 20 was a big goal of mine and I’m pumped to have it and now I’m looking to the next one’.FELIX AUGER-ALIASSIME ON HOW WINNING HIS FIRST TITLE HAS LED TO MORE - ’This year the goal is even higher and I think it comes from just preparing yourself in the right way, scheduling your tournaments and practices and the way that you come into the tournaments not just being happy to win a few matches’.MIKE BRYAN ON THE MODERN GAME - ‘It just seems like they are moving like cats into the corner. I remember watching Agassi in 88 here in Indian Wells and it sounded like a shotgun the way he hit it and now everybody is hitting it like that. It’s like super-tennis and to win a Grand Slam is like running seven marathons’.PLUS - LISTEN OUT FOR AN EXTENDED VERSION OF THE MIKE BRYAN INTERVIEW, THIS COMING WEDNESDAY ON THE PODCAST CHANNEL- Podcast presented by Seb Lauzier- Podcast guest Jill Craybas- Interviews by Seb Lauzier and Jill Craybas
3/20/2023 • 36 minutes, 8 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Yibing Wu, The First Chinese Man To Win An ATP Title
Chinese Yibing Wu sits down with the ATP Tour to discuss his recent title in Dallas as well as his hopes and ambitions for the future.
3/15/2023 • 9 minutes, 5 seconds
PODCAST - Alcaraz, Ruud & Medvedev Join Us From Indian Wells
TOMMY HAAS ON A NEW ERA IN MEN’S TENNIS - ’The new era is here right. As a Tournament Director you always want the top players to be part of it, but for different reasons we don’t have some of the all-time greats here on the men’s side with one being retired, one injured and one wasn’t granted entry into the country, so you’re looking at the next generation and the new era’.CARLOS ALCARAZ ON DEALING WITH BEING UNDER THE MEDIA SPOTLIGHT - ‘I think this is the first time I’ve been top seed in a Masters 1000, so it’s great, but honestly I don’t think too much about it and just enjoy and of course with social media, with the fans and everything outside the court, I’m trying to enjoy as well, so you can see me always smiling and not taking the pressure on board’.CASPER RUUD ON HIS SLOW START TO 2023 - ’There’s no hiding the fact it hasn’t been what I had hoped for, but it’s a long year, so I don’t feel stressed and I hope from this week on, things can go well for me and belief in myself and motivation is very high’.FACUNDO LAGONES ON CAMERON NORRIE’S DEVELOPMENT - ‘It’s really fun to watch and he’s still growing and he’s more mature than last year. I feel there were two big changes, one when he turned pro and you could see him developing more as a grown-up and it’s not just his tennis, with his career everything became like a business to him and then the second big jump came during lockdown when he became even more mature and he focussed everything on his tennis’. YIBING WU ON MISSING HOME - ‘It’s a really long time that I haven’t been at home, nearly a year and a half and I can’t see my parents, my grand parents of my friends back in China, so whenever I have the chance to go back I always take a bike, ride around the neighbourhood or even around some famous buildings and just feel the city and feel that I am part of the city’.PLUS A FEATURE LOOKING AT DANIIL MEDVEDEV'S THREE TITLES IN THE PAST THREE WEEKS, COURTESY OF THE ATP MEDIA NEWS TEAM- Show presented by Seb Lauzier - Podcast guest Jill Craybas- Interviews by Seb Lauzier, Jill Craybas and Zhensu Xiao- Medvedev feature by ATP Media
3/12/2023 • 37 minutes, 27 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Michael Russell On Taylor Fritz's Amazing 2022
Taylor Fritz's coach Michael Russell speaks to Jill Craybas about his amazing tournament victories in Indian Wells and Tokyo 2022 and they also speak about Taylor reaching the world's top 10 for the first time.
3/8/2023 • 15 minutes, 14 seconds
PODCAST - Djokovic, Rune, Musetti, Molcan And Former Player Tomas Berdych
NOVAK DJOKOVIC ON HIS RECORD 378 WEEKS AT NUMBE ONE - ‘Any achievement that is linked to the history of the sport that I love is very flattering, very fulfilling and I’m very happy because I’ve dedicated my life to achieving great things in tennis and so it’s flattering to be among the legendary names like Steffi Graf, but I keep going, moving on and trying to take on the next challenge’.ALBERTO MARTIN ON JOINING ANDREY RUBLEV’S TEAM - ‘Andrey has changed a big part of the team, not only me, but the physical trainer is new, so it’s a lot of changes and I think we need to assimilate a little bit. He did well in Australia but the other tournaments he could do a little bit better’.TOMAS BERDYCH ON FELLOW CZECH JIRI LEHECKA - ‘I think after a bit of a low period after myself and Radek Stepanek, I think he’s definitely one who can carry the flag. He is very young but what I’ve seen it’s really the way he’s composed with his game. I like his fitness preparation, his body being strong and he has a similar style to my game, so I think he has a bright future ahead of him’.HOLGER RUNE ON WHAT HE HOPES TO ACHIEVE BY THE AGE OF 30 - ‘I’m hoping for a lot of Grand Slam titles and a lot of success for sure’.ALEX MOLCAN ON WORKING WITH NOVAK DJOKOVIC’S FORMER COACH MARIAN VAJDA - ‘He brings a lot of professionalism into the team, his thoughts and his experience with Novak is incredible to listen to. I’m always asking questions about what he was doing in certain situations, I’m not trying to be like him, but of course I’m still asking Marian a few things about him’.LORENZO MUSETTI ON BEING A TOP 20 PLAYER - ‘It’s a dream because you know scoring a best ranking is always a positive. I’m playing good but I have to keep working hard to try and get more and the next step is the top 10 and I just need to keep working and keep dreaming and let’s see if I can make it’.MICHAEL RUSSELL ON TAYLOR FRITZ’S ANKLE INJURY AHEAD OF WINNING THE 2022 INDIAN WELLS MASTERS - ‘When we went to practice, getting ready to play Rafael Nadal, Taylor feels the ankle and he can be a little dramatic at times and he basically goes down on the ground and says that he can’t move. The fact that we were on Centre Court and a lot of the media were there early for the women’s final, they started to pick up on that and I started to get loads of messages from my friends in media’.PLUS THE ATP NEWS TEAM DOCUMENT THE ABIERTO MEXICANO TELCEL PRESENTED BY HSBC TOURNAMENT TURNING 30.
3/4/2023 • 35 minutes, 31 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Thiago Monteiro On Life On Tour
Brazilian Thiago Monteiro speaks to Jill Craybas about playing on the Challenger Tour and trying to break through to the main tour.
3/1/2023 • 19 minutes, 33 seconds
PODCAST - Alcaraz, Thiem, Wawrinka, Medvedev & Many More
CARLOS ALCARAZ ON HIS DESIRE TO RETURN TO WORLD NUMBER ONE - ‘It’s a great goal for me, but it’s going to be really tough as Djokovic deserves so much to be there, but I’m really hungry to go to the tournaments, to win them and to return to number one, that’s a big goal for me this year’.TOMAS BELLUCI ON HIS DECISION TO RETIRE - ‘I’m happy with what I’ve achieved in my career. I made the decision in the middle of last year as I played a tournament and wasn’t feeling well physically. I was having so many injuries, so I think that was the moment when I felt I need to choose different for my life and that was the moment’.DOMINIC THIEM ON GETTING MAINTAINING A WORK AND LIFE BALANCE - ‘I’m constantly thinking of a life beyond tennis. I think that tennis was, for a long time, the only part of my life, which is good in one way but if you’re getting older it’s not good anymore, you need a life beyond tennis, you need other thoughts in your head, other things to do and the injury time out and tough time to come back helped me in those terms and I’m very happy about it’.STAN WAWRINKA ON HIS DESIRE TO RETURN TO THE TOP - ‘My game is high, when I enter the court I believe I can beat any player in front of me. Now I have to do it and I have to do it in repetition in the same week, but the year is long and I’m always looking for the full year, to the big picture, controlling what I can control and the matches and results will come’.ARTHUR RINDERKNECH ON THE NEXT WAVE OF FRENCH PLAYERS COMING THROUGH - ‘It’s a new generation for sure with Monfils not playing for the last year, Tsonga of course retired, Gilles Simon retired, Lucas Pouille who was really good, Richard Gasquet still shows he can win, but behind that there is a new generation coming, so hopefully we can do, maybe not as good as them, but get as close as possible’.FABRICE MARTIN ON LEARNING FROM DIFFERENT COACHING SYSTEMS - ‘When I went back to France I felt it was more about technique, more tactical, whereas in the States it was more focussed on you and your game and on your strengths and so sometimes it fits you and sometimes it doesn’t , but I used a bit of everything’.PLUS DANIIL MEDVEDEV ANSWERS QUIZ QUESTIONS ON HIS OWN CAREER- Podcast presented by Seb Lauzier- Interviews by Seb Lauzier, Richard Connelly, Chris Bowers and Candy Reid- Medvedev feature by ATP Uncovered
2/26/2023 • 32 minutes, 52 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Sebastian Baez On His Career, Juan Martin Del Potro And Argentina's Football World Cup Victory
Argentine Sebastian Baez speaks to Candy Reid about his career, Juan Martin Del Potro and Argentina's Football World Cup Victory.
CARLOS ALCARAZ ON 2022 - ‘It was a dream season for me, so many big titles. You have to believe in yourself, you have to believe you can win every match, every tournament, you know. I want more in every tournament and that’s the key to everything, to believe in yourself, to be calm and to be your hundred percent your whole year and to be strong in the tough moments’. ALEXANDER ZVEREV ON PLAYING WITH DIABETES - ‘When you get this illness at a young age, you get a lot of doubt in you and people give you a lot of doubt because I’ve always had doctors telling me, with an illness like that you will never be a professional athlete, especially not in a physical sport like tennis and I want to make sure that the message is out there that you really can and that you should never put limits on yourself just because you have an illness like that’. RICHARD KRAJICEK ON THE ROLE OF TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR - ‘I retired young and through injury and then I got the offer to be Tournament Director in Rotterdam, the biggest tournament we have in Holland and I though it was a great way to stay close to tennis, but to not have to travel too much as I have a young family. It was a great way to stay with tennis, travel to the big tournaments and re-educate myself and I’m very lucky to be surrounded by such a good team and I’m just a part of it’.FRANCES TIAFOE ON HIS FIRST TITLE IN DELRAY BEACH - ‘I grew up playing a lot in south Florida so to win my first title there was pretty cool and to beat one of my idols, Del Potro. I was very nervous for that match because I just wanted to beat him. It was tough, I barely got over the line that day, so I was just happy that I beat him. To be across the court from Delpo was just an honour and to be able to shake his hand with a win was something I’ll never forget and I’m happy that was our last time playing’.HOLGER RUNE ON HIS AMBITIONS FOR 2023 - ’This year my goal is definitely to qualify for Turin and not only be alternative, but it was a nice experience. I feel I’m doing a few things better than in 2022 which is nice, I’ve improved a lot of things, so it’s a positive sign, but I’m only nineteen and have a lot of things to learn’.DANIIL MEDVEDEV ON WHAT IT’S LIKE DEFENDING A NUMBER ONE POSITION - ‘I heard from ex tennis players who say when they look back it was tough to defend a number one position and if I look at my rankings, my results, I have to say it tough but I didn’t feel much, I felt really happy to be there, I had a lot of points and I liked being in the position where everyone wanted to beat you, so I don’t think it was a problem for me, but many people say it could be you know, so it’s about guessing and I don’t know what’s the truth’.PLUS….DIEGO SCHWARTZMAN IS TASKED BY ATP UNCOVERED TO ANSWER QUIZ QUESTIONS ON HIS OWN CAREER- Show presented by Seb Lauzier- Interviews by Richard Connelly- Features by ATP Uncovered
2/19/2023 • 39 minutes, 28 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Diego Moyano Speaks About His Coaching Career
Coco Gauff's coach Diego Moyano speaks to Candy Reid about what he's learnt from working with the young American as well as from the likes of Kevin Anderson, Tommy Paul and Reilly Opelka.
2/15/2023 • 43 minutes, 39 seconds
PODCAST - Central And South American Special
THIAGO MONTEIRO ON LIFE ON THE ROAD - ‘It’s totally mental, for example on the clay we have to go from Monte Carlo to Barcelona and then Roland Garros and more because it’s not that cheap or easy to go home and then back again, this logic doesn’t work for us so it’s different from the European players. Sometimes when I tell someone that this is my seventh week straight or ninth week straight, they think I’m crazy’.EDUARDO INFANTINO ON THE SOUTH AMERICAN MENTALITY - ’The key was big coaches and they were looking to the past, not just to the future and this kind of mentality was the key in South America and was the key for the next generation. This is why so many projects have stopped in one moment, when coaches don’t open their eyes and look for another way to practice regarding physical condition, recovery, everything’.DIEGO MOYANO ON WHAT HE LOOKS FOR IN A YOUNG PLAYER - ’To be the best player you can be you need to be a well rounded person and you need to have knowledge of what surrounds you. Even on the tennis side if we live in a bubble, beside that you have to get as close as you can to a normal life, so having friends, boyfriends, girlfriends, whatever makes you happy. If you have the chance to do it go to the galleries, see the fashion and use the tennis to see the other things outside of tennis’.MARCELO AREVALO ON HIS GRAND SLAM VICTORY INSPIRING THE NEXT GENERATION IN EL SALVADOR - ‘It had a big impact on the kids back at home to believe because tennis is not a popular sport, not only in El Salvador but in the region, in Central America and the Caribbean and I think winning a Slam created hope for all those kids. Tennis is a great sport and if you can impact some people in life and somehow help them, that’s what really gives me joy’.RAFAEL MATOS ON WINNING THE 2023 AUSTRALIAN OPEN MIXED DOUBLES - ‘When I woke up on the morning of the final I was so nervous, but I think it’s really important, when you are nervous you cannot control things, so you have to be nervous and then control what you can do with that and that was one of the keys for us. Now it’s a motivation as since you were a kid you have these goals, so now that it’s happened, you feel more confident to win matches and make money’.DANIEL VALLEJO ON PARAGUAY - ‘The best thing about Paraguay has to be the food probably. Paraguay is pretty nice, especially the people. When you are from another country they treat you nice and that is not something that you see in every country, so that is something that you have to know from Paraguay, that’s for sure'PLUS...SEBASTIAN BAEZ TALKS ABOUT HOW HE LIKES TO TRAVEL WITH ATP UNCOVERED- Podcast presented by Seb Lauzier- Interviews by Jill Craybas and Candy Reid- Baez feature by ATP Uncovered and Kate Flory
2/12/2023 • 55 minutes, 31 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Yannick Yoshizawa On The Future Of Training The Mind
Former WTA Tour Supervisor Yannick Yoshizawa speaks to Jill Craybas about working with his new company, Sense Arena (https://www.sensearena.com). Sense Arena have created virtual reality software to help tennis players train the mind more effectively.
2/8/2023 • 15 minutes, 28 seconds
PODCAST - A Week On From The Australian Open
TENNIS STRATEGY COACH CRAIG O’SHANNESSY ON NOVAK DJOKOVIC - ‘When you’re watching him next time pay particular to his forehand rally ball down the line. He hits it much more than other players, he’s trying to get the opponent moving, he’s trying to make the point more athletic, where he’ll have the advantage and he’s also baiting the opponent in some ways in making a poor decision’.MACHAR REID, HEAD OF INNOVATION AT TENNIS AUSTRALIA ON THE FUTURE OF EQUIPMENT - ’Tennis Lab is all about helping players and in particular Australian players year round, get the right racquets and string in their hands to add to their games, whether that’s with performance in mind or minimising the risk of injury and getting better and getting better in a sustainable way, so you’re not getting injured, for the most part, from a performance point of view, is what the game is all about’. RINKY HIJIKATA ON LEARNING FROM PLAYING THE BEST - ‘I’ve learnt about the level and what those guys do on the court and how relentless they are when you play them, they don’t really give you an inch out there so you kind of have to earn everything you get out there and that’s something that moving forward I want to try to do better’.COMMENTATOR MIKE CATION ON THE CHALLENGER TOUR AND AMERICAN PLAYERS - ‘A lot of these young Americans especially have been buoyed by the fact that there’s so many Challenger events in the States. It lessens the amount of travel, it lessens the cost you have to make by travelling around the world to play in events, so as a result they have a better opportunity to get just a ton of matches and victories and especially if you’re playing at what we’d say is a lower level, an opportunity to get easier wins and really build that confidence and get those victories’.- Podcast presented by Chris Bowers- Interviews by Candy Reid and AO Radio’s Angus Delaney
2/5/2023 • 42 minutes, 8 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Rob Morgan On His Coaching Philosophy And Working With Wesley Koolhof
Coach Rob Morgan speaks about what he's learnt working alongside the likes of Joe Salisbury, Rajeev Ram, Dan Evans and current player Wesley Koolhof.
2/1/2023 • 20 minutes, 13 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Jason Kubler On His New Found Love Of Journaling
Australian Open doubles finalist Jason Kubler speaks to Candy Reid about a number of topics including how he's changed his mindset and his hopes for the future.
2/1/2023 • 10 minutes, 41 seconds
PODCAST - 2023 Australian Open Review
JILL CRAYBAS ON NOVAK DJOKOVIC’S MENTAL STRENGTH - ‘Everything he went through last year, to be able to overcome all that, the amount of mental strength that he has, I don’t know where he gets it from, but it’s just phenomenal what he’s able to produce after everything he’s gone through’.PETER MARCATO ON NOVAK DJOKOVIC’S TENTH AUSTRALIAN OPEN TITLE - ’Novak Djokovic won his first title here in 2008 and in 2023 he’s playing like he was in 2008. It was personal this year, a man on a mission and the emotion that came out after a performance which was clinical in the end, showed how much it meant to him’.TENNIS AUSTRALIA CEO CRAIG TILEY ON THE LENGTH OF TENNIS MATCHES - ‘Most people are saying that points are lasting longer, but actually the data is proving that the points are not lasting longer, so when you look at length of matches it’s probably time in-between points. Since we introduced the shot clock, players are realising that they can take their time and the officials are only starting the clock when someone is ready to serve or return and also in Covid players are now having to go back and pick up their own towels and that has created extra time, so we’re seeing extra time not during the point, but between points’.JASON KUBLER ON HOW A NEW MINDSET MAY HAVE HELPED WITH HIS AUSTRALIAN OPEN TITLE - ‘A lot of it is being more present and having more understanding on my emotions, why I’m thinking certain things and you know I’m more professional in looking after my body, trying to eat a lot better, looking at how I recover and how I’m feeling in general and that’s all been a big help, so it’s no coincidence that’s when the results started coming’.MARCOS BAGHDATIS ON HIS 2006 AUSTRALIAN OPEN FINAL - ‘Every time I come to Australia I always say it’s like I had a Grand Slam at home with the crowd and I had my best moments on a tennis court here. I remember in the final I had my chance, I was a set and a break up against Roger Federer but couldn’t go until the end and it was more mentally, I think I started thinking too much and my mind just slipped, I started thinking to much about the future and didn’t stay in the present’.- Podcast presented by Chris Bowers- Podcast guests - Commentator Peter Marcato and former WTA player Jill Craybas- Interviews by Candy Reid
1/29/2023 • 57 minutes, 23 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Craig Tyzzer On Ash Barty
Ash Barty's former coach Craig Tyzzer speaks to Candy Reid about the duo's successful career together and how they are both looking to help the next generation of stars.
1/27/2023 • 24 minutes, 48 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Brad Stine On Tommy Paul's Development
American Tommy Paul's coach Brad Stine speaks to Jill Craybas about the young player's development, his injury struggles and hopes for the future.
1/24/2023 • 28 minutes, 49 seconds
PODCAST - Halfway Through The 2023 Australian Open
This week presenter Chris Bowers is joined by former WTA player Jill Craybas and AO Radio commentator Peter Marcato as they look back on the first week of action at the Australian Open and ahead to week two. Headlines are...PETER MARCATO ON PLAYING TENNIS INTO THE EARLY HOURS - ‘Tennis takes longer to play these days, there’s no doubt that matches are getting longer, but also, do they arrive out onto court on time, the time in-between matches, the bathroom breaks, injury timeouts, it seems to be getting longer and longer, so I think that needs to be taken into account’.JILL CRAYBAS ON A GREAT FIRST WEEK FOR THE AMERICANS - ‘I think there’s been a United Cup effect in that it’s rubbed off into the first week of the Open. If you just see the way they are all acting together and how they gelled as a group, it got them all into a headspace where they had that confidence and I know I’m leaving a lot of Americans out like JJ Wolf and Tommy Paul, but I mean, it’s just been phenomenal’.JILL CRAYBAS ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE MEN’S GAME - ‘We’ve seen it with the women, how anyone can win it and I feel like that’s starting to happen with the men, you’re seeing so many different guys play so well and get upsets and different names pushing further in slams, which we see in the women’s quite a bit, so I’m excited about both tours right now’.Plus...YOSHIHITO NISHIOKA ON THE ADVICE HIS MUM GAVE HIM - ‘A couple of years ago my mum told me that I shouldn’t expect to win all matches, but that I can win some matches and have a good time, so now I don’t think too much about winning or losing but instead just play and focus and then maybe I can have a chance to win. So right now I’m just trying to play my best tennis and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just try the next week’. ROBERT LINDSTEDT ON WINNING THE AUSTRALIAN OPEN DOUBLES - ‘Winning the Australian Open was just relief for me because I had so many opportunities in Wimbledon the year before, so It was just a relief of not losing another one, but actually winning was unbelievable and we really enjoyed it late into the night and the next morning’.ROBERT LINDSTEDT ON HOW THE DOUBLES GAME CAN GROW - ‘It’s been strong for a very long time, it’s got so much more athletic and physical, you can’t really be lazy anymore, everybody is training like a singles player if I can use that term, but what we can do more is actually getting the opportunity to showcase the sport, to show we’re entertaining and that it’s a beautiful sport’.- Podcast presented by Chris Bowers- Podcast guests - AO Radio commentator Peter Marcato & former WTA player Jill Craybas- Interviews by Jill Craybas
1/22/2023 • 53 minutes, 52 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Steve Baldas, CEO W Sports And Media On The Art Of Managing Players
Steve Baldas, CEO of W Sports and Media talent agency and advisory firm speaks to Candy Reid about how they manage the careers of high profile sports stars, including tennis players Lleyton Hewitt, Dan Evans, Jason Kubler and Storm Hunter, as well as media professionals and music performers. Website - https://www.wsportsandmedia.com.au/
1/20/2023 • 27 minutes, 35 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Marc Boada - The Man Who's Helped Andrey Rublev Develop Physically And Mentally
Jill Craybas speaks to physio Marc Boada about what he's learnt through his career and what he's done to help Andrey Rublev reach the top of the came. Note: This conversation was recorded towards the end of 2022.
1/18/2023 • 17 minutes, 31 seconds
PODCAST - Break Point Discussion & Australian Open Preview
JILL CRAYBAS ON BREAK POINT HELPING FANS TO GET TO KNOW THE PLAYERS BETTER - ‘Netflix did a great job with 'Drive to Survive', and I think you get a better insight into the players when you understand where that emotion is coming from more often. When I watch the Olympics, I don’t know a lot of the athletes from curling or biathlon but you get a five minute snippet of a background story and all of a sudden your immersed in how they are doing in curling or biathlon or whatever sport it is that I don’t follow throughout the year, but I’m paying attention now and I’m hoping that is what this does’.PETER MARCATO ON BREAK POINT LETTING FANS FIND OUT WHAT GOES ON BEHIND-THE-SCENES - The biggest thing for me is to get an idea of what goes on behind-the-scenes. We might see a match and see what happens but we don’t see the aftermath, we don’t see them travelling around, you know, players who are in a relationship and then they don’t see each other for weeks because the tours diverge, that sort of thing I think is fascinating’. JILL CRAYBAS ON THE UNITED CUP - ‘I just ran into Petra Martic who was involved with the Croatia team and I asked her about it and she was just glowing and she just said she wants more of these team events because whilst they see the male players at tour events, they actually get to hang out, spend time with each other, get to know each other and it was a whole different experience’.PETER MARCATO ON WHETHER TENNIS CAN DO A BETTER JOB OF TELLING IT'S STORY - ‘The tricky part is that it’s in many different sections and many different parts. We have two main tours, we have the Grand Slams, we have the ITF who run some of the team events and the lower levels, it’s really hard to tell that story cohesively, to get a full narrative, particularly on something that runs week-in-week-out, but it’s something we should be looking at to then promote the sport as widely as possible, not just to watch it, but to get people playing it as well’.CHRIS BOWERS ON THE VALUE OF TELLING PLAYERS BACK-STORIES - ‘There are so many good back stories and this is perhaps something that's even bigger in something like wheelchair tennis where understandably they want to promote this as a tour, but the really interesting thing about the wheelchair tour is the back story of the players, what tennis has actually done for them. I do wonder whether the key for tennis being able to tell a better story is that the tennis governing bodies need to develop a better relationship with the players agents, so that there is a greater responsibility on behalf of the players to serve their sport’.JILL CRAYBAS ON NOVAK DJOKOVIC - ‘It’s incredible what was thrown at Djokovic last year and the fact that he finished fifth and won the tour finals at the end of the year is just amazing and it’s great to see him back in Australia’.PETER MARCATO ON RAFAEL NADAL AGAINST JACK DRAPER IN THE FIRST ROUND - ‘You’ve got to get the best of Nadal in three out of five sets and that’s always the dynamic. The top players are always able to manage that so well and for the younger players, because there’s no three out of five other than the majors, they don’t get that experience. Jack Draper won’t be scared of Nadal as he has a big game and massive serve and in 2022 he learnt a lot about himself and his game and he’s been making massive improvements, but the big thing for me is that after two sets he’d normally be walking off and be in the locker room with everyone saying how good he was, but here he's got to step out for a third set’.CHRIS BOWERS ON MATTEO BERRETTINI - ‘He could get tremendous support. All the people who featured in the Netflix documentary might find a lot of people saying ‘Oh Berrettini, he’s that guy who’s lovely to his granny’ and whilst I don’t want to over value that particular scene, if that brings out people who really do cheer for him, he could find this is a home tournament’.PETER MARCATO ON THE AUSTRALIANS - ‘On the men’s side having De Minaur and Kyrgios on the same side of the draw doesn’t really help things along the way, but in terms of contenders to go deep, you might get a few who can cause a few upsets in the first week, but they’d be the two in the second week and obviously then there’s Kyrgios and Kokkinakis in the doubles’.-Show presented by Chris Bowers-Podcasts guests - AO Radio Commentator Peter Marcato and former player Jill Craybas-Views expressed in this podcast episode are those of the on air team and not necessarily those of the ATP.
1/15/2023 • 48 minutes, 34 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Phil Farmer On Coaching Austin Krajicek And What He Learnt Working With The Bryan Brothers
Coach Phil Farmer discusses what he's working on with doubles player Austin Krajicek as he aims to take the American and his partner, Ivan Dodig to the top of the sport as well as what he learnt working alongside the Bryan Brothers as they won Grand Slam titles and reached number one in the world.
1/11/2023 • 27 minutes, 51 seconds
PODCAST - John Newcombe Special
JOHN NEWCOMBE ON LEARNING FROM THE BEST - ‘I was someone who would observe people who had reached the very, very top and just watch what they did and I figured out that that’s how hard they trained, that’s how they do it, so I’ve got to do it at least as hard’.JOHN NEWCOMBE ON LEARNING FROM FAILURE - ‘I was told when I was twelve years of age that you learn more from every match you lose, than every match you win, so rather then sulk after I lost a match, I had a practice that within an hour I would sit down by myself and I would do a serious analyzation of why and where I actually lost the match and not being afraid to say that the other player was just better’. JOHN NEWCOMBE ON CAMARADERIE IN HIS DAYS - ‘I don’t know what the guys do now, but In those days when we left Australia we we away for eight months so the other boys became your family and you’d practice together and Roachy and I, we wouldn’t play a three set practice match, we’d play a five set practice match and try to kill one and other on the practice court. It was sort of a fellowship we had together and I noticed that players from other countries wouldn’t be cheering for their compatriot whereas we were very much cheering for one an other’.JOHN NEWCOMBE ON THE PRESS - ’Now there’s a lot of new journalists involved in the sport and the guys and girls have to be so careful about what they do and say around them. We’d take the journos out to dinner, get them to have quite a few drinks and get the goods on them!’.JOHN NEWCOMBE ON VISUALISATION - ‘It was something I learnt when I was in my late teens, I would visualise the court and walking on the court and who my opponent was going to be and tossing for serve and playing the match and it was like a dress rehearsal and when I went out there I felt that this was very comfortable, I’ve been here before’.JOHN NEWCOMBE ON MINDSET - ‘I said to myself, you’ve got sixty seconds before you walk onto the court and you’ve allowed negativity to take over your whole body in the next sixty seconds you’ve got to force out all of that negativity, when you go out on the court there’s going to be a player at the other end of the court and a tennis ball and that’s it’.JOHN NEWCOMBE ON HIS FAMOUS MOUSTACHE - ‘My wife and I were on holidays in Hawaii and I grew a moustache and I asked her what she thought and she said she liked it so I got the seal of approval and it went from there. I signed with a clothing company and they came up with all these logos and one of them was the moustache logo and of course that became my logo and it went on everything’.
1/8/2023 • 42 minutes, 42 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Lorenzo Beltrame On Working On The Mind
Jill Craybas speaks about the workings of the mind with Lorenzo Betrame from the Italian Tennis Federation. Before taking up a role with the Italian Federation, Beltrame was Director of the legendary LGE Performance System / Human Performance Institute and has also personally trained dozens of professional athletes including 9 players who reached the #1 ranking in the world.
1/4/2023 • 25 minutes, 2 seconds
PODCAST - Fitness Special
LORENZO BELTRAME ON CHARACTER - ‘Every person has to decide what person they want to become and build into that space. To me character is the automatic version of attitude. Attitude is what we can drive everyday with effort, so today I can choose my attitude and the more I choose the attitude I want to have, the more I build character and eventually it becomes part of my normal behaviours’.JULIA GÖRGES ON LEARNING TO RELAX - ‘From being scheduled 24/7 to not being schedule 24/7, that’s already a huge chance for body and mind and beside that we’ve got to get some yoga and meditation stuff in, so I really enjoy it. I’m writing a blog every two to three weeks and it’s about mental health, meditation, goal-setting, stress release, supplements and nutrition, all what is good for your body. I feel there is a lot that can be improved in the world and if I can help someone just one per cent, I’m super happy about it’.JOE SALISBURY ON MEDITATION - ‘It’s definitely helped both on and off the court, just feeling you’re more in control of your mind. You can always help the thoughts that come into your head, the emotions that you’re feeling, but it just helps you deal with them better’.DAVID O’HARE ON DIET AND NUTRITION - ‘When I was a player I had an unhealthy approach to food in viewing it all as fuel. Now I just think it’s one of life’s great pleasures that you can enjoy and I think your relationship to food is really important, so I think that me stressing or feeling guilty over having an ice cream probably has more of a negative effect on me then having the ice cream itself. A little bit of everything isn’t going to hurt’.MARC BOADA ON MANAGING THE PHYSICAL ASPECT OF ATHLETES BODIES - ‘With Novak Djokovic you always feel like all his shots are in perfect control. In order to hit the ball harder, you don’t need to be stronger, you need to use your body better and this is a main goal. -Show presented by Seb Lauzier-Interviews by Jill Craybas
1/1/2023 • 48 minutes, 9 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Alex Molcan On His Journey Into The World's Top 50
Slovakian player Alex Molcan speaks to Chris Bowers about his rise up the rankings and his work now under coaches Marian Vajda and Karol Beck.
12/28/2022 • 15 minutes, 59 seconds
PODCAST - Federer, Sampras, Agassi, Borg, McEnroe, Hewitt & Many More
LARS CHRISTENSEN ON THE IMPORTANCE OF STATISTICS - ‘I’ve been doing it from the very beginning, even when he was ten and in the beginning it was about how many unforced errors, how many forced and winners he would do in a match and specifically looking at forehands and backhands and now getting older it’s more about serve and return and serve plus one and return plus one, so it’s getting more specific but I’ve kept the statistics always and I always compare during the year’.ROB MORGAN ON GOAL-SETTING - 'The first thing I always do with a player is sit down and work out what’s the goal, what’s the vision, what does it look like and where do we want to be by the end of the year, so I think sharing a vision is a massive part of coaching. Painting a picture regularly to a player is vital’.ALEX MOLCAN ON LEARNING FROM WATCHING NOVAK DJOKOVIC - ‘Playing against Djokovic showed me it’s not about playing crazy fast or trying to be extremely aggressive, it’s about the head and you know it looks like Djokovic is playing chess. It was a really incredible experience, I learned a lot from it, I saw how maybe I can play, not exactly, but some moves, how he’s thinking, I was re-watching this match a lot and yes, the experience was amazing, it was a good school for me’.SERGIY STAKHOVSKY ON THE WAR IN UKRAINE AND EXPERIENCING OTHER PARTS OF EUROPE - ‘I’m alive, the family is safe, they are in Budapest, they are warm and fed, they go to school, so I think everything is good with them. We all hope we are ok, but unfortunately we don’t know that, it’s unprecedented times, it’s a war, so everybody is trying to live through it to the standards they can. Coming here to Turin after Kyiv has been hit multiple times, coming to a city where it’s quiet and peaceful and people are having fun on the tennis court and cheering for tennis, it’s different’.ROGER FEDERER ON SAYING GOODBYE TO COMPETITIVE TENNIS - ‘I’ve definitely given I feel like everything and more to my career than what I could have done. I got to enjoy and learn what hard work and dedication means, so for me, I don’t know how much more I could have given, could have tried, I tried I feel a lot of different things, but I feel I’m old enough now to call it a day and I feel really good about it.PLUS MCENROE, BORG, SAMPRAS, AGASSI, HEWITT AND MANY MORE PICK OUT THE FAVOURITE MOMENTS FROM THEIR CAREERS-Show presented by Seb Lauzier-Interviews by Jill Craybas and Chris Bowers-Features by ATP Uncovered
12/24/2022 • 57 minutes, 18 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - David O'Hare On Coaching Ram & Salisbury
Irish coach David O'Hare speaks to Jill Craybas about the work he's been doing with 2022 Nitto ATP Finals champions Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury, as well as how he became a coach after his playing career and learning from legendary coach and mentor Louis Cayer.
12/21/2022 • 18 minutes, 32 seconds
PODCAST - Doubles Special
WESLEY KOOLHOF ON PROMOTING THE DOUBLES GAME - ‘A bit more Centre Court time would be great if that’s possible. Some tournaments do it actually and it’s always nice for us to play in big arenas, in big stadiums. Scheduling-wise I understand that the singles guys are playing on the big stages, but it would be nice for us to play the first, second or even the quarter-final on the bigger court’.JOE SALISBURY ON WINNING WHEN NOT PLAYING WELL - ’That’s always one of the things we’ve always said we’ve improved the most as a team in the last four years we’ve been playing together, is that in the tough situations we always find a way, even if we’re not playing out best, or we’re struggling or we feel our opponents are playing better, to win those matches’.DAVID O’HARE ON LOUIS CAYER - ‘He’s been such an important figure in terms of my tennis knowledge and coaching. He’s dubbed the doubles guru but that does him a little bit of an injustice because he’s fanatical about tennis and his approach is a systematic approach. He’s really special, he’s like a tennis father to me and to be able to sit beside him during matches to pick his brain, ultimately he has a great vision and I try to implement what he says on a daily basis’.HARRI HELIOVAARA ON THE IMPORTANCE OF CELEBRATING - ‘I’ve always loved competition and competition has the element of winning and losing and of course winning is much better. Now that I’m older I know that it’s not going to last forever, so I’m going to enjoy every moment to the full and when you win matches you made a good job, so why wouldn’t you celebrate’.LLOYD GLASSPOOL ON THE SPRINGBOARD MOMENT OF GETTING INTO THE ROME MASTERS - ‘Looking back I think it had a massive impact on our year. It was our first real opportunity to play the top, top guys in a tournament that we’d never been in before. That was our first Masters 1000 because of our ranking and just being able to compete in that, we played the world number one and beat the world number one, so it was just a confidence booster and realisation that we could be one of the best teams in the world’.MARCELO AREVALO ON WINNING ROLAND GARROS - ‘Being the first Salvadorian and Central American player to win a Grand Slam it was a huge success for my country and for my region. I didn’t even know until later that I was the first one, I was just trying to win as many matches as possible and I had my goals clear and one of my main goals in life was to become a Grand Slam champion’.MICHAEL VENUS ON TRAVEL - ‘Once the pandemic hit I didn’t see my family for six months and then again my wife was pregnant with our second child and I was at home for the birth and then I left two weeks after and I didn’t see her for the first six months after that too, so it got to the point where we needed to see each other as a family, so they started travelling towards the end of last year and they’ve been doing that ever since’.JOHN NEWCOMBE ON THE LACK OF SINGLES PLAYERS INVOLVED IN THE DOUBLES GAME - ‘When you talk about doubles you bring up something that’s a bit of a sore point with me because it’s just a pity that none of the top players compete in doubles. Ninety percent of players around the world play more doubles than singles. I understand that best of five sets, the top players don’t want to play, but as far as doubles goes I would like to see them having to play more doubles in the regular tournaments where it’s two out of three sets’.NIKOLA MEKTIC ON LOOKING FORWARD TO A GOOD 2023 - ‘I think mentally we have learned some things this year. The first year we didn’t have many setbacks and this year we had to adapt to some not-so-good results, which I think in the end we pulled through, so I’m very optimistic for the next season’.-Show presented by Seb Lauzier-Interviews by Jill Craybas and Chris Bowers
12/18/2022 • 35 minutes, 25 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - James Trotman On Coaching Jack Draper
Coach James Trotman sits down with Jill Craybas at the NextGen ATP Finals to discuss Jack Draper's development and what they will be working on going into 2023.
STEFANOS TSITSIPAS ON HOW HE EVALUATES HIS DEVELOPMENT - ‘I look at things such as finals, how many I was able to play this year, how consistent I am as far as going deep into tournaments and if I’m able to go deep in those tournaments, If I’m able to constantly, week-after-week, being able to be there, this is a good sign for me’.KAREN KHACHANOV ON HIS IMPROVED FORM IN 2022 - ‘I would say that I’m on the rise. I was playing more and more consistently in the second part of the year and I had the big run at the US Open and it feels great that all of the hard work is starting to pay off and I’m playing better and better tennis’. JANNIK SINNER ON THE UPS AND DOWNS OF TOUR LIFE - ‘It was a tough year for me because in many tournaments I had some little problems, I had to retire many times, but in another way in other tournaments I played many matches, played more consistent tennis with many quarter-finals and round of sixteens, so unfortunate, but in other ways I can be proud’.GRIGOR DIMITROV ON CONTINUING TO LEARN - ‘What I want is still to improve. I’ve done thirteen off seasons so I think I know the Ins and outs pretty good, but always like to re-assess and think what is our goal this time and maybe even try some new things’.REILLY OPELKA ON HIS MENTALITY - ‘My mentality I would say is analytical and that’s how I’ve always been wired, but it’s about finding the right balance and not being too analytical to where it becomes detrimental, but having a clear identity of who you are a tennis players I think is one of the most important things in the game’..MARIN CILIC ON STILL BEING ABLE TO PLAY AT THE TOP - ‘I would say that in general the tennis has not run away from me. It’s just the feeling of putting everything together and generally when you watch tennis at a high level it seems quite simple and then you come to some stages where it become more difficult to put those things together, but for me I never doubted that I’d find playing good tennis’.DAN EVANS ON WHAT HE NEEDS TO DO TO TAKE THE NEXT STEPS - ‘I look at these tournaments differently to a lot of these top guys, I have to have a lot of things fall right, but reaching the Montreal semi-finals shows I can get to the latter stages of these tournaments if I do certain things and play the right tennis. I can improve and that’s why we’re on the practice courts each day and it’s just about tinkering’.ANDY MURRAY ON TRYING TO FOCUS ON THE HERE AND NOW - ‘When you’ve been at the top of the game and got to number 1, that’s always where your reference point is in terms of how you’re doing, so in that respect it’s been pretty average, but at the beginning of the year I was ranked 135 in the world and now I’m in the forties, so that’s a big jump, so it’s been ok the year’.And in the week where Nick Bollettieri passed away, we recall one of our favourite conversations with the visionary coach...NICK BOLLETTIERI ON THE MOST TALENTED PLAYER HE EVER COACHED - ’The student that was the most talented in my sixty years of teaching was Marcelo Rios. Had the best hands and feet, but he didn’t appreciate the game, the players and didn’t sign autographs for the children, it was sad. I think he was number one for two or three weeks’.PLUS MIOMIR KECMANOVIC IS THE FINAL PLAYER THIS YEAR TO TELL US HOW HE LIKES TO TRAVEL- Show presented by Seb Lauzier- Interviews by Lee Goodall, Ursin Caderas, Chris Bowers and Seb Lauzier- Opelka and Kecmanovic features by ATP Uncovered
12/11/2022 • 39 minutes, 9 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Gilles Simon On His Career
Former player Gilles Simon looks back over his career with Jill Craybas at the recent Nitto ATP Finals.
GREG RUSEDSKI ON HOW THE SPORT IS DEVELOPING - ‘It seems like players are getting a lot quicker and right now you have to be an all-rounder. You have to play defence and offence and if you want to get to the very top, you have to do all of the above’.CARLOS MOYA ON RAFAEL NADAL’S YEAR - ’The last part of the year has not been that good but he’s won two slams this year and when you win two slams, it has to be a good year. It’s true that the first half of the year was unbelievable and we did not expect that to happen, but with Rafa, you can always expect the best from him’.DENIS SHAPOVALOV ON HIS JUMP BACKHAND - ‘It actually comes from juniors. When I was small a lot of people would get the ball up to my backhand and I remember one practice I just got tired of going back all of the time, so I hit a couple in the air and they worked out well, so it’s just been a natural shot for me’.JO-WILFRIED TSONGA ON HIS TOUGHEST OPPONENT - ‘One who gave me a hard time was Andy Murray, he beat me so many times and it was difficult. Every time when I saw the draw I was praying to be in another part and yeah, Andy was a terrible player for me’. PHILIPP KOHLSCHREIBER ON LEARNING FROM BEST PLAYERS IN PRACTICE - ’They are actually most of the time very relaxed, but then they can switch it on in the crunch time, they have the full focus. So they are really good to be able to practice and enjoy, but if they feel like the crucial moment is coming, then they have another gear maybe and that’s something hard to learn, but that’s why I always tried to play with the best players in practice’.-Podcast presented by Seb Lauzier-Interviews by Jill Craybas, Richard Connelly & Ursin Caderas- Denis Shapovalov Feature by ATP Uncovered
12/4/2022 • 35 minutes, 28 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Marin Cilic On 2022
Croat Marin Cilic speaks speaks to Chris Bowers about a successful 2022 and also gives his views on the retirement of Roger Federer.
GORAN IVANIŠEVIĆ ON NOVAK DJOKOVIC - ‘He’s practising even harder than when he was at the age of 22 and that’s why he’s still so good and that’s why he’s going to be even better. The will to practice, the will to improve, the will to be better is amazing you know and he’s taking care of his body. Novak is a genius and he’s a guy who always wants to improve’.VEDRAN MARTIC SPEAKS ABOUT ON-COURT COACHING - ‘It’s ok if you need to say something to a player, but still I believe a lot in concentration in the match, so for a player it’s better to concentrate and not look too much to the coach and expect some unbelievable advice’. UMBERTO RIANNA ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF ITALIAN TENNIS - ‘It all started a few years ago when the board of the federation decided to invest in the kids even after their junior years and that was the turning point for us. Everybody is asking me what’s the secret, but there are no secrets, just results and when the federation decided to invest, finally we decided to give resources to be able to help the kids to grow’.FRANCES TIAFOE ON WHY LOSING IN THE US OPEN SEMI-FINAL MIGHT BE THE BEST THING THAT’S HAPPENED TO HIM - ‘It was tough because I really thought I was going to get it done but I think it was the best thing for me not to win it honestly because seeing how everyone responded and all the things I got invited to and I didn’t win it, It built that little extra hunger, so 2023 that’s the goal, to get across that line’.PABLO CARREÑO BUSTA ON LEARNING FROM RAFAEL NADAL - ‘We were partners in the Davis Cup and I learn a lot from him, but probably the consistency and to fight until the end in every moment, that’s very important. You cannot be one hundred per cent everyday, because it’s very tough to be, but Rafa continues all the time to be his best in every moment and I think that’s the best thing from him’.PLUS ALEX DE MINAUR TALKS ABOUT WHAT HE TAKES WITH HIM ON HIS TRAVELS- Show presented by Seb Lauzier- Interviews by Jill Craybas and Chris Bowers- Alex De Minaur Feature by ATP Uncovered
11/27/2022 • 43 minutes, 37 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Patrick Mouratoglu On Holger Rune
One of the most influential coaches in tennis sits down with Jill Craybas at the Nitto ATP Finals in Turin to talk about what it's been like joining Holger Rune's team and his hopes for the youngsters future.
11/23/2022 • 15 minutes, 38 seconds
PODCAST - Djokovic Claims A Record-Equalling Sixth Nitto ATP Finals Crown
NOVAK DJOKOVIC ON A NITTO ATP FINALS TITLE THAT’S BEEN WORTH THE WAIT - ‘I definitely felt nerves, but I felt grateful to be able to serve the match out. Seven years, it’s been a long time but at the same time, the fact I waited seven years makes this victory even bigger and even sweeter.CASPER RUUD ON HIS MENTALITY - ‘I think out of twenty-four hours that we have everyday I think that you should be able to perform two of them at least and have a good focus and put all your effort into it and that’s pretty much how I think ahead of every match’.CARLOS ALCARAZ ON INSPIRING THE NEXT GENERATION - ‘For me it’s really important to inspire the young people. I had role models when I was a kid and for me to show good things to the young people, it’s crazy as a guy who’s nineteen years old, but that’s what I’m trying to do’.HOLGER RUNE ON HIS AMAZING YEAR - ‘Crazy in every way. At the beginning of the year I was ranked 103 and nw top 10. It’s amazing feeling to finish the year this way and if you had a paper I would sign it straightaway at the beginning of the year. I had a goal to finish in the top 25 and now I’m top 10 so it’s even better, so I’m super-pleased and happy’.ANDREY RUBLEV’S PHYSIO, MARC BOADA ON HIS PLAYER’S ENDLESS ENERGY - ’He wants to be the best, so no matter the amount of hours that you tell him to do, he’s going to do everything and if he’s off he really feels the need to do more, so you need to find his balance’. RAJEEV RAM ON THE DEVELOPMENTS HE AND JOE SALISBURY HAVE MADE - ‘We have the same mindset which is to always try to improve something, daily, weekly, yearly whatever it is and I think something we’ve got a lot better at is just hanging in their and fighting and you’re not always going to play your best and even if someone knows you’re going to do that, that’s almost an intimidating factor in itself’.NEAL SKUPSKI ON HIS BROTHER AND FORMER DOUBLES PARTNER KEN NOW COACHING HIM - ‘It’s been a nice addition from halfway through the year. He knows me inside and out. I’ve not been the best with having a coach around me because I find it hard to trust someone as a coach telling me what to do, but from an early age I’ve always looked up to him and I trust him’.LLOYD GLASSPOOL & HARRI HELIOVAARA ON THEIR REMARKABLE RISE - ‘We started playing together for the first time two years ago at a challenger event in Portugal and we were working hard last year and improving our games, but this year it just started clicking and all of a sudden we’re beating the best teams in the world and it just kept going’.GABRIELE PARAINO ON HIS EXPERIENCE AS A HITTING PARTNER IN TURIN - ‘It’s really a dream to be here and to play with these players. It’s always been my dream to be here so it’s amazing. Just how they hit the ball, it’s really amazing to see them play, to feel how they hit the ball. It’s heavier, they hit it earlier and go through the ball always and I think that’s the biggest thing I’ve seen’.PLUS THE EIGHT SINGLES PLAYERS COME TOGETHER FOR ONE INTERVIEW, COURTESY OF THE ATP DIGITAL CHANNELS- Podcast presenter: Seb Lauzier- Interviews by Jill Craybas, Richard Connelly and Kate Flory- Features by ATP Uncovered- Commentary from Mikey Perera and Lee Goodall
11/20/2022 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 41 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Mosé Navarra On Developing The Next Generation Of Italian Players
At the NextGen ATP Finals in Milan, Jill Craybas sits down with Mosé Navarra from the Italian Tennis Federation to discover how the country is producing so many top players.
11/17/2022 • 20 minutes, 28 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Eduardo Infantino On Coaching Nakashima And What He's Learnt From Tennis
Coach to Brandon Nakashima and also working with the Italian Tennis Federation, Eduardo Infantino speaks to Jill Craybas about working with the young player and his coaching philosophy in general.
11/16/2022 • 25 minutes, 56 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Michal Navrátil On Coaching Jiri Lehecka
Jiri Lehecka's coach Michal Navrátil speaks to Jill Craybas about what it's like to coach the young star as well as discussing his own coaching philosophy.
11/15/2022 • 14 minutes, 59 seconds
PODCAST - 2022 Nitto ATP Finals Preview
RAFAEL NADAL ON ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL YEAR - ‘Overall it has been an amazing year, achieving important tournaments, being in a privileged position of the ranking, I have been a father a few weeks ago, so overall an amazing year, but at the same time it has been a tough year with a lot of issues with the body, but overall, I take it’.NOVAK DJOKOVIC ON PLAYING THE NITTO ATP FINALS AS A LOWER SEED - ’This is going to be the first time that I’m going to play the number one or number two seeds in the Tour finals for the first time after many years and I don’t feel like I’m as young as the other guys as it’s been a while since the first participation in the finals, but I’m motivated and looking forward to the challenge and right from the blocks I need to be focussed like I’m playing the final’.STEFANOS TSITSIPAS ON HIS MENTALITY - ‘I’m never satisfied by doing the same thing over and over again, I’m always trying to find new creative ways to perform a certain task and play in any conditions. I just need to stay as alive as possible, to stay in that moment, to slow time down. If I’m able to slow time down, then I’m able to see and predict and execute and I guess that’s what adrenaline does to you, it makes things so fast without thinking sometimes’.CASPER RUUD ON EXCEEDING HIS EXPECTATIONS - ’This year the goal was to reach a quarter-final of a Grand Slam because I’d never done that before and then Australia came and I rolled my ankle the day before the tournament, so that hurt obviously, so when Paris came around I was looking to seek some revenge and try to seize the opportunity and I was able to do so and the final there made me realise I can make it far on the Grand Slam stages and I don’t think I would have made the final of the US Open if I hadn’t done it in Paris’.TAYLOR FRITZ ON HIS NITTO ATP FINALS DEBUT - ‘Being American I didn’t really have anywhere to go after my early exit in Paris, so I went on a nice little three day vacation, more like a spa to get my body really good and then I’ve been here since Monday just getting ready’.DANIIL MEDVEDEV ON REACHING WORLD NUMBER 1 IN 2022 - 'If you want to finish year-end number one you have to play good from the start to the end and now the goal is to make a better whole year. I have the possibility to earn a lot of points in the biggest tournaments in the world and I didn’t do that this year and that’s what I’m going to try to do next year’.NEAL SKUPSKI ON MAKING HIS DEBUT IN THE DOUBLES ALONGSIDE WESLEY KOOLHOF - ‘Over the years I’ve watched it on the tv and always wanted to play. I grew up watching the Bryan brothers play here and it was amazing to watch them, but Wes has won it before, so I’m going to pick his brain as much as I can to see what he did a couple of years ago, but yeah, I’m looking forward to it’.PLUS LLEYTON HEWITT AND DANIIL MEDVEDEV LOOK BACK ON WINNING THE NITTO ATP FINALS AND HOLGER RUNE TALKS US THROUGH WHAT HE TRAVELS WITH - FEATURES COURTESY OF ATP UNCOVERED- Podcast presented by Seb Lauzier- Interviews by Seb Lauzier, Richard Connelly, Jill Craybas- Doubles preview by Barry Cowan- Lleyton Hewitt, Daniil Medvedev, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Holger Rune features by ATP Uncovered
11/13/2022 • 48 minutes, 46 seconds
PODCAST - 2022 NextGen ATP Finals Review
BRANDON NAKASHIMA ON WINNING THE NEXTGEN ATP FINALS - ‘I’m super-happy right now, it was a great feeling all week, it feels amazing, being an American, being able to play here in Milan it’s the best feeling in the world and I’m happy to be able to take it back to the US’.EDUARDO INFANTINO ON COACHING BRANDON NAKASHIMA - ‘We’re going step-by-step at this moment and he will start to be ready, maybe in the second part of next year. He’s still 21 so for sure his best moments will be in two years time. His game needs to be better because he needs to be more aggressive, have more options to be not predictable in his game and my vision is the same vision that Sampras had, don’t be predictable’.JIRI LEHECKA ON HIS PROGRESSION - ’This year has been all about experience for me because it was my for year in the top 100 and being able to compete against the best players in the world. Super-happy that I had a chance to compete in all four Grand Slams, to be able to play some very good matches on the ATP Tour and of course the Challenger Tour was also part of my journey this year’.MICHAL NAVRATIL ON WORKING WITH JIRI LEHECKA - ‘For me the first priority is the heart as Kobe Bryant said. I saw the power, the stamina and of course as a nice person, because he was always the guy who came and was respectful and said hello and even if you are giving him some tips, he was always listening’.JAMES TROTMAN ON WORKING WITH JACK DRAPER FROM A YOUNG AGE - ‘He was feisty on court, desperate to win and sometimes that would cloud his judgement, but his competitive instinct and desire to find a way through a match was incredibly impressive. He’s had a lot of injury, one year six tournaments, the next twelve, so the biggest thing we’ve monitored is his workloads and making sure we’re being smart in how we trained hi and the goal was as simple as playing twenty-five tournaments the following year’.DOMINIC STRICKER ON PRACTICING WITH ROGER FEDERER - ‘I’ve learned a lot talking to Roger was very special and I’ve practiced with him so many times now and he told me some tips like to work on my serve, that was something he told me many times and now I’d say that my serve is pretty good’. BENJAMIN EBRAHIMZADEH ON DEVELOPING THE PLAYER FIRST - ‘I think as a coach you need to understand the person first and you need to understand how to talk to them, how to approach them, what is their behind their story, because their story always comes out in the pressure moments and then you need to understand what their ideal game could look like and then you need to bring these two aspects together, this is what matters the most’.LORENZO MUSETTI ON PLAYING ON HOME SOIL - ‘I have a lot of friends and a small group, six friends who grew up together and we still live together and they are my first fans after my family and we started like a company when we were like eight or nine and we shared a lot of great memories, vacations and holidays together and they are my support for everyday, even in the bad days’.MATTEO ARNALDI ON PLAYING IN BIG VENUES AND EXPERIENCING THE TOUR - ‘I played in Rome, my first Masters 1000 and it was so cool and I think it was the best moment of my year and afterwards I played Wimbledon and then in New York I almost got into the main draw and I think I learned to play on every surface and that was the main thing for this year’.FRANCESCO PASSARO INTERVIEW - ‘We are lucky because we have a lot of tournaments in Italy, we have a chance to play every week in Italy and I think the boom in the amount of Italian players has been down to this I think, so I am very grateful to the Italian Federation’.MOSE NAVARRA ON HIS ROLE DEVELOPING THE ITALIN OVER 18 PLAYERS - 'The players have everything that they need and each one of us coaches has between two to three players that we look after, plus the structure is also following other guys who are below. The Federation has been following these players since the ages of twelve, thirteen, so it’s kind of a step-by-step and we look at the ways they are developing as a person a well as a player’.ROSS HUTCHINS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF THE NEXT GEN EVENT AND HOW IT FITS INTO THE BIGGER PICTURE - ’The whole of the tennis world is always asking about the NextGen and when they are asking about what innovations you’re doing next year in February or March and this could be Grand Slams, Masters 1000s, media, key sponsors, they are all asking about what we’re going to do and who are the next superstars that are going to play, so I think that it has a position in the game is very exciting’.- Podcast hosted by Seb Lauzier- Interviews by Jill Craybas
11/12/2022 • 56 minutes, 31 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Frédéric Fontang On Felix Auger-Aliassime's Development
Jill Craybas sits down with the coach of Felix Auger-Aliassime to find out what's made it possible for the young Canadian to go on an unbelievable winning streak.
11/9/2022 • 12 minutes, 48 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Jeremy Chardy On His Return From Injury And Spell Coaching Ugo Humbert
French star Jeremy Chardy speaks to Jill Craybas about returing to the game after a long time out with injury and what he's learnt coaching fellow countryman, Ugo Humbert.
11/7/2022 • 17 minutes, 38 seconds
PODCAST - Fearless Rune Stuns Djokovic To Claim Paris Title
HOLGER RUNE ON WINNING THE ROLEX PARIS MASTERS AND BECOMING AN ALTERNATE FOR THE NITTO ATP FINALS - ‘I’m feeling lovely to be honest, it’s the possible best feeling to be one out of Turin and if you told me this four weeks ago that I would be top ten and one alternate for the Masters Finals I’d be like, ‘what sorry?’ but now I’m there and I’m super proud and hopefully I’ll get to play’.PATRICK MOURATOGLU ON HOLGER RUNE’S POTENTIAL - ‘I think a few guys have this potential to become Grand Slam champions and in general those guys go really fast, they climb the rankings really fast, but I guess that Holger has what it takes to become a Grand Slam Champion, he has the self-belief, an incredible determination, a love and passion for the game which is huge and he’s prepared to do what it takes, even if it’s extremely painful to achieve his goals’.FRÉDÉRIC FONTANG ON FELIX AUGER-ALIASSIME’S ANIMATED DEMEANOUR - ‘It was something that we were feeling was important for Felix because he’s an aggressive player, he’s athletic and when he shows this athleticism on the court it’s very positive because it’s going to match with his game, going forward, going to the net, so that’s why he needs to show lots of emotion’.GILLES SIMON ON THE REASON FOR RETIRING - ‘It was just my life, always wanting to be a tennis player since I was six years old and first watching tennis was here in this stadium and in my head I’m still a tennis player, but it’s just that I’m not able to play anymore, it’s too painful and I’m not at the level, the guys are too young, too strong, so that’s why I stop, I’m not able to compete at this level anymore, but I’m also very happy now that I’ve stopped to enjoy other things and first priority is the family’.JEREMY CHARDY ON TRYING OUT COACHING WHILST INJURED - ‘It’s really different because when you are playing it’s more about the feeling, the next point, the next match and when you are a coach you have to think about the preparation, the goal for the game, how to improve and for sure you want to win the next match, but you have to build the game for the next match, the next month. Since I’m coaching I watch video all the time, video of the best guys and I’m much more into tennis now than when I’m playing’.LORENZO MUSETTI ON TAKING INSPIRATION FROM HIS GRANDFATHER - ‘I take a lot of inspiration from him. He was an honest man with great values and I’m trying to be as him because he tried to transfer to me all the passion he had for his work, for life, for his family and I’m trying to be like him in these kind of feelings and I think these things are helping me a lot, because having a balance in your head when you are under stress, for sure it helps you for what you really want’.JACK DRAPER ON THE REASON FOR HIS RISE UP THE RANKINGS - ’The main thing for me is to stay injury free. The last few years I’ve been constantly injured, so getting that consistency this year of being on court more and having more trust in my body when competing is the main thing. Obviously there is still a long way to go, but I’ve always known that my tennis has been good enough, it’s just about staying on court and it’s about working smarter, not harder’.DOMINIC STRICKER’S COACH SVEN SWINNEN ON THE YOUNGSTER'S SURPRISE PROGRESSION - ‘I think he has great potential and I’m sure he will soon crack the top 100. It was great that we were able to give him a wildcard into a Challenger in Switzerland and it was great that he came from nowhere to winning it and made a lot of points and moved up the rankings quickly. I think for his height he’s working pretty well and working well on his serve and I like to keep the focus on his strengths and not his weaknesses, but we try to keep mixing up the serve a little bit that he becomes really unpredictable on his service games’.PLUS DAVID NALBANDIAN FEATURE ON WINNING THE 2005 NITTO ATP FINALS- Podcast presented by Seb Lauzier- Interviews by Seb Lauzier, Jill Craybas and Chris Bowers- David Nalbandian feature by ATP Uncovered- Rolex Paris Masters commentary by Lee Goodall
11/6/2022 • 51 minutes, 8 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Sébastien Grosjean On His Career And How Tennis Has Changed Over The Years
Jill Craybas sits down with former French player Sébastien Grosjean in Paris to talk about his career, tennis in France and how the modern game differs to when he played.
11/3/2022 • 15 minutes, 31 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Cédric Pioline On His Role As Tournament Director Of The Rolex Paris Masters
Former professional Cédric Pioline speaks to Seb Lauzier about his role as Tournament Director of the Rolex Paris Masters and the future of tennis in France.
11/1/2022 • 9 minutes, 51 seconds
PODCAST - Live From Paris
FELIX AUGER-ALIASSIME & DANIIL MEDVEDEV REFLECT ON THEIR TITLES IN BASEL AND VIENNAFELIX AUGER-ALIASSIME ON STAYING FOCUSSED - ‘I am keeping an eye on the race and this is of course a big motivation to keep trying until the end, but at the end, once you’re on the court I don’t really think about anything apart from the match happening. I think that’s what’s been helping me to, whenever I feel I’m in the moment and playing good tennis, time stops and all that matters is the opponent in front of me’.TAYLOR FRITZ ON HAVING AN OUTSIDE CHANCE OF QUALIFYING FOR TURIN - ’One of my goals for the year was top ten, but the main focus is now the race. It would be incredible to make it to Turin, that’s a huge goal and It would be a huge honour to be part of that so I’m going to have to just bring it’. DOMINIC STRICKER ON STARTING TO BELIVE HE BELONGS AT THE TOP - ’It all went very, very quick after winning the French Open Juniors. It’s not luck, I’ve got the level and I think I belong here, I’ve won three Challengers that has helped me get up the levels and I’ve beaten some good players, so that’s really good to see’.GILLES SIMON ON RETIREMENT AND HIS FINAL TOURNAMENT IN PARIS - ‘It’s sad because tennis is my life and I just feel it’s too difficult now and I feel it’s sad when you have to admit it, so it’s sad right now but I just thought I’d focus on what I know and prepare a match and try to be as ready as possible for the first round’.PLUS ANDY MURRAY LOOKS BACK ON HIS NITTO ATP FINALS TITLE IN 2016, COURTESY OF ATP UNCOVERED- Show presented by Seb Lauzier- Podcast guest Jill Craybas- Interviews by Ursin Caderas, Lee Goodall, Chris Bowers and Seb Lauzier- Andy Murray feature by ATP Uncovered
10/30/2022 • 49 minutes, 35 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Jack Draper Speaks About Qualifyiing For The Intesa Sanpaolo NextGen ATP Finals
Chris Bowers speaks to young British player Jack Draper about qualifying for the end of season Under 21 event, his season as a whole and the developments he's made.
CARLOS ALCARAZ ON HIS REMAINING GOALS FOR THE SEASON - ‘I think I said at the beginning of the year that my goal was to end between the first fifteen players, but I never felt I was going to be number one this soon. I feel the same guy, the same player, for me nothing changed but I want to end the year as number one, I have some good tournaments ahead and I want to do the best of myself in those tournaments and to end the year as number one’.CASPER RUUD ON QUALIFYING FOR BACK-TO-BACK NITTO ATP FINALS - ‘It feels great. Last year was a crazy race towards the end there with four players racing for the last two spots and it came down to Paris, one of the last weeks of the year, but this year I’ve been able to reach it already and that’s a very, very nice feeling’.HUBERT HURKACZ ON HIS DESIRE TO QUALIFY FOR TURIN AGAIN - ’That would be something amazing to play there again, to play in front of such a great crowd in Turin. It was something I was always dreaming of as a kid, eight people qualifying for the final and that was great so it would be something special to play there again’.HENRI LAAKSONEN ON HIS MENTALITY - ‘It takes time to learn who you really are and I still feel there are a few things I can do to improve in my tennis. Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka have been in front of me and It’s great for Switzerland to have such great players and I could learn a lot when they are practicing and playing matches, watching what they are doing and it was great for me to learn from the best’.DAVID GOFFIN ON WHAT HE’S LEARNT OVER HIS CAREER - ‘When you get older you just realise how tough it is. It’s tougher physically and when you’re over thirty you start to feel pain that you’ve never felt before and all of sudden you realise what you just did before is now tough, so you just have to enjoy differently when you’re older’.SEBASTIAN KORDA ON USING 3D GLASSES TO IMPROVE HIS REACTION TIME - ‘I do that six days a week, just kind of fifteen minutes at night or during the day. You have eight balls and you have to track four of them as they bounce around at different speeds so I’ve been doing that for the last year of so to get my eyes better and I feel it’s really helped me with my speed on court and just using my brain a little better’.PLUS ATP UNCOVERED SPEAK TO BOTH STAN WAWRINKA AND DOMINIC THIEM- Show presented by Seb Lauzier- Interviews by Ursin Caderas, Lee Goodall, Jill Craybas and Kate Flory- Laaksonen, Wawrinka and Thiem features by ATP Uncovered
10/23/2022 • 37 minutes, 59 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Jurgen Melzer Looks Back Over His Career
Dipping into the ATP Podcast archives, Richard Connelly sat down with former Austrian player Jurgen Melzer to look back over a career which involved singles and doubles at the very highest level.
ALEJANDRO DAVIDOVICH FOKINA ON WHY HE HAS A TATTOO OF A TSUNAMI - ‘My mentality it like wherever I go I have to erase it, but my coach says I’m more like a volcano because he knows I have a lot of energy inside of me and I don’t know how to control that energy, but now I’m learning to focus on just one point and that’s it’.WOLFGANG OSWALD ON DEVELOPING TAYLOR FRITZ’S PHYSIQUE - ‘He’s become a lot stronger and that has helped his movement and he’s more resilient. He has a hyper-mobile body, so he’s very flexible, so those type of athletes need more stability and strength, so that’s where we focus. It’s hard to do it all as once as a tennis player because you still have to practice on court, so you kind of have to trickle things in over a few years’.TOMMY PAUL ON HIS MENTALITY - ‘I’d say the biggest thing for me to overcome is a lapse of focus, just staying locked in and that’s been the biggest thing for a while. I mean anytime you’re playing on centre court or a night session or somewhere where there’s a packed crowd, the pressure rises, but it’s also more fun and I feel that all of the matches that are the most fun, come with the most pressure. As they say, pressure is a privilege’.SEBASTIAN BAEZ ON 2022 AS A BREAKTHROUGH YEAR - ‘I’ve tried to be better at the little things, on the court, outside the court, with the recovery. For example, if you have physical training at eight in the morning I want to be there at seven fifty. You control your body, your things and your team of course. All the best players are a little bit crazy with these things, to try to do everything a little bit more perfect than yesterday and I think that’s the difference to the other players’.ALEXANDER RITSCHARD ON NEARLY LOSING HIS ARM - ‘It was a very strange situation, I was in the gym working out and then I felt a sting in my shoulder and then it turned out to be a huge deal where my artery clogged up and no more blood flowed to my arm. I can only go by what they told me, but they said that they had to make a decision in the next five minutes and the artery was not opening and then I guess I got lucky and it opened and the blood started flowing again and they were able to make sure that my arm received blood’. PLUS DIEGO SCHWARTZMAN TAKES A QUIZ ON HIS OWN CAREER AND MATTEO BERRETTINI LOOKS BACK ON HIS RUN TO THE 2021 NITTO ATP FINALS - Podcast presented by Seb Lauzier- Interviews by Ursin Caderas, Candy Reid, Jill Craybas and Chris Bowers- Tommy Paul, Diego Schwartzman and Matteo Berrettini features by ATP Uncovered
10/16/2022 • 33 minutes, 30 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Swiss Alexander Ritschard On Nearly Losing His Arm When He Was Younger
Swiss player Alexander Ritschard speaks to Chris Bowers about his hopes and ambitions and how his career was nearly halted before it even got going.
NOVAK DJOKOVIC ON HIS DESIRE TO KEEP WINNING - ‘My intention was always to reach the highest heights in our sport and I’m just grateful and blessed to play this well at this stage of my life. 35 is not the same as 25 but I think the experience in these matches and big occasions helps to approach mentally these kind of matches and I’m super-pumped to end the season as well as I have these past couple of weeks’.DANIIL MEDVEDEV ON HIS DESIRE TO KEEP GROUNDED - ‘I would like to think that it doesn’t influence me at all, but maybe if you as those around me they will say that I’ve changed a little, so I try to do things I love to do, on court and off, I try to be real to myself which sometimes can be not easy for other people, because like everything in life there are going to be people that like what you do and some that don’t’.ANDREY RUBLEV ON HOW HE LOOKING TO BECOME MENTALLY RESILIENT - ‘My weakness is mental, but hopefully there will be some improvements in this. I have a good game to be on the next level, but I am the one who stops myself from this because I’m always emotional and for me it’s important not to let the bad emotions take the lead’.JUNCHENG SHANG ON WHY HIS ENGLISH NAME IS JERRY - ‘Jerry was, well my parents picked it, the show Tom and Jerry has been around for a long time and I’d say that was my favourite show and I think my parents would like me to be as smart as the mouse Jerry’.TAYLOR FRITZ ON WINNING IN TOKYO - ‘Crazy, I don’t think it’s really set in just how fast the past four or five days has been and this is exactly what I needed for the race, for my ranking, kind of put me in a good position for the rest of the year, so it’s amazing’. FRANCES TIAFOE ON WHAT HE’S LEARNT SINCE HIS DEEP RUN AT THE US OPEN - ‘I think I’ve learned that you always have more in the tank then you think you do and I’ve also learnt that I can play against great guys day-in-day out. Beating Rafael Nadal at the US Open was great, but playing the way I did against Andrey Rublev afterwards was a big growth for me, that was bigger then beating Rafa’.BORNA CORIC MEMORIES OF BEATING ROGER FEDERER ON GRASS - ‘I was watching him on tv and hoping I could play against him one day, that was my big goal. He was one of the main reasons why I played tennis and beating him in Halle in 2018 was the most special tournament of my whole career. Just getting to the final and playing Roger was already enough, but I played really, really good tennis and it was just something amazing for me’.ALEJANDRO DAVIDOVICH FOKINA ON WHY HE WEARS ODD SOCKS - ‘Odd socks, well since fifteen years old I wear odd socks, one black and one white and you know it’s like a superstition, I can’t go on court without different socks and it all started to be different, to not wear something that other people were wearing’. - Show presented by Seb Lauzier- Interviews by Ursin Caderas, Lee Goodall, Mike Cation & Kate Flory- Juncheng Shang & Alejandro Davidovich Fokina Features by ATP Uncovered
10/9/2022 • 32 minutes, 25 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Bublik On Kazakhstan And How He'd Change The Game
Aleaxander Bublik speaks to Ursin Caderas about playing in his adopted country of Kazakhstan and the rules of the game that he'd like to change
10/5/2022 • 10 minutes, 21 seconds
PODCAST - Auger-Aliassime, Rune, Cilic, Schwartzman, Shapovalov, Brooksby And Bublik
FELIX AUGER-ALIASSIME ON HIS HOPES OF QUALIFYING FOR TURIN - ‘For the last two years it’s been a clear goal that I want to be in Turin. Last year I was close and this year I have real chances, I’m in the race right now but a lot of things can happen. I don’t think about it day-to-day, but once we get to the last tournaments of the year, it’s always the talk of the week as the last players are pushing to squeeze in their ticket to Turin’.HOLGER RUNE ON A POTENTIAL RIVALRY WITH CARLOS ALCARAZ - ‘I’m excited, hopefully it’s going to be like Roger and Rafa, it could be great, that’s what we’re seeking for to be the greatest players of all time and to be the greatest players we can be and for my side, I’m just trying to fulfil my potential and be as great as I can be everyday and be one percent better every time I step on the practice court’.DENIS SHAPOVALOV ON THE NEED TO HANDLE BIG MOMENTS WITH EXCITEMENT, RATHER THAN FEAR - ‘I think it comes with experience. When you’re coming up there’s more things to fear like you don’t belong or feel like you won’t make it, but obviously I feel like I’ve got a great level with my game and that any moment I can pick it up and play some great tennis’. COACH JOSEPH GILBERT ON JENSON BROOKSBY’S DESIRE TO REACH THE TOP - ‘It was not about building a weapon, it was more about not having weaknesses. We couldn’t build him as a typical American player and I think a lot of people have seen that, he wasn’t the biggest, fastest, strongest growing up and throughout his career people have not believed he can go to the next level, which I think has only fuelled his competitiveness’.ALEXANDER BUBLIK ON PLAYING AT HOME IN KAZAKHSTAN - ‘Every time being here it’s a great adventure, great city which has been my home for the past seven years and this is big for me, seeing all these kids and seeing my picture all over the town and you know, spending so much time doing autographs, spending three hours a day signing things on the streets and I’m really enjoying that I have a certain impact on the country’.PLUS MARIN CILIC TAKES QUIZ QUESTIONS ON HIS OWN CAREER AND DIEGO SCHWARTZMAN TALKS US THROUGH THE ITEMS HE TRAVELS WITH- Programme presented by Seb Lauzier- Interviews by Mike Cation, Seb Lauzier, Jill Craybas and Ursin Caderas- Jenson Brooksby, Marin Cilic and Diego Schwartzman features by ATP Uncovered
10/2/2022 • 39 minutes, 41 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Severin Lüthi On Roger Federer's Career
Roger Federer's long-time coach, Severin Lüthi joins Chris Bowers to talk through some of the major milestones in the career of the great Swiss.
9/28/2022 • 17 minutes, 32 seconds
PODCAST - Team World Celebrates As Roger Federer Says Goodbye
This week's programme comes from the Laver Cup as presenter Chris Bowers is joined by Howard Fendrich of the Associated Press to look back over the past three days of action and on the career of Roger Federer as he bows out of the competitive game. Headlines are...JOHN MCENROE ON LEADING TEAM WORLD TO VICTORY AT THE LAVER CUP - ‘Rod Lever was my idol and Roger Federer put this together, so it doesn’t get any better than that and so being able to finally win, because I was starting to wonder if I was ever going to win this thing so, we stepped up big’.FÉLIX AUGER-ALIASSIME ON TEAM WORLD’S TRIUMPHANT LAVER CUP - ‘It’s been a fantastic weekend and even last week in Davis Cup, another team event, I came in clutch for the team and played some great matches so hopefully I can bring that kind of level and tennis going forward to the end of the season and next year as well, but for now we’ll just enjoy the moment, enjoy the win with the team’.SEVERIN LÜTHI ON ROGER FEDERER - ‘I think what I appreciate most is that he’s a nice guy. Honestly for me it became difficult to see him as a superstar, a global superstar. I’ve been for such a long time with him and you look at the person a bit different and it’s almost a bit weird when you go out and everyone is screaming’.THOMAS ENQVIST ON THE LAVER CUP ENVIRONMENT - ‘One thing that really sticks with me is that you have the biggest legends of the sport there and they are all still humble. They are not only great tennis players and athletes, they are also great role models for the game itself’.PLUS, FEDERER, AGASSI, NADAL, BORG, DJOKOVIC, AND PETE SAMPRAS TALK TO ATP UNCOVERED ABOUT LEAVING BEHIND A LEGACY- Podcast presented by Chris Bowers- Podcast guest Howard Fendrich of the Associated Press- Interviews by Chris Bowers and Jill Craybas- Legends feature by ATP Uncovered
9/25/2022 • 42 minutes, 9 seconds
New York Times Tennis Correspondent Chris Clarey On Roger Federer
New York Times Tennis Correspondent and author of the international bestseller on Roger Federer, 'The Master', Chris Clarey speaks to fellow Federer biographer, Chris Bowers, about the legacy of the great Swiss.
9/21/2022 • 18 minutes, 53 seconds
PODCAST - Roger Federer Special
Our tribute to the career of Roger Federer, presented by Federer biographer Chris Bowers and with contributions from New York Times Tennis Correspondent, Chris Clarey, Roger Federer's mother, Lynette, Tournament Director Richard Krajicek, and current players Stefanos Tsitsipas, Nicholas Godsick, Felix Auger-Aliassime and Coco Gauff.CHRIS CLAREY ON ROGER FEDERER’S LEGACY - ‘Either through good will or strong will he managed over time to embrace so many elements of being a professional tennis player that others find frustrating of aggravating or just a plain old pain in the butt and Roger was somebody who really was over time by his own nature and by that maturity you saw early on, understood what was going to be inevitable and let’s do it right’.LYNETTE FEDERER ON THE EARLY DAYS IN BASEL AS A BALLBOY - ‘I remember that he got a signature from Pete Sampras who was actually his idol at the time and he was very excited about that. He loved just being around the players and being around the same aged boys was great fun and I think he had a great time and it just shows you, he was a ball kid and now he’s on the centre court and I think it’s just a great story’, RICHARD KRAJICEK ON FEDERER’S MOMENT OF HISTORY IN ROTTERDAM - ‘For me the biggest achievement from his career is when he became number one in Rotterdam and it’s not the way he played the tournament, because he felt I think pretty much tension because he could become the oldest number one, but just in that time he was already a bit older and you had Nadal, Djokovic, Andy Murray and to become number one then, for me that was the biggest achievement in his career’.STEFANOS TSITSIPAS ON FEDERER AS THE ULTIMATE OPPONENT - ‘I enjoyed just watching him on TV, probably hitting with him on a tennis court would have been a never in a lifetime scenario, but sometimes with a little bit of determination, your dreams pay off and one thing led to another and suddenly I’m faced with Roger Federer for the first time at the Hopman Cup and I’m about to serve and I’m thinking ‘Roger is on the other side of the net, he’s my childhood hero’ and this is how I feel about Roger Federer, he’s someone that is difficult to believe he is real’.NICO GODSICK SPEAKS ABOUT FEDERER MENTORING HIM - ‘Roger’s always been such a help to me, he’s such an amazing person and watching him make semis and finals consistently day-in-day-out every week, it’s a big inspiration and I always want to be like him. I try to model my energy like him, I try to model my game like him and Roger is someone I model my game and my tennis around’.PLUS FELIX AUGER ALIASSIME AND COCO GAUFF GO HEAD-TO-HEAD TO FIND OUT WHO KNOWS MORE ABOUT FEDERER’S CAREER AND LIFE -Podcast presented by Chris Bowers-Interviews by Chris Bowers, Bren Hester and Ursin Caderas-Felix Auger-Aliassime and Coco Gauff feature courtesy of ATP Uncovered-Roger Federer statement from his personal Instagram page
9/17/2022 • 34 minutes, 23 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Emilio Nava On Learning From Andy Murray
Young American player Emilio Nava speaks to Chris Bowers about what he learnt from playing Andy Murray at the US Open, the importance of staying free of injury, his decision to train in Spain, the development of his powerful forehand, having sporty parents and his desire to qualifying for the end of year Intesa Sanpaolo NextGen ATP Finals in Milan.
9/14/2022 • 10 minutes, 38 seconds
PODCAST - Alcaraz Claims US Open And World Number 1
ALCARAZ ON HIS LOVE OF PLAYING DROP SHOTS - ‘It’s natural for me, I always hit drop shots when I was a kid, I would say too many drop shots when I was a kid, so in training I’m trying not to hit drop shots, just to hit other shots and when I’m training the sets and stuff when I’m break point down, I’m trying to play the set without the drop shot’.ALCARAZ ON HIS DEVELOPING RIVALRY WITH JANNIK SINNER - ‘I’m going to be a better player thanks to him and I think for him it will be the same. I will push him to be a better player as Djokovic, Nadal and Federer did when thy were younger. He’s a nice person with a great team around him and we are great friends’.SINNER ON THE IMPROVEMENTS HE’S MAKING - ’Now we are working on me having more strength, we are working very hard in the gym. Sometimes when you finish matches when you feel slow, you have to do things to get faster. Sometimes when you don’t feel much strength on the backhand or forehand you have to work on that and so we are working very hard and I think I will be in a good shape after the US Open’.WAYNE FERREIRA ON THE STEADY PROGRESSION OF FRANCES TIAFOE - ‘With him in particular he had a lot of growing up to do. He came out on tour in his first year, did exceptionally well, played quarters of Australian Open, won Delray Beach and then just felt like it was easy and he sort of lost when it meant to be here day-in-day-out. We have to get up everyday at the right time, get to where we need to go, put in the effort, work as hard as we can, because the work that we do today is not going to give you the result tomorrow, it’s going to take time’.KAREN KHACHANOV ON TRYING TO GET BACK INTO THE TOP TEN - ’Since the grass-courts last year I started to play better-and-better, in the Olympics, Wimbledon quarter-finals I had better results in general and this year the goal is the same, I want to be back in the top 10, to win tournaments again and that is the main goal. I believe in myself and it’s a question of time and belief to be able to do that’.PLUS, ATP UNCOVERED TAKES A LOOK AT THE MENTALITY OF ANDREY RUBLEV- Podcast presented by US Open Radio commentator Brian Clark- Podcast guest, former WTA player Jill Craybas- Interviews by Seb Lauzier, Chris Bowers, Ursin Caderas and Jill Craybas- Rublev Feature by ATP Uncovered
9/12/2022 • 55 minutes, 59 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Nick Monroe On Americans And Life Inside The Changing Room
American doubles player Nick Monroe speaks about the ageing process, keeping fit, life on tour and getting into commentary
9/7/2022 • 19 minutes, 5 seconds
PODCAST - Halfway Through The 2022 US Open
At the halfway stage of the 2022 US Open, presenter Chris Bowers sits down with former WTA player Jill Craybas and US Open Radio commentator Brian Clark to look back on the stories from week one and introduce interviews with Matteo Berrettini, Emilio Nava, Brandon Holt, Carlos Alcaraz and Andrey Rublev, whilst the team at ATP Uncovered ask a number of players about their favourite parts of New York.-Show presented by Chris Bowers with guests Jill Craybas and Brian Clark-Interviews by Chris Bowers, Mike Cation and Ursin Caderas-Feature by ATP Uncovered
9/5/2022 • 55 minutes, 28 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Lars Christensen On Holger Run And His Life As A Circus Artist
Speaking at a recent ATP Tour event with players playing table tennis in the background, Holger Rune's coach Lars Christensen talked to Candy Reid about starting out as a circus artist, his love of travel and how he's developing upcoming star Holger Rune.
8/31/2022 • 14 minutes, 17 seconds
PODCAST - 2022 US Open Preview
DANIIL MEDVEDEV ON HIS DESIRE TO WIN - ‘I enjoy competition in general and if it’s an online computer game or racing against my friends, when there is competition one-on-one I always want to beat my opponent and many times it’s going to be by finding his weak spot’. NICK KYRGIOS ON HIS EXPLOSIVE SERVE - ‘I feel like I wasn’t able to hit 220 consistently over the past few years and now I’m able to do that for fun. You know I was carrying a knee injury for the last couple of years that I think was really not allowing me to explode into my serve and not be as effective as I could and I just feel like a different person from last year and you know, just my overall confidence and mentality, you know stepping up to the line I’m not thinking of much, I’m just getting up there, serving big first and second and usually if I’m hitting the spots, it’s pretty hard to break’.BARBARA SCHETT ON ON-COURT COACHING - ‘It’s been around on the women’s tour already, but personally I think tennis is one of those sports which is actually pretty unique and nice that you are the only person on the court who decides what to do, what tactic to play, so I don’t love on-court coaching as I think the player needs to be prepared, to come up with a plan a, b and c and find solutions yourself’.JOSEPH GILBERT ON JENSON BROOKSBY’S LOSS TO DJOKOVIC AT THE 2021 US OPEN - ’Those two games in the second set lasted half an hour and I could feel that on Jenson on the physical side and Djokovic bore down more and that physical toll, playing him over three out of five and that mental energy on Arthur Ashe that it takes to be out there for that long with the peaks and the valleys with that kind of match, it was a great experience and we learned a lot from it’.JOE SALISBURY ON BECOMING WORLD NUMBER 1 - ‘I found out that I was number one after our second match in Miami. I just think it was excitement, it felt special and now that it’s happened I just want to stay there for a long as possible. It’s not something I was expecting, but it’s been a long journey, I’m really enjoying it and I’m looking forward for everything else that’s to come as well’.IT’S ALL ABOUT SERENA - COCO GAUFF AND FRANCES TIAFOE GO HEAD-TO-HEAD IN A QUIZ ABOUT THE GREAT CHAMPION-Podcast presented by Chris Bowers-Podcast guest - Jill Craybas -Interviews by Mike Cation, Seb Lauzier and Jill Craybas-Joe Salisbury feature courtesy of ATP Uncovered
8/28/2022 • 58 minutes, 6 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Brad Stine On Tommy Paul, Jim Courier & Fitness
Tommy Paul's coach Brad Stine speaks about what he's learnt working with the young American as well as in the past with Jim Courier and working alongside the legendary coach José Higueras.
8/24/2022 • 10 minutes, 16 seconds
PODCAST - Coric, Tsitsipas, Norrie, Shelton, Dimitrov, Cilic & Nadal
BORNA CORIC ON WINNING THE CINCINNATI MASTERS TITLE - ‘I’m still not aware of it obviously. It was a very tough match, at the beginning I was not playing very well, but I started to serve better, I started to play much, much better and I was fighting very hard and in the second set I think I played the best set of the whole year’.STEFANOS TSITSIPAS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF KEEPING A BALANCE - ‘It is importance sometimes for me to let go and concentrate on other things in life, tennis has been occupying a lot of space in my mind daily, a lot of tension, a lot of stress with my competitive ego going out everyday and I needed to feel human again, to feel balanced, because sometimes competition makes you lose your mind’.CAMERON NORRIE ON HIS AMBITIONS FOR THE FUTURE - ‘For me, this year anyway, it’s to push towards number 1, obviously it didn’t help that there weren’t any points at Wimbledon, so it’s tough to do that but world number one is that ultimate goal for me and i’m trying to take care of everything in my power to give me the best chance to do that’.BEN SHELTON ON BREAKING THROUGH TO THE PROFESSIONAL LEVEL - ‘I was lucky this summer to be the young guy still in college and not have any weight on my shoulders. I felt a lot less pressure then I think other players feel on the Challenger tour and I was just out there having fun, so to be able to go out on my first tournament in Arkansas and just swing away and realise that my level was good enough to compete with some of those guys kind of propelled me forward for the rest of the summer and helped my confidence grow’.GRIGOR DIMITROV ON HIS ABILITY TO STAY CALM - ‘Being on tour for so many years, that helped me a lot to understand that the sport itself changes. You know you expect of yourself always to be the best, but you’ve always got to alter your preparation, your fitness, your food, like just so many things that are happening behind the scenes and for me all I wanted to do was start being kinder to my body. So many small things I changed and that instantly made me calmer’.MARIN CILIC ON HIS HUNGER TO ACHIEVE MORE - ’There are certain times in our careers where you just feel incredible on court and those were the days for me when I felt invincible. This sport is extremely exciting because you can improve every single day and with that energy I feel that everything is falling nicely into place, but first of all you need to have that hunger inside of you. I feel that these last seven or eight months my progress has been really good and that motivates me to go for more’.RAFAEL NADAL ON SERENA WILLIAMS IMPENDING RETIREMENT - ‘She’s a huge star in tennis and in sport in general and in some way I feel sad because we are losing an amazing ambassador, but at the same time, for everyone it’s an end, nothing is forever and she deserves to choose whatever works for her at this stage of her life. Super happy to share lots of moments of my career with her on the tour, she’s an amazing inspiration for a lot of people so well done for her. Wish her all the best and even if she’s not playing after the US Open hopefully we can keep enjoying her being around on the tour because I always believe that the legends makes our sport bigger if they stay around the sport’.-Show Presented by Brian Clark-Interviews by Mike Cation, Ursin Caderas and Jill Craybas-Marin Cilic Feature by ATP Uncovered-Commentary from Lee Goodall
8/21/2022 • 43 minutes, 51 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Dani Vallverdu On Coaching Stan Wawrinka
Stan Wawrinka's coach Dani Vallverdu speaks to Chris Bowers about what it's taking to get Stan back to a level where he's competitive after a lengthy time out through injury.
8/17/2022 • 9 minutes, 20 seconds
PODCAST - Pablo Carreno Busta Is Master Of Montreal
PABLO CARRENO BUSTA ON HIS FIRST MASTERS 1000 TITLE - ‘It’s very important to be positive all of the time. It’s not my best season this year, I lost some matches that in other years I probably wouldn’t have lost, but I just continue to keep believing in my team, in myself and on my game’.DAN EVANS ON DEALING WITH LOSING - ‘When I was younger I used to waste a few days dealing with a loss, but you look at the very, very good professionals out here, they’re not, I’m sure it hurts, but they are back at work the next day looking ahead and the beauty of this sport is, if you choose to play the next week, you have another opportunity, so that’s how I look at it’.JACK DRAPER ON ADAPTING TO LIFE ON TOUR - ‘I think it’s just exposure to this level really. Playing futures and the challengers, the actual tennis level is pretty good but it’s just they are probably not there every singles point whereas at this level if you’re not there every point you lose, so it has just bee about training the mind to be there every single point and hopefully I’m getting there’.FELIX AUGER-ALIASSIME ON HIS DAD’S ACADEMY IN QUEBEC CITY - ’To see the young kids playing some good tennis, having a smile on their face, being happy to be there, really makes me happy, sometimes more than winning matches because I feel like it’s not only for myself but making a difference for others, for these young kids, inspiring them, it’s the best thing and I could talk about it all day’.NICK KYRGIOS ON HIS NEW FOUND DESIRE TO WIN - ‘I’ve really been driving the bus with my training and how much I’ve been working back home and it’s showing on the court and I’m really enjoying it, it’s a roller-coaster every-time I’m out there because I’m giving my best effort, so I’m getting to that vulnerable place of really wanting to win and I think the last couple of years of my career I struggled to get to that place, but now I’m really enjoying it’.FABIO FOGNINI ON TRYING TO QUALIFY FOR THE DOUBLES IN TURIN WITH SIMONE BOLELLI - ‘One of my best goals this year is to try to help him and to go to the ATP Finals in Turin because of course we are in Italy and we are Italian and I think this is going to be a really good achievement for the end of our careers DAVID GOFFIN ON AIMING FOR THE TOP AFTER INJURY - ‘Now I’m playing some good tennis. I want to come back where I was, let’s try to be in the top 10 again, that would be fantastic. I think the last few months I proved I have the level to come back really close to the top 20 and why not top 10, so let’s continue and we’ll see where we can go’. DANI VALLVERDU ON SETTING REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS FOR STAN WAWRINKA’S COMEBACK - ’The goal is to not get back to how he used to play, but the goal is to maximise his potential now and to be competitive on tour, whatever that might be, we’ll see what the limits are and how good he can by physically and how good his tennis can be on the court as well, so we’re not looking at it comparing it to what was possible in the past’.-Podcast presented by Brian Clark-Interviews by Jill Craybas, Ursin Caderas, Seb Lauzier & Chris Bowers-Auger-Aliassime Feature by ATP Uncovered-Commentary by Kevin Skinner
8/14/2022 • 43 minutes, 40 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Kenneth Carlsen On His Career, Caroline Wozniacki, Holger Rune & Clara Tauson
Former Danish player Kenneth Carlsen speaks about what he learnt during his own career and how he's used those learnings to help fellow Danes, Caroline Wozniacki, Holger Rune and Clara Tauson.
8/10/2022 • 23 minutes, 13 seconds
BONUS - Brian Clark And Jill Craybas Talk About The US Hard Court Swing
Recorded before the Citi Open Final in Washington, commentator Brian Clark met with former player Jill Craybas to look back over what's happened in the American capital this week and how it will inform what's left to come on the US Hard Court swing.
8/8/2022 • 14 minutes, 43 seconds
PODCAST - Kyrgios, De Minaur, Murray, Zverev, Opelka & Shapovalov
NICK KYRGIOS ON HIS WIN IN WASHINGTON - ‘It’s just very emotional for me to see where I was that last year to now it’s just an incredible transformation, but I just came up with a great energy and I knew I had experience on my side today. I love this court, I’ve played so many matches here and I’m just really proud of myself’.ALEX DE MINAUR ON THE CAMARADERIE AMONGST AUSTRALIAN PLAYERS - ‘You know there’s a lot of Australians out there and I feel they all want the best for me. More than anything they believed that I belonged before I did, so they helped me really believe in myself and believe that I was good enough to be with the best guys in the world, so they instilled their belief in me and that went a long way’.ANDY MURRAY ON DEALING WITH INJURIES - ‘I had to accept that I might not play again before I had the operation and whilst I was going through that process, also made me realise why I was playing tennis in the first place and yes, winning titles is nice and winning major events is great but the reason why I started playing tennis as a kid was not for that, it was because I loved the sport and really enjoyed doing it and that’s why I’m still playing’.MISCHA ZVEREV ON SASCHA’S DESIRE TO GET BACK FROM INJURY - ‘Right now that main goal is to come back, to be healthy, to win matches again and then, I think becoming number 1, yes it’s a goal, but it’s part of the process. We always say just enjoy winning matches, tournaments, you climb up the rankings and one day, in the perfect world you’re number 1 and I think that’s how it should happen and how it will happen’. REILLY OPELKA ON LEARNING FROM VENUS WILLIAMS - ’Venus is brilliant, she’s really a genius, her mind socially is on another level, how well she can read a room is off the charts and I think, knowing her so well now and the way she was as a kid, her awareness on court, what other girls were feeling against her was, I think, why she had so much success and why she always delivered on big matches because she was always aware of what was going on, on the other side of the net’.DENIS SHAPOVALOV FIVE YEARS ON FROM BEATING NADAL IN MONTREAL - ‘I remember blacking out after that win, I can’t remember much, just like from videos, but it was definitely unbelievable you know for me at that point and that week literally made my career and it was completely different after that, getting into bigger events, a complete lifestyle change and really this tournament made my career from beating Nadal, this week made me the player I am today’. -Podcast presented by Brian Clark and Jill Craybas-Interviews by Jill Craybas and Seb Lauzier-Denis Shapovalov Feature by ATP Uncovered-Commentary by Chris Bowers, Kevin Skinner, Sam Gore & Robbie Koenig
8/7/2022 • 34 minutes, 25 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Michael Russell On Taylor Fritz
Taylor Fritz's coach Michael Russell speaks to Candy Reid about the young American's progression
8/3/2022 • 16 minutes, 19 seconds
PODCAST - US Hard Court Swing Special
It's a US Hard Court Swing Special including chats with the following...MICHAEL RUSSELL ON TAYLOR FRITZ - ’It’s managing the ups and downs and not getting too high or too low. Taylor won Indian Wells which was incredible the way he played so well and it’s understanding that this is your level, that you do belong as a top ten player and you can be there and compete for Grand Slam titles and at the same time not get complacent and expect yourself to play at this level all the time’.DEAN GOLDFINE ON SEB KORDA - ‘What you’re seeing more of now is guys like Sebby, guys like Sascha, guys like Daniil, obviously Tsitsipas is another one that are that big that move that well and you see that happening now in tennis and really in all athletics, it’s bigger, stronger, faster’.MARCOS GIRON ON HIS MINDSET - ‘I was losing a lot of close matches a few years ago and then I went and played in Los Cabos against Del Potro who was top 5 in the world and I was serving for the first set and it’s all of a sudden the realisation that it’s not really the tennis that’s holding me back and then after that I went and lost pre-qualifying on Challengers and it’s like, you got to re-adjust and figure it out, because it’s not just about the game’.NICK MONROE ON FRANCES TIAFOE - ‘Playing doubles improves your singles and we saw that last year with Frances when we played a lot of doubles together, it really improved his singles ranking and he would talk about it a lot, how he felt more comfortable moving forward, coming to the net, serving and volleying and it’s just a lot of fun playing with the younger generation as they have so much energy’.BRAD STINE ON TOMMY PAUL - ‘When we started in 2019 just after the US Open, Tommy was pretty loosey-goosey in his preparation and everything else. At the same time he was already transitioning to be more professional, but at the same time it was important for me to recognise that I didn’t want to take the fun out of what Tommy was doing. He’s made progress through the rankings, he’s just naturally become more focussed and he has high expectations on where he wants to be’.JOSEPH GILBERT ON JENSON BROOKSBY’S COMPETITIVENESS - ’There’s always things he could do to win, so that competitive nature between us is why it’s edgy out all there all the time and he shows his emotions out there, he brings them towards me quite a bit but in a positive way and frustrated way, but I’m comfortable with it and the advantage we have from being together for over 13 years is that we’re comfortable being uncomfortable’.PLUS ATP UNCOVERED’S FEATURE WITH JENSON BROOKSBY AND WHAT IN HIS TRAVEL BAG- Podcast presented by Brian Clark- Interviews by Jill Craybas, Candy Reid, Anne-Marie Batson, Seb Lauzier & Chris Bowers- Jenson Brooksby Feature by ATP Uncovered
8/1/2022 • 38 minutes, 11 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Get To Know Doubles Star Matwe Middelkoop
Dutch doubles star Matwe Middelkoop sat down with Candy Reid to discuss tennis, business and how he likes to live his life to the full.
7/27/2022 • 22 minutes, 31 seconds
PODCAST SPECIAL - Mansour Bahrami
Mansour Bahrami is a former professional player, now regarded as one of the biggest entertainers on the travelling tennis circuit, wowing crowds around the world with his improvised shots and showmanship in invitational events.In this profile, Chris Bowers sits down with the Iranian to discuss many topics including his route into tennis, how he managed to get dual French nationality since 1989, his great highs , many lows and how he can call Novak Djokovic one of his biggest fans.
7/24/2022 • 31 minutes, 51 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Todd Martin On The International Tennis Hall Of Fame
International Tennis Hall of Fame CEO and former player Todd Martin joins Chris Bowers for a chat about the history of tennis, the Hall of Fame's relevance in today's game and how inductee's are awarded a place.
7/20/2022 • 26 minutes, 24 seconds
PODCAST - International Tennis Hall Of Fame Special
A special version of the podcast coming from the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island and featuring...LLEYTON HEWITT ON HIS INDUCTION INTO THE INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME - ‘As a kid in Australia I’d wake up in the middle of the night to dream of playing on the courts that these guys would play on and now to be actually sitting alongside them in the Hall of Fame of our famous sport is pretty amazing and it’s something that I don’t think will sink in right at the moment, but certainly looking ahead and being called a Hall of Famer alongside those greats is something I’m very proud of’.ANDY RODDICK ON LLEYTON HEWITT - ‘He’s probably the toughest competitor that I played against. That aside, when you define him just as a guy who hustled and made a lot of balls and was kind of intense about it all, actually does a disservice to what he did well. He was a master of trajectory, meaning he knew you couldn’t hurt him crosscourt because he was so fast, so you needed to go line, but he became such an expert of keeping that ball low, most of the time it was below your hips, so you’re having to attack to small parts of the court because he was able to shrink it with his speed, but also from places that were uncomfortable’.TODD MARTIN ON THE HALL OF FAME’S ENTRY CRITERIA - ‘As the sport evolves I think we have to consider uniqueness and many more data points than just were you best in those two weeks and were you best among the competition you had. Sometimes the competition might be different because Nadal’s not the same player every year, so there’s some year’s where, if you’re ahead of Nadal, that’s more impressive than others’. ANDY MURRAY ON EXTENDING THE GRASS COURT SEASON - ’Obviously I like playing grass court tennis and I think the build-up to the grass season is too short. You know I think there should be a Masters Series on the grass ahead of Wimbledon, it’d be fair and my feeling is that the biggest tournaments should have a proper build up to them and I definitely think there should be a Masters Series at least on grass, so if that’s only one week, so be it, but I think it should be there’. ALEXANDER BUBLIK ON LEARNING TO ENJOY TENNIS - ‘It’s becoming less about the money and more about enjoying the game and I really honestly say I play now for the matches and the results. It’s been like that now for a couple of months, so I’m happy with how I approach the game and how I’m enjoying it much more than in the past and it’s nothing to do with the results, because the results have been horrible’. JASON KUBLER ON COMING THROUGH INJURY - ‘For me I feel when you do have a situation thrown at you that’s not great, you can either hold onto it and feel sour about it, or try to move on and try not to have that sour feeling and hold onto it. Right now I'm trying to improve my mental side, improve my tennis, improve my fitness levels and try to get more comfortable at these bigger tournaments’.-Podcast & Interviews by Chris Bowers
7/17/2022 • 37 minutes, 14 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - The Coaches Behind Maxime Cressy's Serve-And-Volley Game
Romain Sichez and Armand D'Harcourt speak to Candy Reid about Maxime Cressy's choice to play serve-and-volley and also his mental preparation both on and off court.
7/13/2022 • 8 minutes, 26 seconds
PODCAST - Djokovic Wins Seventh Wimbledon Title
On this week's show...JOHN NEWCOMBE ON NICK KYRGIOS - ‘I can’t speak for a lot of the other guys, but the ones I do talk to reasonably regularly, Roy Emerson, Rod Laver and Tony Roche and all that, we all think his tennis is great, never criticise his tennis at all, but it’s just sometimes when he hasn’t behaved great on the court, we’ve felt that not only has he let himself down but the image of Australian tennis gets let down a little bit, but no one certainly has been critical of his tennis and his ability as a great young sportsman. He’s doing it his way and maybe one or two guys have come out and been ultra-critical of him, but that’s just how life is’.JOHN NEWCOMBE ON DOUBLES - ‘When you talk about doubles you’re bringing up something that’s a bit of a sore point with me because it’s just a pity to see none of the top payers playing in doubles. I understand best of five sets the top players don’t want to play, but as far as doubles goes, I’d like to see them having to play more doubles in the regular tournaments where it’s two out of three sets’.JOHN NEWCOMBE ON LLEYTON HEWITT’S INDUCTION INTO THE INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALLL OF FAME - ‘When he was 14 he came to my tennis ranch in Texas and the first week he came up to me and said he’d like to interview me for a school essay and he had 25 questions all written out, very professional and we did the interview and it was little over a year later that we picked him for the Davis Cup team. He came out of the blocks in the first match against Todd Martin who was number nine in the world and he blew him away. It was just a joy to sit on the side of the court, of course he had nerves, but the more nervous he got, the better he played’.FACUNDO LAGONES ON WORKING WITH CAMERON NORRIE - ‘One of Cam’s biggest changes is admitting mistakes and realising them and having honest conversations about what happened in the matches or outside the court and being humble enough to recognise what he needed to work on and not just say it and then forget about it. He is really good at working on things that make him better and not making excuses is giving a big edge over most other players because it’s pretty common to make excuses here on tour and not fix what’s wrong’.PLUS MEKTIC AND PAVIC TAKE OUR GRASS COURT QUIZ-Podcast presented by Chris Bowers, Jill Craybas and Peter Marcato-Interviews by Chris Bowers and Candy Reid-Feature by ATP Uncovered and Kate Flory
7/10/2022 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 24 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Brad Stine & Neville Godwin Discuss Kevin Anderson's Career
Having retired from the game earlier this year, Chris Bowers sat down with Kevin Anderson's former coaches Neville Godwin and Brad Stine to talk about the big serving South African's achievements including seven tour titles, a career-high number five ranking, and reaching the US Open and Wimbledon finals.
7/8/2022 • 12 minutes, 2 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Gilles Muller Looks Back Over His Career
Former world number 21 Gilles Muller speaks to Candy Reid about his career which included famously beating Rafael Nadal over five sets at Wimbledon
7/7/2022 • 27 minutes, 16 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Diede de Groot On Her Wimbledon Titles
Dutch wheelchair tennis star Diede de Groot speaks to Candy Reid about her multiple Wimbledon titles, how she manages her body, the ability to continue to thrive as the sport evolves and her desire to see the game continue to grow.
7/6/2022 • 14 minutes
PODCAST - Halfway Through Wimbledon 2022
-Podcast discussion by Chris Bowers, Peter Marcato and Jill Craybas-Interviews by Candy Reid, Jill Craybas and Ursin Caderas-Feature by ATP UncoveredNICK KYRGIOS ON HOW HE VIEWS TENNIS - ‘Obviously I’m not taking it too serious and the rest of the tour, every single day, everything they do is for tennis and for me, I just want to go out there and have fun, entertain and sometimes it’s not easy for other people to concentrate, but you know, I’ll never change, from ten years old to now I’ve always been emotional on court and I’ve always wanted to make it theatrical, like a show, so that’s never going to change I think’.CAMERON NORRIE ON HIS FITNESS - ‘I’m not a player who’s going to come out and hit you off the court, I have to chip away at you point-by-point and make sure I’m executing and make sure I’m at the top of my level physically to have a chance with these guys and that’s something I try to take care of as much as I can and take care of the diet and the physique as much as I can, because I like playing long rallies’.GILLES MULLER ON HIS FAMOUS VICTORY AGAINST RAFAEL NADAL AT WIMBLEDON - ‘In that match I found my happy place, my happy zone. I was sometimes known for losing it on the court and getting upset with myself and losing control a bit, but in that match I don’t know what happened but it was just the perfect day’.VICTOR LILOV ON HIS TRANSITION FROM WIMBLEDON JUNIOR FINALIST TO THE MAIN TOUR - ‘It’s just different paths. Some guys get lazy, some get injured and some just don’t have the game and some guys, maybe they are not as good in juniors but they have the right mindset or maybe when they are eighteen or nineteen years old they just start really clicking and become a lot better, so I think it’s just about the day-in-day-out work and never becoming complacent’.PLUS DENIS SHAPOVALOV, FELIX AUGER-ALIASSIME, ALEX DE MINAUR, JOHN MILLMAN, HUBERT HURKACZ AND DUSTIN BROWN TAKE OUR WIMBLEDON QUIZ
7/3/2022 • 55 minutes, 50 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Heather Watson's Coach Diego Veronelli
Candy Reid speaks to Heather Watson's coach Diego Veronelli about a wide range of subjects including his coaching philosophy, who he thinks is the best coach in the world and the state of tennis in his home country of Argentina.
7/1/2022 • 27 minutes, 57 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - James Trotman On Jack Draper's Development
Candy Reid speaks to James Trotman, coach of the hugely promising young British player Jack Draper.
6/30/2022 • 10 minutes, 34 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Freddie Nielsen Looks Back Over His Career
Having retired from the game earlier in the year, former Wimbledon Doubles Champimon Freddie Nielsen speaks to Candy Reid about his career including his triumph at SW19, his two other titles and playing with Caroline Wozniacki, plus he speaks about his tennis-playing grandfather Kurt, who twice reached the final of the Wimbledon singles event and he also gives his views on upcoming stars of the Danish game, Holger Rune and Clara Tauson.
6/29/2022 • 26 minutes, 44 seconds
PODCAST - A Bumper Wimbledon 2022 Preview Edition
- Podcast presented by Chris Bowers and Candy Reid- Interviews by Chris Bowers, Candy Reid, Richard Connelly & Ursin Caderas- Tim Henman and Lindsey Davenport feature by Tennis UnitedTAYLOR FRITZ ON WHY HE GIVES HIS COACHES FEEDBACK - ‘I want to tell the coach what I’m thinking in situations, why I did this, why I did that, because in my head it should give them a better understanding of why I’m hitting this shot, why I’m doing this in this moment, instead of them just telling me what to do. I’m not going to lie, sometimes I think my tennis IQ is very high and I just want to explain where I’m coming from. It’s really just a better understanding type of thing between us and not me being stubborn’.TAYLOR FRITZ ON HIS ABILITY TO PLAY THROUGH INJURY - ‘I just feel that if I’m not injured to the point that I can’t walk out on court that I feel like I can play. It’s probably once of my best assets and biggest weaknesses is how stubborn I am and how I hate to pull out of tournaments and not play’.MAXIME CRESSY ON MEDITATION - ‘When I was 18 years old a coach introduced me to it because he knew I had some anger or some issues with emotions and hard to control and that’s when I got introduced to the meditation world and it changed my life’.JACK DRAPER ON PLAYING NOVAK DJOKOVIC AT WIMBLEDON 2021 - ’That experience gave me a lot of different lessons and he exposed a lot of areas in my game, probably like he should do, he’s number one in the world, but that gave me a lot of things to work on and improve in the coming months and I think this year I’ve been able to put that into action, stay injury-free and the year is going pretty quick’.STEFANOS TSITSIPAS ON HIS RELATIVE LACK OF GRASS COURT TENNIS - ‘I was thinking about it recently that I haven’t played that much, but it probably just shows how new I am to the tour. We all know the grass season is not a very long season, In my opinion it should be longer, but absolutely I haven’t played that much and I’m looking forward to playing on it as much as I can’.STEFANOS TSITSIPAS ON HIS ADIDAS SHOE ‘My face is on the shoe, it is really cool. I use to wear Stan Smith shoes as a young kid and back in the day when I used to buy them I would never really think that in a thousand years I would be competing with him now or not even really competing, but trying to take over’.DENIS SHAPOVALOV ON HIS RUN TO THE 2021 WIMBLEDON SEMI-FINALS - ‘I think everything just kind of clicked during this part of the season for me last year and I do think the grass really suits me and I think for a lefty with a lot of firepower it’s a difficult surface to play against me on, so it definitely adds to my game to play on this surface’. LINDSAY DAVENPORT WIMBLEDON MEMORIES - ’The first time I went there I of course lost in the qualies and I remember I was pretty young, like 15 or 16 and I remember crying and then the next year I got into the main draw and I’ll never forget this, I was up 6-2, 5-1 and I couldn’t believe I was about to win a match and I ended up winning 10-8 in the third. You can’t put into words why it makes you feel like that’.TIM HENMAN WIMBLEDON MEMORIES - ‘1997 I was playing Paul Haarhuis in the third round and when we came on court you know the centre court was absolutely packed and every shot I hit in the warm-up the crowd cheered and every shot he hit the crowd booed an in terms of atmosphere that was the best atmosphere I ever played in’. DANI VALLVERDU ON THE ATP COACHING TRIAL - ‘It will be a soft approach but I think it’s the first step to introduce this coaching rule and I think it was well supported by the players and I think it’s important for the coaches to know that, so it was a joint decision between the coaches pushing for it and the players being quite open that it was something important to get done’.
6/25/2022 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 14 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Cliff Drysdale On The Formation Of The ATP
Broadcaster Chris Bowers speaks to the very first President of the ATP, Cliff Drysdale about how the association came about 50 years ago.
6/24/2022 • 21 minutes, 44 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Botic van de Zandschulp On His Rise Up The Rankings
Dutch player Botic van de Zandschulp speak to Chris Bowers about his rapid rise up the Pepperstone ATP Rankings which included a run to the US Open Quarter-finals in 2021.
6/22/2022 • 15 minutes, 34 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Stefano Domenicali & Andrea Gaudenzi On OneVision
ATP Chairman Andrea Gaudenzi speaks to Formula One Group CEO, Stefano Domenicali, about the similarities between the two sports and the vision for the future as well as dicussing the intricacies of the ATP's new strategic plan 'One Vision'.
6/21/2022 • 8 minutes, 49 seconds
PODCAST - Berrettini, Santopadre, van de Zandschulp, Medvedev, Kyrgios & Ferriera
-Podcast presented by Chris Bowers-Interviews by Chris Bowers, Richard Connelly, Ursin Caderas & Sue BarkerMATTEO BERRETTINI ON WINNING THE QUEENS TITLE - ‘Every time I walk through these hallways and it’s tricky here, I get lost all the time in this clubhouse, it’s really tough, and I see all the names you know, all the champions of the past and the present and now knowing that it’s going to be me twice on the same wall, it gives me goosebumps so I’m really happy for what I’ve done’.VINCENZO SANTOPADRE ON MATTEO BERRETTINI’S DEVELOPMENT - ‘Matteo is a guy that learns so much from his experience and day-by-day I think he’s a better man and also on court during the matches he finds a way to be better, even with the passing of the match. Matteo is an Italian, he has a lot of passion and every match he is inside the situation, so he’s grown a lot’.BOTIC VAN DER ZANDSCHULP ON HIS GOALS - ‘I proved I can beat guys that are ranked higher then me so that’s the goal I’m working on to go higher up the rankings and to be more consistent. The difference between the higher guys and me is that they win almost all the time against the lower ranked guys and if you talk about the rankings, maybe I want to be top 25 and that’s the first goal I’m having now’.HUBERT HURKACZ ON WINNING IN HALLE - ’Super happy to win my first title on grass, win my first ATP 500 title so you know definitely very proud of myself from this week and super happy to share this moment with such a great team as I have. It definitely gives some boost of confidence before Wimbledon and you know, grass is not a typical surface and not many players are used to playing on it, so it’s a little bit of a different game, but I really enjoy it and I’ll try to use that at Wimbledon’.DANIIL MEDVEDEV ON MAINTAINING HIS WORLD NUMBER 1 POSITION - ‘Last few months were maybe not as good as I wanted them to be and at the same time that’s why we have the rankings of the last 52 and the last 52 weeks I managed to take the most amount of points than other players and that’s why tennis rankings is not about one or two tournaments otherwise we’d have a lot of world number ones and I’m really happy that I’ve managed to keep the consistency going and I want to do better’.NICK KYRGIOS ON HIS ABILITY ON GRASS - ‘I think on grass I’d be top 5, top 10 in the world definitely, I think If I’m feeling good on grass I feel really, really comfortable on it, but the way I’m playing, you know obviously my showing this year I’ve only played five events and I’m ranked 60 in the world, so you know I’m not planning on playing a lot more tournaments but I feel like I can finish the year top 20 top 30 with only playing ten to twelves events’.FRANCES TIAFOE’S COACH WAYNE FERREIRA ON THE RESPECT BETWEEN THE TWO - ’The respect I get for what I did is deserved and it’s nice because these guys, especially Frances, I want him to respect me so that he’ll listen to me. If you have a coach that you don’t really respect, I think it’s impossible to help them, so I think that helps’.
6/19/2022 • 42 minutes, 27 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Wayne Ferreira Speaks About Winning Queens 30 Years Ago
Speaking to reporter Richard Connelly, former player and current coach of Frances Tiafoe, Wayne Ferreira looks back on winning the Queens Club title in 1992 and how surprised he was at not doing better at Wimbledon that year.
6/17/2022 • 12 minutes, 13 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - David Sammel On The Mental Side Of The Game And Coaching Liam Broady
David Sammel, tennis coach and best-selling author of book 'Locker Room Power', talks to Candy Reid about the mental side of the game and what he's been working on with British player Liam Broady. Also being a close friend of coach and former player Andrew Richardson, they also discuss the work that Andrew did with Emma Raducanu on the way to winning the US Open.
-Podcast presented by Seb Lauzier-Interviews by Andrea Gaudenzi, Candy Reid, Ursin Caderas and Richard Connelly-Feature by ATP UncoveredANDREA GAUDENZI ON ONE VISION - ‘I think generally there is a big opportunity for our sport, we have over a billion fans, we are a global sport, we have a very strong women and men product, we have a lot of volume in terms of content which is exactly what we need in the digital world, but we struggle with the monetisation because we are very fragmented, so one of the main principles of the plan is unity’.’The core of what main issues we have is lack of trust between players and tournaments and that comes from the fact that the players never had visibility over the finances of the tournaments for the last 30 years, so now this new plan is providing full transparency to the players on the profits and loss. So the idea is let’s get together, compete against other sports rather than competing internally with each other, that’s the idea’.RAFAEL NADAL ON ONE VISION - ‘Our goal from being the ATP is to try to put our tournaments closer and closer to the slams in terms or promotion, in terms of importance, it’s a great product and we need to encourage the tournaments to keep growing. From my experience I would like to see tournaments the full year because that creates opportunities, possible jobs for more players and on the other hand, you give players the opportunity to rest without having that feeling that you are losing your ranking’. STEFANOS TSITSIPAS ON ONE VISION - ‘It’s a better structure having tournaments being held together, it allows for more fans to be attending and watch their favourite players whether that’s a female or a male, they can get the whole package, one place’.TIM VAN RIJTHOVEN ON THE KEY TO HIS MAIDEN TOUR TITLE IN s-HERTOGENBOSCH - ‘I would like to thank my team for just staying humble the whole week, just doing the normal things and not making this thing any bigger than it was and I’m also that kind of person which is that we’re just hitting a tennis ball, which is not very special if you look at it from afar’.HOLGER RUNE ON THE WAY HE MANAGES HIS MINDSET - ‘I would say my mentality is good on the court, how I call it is to be the Holger 1, not to be so many other Holger types, there are two Holger types, one who is focussed everywhere and one who is focussed in the court and I want to be the one focussed on the court. I feel like all the great tournaments I’ve played this year I have been the Holger 1 and that’s really what I’m aiming for and it is difficult, but it should be difficult because if it wasn’t, everybody would be able to be top 10’.MARIN CILIC ON HOPING TO TRANSFER HIS CLAY COURT FORM TO GRASS - ‘You can have an incredible clay season and then terrible grass season, but I would say in general matches on clay do help you for not only grass season but for rest of the year because the matches are longer, you hit more shots, the trainings are more intensive, so you feel more prepared’.DAVE SAMMEL ON HOW TOP PLAYERS THINK - ‘What Nick Kyrgios and most of the top players are very good at doing is making you think about them and worry about what they are going to do and you have to get to a place where you make your statements and you meet them full on and stay in that place for a full match. Mindset is the most important thing given that everything else is equal’.DENIS SHAPOVALOV ON MENTALITY - ‘Once I spent enough time on the tour, I realised that my level was there, that I’m able to beat a lot of players when I’m playing well and that gives you a lot of confidence and it calmed me down quite a bit. That pressure is something you want to have, you want to be in these situations and you want to be doing well and that’s going to come with a lot of presure so it’s about understanding that’.
6/12/2022 • 32 minutes, 58 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Denis Kudla On Beating Andy Murray, The Conflict In Ukraine And How To Play Rafael Nadal
American Denis Kudla joins Candy Reid to discuss his recent appearance in the final of the Surbiton Challenger and beating Andy Murray along the way as well as his views about the tactics that are needed when playing Rafael Nadal, playing with Frances Tiafoe at college and his thoughts about being born in Ukraine and the ongoing conflict.
6/8/2022 • 18 minutes, 43 seconds
PODCAST - 2022 Roland Garros Review
This week's show is presented by tennis commentator Chris Bowers and legendary Australian player Mark Woodforde as the look back on events at Roland Garros...MARK WOODFORDE ON RAFAEL NADAL’S 14TH ROLAND GARROS TITLE - ‘If I had been in his shoes and I thought this last year, what a way to go out on thirteen titles, that’s enough for me. It’s a record that won’t be touched in our lifetime. I’d rather him go out on a winning note, then have to see him return to Roland Garros and suffer a loss’.MARK WOODFORDE ON RAFAEL NADAL’S POSITION IN THE GOAT DEBATE - ‘If Djokovic would have won the calendar Grand Slam last year, that for me would have set him apart from Roger and Rafa, but now that that’s not in play, I think the default is the highest amount of Grand Slams and at the moment, Rafa for me is the greatest of all time’. MARK WOODFORDE ON WHETHER CASPER RUUD WILL WIN A GRAND SLAM - ‘It’s a step up isn’t it because the eight tournament victories he’s enjoyed have been at the 250 level, and they are very different from the 1000 series matches where everyone is playing, so he has to gradually make the step up and I do believe on clay he possesses the necessary features to go far’.MARK WOODFORDE ON ALEXANDER ZVEREV’S INJURY - ‘It was horrifying calling that match. I thought at the time he was looking the better player and I felt like he was starting to look stronger physically. It was so tragic, my heart goes out to him. I suffered a similar fate back in 1991, my ankle ligaments twitsted in a similar manner and I know if he has damaged those ligaments it’s going to be at least six months out of the game’.ÀLEX CORRETJA ON CARLOS ALCARAZ - ‘I’m sure he will learn a lot, mainly that this is a tournament where you don’t need to go one hundred per cent every single point until the end because sometimes you need to measure your power as well. He will learn that best of five is a different story because you need to be very patient as well and that sometimes you will play not your best, but end up winning anyway’.CARLOS ALCARAZ ON DESIRE TO BECOME WORLD NUMBER 1 - 'I want to be number one. You have think about tennis 24 hours a day, so I changed my life let’s say, to become a professional tennis player’.MARCELO ARÉVALO ON BECOMING A ROLAND GARROS DOUBLES CHAMPION - ‘Well it was an amazing feeling, I don’t think words can describe. This is a dream come true and this is why we worked so many years since I was a little kid, since I grabbed my first racquet when I was six, since my dad was taking me to the Miami Open and that was my first tournament as a fan, I think I was like ten and It seems too much you know, too big and I never thought I would be able to compete at that level when I was a spectator. It’s amazing I went so far and now I can say I’m a Grand Slam ChampionMARCELO ARÉVALO ON THE FUTURE - ‘Of course we want to continue fighting as a team, this doesn’t end here, we win one and I think the human, as a player, as athletes, we are super competitive. As one of my friends always tells me, the end of one mountain is the start of a new one, so now this is the end of one and we start the new path’.
6/5/2022 • 56 minutes, 15 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Julien Reboullet From L'Equipe On The History Of French Tennis
L'Equipe tennis writer Julien Reboullet joins Chris Bowers to talk about the legacy the Jo-Wilfried Tsonga will leave as well as the history behind tennis' Four Musketeers and the importance of Yannick Noah to the game in the country.
6/1/2022 • 13 minutes, 58 seconds
PODCAST - Halfway Through Roland Garros 2022
Former player Gilles Muller joins presenter Chris Bowers to look back on the first week of action at Roland Garros as well as introducing interviews and features that include the following headlines...JO-WILFRIED TSONGA ON HIS RETIREMENT - ‘Gael Monfils said I was a role model and for me it was important to be this role model. Today I have players like Felix Auger-Aliassime, Nick Kyrgios that I inspired, they are completely different and they have a little bit of me in them and it’s just an honour you know’.L’EQUIPE JOURNALIST JULIEN REBOULLET ON THE HISTORY OF FRENCH TENNIS - ’In France I think the biggest legacy in modern tennis will still be for Yannik Noah because he changed many things in the way French people look at tennis as a real profession, he was incredible and with him we had a real boom of tennis in France’.JUAN CARLOS FERRERO ON HIS CLOSE BOND WITH CARLOS ALCARAZ - ‘It’s difficult to say he’s like a son because he has his family and father and everything, but of course he’s a very important person in my life, that’s for sure’.FELIX AUGER-ALIASSIME ON ADAPTING TO CLAY COURTS - ‘I think sometimes what’s confusing for me is that you get on the clay and you want to change the way you play because of the surface, where I think that the way I was playing at the start of the year, even indoors, I don’t need to change the way I play that much, I just need to be more patient, but it can be confusing for a player like me sometimes to choose the right way to play’. STARS OF THE TOUR CHOOSE THEIR CLAY-COURT FAVOURITES FROM VENUES TO PLACES TO EATIGA SWIATEK AND SEBASTIAN KORDA GO HEAD-TO-HEAD ON WHO KNOWS RAFAEL NADAL BETTER- Show presented by Chris Bowers and former player Gilles Muller- Interview by Ursin Caderas- Features by ATP Uncovered
5/29/2022 • 51 minutes, 1 second
EXCLUSIVE - Filip Polasek Reflects On His Incredible Journey Back To The Top Of The Game
Jill Craybas speaks to Slovak doubles player Filip Polasek about his need to retire from the game in 2013 due to injury and the long road back to the top of the game after a chance encounter with doubles legend Mike Bryan.
5/25/2022 • 12 minutes, 3 seconds
PODCAST - 2022 Roland Garros Preview
Broadcaster Chris Bowers is joined by WTA player Tamira Paszek to preview the men’s draw at Roland Garros and discuss some of the talking points arising from interviews and features with the following...NADAL ON ALCARAZ - ‘He’s young and when you are young and very good, the process is faster then the normal people, so he is not a normal guy, like Novak was not a normal guy, like Roger was not a normal guy, like probably me was not a normal guy. He’s already there and one of the big favourites to achieve in every tournament he’s playing’.THIEM ON HIS COMEBACK FROM WRIST INJURY - ‘I was not confident with my wrist and maybe slightly changed my technique and that’s why the hand started to hurt. Working so that I’m not scared anymore at my forehand was very tough. For the first time I felt scared to hit the shot, I felt scared about my wrist and this feeling took a long time to go away’.ZVEREV ON EMPLOYING THE SERVICES OF SERGI BRUGUERA - ‘I’m somebody who wants to come onto the court and I don’t want to be thinking of what to do, what to practice, I just want to be told and I think he’s the perfect guy for that’.LORENZO MUSETTI ON PLAYING DJOKOVIC AT LAST YEAR’S ROLAND GARROS - ‘I was two sets to love with Djokovic on the centre court of the French Open at 19 years old and it was the best two sets of the year. After that it was not easy for me, I felt the pressure, I felt everything. Even my physical part was really tough, I was really tired and cramping. I don't know if that was from the tension, from the pressure or from the physical matches I played’.HEAD-TO-HEAD QUIZ: CABAL & FARAH TEST THEIR CLAY-COURT KNOWLEDGE
5/21/2022 • 53 minutes, 51 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Jo-Wilfried Tsonga On His Career
Speaking to the ATP'S Brendan Gilson, french player Jo-Wilfried Tsonga looks back on his highs and lows, as he prepares to call time on his career after Roland Garros.
5/18/2022 • 10 minutes, 33 seconds
PODCAST - Djokovic Claims 38th Masters 1000 Title In Rome
This week we hear from British player Cameron Norrie on getting used to life among the game's elite, Andrey Rublev talks about his mindset, giant American Reilly Opelka speaks about his love of clay and doubles pair Lloyd Glasspool and Harri Heliovarra spill the beans on a manic week. We also hear from Rafa Nadal about his foot injury ahead of Roland Garros, but first stop is the final in Rome, the fifth masters 1000 of the year, where Novak Djokovic has got back to wining ways, and after securing his 1000th career victory in the semi-final, he then beat Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final.
5/15/2022 • 39 minutes, 1 second
EXCLUSIVE - Jerome Kym On Federer And Wawrinka And Winning A Horse!
With the Gonet Geneva Open taking place next week, take a listen to Barry Cowan's chat with young Swiss player Jerome Kym, who was a hitting partner to the world's top players at last year's Nitto ATP Finals.Kym speaks about what it's like to be on the other side of the net from some of the best players in the world, practicing with Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka, having a professional drummer as a dad and the day when he won a horse in a competition!
5/11/2022 • 13 minutes, 17 seconds
PODCAST - Amazing Alcaraz Topples Zverev For Madrid Title
This week's show presented by Seb Lauzier contains the following interviews...CARLOS ALCARAZ ON WINNING IN MADRID - ‘I believe in myself all of the time. I always say that I’m not going to play a final, I’m going to win a final, so I always think about it and go for it. I think I’m ready to win a Grand Slam and go for it. It’s a goal for me this year to get my first Grand Slam, so I’m going to work for it and let’s see what happens in Roland Garros’.ALEXANDER ZVEREV ON CARLOS ALCARAZ - ‘I know how good he is and I said it last year in Acapulco that by 2023 he’s going to be top ten and he beat me by a year so there’s nothing more to say. He’s an incredible player, he’s going to be incredible, with 19 years old now he looks like a grown man, so to be honest there is no limit for him’. NOVAK DJOKOVIC ON GETTING BACK TO HIS BEST - ‘I’m still finding the form, not playing at the desired level but I am getting there, it’s a process and I have to be patient and believe I’m on the right track, which I am, that’s a positive. There’s some elements in the game which I feel I’ve done well with and there are things I know I can improve and I’m conscious of that, I’m aware of that’.RAFAEL NADAL ON HIS EXPECTATIONS - ‘I tell you, when I arrive at a tournament I don’t think about how I’m going to be or how I’m not going to be, I just follow the practices everyday without expecting too much. You have to live with the things that are happening eveyday and when you are one month, three weeks outside of the tour and you come here with no preparation, there are of course moments where you feel the worst in the world, but it’s something that’s normal and I went through these experiences in my career plenty of times’.THOMAS ENQVIST ON THE MAKE-UP OF THE MODERN PLAYER - ‘For sure the game has become more physical and you have to be very athletic, each top player are great athletes and moving, even though they are tall, still moving incredibly well and that’s what’s impressed me the most’.DAVID NALBANDIAN ON COACHING FORMER WORLD NUMBER ONE JUNIOR MIOMIR KECMANOVIC ‘Doesn’t mean anything to me being world number one junior. I can tell you a million examples of world number one juniors and then, two hundred in tennis prop, three hundred, one hundred and never get to, even top fifty, so juniors doesn’t mean anything’.JANNIK SINNER ON LEAVING RICCARDO PIATTI’S COACHING SET-UP - ‘I had seven incredible years with Riccardo and his team and I always felt very well with them, I think we did an incredible job with them bringing me to the top ten. Knowing what I have already I don’t want to lose, like my mentality, like my way to play, but I think I can add some new stuff and this is what we’re working for’.LORENZO SONEGO ON HIS GREAT RUN IN ROME LAST YEAR - ‘It was my best tournament in my life last year, I played some special players like Thiem, Rublev and I also played Djokovic on centre court. Today I come back here to Rome and it’s like my home, it’s really special and I want to enjoy every moment on court and I want to play my best like last year’.Interviews by Ursin Caderas, Jill Craybas, Seb Lauzier and Richard Connelly
5/8/2022 • 31 minutes, 31 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - David Nalbandian On Winning In Madrid, The Big Three And Coaching Kecmanovic
David Nalbandian speaks to Ursin Caderas about winning the Mutua Madrid Open Title in 2007 and beating Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer along the way, plus he speaks about coaching young Serbian player Miomir Kecmanovic.
5/6/2022 • 13 minutes, 14 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Juan Carlos Ferreo On His Own Career And Carlos Alcaraz's
Jill Craybas sits down with Juan Carlos Ferrero, coach to man of the moment, Carlos Alcaraz, to discuss his own career, what he's learnt, how he's shaped the fortunes of Alcaraz over the past few years and the goals for the future.
5/4/2022 • 23 minutes, 20 seconds
PODCAST - 2022 Mutua Madrid Open Preview
The official ATP Tour Podcast presented by Seb Lauzier and including interviews and features with...FELICIANO LOPEZ ON MAKING HIS DEBUT IN MADRID 20 YEARS AGO - ‘2002 was an amazing event. Manolo Santana offered me a wildcard, I was a kid, 18 or 19 years old and I won two matches and then ended up playing Andre Agassi, who at that time was one of my idols. I played that match and I played great, pushing him to 7-5 in the third and then he went on to win the tournament'ALEJANDRO DAVIDOVICH FOKINA ON HIS RECENT FORM- ‘I don’t think I've showed what is my limit yet and I want to know more about me, what I have inside. I believe now I can win every tournament, my confidence now is so high, but we keep practicing now to see what are my limits and we will see what will happen this week'RAFAEL NADAL ON RETURNING FROM RIB INJURY - ‘Enjoying the fact that I’m back knowing that the situation is not perfect for me with one month and a half with the stress fracture on the rib that’s painful and that didn’t allow me to practice for a while, so in terms of preparation it’s not the ideal thing, but I am just here to try my best. It’s not easy to accept every time the challenge, but it’s just time to keep going, to stay positive and to find things to be better every day’.DOMINIC THIEM ON RETURNING FROM WRIST INJURY - ‘I’m pain free in all the body now which is very nice. Obviously game-wise there are many things which are not perfect, but that’s exactly what I expected and that’s why I have to practice everyday. Practice it’s going well, but matches are very different, you’re way more nervous and tight and with all the moving around, I’ve lost all this and I’ve been away for ten months and all the anticipation, reaction time, I have to get it back and that’s what I’m trying right now and the first short-term goal is to be in good shape for the French Open as I won’t be seeded there’.DANIIL MEDVEDEV ON HIS JOURNEY TO WORLD NUMBER ONE - ’To be honest when I started on the professional tour I couldn’t think that I would achieve what I’ve done, but I always had some self-belief that I could be a good player if I tried my best all the time and when you are 18 that’s sometimes what you miss and I try to work on this part of me and later in my career it turned out to be a good thing’.JUAN CARLOS FERRERO ON DEALING WITH PRESSURE - ‘I think you have to be born a little bit with that and it’s difficult to teach, because you can talk a lot about this, but I think someone has to have it inside them because in the end you have to go alone to the court and you have to go through these nerves that you have in difficult moments, so you have to go through it for sure’.
5/1/2022 • 56 minutes, 36 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Tommy Robredo Looks Back Over His Career
As he lays down the racquets for the final time at the Barcelona Open, former World Number 5 Tommy Robredo speaks to Ursin Caderas about his career and his future hopes.
4/27/2022 • 23 minutes, 51 seconds
PODCAST - Double Duty For Carlos Alcaraz In Barcelona
The Official ATP Podcast presented by Seb Lauzier and contains the following interviews and features...CARLOZ ALCARAZ ON LISTENING TO THE ROCKY SOUNDTRACK FOR MOTIVATION - ‘I try to listen to that song before every match, it motivates me. When I listen to the music I remember the movie and it’s amazing the big fight that Rocky has and I try to have that experience in every match so that’s what motivates me’.FEATURE ON CARLOS ALCARAZ - The views of his fellow players at the Barcelona Open including Pablo Carreno Busta, Cameron Norrie, Diego Schwartzman, Grigor Dimitrov and Stefanos Tsitsipas. PABLO CARRENO BUSTA ON THE PRESSURE OF PLAYING AT HOME - ‘I don’t know if it’s difficult, if it’s different, but it is strange because normally we play around the world and in Spain there are just two tournaments, here and in Madrid, but I feel pressure playing here because you know you play in front of all the people that know you a lot that support you so it’s a little bit different, it’s tough, but at the same time it’s special to be in at the last moments of a tournament like Barcelona’.FELICIANO LOPEZ ON BARCELONA TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR DAVID FERRER - 'I told him many times he should still be playing because you see him, he’s in great shape and we hit a couple of times this year and he was as tough as he was, nothing has changed from his last match’.FELIX AUGER-ALIASSIME ON WORKING WITH UNLE TONI - ‘We’ve been together for more than a year now and he’s realistic. You know I’m not Rafa Nadal, we have different qualities, it’s tough to replicate what Rafael did in his career on clay. I’m more of a hard court player and I also play well on grass, so of course it’s different strengths, so he’s adapted his input and he’s adapted to the player he’s working with and he’s not approaching it like he wants me to play like his nephew’.TOMMY ROBREDO ON RETIRING AT THE BARCELONA OPEN - ‘I’m going to turn 40 in the next weeks and I’ve spent many years on tour and with the pandemic I was not playing that much. I also have a family now and I have a daughter and I really want to stay home. I always said that I am going to quit that day I have a priority that is better then tennis and being at home with my wife and daughter it’s much better than travelling now’.FEATURE ON THE FUTURE OF COACHING FROM THE WORLD TENNIS CONFERENCE - Contributions from Brad Gilbert, Felix Auger-Aliassime’s coach Frédéric Fontang, Novak Djokovic’s physical coach, Marco Panichi and Sports Scientist Jack Groppel.
4/24/2022 • 35 minutes, 59 seconds
World Tennis Conference - The Future Of Tennis
The ATP's Senior Vice President of Player Relations, Fernando Sanchez and the former Development Director of the ITF, Dave Miley, who's now an International Tennis Consultant, join World Tennis Conference moderator, Fernando Segal, to speak about the future of the sport.The live panel discussion took place at the second edition of the World Tennis Conference between March 23-27. The conference, which was supported by the Global Professional Tennis Coaches Association and the Segal Institue, invited over sixty coaches to take part in four days of discussions about the sport and it's development.As well as listening to the live panel discussions on this podcast channel, head to worldtennisconference.com where you can watch exclusive presentations from the likes of Boris Becker, Ivan Ljubicic, Brad Gilbert, Toni Nadal and many, many more.
4/22/2022 • 51 minutes, 24 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Craig Boynton Masterclass On The Transition To Clay
Hubert Hurkacz's coach, Craig Boynton sits down with Seb Lauzier to talk through all the elements required for a player to make the transition from hard courts, to clay.This interview was recorded during the 2022 Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters.
4/20/2022 • 15 minutes, 24 seconds
World Tennis Conference - Technology
World Tennis Conference moderator Fernando Segal is joined by Carlos Salum, founder of Salum International Resources which helps lead development in the use of technology for companies, organisations and leaders and by Ben Leloup, who is Vice President of Player analytics at Golden Set Analytics.The live panel discussion took place at the second edition of the World Tennis Conference between March 23-27. The conference, which was supported by the Global Professional Tennis Coaches Association and the Segal Institue, invited over sixty coaches to take part in four days of discussions about the sport and it's development.As well as listening to the live panel discussions on this podcast channel, head to worldtennisconference.com where you can watch exclusive presentations from the likes of Boris Becker, Ivan Ljubicic, Brad Gilbert, Toni Nadal and many, many more.
4/19/2022 • 52 minutes, 58 seconds
PODCAST - 2022 Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters Review
This week's podcast comes from the Monte-Carlo Country Club and is presented by Seb Lauzier. The programme includes the following content...STEFANOS TSITSIPAS WINNER'S INTERVIEW - Speaking to Seb Lauzier on courtGRIGOR DIMITROV ON HIS BACKHAND SLICE - ’Slice is a volatile shot and it’s one of the first shots I actually learned, I think it’s the first shot my dad taught me and I think especially for one-handers it’s vital. Against any opponent, if you’re able to find the right way of using it and putting the ball in the right spot, it really gives you an advantage to look at the right shot’ CRAIG BOYNTON ON PLAYERS TRANSITIONING TO CLAY - ‘It would be like running on wood and now you have to skate. It usually takes a couple of weeks for most to feel comfortable and not even having to think about movement, just more in strategy and you’ll see this as the clay court season progresses'JANNIK SINNER ON HIS WITHDRAWL IN INDIAN WELLS DUE TO BLISTERS - ‘Well it’s the most frustrating thing, because the worst thing for me is to lose without competing. We try to find solutions in the best possible way so it’s not going to happen anymore, but I’m happy right now that I don’t feel anything, the body is good, the body is safe and let’s see in the next couple of months if something happens and if not, we have to change'STAN WAWRINKA ON HIS GOALS FOR THE SEASON - ‘I don’t have right now the goal for the end of my career because I’m far away from the level I want to be. I still need a few weeks and months to be feeling good on the court and I think by the end of the year I will know what I want to achieve or what I want to try to achieve before the end of my career'JUAN CARLOS FERRERO ON ALCARAZ’S DEVELOPMENT - ‘He’s growing up match-by-match, but of course he’s surprising me week-by-week because after very important things happen to him and this level that he’s doing, he’s handling very good and it seems like everything is normal to him and he tries to do things as normal as he can, but life is changing for him and then team, but the good thing is that I have a lot of experience of that'FEATURE ON DOUBLES FROM THE WORLD TENNIS CONFERENCE - Contributions from Jeff Coetzee, Wayne Bryan, Louis Cayer, Craig O’Shannessy, Rohan Bopanna, Joe Salisbury, Jamie Murray and Luke Jensen
4/17/2022 • 42 minutes, 2 seconds
World Tennis Conference - Physical Development
An expert panel of guests working in the area of physical dvelopment join moderator Fernando Segal to discuss all aspect of developing a tennis players body and movement. Ian Barstow and Dr Mark Kovacs bring their detailed knowledge of sports science, whilst Cinto Casanova speaks about working with juniors in Japan.The live panel discussion took place at the second edition of the World Tennis Conference between March 23-27. The conference, which was supported by the Global Professional Tennis Coaches Association and the Segal Institue, invited over sixty coaches to take part in four days of discussions about the sport and it's development.As well as listening to the live panel discussions on this podcast channel, head to worldtennisconference.com where you can watch exclusive presentations from the likes of Boris Becker, Ivan Ljubicic, Brad Gilbert, Toni Nadal and many, many more.
4/15/2022 • 49 minutes, 11 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Marc Lucero On Steve Johnson, Mental Health & Drive To Survive
Marc Lucero, coach to American Steve Johnson talks to Mike Cation about a number of subjects including helping players and coaches through the difficulty of the past two years, mental health in the game and how docuseries like Netflix's Drive To Survive can help develop a more meaningful relationship with fans.
4/13/2022 • 13 minutes, 11 seconds
World Tennis Conference - Mental Development
Coaches Alberto Castellani, Adam Blicher and Yoav Schab join moderator Fernando Segal to discuss all aspect of developing a tennis players mental game.The live panel discussion took place at the second edition of the World Tennis Conference between March 23-27. The conference, which was supported by the Global Professional Tennis Coaches Association and the Segal Institue, invited over sixty coaches to take part in four days of discussions about the sport and it's development.As well as listening to the live panel discussions on this podcast channel, head to worldtennisconference.com where you can watch exclusive presentations from the likes of Boris Becker, Ivan Ljubicic, Brad Gilbert, Toni Nadal and many, many more.
4/12/2022 • 57 minutes, 58 seconds
PODCAST - 2022 Rolex Monte Carlo Masters Preview
Seb Lauzier presents the show from the Monte-Carlo Country Club on the eve of the first Masters 1000 event of the year on clay.During the course of the podcast we hear from Novak Djokovic, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Carlos Alcaraz, Casper Ruud, Alexander Zverev and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. There's also ATP Uncovered features on Steve Johnson and Holger Rune and in our latest Masterclass from the World Tennis Conference, Alberto Castellani, Dr Jim Loehr, Adam Blicher, Jacco Eltingh, Dr Jack Groppel and Dr Mark Kovacs speak about the subject of Mental Development.
4/10/2022 • 53 minutes, 48 seconds
World Tennis Conference - From Junior To Pro
In this panel discussion from the World Tennis Conference, coaches Carlos Goffi, Gregor Ficko and Robert Davis join moderator Fernando Segal to discuss the pathway from Juniors to pro.The live panel discussion took place at the second edition of the World Tennis Conference between March 23-27. The conference, which was supported by the Global Professional Tennis Coaches Association and the Segal Institue, invited over sixty coaches to take part in four days of discussions about the sport and it's development.As well as listening to the live panel discussions on this podcast channel, head to worldtennisconference.com where you can watch exclusive presentations from the likes of Boris Becker, Ivan Ljubicic, Brad Gilbert, Toni Nadal and many, many more.
4/8/2022 • 52 minutes, 6 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Rajeev Ram On Playing With World No.1 Joe Salisbury
American doubles player Rajeev Ram speaks to Jill Craybas about what new World Number 1 doubles player Joe Salisbury brings to the table, their experiences winning the Australian Open and US Open and his medal winning performance at the Rio Olympics.
4/6/2022 • 12 minutes, 56 seconds
World Tennis Conference - Women's Tennis
In this converstsion moderator and conference director Fernando Segal is joined by Ann Grossman, President of the Women's Tennis Coaching Association and professional coach on the WTA Tour, Martin Vilar. There's also a pre-recorded insert from Sarah Stone, Director of Tennis at Champion Academy Tennis and CEO and Founder of the Women's Tennis Coaching Association.The live panel discussion took place at the second edition of the World Tennis Conference between March 23-27. The conference, which was supported by the Global Professional Tennis Coaches Association and the Segal Institue, invited over sixty coaches to take part in four days of discussions about the sport and it's development.As well as listening to the live panel discussions on this podcast channel, head to worldtennisconference.com where you can watch exclusive presentations from the likes of Boris Becker, Ivan Ljubicic, Brad Gilbert, Toni Nadal and many, many more.
4/5/2022 • 49 minutes, 30 seconds
PODCAST - Alcaraz, Ruud, Harris, Cerundolo, Isner, Salisbury, Ram & much more
Seb Lauzier presents another packed show at the conclusion of the Miami Open, including interviews and features with...CARLOS ALCARAZ - ‘At the beginning of the season my goals were to break the top 15, so I’m reaching my goals so soon. I want to be able to end the year in the top 10, qualify for the ATP Finals as well and also win a Masters 1000 or win as much titles as I can. Good goals this season'CASPER RUUD - ’The clay is coming soon and these conditions are tough, but when you stay here for a long time I think that you feel very fit, so having a good two or three weeks here. I can only see positives with it’.LLOYD HARRIS - On coach Xavier Malisse ‘It’s incredible how laid back the X-man actually is and then you see how he used to be out on court. He was a fierce competitor and he’s definitely got me to get more emotions out on court in the positive manner'FRANCISCO CERUNDOLO - ‘I think here (Tour) everyone plays great, the level is higher, the intensity, but the hunger that there is in Challenger and the will there is to win I think is more than here'JOHN ISNER - On keeping himself fit - ’The treatment’s very important to me I’ve always liked to lift a lot of weights, but I mix my training up quite a bit. I do yoga, I do pilates, I do Soul Cycle, I really, really enjoy the working out aspect of my job, way more than the practice court'JOE SALISBURY - On becomming World Number 1 - ‘It’s not something as I had a goal to reach the number one spot personally, for me it’s all about the team, doubles is a team sport and for me I feel a bit bad that I am number one and Rajeev is number two’.RAJEEV RAM - On Joe Salisbury - ‘He’s an incredible athlete, he’s such a quick and explosive player and then he’s a big guy, he serves well and probably the most important thing, he’s a nice guy'FEATURE ON MANAGING THE PLAYER AROUND MATCH TIME - Quotes taken mainly from the World Tennis Conference and featuring Rainer Schuettler, plus the views of Cam Norrie’s coach Facundo Lagones, recorded recently for the podcast.Rainer Schüttler - ’The number one goal for every tennis player should be to try to be as physically fit as possible. For me it was the key to know that I’d prepared really well’Facundo Lagones - On Cam Norrie - ‘During the pandemic he was running 10-20k a day and he got real fit, real skinny and it was good for him, so that’s why in three sets he’s pretty tough to beat, he’s probably never going to lose a match because of physicality’.Frédéric Fontang - ‘We have the chance with Felix (Auger-Aliassime) to work with Toni Nadal for one year now as a consultant and you can feel in the Nadal family that humility is everywhere'Andrés Gómez - ‘You go on a lose another, lose another, but you need to start seeing the feel that you are going to start feeling on your shots and the improvements you’re going to have and then one day everything falls in place and you make your move'
4/3/2022 • 43 minutes, 8 seconds
World Tennis Conference - Tactical Development
In this conversation moderator and conference director Fernando Segal is joined by coaches Oscar Wegner, Juan Manuel Esparcia and Guido Fratzke to talk tactics.The live panel discussion took place at the second edition of the World Tennis Conference between March 23-27. The conference, which was supported by the Global Professional Tennis Coaches Association and the Segal Institue, invited over sixty coaches to take part in four days of discussions about the sport and it's development.As well as listening to the live panel discussions on this podcast channel, head to worldtennisconference.com where you can watch exclusive presentations from the likes of Boris Becker, Ivan Ljubicic, Brad Gilbert, Toni Nadal and many, many more.
3/31/2022 • 52 minutes, 15 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Marijn Bal - Vice President, IMG Tennis
Candy Reid caught up with Vice President, IMG Tennis, Marijn Bal to discuss how he got into the industry, the art of finding promising players, managing relationships, his overall philosophy about the business of tennis and a few tips about who to look out for in the coming 18 months.
3/30/2022 • 31 minutes, 33 seconds
World Tennis Conference - Life On Tour
The following is a live panel discussion that took place at the second edition of the World Tennis Conference between March 23-27. The conference, which was supported by the Global Professional Tennis Coaches Association and the Segal Institue, invited over sixty coaches to take part in four days of discussions about the sport and it's development.As well as listening to the live panel discussions on this podcast channel, head to worldtennisconference.com where you can watch exclusive presentations from the likes of Boris Becker, Ivan Ljubicic, Brad Gilbert, Toni Nadal and many, many more. In this converstsion moderator and conference director Fernando Segal is joined by Claudio Pistolesi and Nicolás Pereira, whilst Liam Smith joins the conversation courtesy of a pre-recoeded chat. Though most of the discussion centered around the tours work, Claudio and Nicolás started by introducing themselves.
This week's programme is presented by Seb Lauzier and the details are...HUBERT HURKACZ FEATURE FROM ATP UNCOVERED - The Pole looks back on his journey to the 2021 Miami Open title - ‘Just a huge moment for me and I also I hope I inspired some people in Poland to play some tennis and for younger kids, it’s possible that you can do it’.TAYLOR FRITZ INTERVIEW - Speaking to Mike Cation, the newly-crowned Indian Wells Champion who was injured in the final explains that - ‘Paul Annacone (coach) always tells me that good players are defined by their ability to win and their ability to get through matches when they are not playing their best’.JOHN ISNER FEATURE FROM ATP UNCOVERED - The giant American looks back on his historic victory at the 2018 Miami Open event, which signalled the final time the Masters tournament was played in Key Biscayne - ‘It felt amazing, that crowd was amazing that day, it was the last match ever in that cool stadium and it meant a lot to me’.ANDEY RUBLEV INTERVIEW - The world number 7 reflects on a great start to the season - ’The last four tournaments have been crazy for me, two titles and two semi-finals which I have never done before'MATTEO BERRETTINI INTERVIEW - Injury eventually prevented from taking to court, but at least the Italian had many other distractions to keep him occupied - ‘Miami is a city that can give you a lot, so it’s difficult to focus on the tennis sometimes, but it’s great to have so many sports, I’ve seen the formula one already, of course I’ve seen the stadium here and where they played the Super Bowl, so it’s a city of sport'FEATURE ON COURT POSITIONING - Quotes taken mainly from the World Tennis Conference and featuring coaches Liam Smith, Janko Tipsarevic & Brad Gilbert, plus thoughts from Daniil Medvedev, speaking in Miami.Liam Smith - ‘I think sometimes a lot of young players are just told to play a certain way and there’s not always enough education or awareness of the situation about where you need to be on the court'Janko Tipsarevic - ‘In my opinion the real aggressive play in the modern day tennis player is not being done with the speed of the arm, but rather how fast you’re cutting the angles, covering the court and positioning yourself on court to take away time and space from your opponent’Brad Gilbert - ‘Everbody is always focussed on their game, what they can do and what they can’t do. I was always thinking about my opponents strengths and weaknesses’.Daniil Medvedev - ‘I see that I win more points and play better when I return from a far position and in general I just feel that brings me more victories'Commentary inserts from Lee Goodall, Nick Lester and Arvind Parmar
3/27/2022 • 38 minutes, 57 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - James Blake, Miami Open Tournament Director
Jill Craybas sits down with Miami Open Tournament Director James Blake to discuss a number of subjects such as the men's and women's tours working more closely together, the role that data and analytics will play in the future and his friendship with fellow American player, Andy Roddick.
Welcome back to Tennis Paradise at the end of the BNP Paribas Open, another exhilarating Masters 1000 showcase here in Indian Wells and over the course of the next forty minutes, we hear from the champion, Taylor Fritz, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Paul Annacone, Michael Chang, Ivan Ljubicic, Gilles Cervara and Craig Boyton, the coach of next week’s Miami Open defending champion Hubi Hurkacz .Presenter - Seb LauzierPodcast guest - former WTA player, Jill Craybas. Michael Chang feature supplied by ATP Uncovered TV Show.
3/21/2022 • 40 minutes, 35 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Christopher Eubanks On Mouratoglu, Serena Williams, Coco Gauff And Hanging Out With Jamie Foxx
American Christopher Eubanks speaks to former player Jill Craybas about training with Serena Williams, learning Tik Tok from Coco Gauff, playing at the Mouratoglu Academy and hanging out with legendary movie star, Jamie Foxx.
3/16/2022 • 21 minutes
PODCAST - Medvedev, Murray, Tsitsipas, Nadal & Zverev
Seb Lauzier and Jill Craybas present the show from Indian Wells. Along the way they hear from Daniil Medvedev, Andy Murray, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Rafael Nadal and Alexander Zverev. As the conflict in Ukraine continues, they also give their views about tennis’ reaction to that, as well as a number of other topics including some of the new player and coach relationships on tour.
3/13/2022 • 36 minutes, 24 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Raven Klaasen On Tennis In Africa
South African doubles player Raven Klaasen speaks to Chris Bowers about his career and the development of the game in Africa.
3/9/2022 • 11 minutes, 36 seconds
PODCAST - Giron, Korda, Paul & Lajovic
With the first ATP Masters 1000 of the year, the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells just around the corner, this week we are all-American. We here from in-form Tommy Paul, we go behind-the-scenes with Sebastian Korda and start with a California native who recently reached the quarter-finals in Acapulco and before that the semi-finals in Dallas, Marcos Giron. Finally, in the week where so much has gone on in eastern Europe that so many of us are struggling to comprehend, we have a deeply personal piece with Serb Dusan Lajovic remembering his war-torn early years.
3/6/2022 • 34 minutes, 19 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Dean Goldfine On Seb Korda's Development
Part of Seb Korda's coaching set-up, Dean Goldfine talks to Anne-Marie Batson about guiding the young American through the early stages of his career and how they got things wrong in the aftermath of the 21-year-old winning the Australian Open Juniors title in 2018.
In the week Dannil Medvedev claimed the world number one spot, we hear from the Russian, as well as the man he replaced, Novak Djokovic. We also get the views of Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray and former world number one, Jim Courier, plus we hear how Denis Shapovalov is getting on with his new coach, Jamie Delgado and we speak to a doubles player in a rich vein of form.
2/27/2022 • 36 minutes, 26 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Facundo Lagones On Cameron Norrie's Development
Barry Cowan speaks to Facundo Lagones, coach of British tennis player, Cameron Norrie. In this conversation they speak about training regimes, fitness and Norries hopes for the future.
This week Seb Lauzier introduces the podcast from Rio where he’s been working for the TV operation all week, but we also air interviews with players who’ve been competing at the three other ATP events this past week. We hear from Carlos Alcaraz, Matteo Berrettini, Felix Auger-Aliassime, Jo Wilfried-Tsonga, Karen Khachanov and Marcelo Arevalo.Interviews by Seb Lauzier, Paul King and Mike Cation. Felix Auger-Aliassime taken from the ATP Media News Feed.
2/20/2022 • 29 minutes, 36 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Christian Ruud On Casper's Continued Development
With another title under his belt in 2022, five titles in 2021 an a first appearance at the Nitto ATP Finals at the end of last year, what does Christian Ruud, father of top 10 player Casper, make of his son's development?
2/16/2022 • 11 minutes, 41 seconds
PODCAST - South American Special
Seb Lauzier presents the podcast from Rio, Brazil this week in the build up to the second ATP 500 of the year and the first on clay where Juan Martin Del Potro had been given a wild card and was due to play had all gone well. Unfortunately that hasn’t happened and to get the South American take on the former US Open champion, we hear from Brazilian sports journalist Alex Cossenza.As the Rio Open gets underway, a year on from having to cancel the event due to Covid, we also hear from Tournament Director Luiz Carvalho and we're with a former number one in the world with a couple of Grand Slams under his belt, 38 year old Marcelo Melo.Plenty then from Brazil and we also dip into Europe and speak to Andy Murray to assess the start of his 2022.
2/13/2022 • 34 minutes, 48 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Frédéric Fontang on coaching Felix Auger-Aliassime
Felix Auger-Aliassime's coach Frédéric Fontang talks about working with the young Canadian, bringing Toni Nadal in as a consultant and the values and ethos that surrounds the team, plus we also find out about the coach himself. Interview by Candy Reid.
2/9/2022 • 16 minutes, 49 seconds
PODCAST - Ruusuvuori, Peers And A Stringing Masterclass
Seb Lauzier presents this week’s programme and a week on from the Australian Open, hears from doubles legend, John Peers. Peers talks about his new partnership with Filip Polasek, how Australian’s have dealt with travel during Covid and his Olympic Bronze Medal alongside Ash Barty. We also get a stringing masterclass and to celebrate his first ATP Tour final, we hear from Finnish player, Emil Ruusuvuori.Interviews by Jill Craybas and Candy Reid.
2/6/2022 • 37 minutes, 11 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Rohan Bopanna
Back on the regular tour and with an event in Pune, India taking place this week, Jill Craybas spoke to a tennis legend from that region, doubles player Rohan Bopanna. In this wide-ranging conversation the duo discuss the current state of the game in India, doubles tactics, advice from his coach, Scott Davidoff, how Rohan continues to play at the age of 41 and his interests off court, including running tennis academies and his own coffee company.
2/2/2022 • 35 minutes, 50 seconds
PODCAST - Nadal Makes It Grand Slam Number 21
Presenter Peter Marcato is joined by former player Jill Craybas and AO Radio’s Chris Bowers to look back on an epic men’s final between Rafael Nadal and Daniil Medvedev. As well as discussing the Championship match in which Nadal made yet more history, the team also speak about the other players who made it through to the latter stages of the tournament. There's also exclusive interviews with recently crowned Australian of the Year, Dylan Alcott, Doubles finalist, Max Purcell and Australian sporting legend, Pat Rafter.Interviews by Chris Bowers and Candy Reid. Commentary from AO Radio.
1/30/2022 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 30 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Joe Salisbury On Maintaining His Fitness Levels
Candy Reid sat down at the Australian Open with British doubles player Joe Salisbury to ask how he manages to dart about the court in such sweltering heat.
1/26/2022 • 9 minutes, 7 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Taro Daniel On His Tennis Journey, The Olympics And Life Off Court
Japan's Taro Daniel speaks to Jill Craybas about his globe-trotting existence as a young boy growing up, his tennis journey, the 2020 Olympic in Tokyo, his hopes for the future and life away from the court.This is the full-length version of the interview that was in the most recent ATP podcast.
1/25/2022 • 12 minutes, 31 seconds
PODCAST - Halfway Through The 2022 Australian Open
Presenter Peter Marcato is joined by former player, Jill Craybas and AO Radio commentators Chris Bowers and Candy Reid to look back on the first week of action at the 2022 Australian Open as well as introduce interviews and features with Maxime Cressy, Taro Daniel, Thanasi Kokkinakis and Bruno Soares.
1/23/2022 • 53 minutes, 12 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Andreas Mies On Returning From Injury And Teaming Up With Kevin Krawietz Once Again
German doubles player Andres Mies speaks to Chirs Bowers about his time out through injury, the disappointment of missing the 2020 Olympics in Beijing, his inspirations growing up and his hopes for the future.
1/21/2022 • 13 minutes, 29 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Emilio Gomez On Learning From Losses And Representing His Country
We hear from Ecudorian player Emilio Gomez who came through qualifying at the Australian Open before losing out to Croatian Marin Cilic in Round 1.In this chat conducted by former player Jill Craybas, we find out about Gomez's pride at representing his country in the Davis Cup, qualifying for his first Grand Slam event at the age of 28, his route through US College Tennis and what he's learnt through losing matches and how it's helped his belief.
1/19/2022 • 13 minutes, 22 seconds
PODCAST - 2022 Australian Open Preview
Recorded on Sunday afternoon in Melbourne, presenter Peter Marcato is joined by Novak Djokovic biographer and Head of AO Radio, Chris Bowers, former player, Jill Craybas and BBC commentator, Gigi Salmon to give their own unique views ahead of the first Grand Slam of the year. During the course of the programme they set the scene from Melbourne Park, discuss the main stories on and off court, dissect the draw and make their predictions for the year ahead, plus we hear from Australian superstar, Nick Kyrgios, courtesy of ATP Uncovered.
1/16/2022 • 57 minutes, 38 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Craig O'Shannessy On Djokovic, Alcaraz And Coaching Popyrin
Talking to Barry Cowan, Craig O'Shannessy, wildly regarded as a world leader in teaching and analyzing tennis strategy, speaks about working with Novak Djokovic, coaching Australian Alexei Popyrin, how young Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz will be the next big thing in tennis and the latest trends in the game and what the data is showing.
1/12/2022 • 20 minutes, 25 seconds
PODCAST - A Round-Up Of Events In Sydney, Melbourne & Adelaide
Recorded before the finals in Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne, broadcaster Peter Marcato, who has been commentating on the 250 event in Adelaide sat down over zoom with former player, Jill Craybas who’s been working on the event in Melbourne, to discuss all of the various talking points ahead of the Australian Open. We also hear from surprise Melbourne finalist, Maxime Cressy.
1/9/2022 • 29 minutes, 48 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Aleksandar Vukic On Dealing With Travel As An Australian
Aleksandar Vukic opens up to Jill Craybas about the difficulties with being an Australian tennis player on the road an not being able to travel back to his home country due to the issues around Covid. He also speak about his families struggles in war-torn Montenegro and going to college in America.
1/5/2022 • 17 minutes, 10 seconds
PODCAST - Hello From Australia
Commentator Peter Marcato presents the first ATP Podcast of 2022 from Melbourne, Australia, as we gear up for a busy month of tennis. As well as setting the scene ahead of the first Grand Slam of the year, we also bring you an exclusive New Year strength and conditioning masterclass from one of the best in the business, Wolfgang Oswald, who works with the likes of Taylor Fritz, Reilly Opelka and Mackenzie Mcdonald. In this lengthy chat, Jill Craybas speaks to Wolfgang about subjects like movement, speed, endurance, energy, recovery and nutrition.
1/2/2022 • 54 minutes, 7 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Apostolos Tsitsipas on Stefanos' development
Apostolos Tsitsipas, coach and father of Stefanos talks to Jill Craybas about the importance of family, the duel roles he plays in his son' s life, dealing with stress and pressure and the importance of smiling.This conversation was recorded before the Nitto ATP finals in Turiin, so didn't touch on Stefanos' recent elbow injury, but did speak about his run at Roland Garros, the Olympics and his ambitions going forward.
12/29/2021 • 18 minutes, 47 seconds
PODCAST - Festive Quiz Of 2021
In the final podcast of the year, Chris Bowers and the ATP Tennis Radio team bring you a bit of festive fun, as commentators Gigi Salmon, Barry Cowan, Jill Craybas and Seb Lauzier go head-to-head against Peter Marcato, Brian Clark, Miles Maclagan and Lucie Ahl to see who will be crowned quiz champions of 2021.
12/24/2021 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 6 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Louis Cayer Doubles Masterclass
Legendary doubles coach Louis Cayer speaks about the best player he's ever coached, who he thinks is the best doubles player he's ever encountered and who's the best team, plus he also give some insight into what he works on with the British players he coaches and he also throws in some tips for club players.
12/22/2021 • 21 minutes, 21 seconds
PODCAST - Andy Murray, Jamie Murray & Neal Skupski
Welcome to another podcast and this week, although the tennis news out of the UK has been up and down, we are sticking with the Brits. There’s been good news for Andy Murray, the former world number one has scored a morale boosting win against old rival Rafael Nadal at the Mubadala World Tennis Championship in Abu Dhabi. Great also to see Nadal back in action. We’ll hear from Andy later in the programme and we also hear from doubles player Neal Skupski, but we start this time with Andy’s brother, Jamie Murray who’s had a frustrating week. It is no mean feat putting on any tennis event and as Tournament Director and player he would have been looking forward to the Battle of the Brits more than anyone until it was postponed on Friday, the latest sporting victim of Covid 19. The tournament will be pushed back to 2022, which, on the plus side, gives him even more time to pick up ideas and tips from other events, which is exactly what he was doing when he spoke with Barry Cowan at the recent Nitto ATP Finals in Turin.
12/18/2021 • 32 minutes, 19 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Mark Petchey on success and failure and the lessons learnt
In this phenomenal conversation, Jill Craybas sits down with former British player and coach, turned commentator, Mark Petchey to discuss what he's learnt during his time in the game. From working with the likes of Andy Murray, Emma Raducanu and Maria Sakkari, to his views on US college tennis, finding mentors and why he thinks the only success he's had is as a coach, this interview is packed full of insight and honesty.
12/15/2021 • 31 minutes, 47 seconds
PODCAST - Anderson Part 2, Murray, Saville & Ricci
Even in the off-season we’re still globe-trotting! We’re with a South African, a Brit and an Italian coaching a Finn, but with the groups and match schedule announced this week for the ATP Cup on the 1st to 9th January in Sydney, where better to start than with an Aussie and one very likely to be take his place in the home team. Mike Cation recently caught up with a doubles specialist Luke Saville who’s spent most of the year on the road.
12/12/2021 • 40 minutes, 10 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Craig Boynton On Coaching Hubert Hurkacz
Hubert Hurkacz's coach, Craig Boynton sits down with Jill Craybas to talk about working with the young Pole as well as subjects like on-court coaching, nutrition, rest and recovery and what he's learnt from the players he's coached in the past.
This week we are in the camps of five men who between them have 48 ATP tour titles and they have a bit in common. They’re all over 30, they’re all still going strong and they’ve all had to contend with some serious injuries over the past few years. Over the next 30 minutes or so we’ll hear from Marin Cilic, Milos Raonic and David Goffin, we’re with Grigor Dimitrov’s coach Dante Bottini and we start with the senior statesman of the group, title winner in Newport earlier this year having dropped outside the world’s top 100, at 35 years young South Africa’s Kevin Anderson.Presented by Seb LauzierInterviews by Mike Cation and Jill CraybasFeatures from ATP Tour Uncovered
12/5/2021 • 34 minutes, 21 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Brad Stine On Coaching Tommy Paul And Jennifer Brady
Coach Brad Stine speaks to Jill Craybas about working with American players Tommy Paul and Jennifer Brady, as well as his previous coaching relationships with Kevin Anderson and Jim Courier.
12/1/2021 • 28 minutes, 28 seconds
PODCAST - Italian Special
Ciao e benvenuti! Hello and welcome to another ATP podcast presented by Seb Lauzier where this week we look under the bonnet of one of the world’s most prolific tennising and sporting countries. Italy now hosts the season-ending Nitto ATP Finals in Turin and the Next Gen ATP finals in Milan and the country’s players are clearly inspired making up 8 of the world’s top 100 men as things stand and two of the Top 10, world number 7 Matteo Berrettini and number 10 Jannik Sinner, both present this year in Turin. Over the course of the programme we hear from one of the men behind Berrettini’s surge up the rankings, Umberto Rianna, who also looks after the over 18s for the Italian Tennis Federation, as well as coach and tv star, Diego Nargiso, performance coach, Lorenzo Beltrame and tour coach and Director of Brain Game Tennis, Craig O'Shannessy.
11/28/2021 • 39 minutes, 8 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Rob Morgan On His Coaching Philosophy In Doubles And Singles
British Tennis coach Rob Morgan speaks to Barry Cowan, at the Nitto ATP Finals, about working with doubles pair Rajeev Ram an Joe Salisbury and his new trial coaching relationship with Dan Evans.
11/24/2021 • 23 minutes, 30 seconds
PODCAST - Zverev Reigns Supreme In Turin
Seb Lauzier looks back on events in Turin as Alexander Zverev and Herbert and Mahut take Nitto ATP Finals glory. Along the way were hear from match commentators Miles Maclagan, Chris Bowers and Candy Reid, ATP Chairman Andrea Gaudenzi talks about the events first year in the Italian city, Italian player Paolo Lorenzi looks back on his career, we hear from promising youngster, Samir Banerjee and as the ATP Live channel comes to an end of it’s broadcast, we look back on some of the lighter moments over the past five years.
11/21/2021 • 49 minutes, 45 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Horia Tecau On Retiring From Tennis
Barry Cowan spoke to Romanian Tennis player, Horia Tecau to look back over his career.
11/18/2021 • 15 minutes, 10 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Christian Ruud on Casper's development as a top 10 player
Chris Bowers speaks to Casper Ruud's father and coach, Christian Ruud, to find out what makes the young Norweigian so good.
11/17/2021 • 24 minutes, 15 seconds
PODCAST - NextGen Review & Nitto ATP Finals Preview
This week’s podcast presented by Seb Lauzier looks back on the NextGen event and ahead to the Nitto ATP Finals and includes interviews and features with Carlos Alcaraz, Seb Korda, Holger Rune’s coach, Lars Christensen, Ross Hutchins, Daniil Medvedev’s coach, Gilles Cervara and year-end number one doubles team Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic.Interviews by Barry Cowan and Jill Craybas and features from ATP Uncovered.
11/13/2021 • 1 hour, 47 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Dusan Vemic on coaching Brandon Nakashima and on his time with Djokovic
Brandon Nakashima's coach Dusan Vemic joins Jill Craybas for another in-depth chat and as well as talking about his current player, Dusan also opens up about working with Novak Djokovic and goes into details about the Serbs fitness and wellness regime.
11/10/2021 • 26 minutes, 14 seconds
PODCAST - Djokovic Wins Record 37th Masters 1000 Crown
Congratulations to Novak Djokovic on winning the Rolex Paris Masters title and along the way making it a record seventh time that he’s finished the season as year-end Number One. The challengers are coming but Novak is still out there in pole position.Welcome to another ATP podcast and over the course of the programme we'll look back on that moment of history for Djokovic and discuss what it all means ahead of the Nitto ATP Finals.We also look ahead to the NextGen ATP Finals in the company of Carlos Alcaraz's coach, Juan Carlos Ferrero as well as hear from dashing young Italian Lorenzo Musetti and American Seb Korda.
11/7/2021 • 41 minutes, 55 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Joseph Gilbert on Jenson Brooksby's breakthrough year
Jenson Brooksby's long-time coach, Joseph Gilbert joins Jill Craybas to look back on 2021 and to discuss their plans for the future.
Seb Lauzier introduces interviews and features with Cameron Norrie, Karen Khachanov and Jurgen Melzer, whilst Hubert Hurkacz teams up with fellow Pole, Iga Swiatek, for the latest episode in the Tennis United series.
Interviews by Jill Craybas, Mike Cation and Richard Connelly.
10/31/2021 • 45 minutes, 43 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Gilles Cervara on Daniil Medvedev's ascent to Grand Slam Champion
Jill Craybas speaks to Daniil Medvedev's coach, Gilles Cervara to find out what life has been like since the Russian claimed Grand Slam victory at the US Open.
10/27/2021 • 25 minutes, 35 seconds
PODCAST - Karatsev, Rublev, Sabalenka, Monroe & Chris Clarey
This week Seb Lauzier introduces interviews and features with newly-crowned Moscow champion, Aslan Karatsev, doubles star turned tv presenter, Nicholas Monroe, Andrey Rublev and Aryna Sabalenka, but first, with his book about Roger Federer aptly named 'The Master’ having recently hit the New York Times bestseller list, international sportswriter Chris Clarey sat down with Jill Craybas to talk about it all and to chat about the tennis landscape in 2021 and beyond.
10/24/2021 • 45 minutes, 21 seconds
EXCLUSIVE - Paul Annacone on Fritz, Sampras, Federer & Henman
Jill Craybas interviews Paul Annocone who worked with Pete Sampras, Roger Federer and Tim Henman and is now working alongside coach David Nainkin to help young American, Taylor Fritz
10/20/2021 • 22 minutes, 44 seconds
PODCAST - Norrie Wins First Masters 1000 Title
Seb Lauzier introduces the final edition of the podcast from the Californian desert. Coming up match commentators Gigi Salmon and Miles Maclagan look back on the final between Cameron Norrie and Nikoloz Basilashvili, we hear from the coach of Norrie, Facundo Lagones, plus two other top coaches on tour in David Nainkin and Dante Bottini join Jill Craybas for a chat and in the latest edition of Tennis United, Grigor Dimitrov and Belinda Bencic talk travel tips.
10/18/2021 • 56 minutes, 8 seconds
Hurkacz, Ferriera, Evans, Murray & Mattek-Sands
Former world number six Wayne Ferreira, coach of America’s Frances Tiafoe speaks to reporter Mike Cation, we're back in the Tennis United camp talking doubles with Jamie Murray and Bethanie Mattek-Sands, Dan Evans looks back on 2021 and Jill Craybas interviews the champion of Miami earlier this year Hubert Hurkacz, who's already beaten Australia's Alexei Popyrin in Indian Wells.
10/10/2021 • 49 minutes, 5 seconds
Dean Goldfine, Nakashima, Giron, Auger-Aliassime & Brady
We have a North American feel to things this week as we gear up for life in the desert and Indian Wells in October! Throughout the course of the show we will hear from two Americans both putting together very impressive seasons in Brandon Nakashima and Marcos Giron and we’re also in the Tennis United camp where American WTA star Jennifer Brady joined forces with Canada’s top ranked player Felix Auger-Aliassime to swap coaching tips, but first and on the theme of coaching, Jill Craybas has been spending time with Team Korda. Seb’s parents Petr and Regina are always on hand, that is no mean team in itself, Andre Agassi is on speed dial, but the man looking after the day-to-day with Seb is Dean Goldfine and he’s been speaking with Jill.
We hear from the likes of Felix Auger-Aliassime, Cameron Norrie and Casper Ruud whilst Gael Monfils and Elina Svitolina are the latest duo to take part in the Tennis United: Crosscourt initiative, but first after his exploits at the Laver Cup, American John Isner sat down with the team from ATP Uncovered to talk part in another competition, this time answering questions about his own career.
9/26/2021 • 35 minutes, 11 seconds
Federer, Zverev, Berrettini, Shapovalov, Schwartzman, Thiem and Madison Keys
There’s a Laver Cup theme running throughout this week's show. Over the course of the next half-an-hour-or-so, Brian Clark introduces interviews and features with Team World’s Diego Schwartzman and Denis Shapovalov and Team Europe’s Alexander Zverev and Matteo Berrettini, plus we’ll also catch up with former star of the tournament, Dominic Thiem in conversation with WTA star, Madison Keys, but first of all ATP Uncovered, sat down with Roger Federer to ask him a series of questions that recalled key moments from his career, both on and off court.
9/19/2021 • 35 minutes, 13 seconds
Medvedev Claims US Open Title; Denies Djokovic's Grand Slam Bid
Presenter Brian Clark is joined by US Open Radio's Leif Shiras and Mike Cation to look back over the final Grand Slam of the year and discuss all of the major talking points, including Daniil Medvedev's remarkable victory in the final. In addition, Mixed and Doubles champion Joe Salisbury drops by for a chat.
9/13/2021 • 37 minutes, 47 seconds
BONUS: Joe Salisbury speaking in Cincinnati
Joe Salisbury speaking in Cincinnati
9/10/2021 • 13 minutes, 18 seconds
Halfway Through The 2021 US Open
Brian Clark is joined by fellow US Open Radio commentator Mike Cation to look back over an event-filled first week of the final Grand Slam of the year. As well as plenty of talking points, we also hear from American tennis player, Frances Tiafoe and rising South African star, Lloyd Harris.
9/6/2021 • 42 minutes, 46 seconds
Halfway Through The 2021 US Open
Brian Clark is joined by fellow US Open Radio commentator Mike Cation to look back over an event-filled first week of the final Grand Slam of the year. As well as plenty of talking points, we also hear from American tennis player, Frances Tiafoe and rising South African star, Lloyd Harris.
9/6/2021 • 42 minutes, 46 seconds
2021 US Open Preview
Recorded as qualifying was coming to an end, US Open Radio commentator Brian Clark sat down with former player, Jill Craybas to preview the 2021 US Open. Along the way they make their tournament picks, ruminate on who will be the breakthrough star and discuss whether Novak Djokovic can complete an historic calendar slam. As well as the discussion, we also hear interviews with Aslan Karatsev and American players Reilly Opelka and Sebastien Korda, courtesy of reporters Paul King and Mike Cation.
8/28/2021 • 48 minutes, 23 seconds
Zverev Storms To Cincinnati Crown
Brian Clark hosts this week's podcast from the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati where we hear from doubles finalist Austin Krajicek, who teamed up with fellow American, Steve Johnson, Casper Ruud tells us how he was able to win ATP titles in three consecutive weeks and match commentators Chris Bowers and Lucie Ahl look back on the final and the rest of the action from throughout the week.
8/23/2021 • 43 minutes, 33 seconds
It's A Fourth Masters 1000 Title For Medvedev
Brian Clark presents another packed show as we hear from young American player Taylor Fritz and the Assistant Tournament Director of the upcoming Masters 1000 event in Cincinnati, Eric Butorac, but first, with the National Bank Open presented by Rogers having reached it’s conclusion with a final between Daniil Medvedev and Reilly Opelka, Brian gets the view of match commentators Joe Shennan and Miles Maclagan.
8/16/2021 • 40 minutes, 36 seconds
Shiras, Sinner, Kyrgios, Nishikori & Blake
Recorded before the final at the Citi Open in Washington, commentator Brian Clark is joined by former player and regular Tennis Channel contributor, Leif Shiras, to look back over events in the US capital and ahead to the National Bank Open, presented by Rogers in Toronto.
Along the way we hear from the likes of Washington finalist Jannik Sinner, Tokyo Olympic hero, Kei Nishikori and former Citi Open winner, Nick Kyrgios, whilst Miami Open Tournament Director James Blake gives his perspective of what it's like to run a Masters 1000 event in a pandemic.
8/8/2021 • 42 minutes, 6 seconds
Olympics Review, Patrick McEnroe & Brad Gilbert
Chris Bowers is joined by former Olympian, Jill Craybas to discuss events in Tokyo and to also look ahead to the upcoming tournaments in Washington, Toronto and Cincinnati. We also hear from former players Patrick McEnroe, who spent seven years shaping the US Tennis Association and from Brad Gilbert who’s book ‘Winning Ugly’ is now 28 years old, but as Brad explains, still as relevant as ever.
8/1/2021 • 49 minutes, 33 seconds
Olympics Special
With the Olympics in Tokyo officially underway, we turn our attention to the tennis event and discuss who’s in the running for Gold, Silver and Bronze. We also hear from a man with two Gold Medals, Chile’s Nicolas Massu and from young player Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, who takes his place in the Spanish team, but we start by getting the perspective of freelance tennis journalist, Reem Abulleil who’s a columnist for UAE’s ’The National’ newspaper during the Olympics, along with her work for Saudi Arabia’s Arab News. Programme is presented by Seb Lauzier.
7/23/2021 • 31 minutes, 50 seconds
Djokovic, Murray, Stich & Smith
We hear from man of the moment Novak Djokovic, the man he’s now trying to emulate by becoming Olympic champion, that’s Andy Murray and we also have an embarrassment of tennis legends including Stan Smith and Michael Stich.
7/18/2021 • 33 minutes, 33 seconds
2021 WimbleDONE
Chris Bowers is joined by New York Times tennis correspondent, Christopher Clarey to look back over the past two weeks at Wimbledon. They talk Novak Djokovic’s charge to glory as well as looking at what's next for Roger Federer and Andy Murray and talk about some of the younger players who’ve made their mark. We also hear from leading Serbian journalist and commentator, Nebojsa Viskovic and look back 50 years when American player Stan Smith lost a Wimbledon final, before winning one a year later.
7/11/2021 • 32 minutes, 55 seconds
Halfway Through Wimbledon 2021
This week Chris Bowers is joined by former player Jill Craybas who’s working for the the Wimbledon Radio Channel, to look back over the first week of the Championships and ahead to week 2. Along the way we also hear from Swiss tennis journalist Rene Stauffer, author of 'Roger Federer the Biography’, Indian doubles player, Rohan Bopanna, the Canadian who beat Andy Murray in the third round, Denis Shapovalov and one of the great entertainers of the sport, former player Luke Jensen, who give his views on a number of topics.
7/4/2021 • 51 minutes, 12 seconds
2021 Wimbledon Preview
Chris Bowers looks ahead to Wimbledon in the company of doubles player, Joe Salisbury. There's also interviews and features with Andy Murray, Daniil Medvedev, Seb Korda and Alex De Minaur, plus Frances Tiafoe's coach, Wayne Ferreira talks about the young American's development and ahead of his match against Novak Djokovic, LTA Consultant Coach, James Trottman speaks about working with young British player, Jack Draper.
6/26/2021 • 35 minutes, 36 seconds
Reaction to Queens and Halle
Seb Lauzier introduces reaction and exclusive content from the two ATP 500 events taking place at the Queens Club in London and Halle, Germany. We hear from Queens Champion, Matteo Berrettini, British players Andy Murray and Jack Draper, young Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, Roger Federer and an American whose got a love for grass courts, Maxime Cressy.
6/20/2021 • 37 minutes, 55 seconds
2021 Roland Garros Review
It’s a bumper edition of the podcast this week as Chris Bowers is joined by 17-time Grand Slam Champion Mark Woodforde to look back on all the talking points from the past fortnight in Paris and by former world number 4 and Roland Garros semi-finalist, Sébastien Grosjean who speaks about the lack of French players making it into the second week of the tournament. We also head to ATP 500 events in Queens, where we hear from the LTA’s Director of Digital and Major Events, Chris Pollard and Halle where Roger Federer tells us how he still believes he can win big events.
6/13/2021 • 41 minutes, 40 seconds
Halfway Through Roland Garros 2021
Radio Roland Garros commentators Chris Bowers and Eleanor Preston look back on events on-and-off the court during the first week of Roland Garros and ahead to the second week of action, plus we get the views of former World Number 1, Jim Courier with regard to the importance on having a symbiotic player and media relationship.
6/6/2021 • 40 minutes, 5 seconds
2021 Roland Garros Preview
Radio Roland Garros and ATP Tennis Radio commentator Gigi Salmon is joined by Canadian tennis journalist Stephanie Myles to look over the Roland Garros draw and discuss the major talking points heading into the second Grand Slam of the year. During the course of the programme we also hear from World Number 2, Daniil Medvedev, the legend that is Roger Federer answers fans questions, courtesy of ATP Uncovered and our man Chris Bowers catches up with Christian Ruud, coach and father of Casper, who’s been in great form throughout the clay season.
5/29/2021 • 51 minutes, 40 seconds
Federer, Thiem, Andujar, Koepfer & Daniell
This week we bring you two Dominics, Thiem and Koepfer, Doubles star Marcus Daniell teaches us about Effective Altruism, recent giant-killing Spaniard Pablo Andujar talks about making multiple comebacks from injury, but we start with a re-edited version of an interview with Roger Federer that was initially recorded in Doha.
5/23/2021 • 38 minutes, 10 seconds
Eternal Duo Light Up Eternal City
It is another Italian job for Rafal Nadal title number 10 in Rome for the king of clay. It was always going to happen, finally the Big 3 have struck back after four straight Masters 1000 titles won by the 25-and-unders, dating back to Daniil Medvedev’s title in Paris last year. Since then Hubert Hurkacz has won in Miami, Stefanos Tsitsipas in Monte Carlo and, most recently Sascha Zverev took the spoils in Madrid just last week but this was a week and a final for the historians, for the purists, for the statisticians. Nadal and Djokovic have faced off in all four Grand Slam finas, five times at the Nitto ATP Finals, at nine different ATP Masters, at the ATP Cup, the Davis Cup and the Olympics, but nowhere have these two giants of the game met more often than at the Foro Italico. Today was their ninth meeting in Rome and their sixth final and we bring you all the reaction.
What a week it’s been in Italy’s capital. We also hear from Tournament Director Sergio Palmieri, the world’s number two Italian, 19 year old Jannik Sinner, Italian commentator Diego Nargisso and our very own ATP Tennis Radio commentators, Chris Bowers and Andy Murray's former coach, Miles Maclagan.
5/16/2021 • 38 minutes, 24 seconds
Zverev Wins Second Madrid Title
What a week it has been here in Madrid, upwards of 5000 fans every day in the Caja Magica, that’s felt special in itself, not that they got everything they wanted with Rafa Nadal, the greatest there’s ever been on clay beaten in his own house, outgunned at altitude on a court where the big hitters continue to shine. Two of them in the top 10 making it through to the final, with Alexander Zverev beating Italy's Matteo Berrettini and over the course of this podcast we'll hear from Zverev, get the reaction from the ATP Tennis Radio commentary booth, speak to Spanish great, Alberto Berasategui and look ahead to Rome with the Technical Director of the Italian Federation, Filippo Volandri.
5/9/2021 • 45 minutes, 29 seconds
2021 Mutua Madrid Open Preview
It's another packed ATP Podcast, this time from Spain’s capital Madrid ahead of the Mutua Madrid Open and after the disappointments of 2020 we have tennis, we have fans and we have Rafael Nadal as tournament favourite. We’ll hear from Rafa very soon plus a number of his main challengers, but first we speak to Tournament Director Feliciano Lopez, delighted simply to have tennis being played at all.
5/2/2021 • 36 minutes, 1 second
Twelve Barcelona Titles For Rafael Nadal
We hear from the king of clay Rafael Nadal and the man with more tour wins so far this year than anyone else, Stefanos Tsitsipas. Andy Murray looks back on the past 12 months, we have teen sensations Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, there’s also Denis Shapovalov on hitting the clay, Diego Schwartzman on perhaps his sweetest success yet and we’re with one of the top coaches on tour, Dante Bottini.
4/25/2021 • 36 minutes, 51 seconds
2021 Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters Review
Seb Lauzier looks back on events in Monte-Carlo with the help of ATP Tennis Radio commentators Gigi Salmon and Miles Maclagan. In addition to the discussion, we also hear from the champion, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Fernando Vicente, coach of runner-up Andrey Rublev. There's also an exclusive interview with ATP Chairman Andrea Gaudenzi who sat down in Monte-Carlo to address all of the issues facing the tour at the moment.
4/18/2021 • 36 minutes, 6 seconds
2021 Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters Preview
We've got two Nadal's for the price of one on this week's podcast as Rafa talks about getting going again on Clay, whilst Uncle Toni joins us to talk about his new coaching relationship with young Canadian, Felix Auger-Aliassime.
We also hear from recent Miami Masters champion, Hubert Hurkacz and runner-up at that event, Jannik Sinner, plus David Goffin's new coach, Germain Gigounon joins Paul King for an extended chat and we also hear how Australian Jordan Thompson challenges himself to get better on the red stuff.
4/11/2021 • 38 minutes, 26 seconds
Pole Position: Hubi Claims First Masters 1000 Title
Seb Lauzier presents the final podcast from Miami, a tournament in which Hubert Hurkacz of Poland claimed his maiden Masters 1000 title and a first title at that level for a Polish player. During the course of the podcast we hear from Hurkacz, alongside his coach, Craig Boynton and we also get the views of Jannik Sinner's coach, Riccardo Piatti, hear from Tournament Director, James Blake and speak to another in form youngster in America's Seb Korda.
4/4/2021 • 33 minutes, 24 seconds
Halfway through the 2021 Miami Open
We look back on events from week 1 of the Miami Open presented by Itaú and hear from Frances Tiafoe's coach, Wayne Ferreira, Frédéric Fontang, coach of Felix Auger-Aliassime and young American players Mackenzie McDonald and Ernesto Escobedo. With tennis players mental health being front and centre of mind, we also speak to Todd Ellenbecker, the ATP's Vice President for Medical Services.
3/28/2021 • 43 minutes, 44 seconds
James Blake looks ahead to the Miami Open
This week's programme comes from Miami and is hosted by presenter Seb Lauzier. As well as setting the scene on the ground, Seb also speaks to Tournament Director James Blake about what’s it’s taken to put this event on and to young American player Michael Mmoh who, along with Andy Murray, is one of the wildcard choices for the 2021 edition.
Before hearing from Blake and Mmoh, we also round up events from the ATP 500 events in both Dubai and Acapulco and hear from Aslan Karatsev, Lloyd Harris, Denis Shapovalov, Jannik Sinner, Alexander Zverev, Lorenzo Musetti and Carlos Alcaraz.
3/21/2021 • 37 minutes, 13 seconds
311 Weeks And Counting For Novak Djokovic
As Novak Djokovic reaches a milestone most weeks at number 1 in the FedEx ATP Rankings, we look back over the Serb's career, from his first ATP title and Grand Slam victories, to the Career Golden Career and his thoughts on what being world number 1 means to him.
In a packed show we also get some more reflection, a year on from the tour being halted due to the Covid pandemic. Italian Fabio Fognini talks about catching the virus and dealing with a young family in lockdown, whilst Australian Matt Ebden talks about the difficulties of international travel and quarantine.
3/14/2021 • 27 minutes, 39 seconds
Rublev Reigns In Rotterdam
We talk to Rotterdam champion Andrey Rublev, speak to fellow Russian, Daniil Medvedev after his exploits in Australia, hear from Andy Murray and Felix Auger-Aliassime and we also look back on Novak Djokovic's journey to nine Australian Open Grand Slam titles and hear about the amazing journey of doubles player Filip Polasek, from career-threatening injury, to Australian Open Champion.
3/7/2021 • 33 minutes, 42 seconds
Focus On Mental Health
This week's podcast focusses on the subject of mental health in tennis. During the Australian Open, ATP Tennis Radio commentator Chris Bowers was fortunate enough to sit down with Australian tennis player Thanasi Kokkinakis, who opened up about the mental health issues that he's gone through as a result of time away from the game due to injury and illness. We hear that extended chat and then Chris and fellow commentator, Peter Marcato discuss some of the points raised in the discussion.
Later on in the programme we also air a recent feature from the ATP Uncovered show which focussed on Swedish tennis player Robin Soderling's own battles with mental health. The feature, which was which originally was broadcast as part of the ATP and WTA series, Tennis United, gave presenters Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Vasek Pospisil the opportunity to delve further into the subject.
Peter and Chris also mention the efforts that the ATP have made to help support players who may be struggling with aspects of mental health, by linking up with both the Sporting Chance organisation and Headspace.
With Sporting Chance, players have access to their 24/7 hotline through phone, text or email and following the initial outreach, are referred to Sporting Chance’s network of therapists, all experienced at working with elite sportspeople (including the Premier League, the Professional Crickets’ Association and the Football Association) who provide virtual appointments for the players.
Headspace gives members access to Headspace’s Plus subscription. There is no cost for either of these services to ATP members.
Finally, this conversation is meant as an open discussion about the various issues surrounding players health and wellbeing, but the views stated in the programme are those of the presenters, who are independent contractors and not necessarily those of the ATP.
2/28/2021 • 31 minutes, 58 seconds
2021 Australian Open Review
Commentators Peter Marcato and Chris Bowers look back on Novak Djokovic's ninth title at the Australian Open and discuss what the likes of Daniil Medvedev can do to close the gap on Djokovic, Nadal and Federer. They also talk about Ivan Dodig and Filip Polasek capturing the Australian Open doubles crown and round-up all of the various talking points from the past two weeks.
2/21/2021 • 36 minutes, 26 seconds
Halfway Through The 2021 Australian Open
AO Radio commentators Peter Marcato and Chris Bowers look back on all of the talking points from week one of the first Grand Slam of the year and ahead to who's likely to appear in next weekend's singles and doubles finals. We also bring you a feature with Australian number one player, Alex De Minaur, who reflects on life in lockdown.
2/15/2021 • 28 minutes, 10 seconds
2021 Australian Open Preview
Recorded after the conclusion of the ATP Cup, but before the finals of the two ATP 250 events, commentators Peter Marcato and Chris Bowers look through the Australian Open draw and discuss the various talking points. They also introduce an exclusive interview with Tennis Australia CEO and Tournament Director of the Australian Open, Craig Tiley and an ATP Uncovered feature with the retired Bryan Brothers discussing which doubles teams to look out for in 2021.
2/7/2021 • 43 minutes, 23 seconds
2021 ATP Cup Preview
Lleyton Hewitt, Mischa Zverev and ATP Cup Managing Director Ross Hutchins feature in this ATP Cup Preview special hosted by commentator Peter Marcato who's joined by fellow broadcasters Chris Bowers and Jill Craybas for analysis and discussion.
1/31/2021 • 44 minutes, 14 seconds
Taro Daniel Talks About Life In Quarantine
Japanese player Taro Daniel joins ATP Tennis Radio commentators Peter Marcato and Chris Bowers to talk about the 14 days of quarantine he's having to go through ahead of playing in the Australian Open. As well as speaking to Taro, the duo also discuss all of the various talking points surrounding the first Grand Slam of the year. There's also reaction to the ATP Cup draw with Todd Woodbridge, Mark Petchey and Jim Courier, courtesy of the ATP Cup social channels.
1/23/2021 • 46 minutes, 39 seconds
2021 Predictions
Commentators Gigi Salmon, Peter Marcato, Chris Bowers and Brian Clark get together to look ahead to the Australian summer of action and to go through their predictions for the year.
At the beginning of every year the commentators discuss a number of questions including who will be year-end singles and doubles number ones, breakthrough player, Grand Slam champions, NextGen winner and which eight singles players will make the Nitto ATP Finals. When they've finished discussing and debating the relative merits of their picks and the extended ATP Tennis Radio teams' predictions, they then file the predictions away into a time-capsule box which is then re-opened at the Nitto ATP Finals at the end of the year, to discover who go the most predictions correct.
1/17/2021 • 57 minutes, 18 seconds
Medvedev, Vajda, Massu, Krawietz & Melo
We're with the man who claimed victory at the Nitto ATP Finals in November last November, Daniil Medvedev, two of the very best coaches on the ATP Tour, Novak Djokovic's long-time mentor, Marian Vajda and the man working very closely with Dominic Thiem, Nicolas Massu and we also turn our attention to doubles and two of the very best in the business, Grand Slam winners Kevin Krawietz and Marcelo Melo.
1/10/2021 • 38 minutes, 1 second
Federer, Borg, Henman, Bryans & Fleming
Legends all around on this week's ATP Tennis Radio podcast as Tim Henman speaks to arguably two of the greatest ever singles players to have played the game in Bjorn Borg and Roger Federer, whilst one-half of the great Fleming/McEnroe team, Peter Fleming, swaps doubles notes with the Bryan Brothers.
1/3/2021 • 29 minutes, 28 seconds
2020 Time Capsule Predictions & Answers Revealed
At the beginning of 2020 the ATP Tennis Radio commentators and reporters answered a series of questions such as: who will be the year-end singles player? who will be the breakthrough player of the year? which eight singles players and doubles teams will qualify for the Nitto ATP Finals? who will win the Grand Slam competitions?. The answers were then sealed in a box and only opened at the year-end finals. In this episode of the podcast, Gigi Salmon, Barry Cowan, Miles Maclagan and Chris Bowers go through all the answers and announce which member of the commentary team got the most questions correct. TV commentator Arvind Parmar claimed the 2018 and 2019 editions.
12/27/2020 • 29 minutes, 59 seconds
2020 Festive Quiz
In what's become an annual event, ATP Tennis Radio commentator, Chris Bowers, hosts a quiz involving two teams made up of commentators from the ATP Tennis Radio roster. On Team Peers it's Australian commentator, Peter Marcato, Americans Brian Clark and Jill Craybas and the former coach of Andy Murray, Miles Maclagan, whilst on Team Venus it's commentator Gigi Salmon, former players Barry Cowan and Lucie Ahl and roving reporter, Seb Lauzier.
The teams compete over five rounds including General Knowledge, Numbers Round, Guess the Commentary Clips, What Links and Tennis in 2020.
12/20/2020 • 53 minutes, 59 seconds
Ultimate Player Part 2
Part 2 of a special programme in which host Gigi Salmon is joined by former pros, Miles Maclagan and Barry Cowan and tennis commentator and journalist, Chris Bowers to piece together the ATP Tennis Radio Ultimate Player.
After last week's programme focussed on the Serve, Forehand, Topspin Backhand and Slice Backhand, this week it's the turn of the Volley, Return, Movement and Mindset and after the discussion and debate, the aim was to select one player for each category to create the Ultimate Player. To give a helping hand, we put these questions to Liam Smith, coach of ATP Player Gael Monfils and started with the Serve.
12/13/2020 • 41 minutes, 56 seconds
Ultimate Player Part 1
Part 1 of a special programme in which host Gigi Salmon is joined by former pros, Miles Maclagan and Barry Cowan and tennis commentator and journalist, Chris Bowers to piece together the ATP Tennis Radio Ultimate Player.
The criteria, eight categories - Serve, Forehand, Topspin Backhand, Slice Backhand, Volley, Return, Movement and Mindset and after the discussion and debate, the aim was to select one player for each category to create the Ultimate Player. To give a helping hand, we put these questions to Liam Smith, coach of ATP Player Gael Monfils and started with the Serve.
12/6/2020 • 31 minutes, 4 seconds
Medvedev, Davydenko, Lendl, Schwartzman & Melzer
One week on from the last Nitto ATP Finals in London we bring you some of our favourite moments and chats from eight days of live broadcast at the O2.
We hear from Ivan Lendl, Diego Schwartzman, Jürgen Melzer and Nikolay Davydenko, the very first winner in London, but we start with the team who claimed the final title in London, Daniil Medvedev and his coach, Gilles Cervara.
11/29/2020 • 39 minutes, 21 seconds
Medvedev's Giant-Killing Run To The 2020 Nitto ATP Finals Title
Gigi Salmon and Miles Maclagan round up events from the 2020 Nitto ATP Finals where Daniil Medvedev completed his giant-killing run to the title, beating Dominic Thiem in a pulsating final. Also, as part of an ongoing series celebrating the 50th Anniversary Year of the season-ending finals, we bring you an exclusive interview that Chris Bowers conducted with 1993 ATP Finals Champion, Michael Stich, which covers everything from ATP Finals history, to his views on the modern player and the work he does with his foundation.
11/22/2020 • 50 minutes, 11 seconds
Nitto ATP Finals Preview - Stan Smith Special
It's been known as the Masters, the ATP World Tour Championships, the ATP World Tour Finals and now the Nitto ATP Finals, but while the title may have changed over the years, one thing that's remained constant is that it's provided the stage for the very best players in the world to battle each other for the ultimate in bragging rights and on the eve of the final staging of the event in London, in it's 50th Anniversary year, Chris Bowers spoke with the man who won the very first year-end title, American Stan Smith.
11/14/2020 • 43 minutes, 35 seconds
Daniil Digs Deep In Paris
Gigi Salmon and Miles Maclagan look back on events in Paris where Russian Daniil Medvedev claimed his third Masters 1000 title. We also find out about Finnish player, Emil Ruusuvuori and look at how tennis is developing in Italy.
11/8/2020 • 36 minutes, 30 seconds
A French Flavour Ahead Of The Rolex Paris Masters
In the build-up to the Rolex Paris Masters, the final ATP Masters 1000 of the year, we are joined by the coach of France’s top-ranked player, the mercurial Gael Monfils who’s called time on his season. We’re also with Monsieur Goffin and Mademoiselle Mertens as they went head-to-head for Belgian bragging rights and we’re with two of France’s brightest prospects, the multi-talented Corentin Moutet, who’s been hitting all the right notes recently on and off the court and the champion of Antwerp last week who’s scaling new and dizzy and heights this year, Ugo Humbert.
10/31/2020 • 33 minutes, 36 seconds
Matt Little - Strength and Conditioning Coach at Team Murray
Andy Murray's Strength and Conditioning coach Matt Little joins presenter Seb Lauzier and Murray's former coach Miles Maclagan to discuss the exertions of match action and how athletes can better prepare their body for the intensity of competition, by looking at what they are doing in training and assessing if it's the most appropriate preparation. Along the way they answer questions such as 'why do players need to change the way they train?', ‘Is tennis lagging behind other sports in using data to inform best practices?', 'Is data analysis the be-all-and-end-all?' and 'what will tennis look like going forward?’.
10/25/2020 • 52 minutes, 22 seconds
Rublev, Zverev, Krawietz & Mies, Murray & Skupski
We hear from two recent tournament winners. Russia's Andrey Rublev discusses his latest title on home turf in St Petersburg whilst Cologne winner Alexander Zverev gets competitive away from the court as he goes head-to-head in a quiz with the NBA's Dirk Nowitzki. We also turn our attention to the doubles game and hear from Roland Garros champions, Kevin Krawietz and Andres Mies and Jamie Murray and Neal Skupski speak about how they've been getting on since tennis returned.
10/18/2020 • 29 minutes, 53 seconds
20-20 Vision: Rafa Equals Roger's Record Majors Haul
Chris Bowers is joined by former French player, Sophie Amiach to look back over the past fortnight at Roland Garros and to marvel at Rafael Nadal's dominant performance over Novak Djokovic in the final. As well as discussion, we also bring you an exclusive chat between Tim Henman and Pete Sampras, focussing on the difficulties of playing on clay.
10/11/2020 • 37 minutes, 29 seconds
Halfway Through Roland Garros 2020
Former player turned media star Daniela Hantuchova and broadcaster extraordinaire Marcus Buckland join ATP Tennis Radio and Radio Roland Garros commentator Gigi Salmon, to look back on events both on and off the court after the first week of Roland Garros.
10/3/2020 • 46 minutes, 40 seconds
2020 Roland Garros Preview
Gigi Salmon is joined by tennis expert, journalist and Radio Roland Garros commentator, Eleanor Preston to look over the Roland Garros draw and discuss the big issues heading into the third and final Grand Slam of a very different year.
9/26/2020 • 50 minutes, 18 seconds
Djokovic Makes More Masters History
Chris Bowers and Claire Curran look back on events at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia where Novak Djokovic claimed a 36th Masters crown in total. Over the course of the programme the ATP Tennis Radio discuss Djokovic's latest result and what it all means ahead of the final Grand Slam of the year at Roland Garros.
9/21/2020 • 44 minutes, 1 second
US Open Review with Mark Woodforde & Leif Shiras
US Open Radio commentator Brian Clark is joined by three-time US Open doubles champion, Mark Woodforde and former world number 31, Leif Shiras to look back on the final between Alexander Zverev and Dominic Thiem and to discuss the storylines from the past fortnight.
9/14/2020 • 20 minutes, 56 seconds
Halfway Through The 2020 US Open
US Open Radio commentator, Brian Clark is joined by former world number 5 and US Open semi-finalist, Jimmy Arias to look back over the action from the first week of action. Along the way they discuss life in the bubble and how this event differs from past editions, plus they talk about the players that have impressed throughout the first six days.
9/6/2020 • 26 minutes, 54 seconds
US Open 2020 Preview From Inside The Bubble
The week US Open Radio commentator Brian Clark previews the US Open and introduces a special interview with American player, Tennys Sandgren who describes what it's like to be living in the US Open bubble as well as talks about what it's like to face Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer in big match-ups.
8/30/2020 • 23 minutes, 41 seconds
Bryan Brothers Special
Ahead of the US Open, ATP Tennis Radio presenters Gigi Salmon and Naomi Cavaday spoke about the Bryan Brothers decision to retire. In this special podcast, we also bring you a chat that reporter Seb Lauzier conducted with the Bryans father, Wayne, in the 2018 Cincinnati Masters event.
8/28/2020 • 17 minutes, 44 seconds
Matteo Berrettini on the US Swing
In the build up to the US Open and before that, the Western & Southern Open, also being played in New York, we spoke with world number Matteo Berrettini. Matteo was battling an injury and only played two matches this year before lockdown, but he’s back, fit and raring to go.
8/23/2020 • 25 minutes, 45 seconds
Vasek Pospisil on life on and off court
Vasek Pospisil joins us to talk about the tour getting back underway, his new job during lockdown co-presenting the ATP/WTA Tennis United show alongside Bethanie Mattek-Sands, his other role on the ATP Player Council and a new revolutionary business venture he’s also been getting off the ground.
8/16/2020 • 41 minutes, 10 seconds
The Revised Tour And News Of ATP Tennis Radio Ball-By-Ball Commentary
ATP Tennis Radio commentators Jill Craybas, who’s currently in Missouri USA, Naomi Cavaday in London and Peter Marcato, locked down in Melbourne, Australia, join us to discuss the return of the tour and to look ahead to our live ball-by-ball radio coverage, starting with the Western & Southern Open, usually in Cincinnati, but this year, part of the US Open bubble.
8/9/2020 • 45 minutes, 22 seconds
Eastern European Special featuring Safin, Kafelnikov, Youzhny, Djokovic & Kecmanovic
It’s a decidedly Eastern European flavour to this week’s ATP Tennis Radio Podcast with tennis greats Marat Safin, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Mikhail Youzhny and Novak Djokovic starring, plus we hear from a former Russian now playing under the flag of Kazakhstan, Mikhail Kukushkin and we speak to Serbian youngster Miomir Kecmanovic who’s been spending lockdown training at the IMG Academy in Florida. Finally, we bring you an in-depth chat with another young player training at IMG and also concerning himself with the social issues surrounding the Black Lives Matter campaign, American Michael Mmoh.
8/2/2020 • 32 minutes, 48 seconds
Neville Godwin on coaching Hyeon Chung
Hailing from South Africa, sometimes to be found in South Korea, Neville Godwin joined us to talk about coaching one of the most promising players on tour, Hyeon Chung. In this wide-ranging chat we touched on his coaching philosophy, his time previously with fellow South African Kevin Anderson, Chung’s biggest achievements so far, including a Grand Slam semi-final and his time out through injury.
7/26/2020 • 33 minutes, 46 seconds
Magnus Norman on Stan Wawrinka and the ATP Coach Programme
Former World Number 2 and French Open finalist, Magnus Norman joins us for a chat. Magnus is also now the coach of Stan Wawrinka and we spoke all about Stan and the Grand Slam successes he’s had while they’ve been together, their relationship on and off the court and the Magnus Norman coaching philosophy, but we started with round 2 of the ATP Coaches Programme, basically an incredible auction of promises raising funds for fellow coaches struggling during the pandemic, and one of the lots up for grabs is a session with Magnus himself.
7/19/2020 • 39 minutes, 7 seconds
Kevin Anderson on Wimbledon 2018, Injury and the ATP Player Council
We're joined by a man with 6 ATP tour titles to his name and two tantalising Grand Slam finals. He’s reached a career-high world number 5, from South Africa now at home in the United States, this is of course, Kevin Anderson. Kevin joined us on the line and we touched on all of that and more, including an injury-plagued 18 months or so and to start with, whether lock down had at least given him a little more time to recover.
7/12/2020 • 30 minutes, 5 seconds
Milos Raonic on Wimbledon, the return of the tour and much more
Milos Raonic speak to ATP Tennis Radio presenter Seb Lauzier about a number of topics including returning to competitive play in August, getting the balance between fitness and tennis practice right during lockdown, his early life and moving to Canada, his breakthrough year in 2011, his Wimbledon final in 2016, reaching a career-high number 3 in the rankings and his future goals.
7/5/2020 • 45 minutes, 37 seconds
Will 2020's Form Players Pick Up Where They Left Off When The Tour Resumes?
We focus on some of the stars of NextGen tennis - past, present and possibly future - all set for big things once the action gets back underway in August.
The first of the grand slams we have to look forward to is the US Open and we feature a young Russian who made the quarter finals as a teenager at Flushing Meadows. Back from his recent injury problems, Andrey Rublev was on the tear with two titles already this year before the Coronavirus halted his progress to a career-high 14th in the FedEx ATP Rankings.
With three titles last year and a semi-final at the first ATP Cup in Australia, we put 21-year-old Alex De Minaur under the spotlight.
Like Alex De Minaur, Denis Shapovalov started the year at the ATP Cup in Australia, before moving onto Auckland, the Australian Open, Montpellier, Rotterdam and then his final tournament before the break, a quarter-final appearance in Marseille. Maybe the packed schedule is down to a new coach, known in his playing days as workhorse. We hear from both Shapovalov and Mikhail Youzhny.
Jumping across to hear what social media show Tennis United has been up to, we bring you their chat with two-time Grand Slam Champion Naomi Osaka and the reigning Nitto ATP Finals champion, young Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas.
Finally, we take a detailed look at the stunning backhand of young Italian, Jannick Sinner, courtesy of Infosys and drop down to the Challenger Tour to find out a little bit more about hot prospects, Brazilian Thiago Seyboth Wild and Austrian, Jurij Rodionov.
6/28/2020 • 38 minutes, 37 seconds
Marin Cilic US Open memories and more
Former US Open Champion Marin Cilic joins Seb Lauzier to look back over his career highs and lows as well as discussing the work he's been doing with his foundation during lockdown. They speak about getting into tennis at an early age, memories of his first tour win and title, winning the US Open and reaching the finals of Wimbledon and the US Open, plus his other career highs including two Queens titles, his first Masters 1000 victory in Cincinnati, reaching the Tour Finals on multiple occasions and claiming victory in the Davis Cup. He also talks about working with Goran Ivanisevic, Jonas Bjorkman, Ivan Cinkus and Wayne Ferreira and how current coach Vedran Martic might look to curb the amount of times he bounces the ball before serving. We also get a glimpse into what life feels like at home with a newborn and how Marin sees the remainder of his career and what he wants to do in the future.
6/21/2020 • 39 minutes, 45 seconds
Dani Vallverdu on what he's learnt coaching the world's best players
The current coach of Stan Wawrinka and Karolina Pliskova talks about a number of subjects, including working with his current charges, coaching the likes of Andy Murray and Grigor Dimitrov and what's he's learnt from fellow coaches Magnus Norman and Ivan Lendl. He also talks about the best and worst advice he's ever given a player, growing up with Andy Murray at the Sanchez-Casal Academy, life away from tennis and his hopes for the future of the game.
6/14/2020 • 39 minutes, 45 seconds
Dominic Thiem on his rivals, greatest achievements and development
World Number 3 Dominic Thiem on his biggest achievements, the best tennis he’s ever played, who he considers his biggest rivals, growing up in Austria, developing his game and the player he’s become today under the guidance of Nicolas Massu.
6/7/2020 • 31 minutes, 30 seconds
Murray & Rashford compare sports, plus Felix Auger-Aliassime, Benoit Paire, Gael Monfils & more
At what would have been the halfway stage of Roland Garros we’re with two of France’s senior statesman and most mercurial talents in Gael Monfils and Benoit Paire, as well as two of their brightest prospects in Ugo Humbert and Corentin Moutet.
We also hear from talented Canadian, Felix Auger Aliassime and Andy Murray compares notes with Manchester United and England’s Marcus Rashford, courtesy of ATP Uncovered.
5/31/2020 • 35 minutes, 51 seconds
Juan Carlos Ferrero Part 2 - On His Career Highs And Lows
In part two of our exclusive chat with the one and only Juan Carlos Ferrero we re-join that chat just at the point where Seb Lauzier asks Juan Carlos about his own career – a career that took him to world number 1 via a Grand slam title and a few big losses in major finals along the way as well. It’s a fascinating insight from a former champion of Roland Garros and, as such, we started with what he made of the biggest clay court event of them all being moved this year to late September.
5/24/2020 • 25 minutes, 40 seconds
Juan Carlos Ferrero Part 1 - Coaching Carlos Alcaraz
Our special guest this week merited a special show because he is modern day great, a World Number 1 since the turn of the millennium, who these days can be found mostly at his own academy and on tour, guiding the fortunes of Spanish youngster Carlos Alcaraz.
In a wide-ranging chat with Juan Carlos Ferrero over the line, he was extremely generous with his time and In part two of our chat, coming soon as a separate podcast, we spoke about his own career, memories, rivals, even regrets. that’s all to come.
In this Part 1 we hear all about the young man he’s coaching whose game and temperament have already won comparisons with Rafa Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer.
5/23/2020 • 21 minutes, 33 seconds
Philipp Kohlschreiber, Jannick Sinner & Martin Stepanek on coaching Borna Coric
An incredibly honest chat with Martin Stepanek, coach of Borna Coric, which touched on working with one of the game’s finest young players who perhaps lost his way a bit form and fitness wise last year. We also hear from two men at opposite ends of the age spectrum - 18-year-old Italian Next Gen Champion Jannick Sinner and German veteran, he of the wonderful rolling single-hander, Philipp Kohlschreiber.
5/17/2020 • 39 minutes, 14 seconds
Gael Monfils' coach Liam Smith on tips for improving your game
We get the lowdown on a top 10 player, from one of the leading coaches on tour Liam Smith. Liam joined us to talk about many things including developing a top 10 player, setting goals, working with men and women and with his new online coaching platform recently launched, we also talked confidence, focus, technique and tactics.
5/10/2020 • 34 minutes, 8 seconds
Aisam-al-Haq Qureshi on delivering food to thousands of families in Pakistan
Two-time Arthur Ashe Humanitarian of the Year winner Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi will not allow Pakistan's daily workers to be forgotten during this pandemic. Through his foundation Stop War Start Tennis, Qureshi committed to financially supporting ration bags for thousands of families that have been unable to work and earn their daily sustenance. Each ration bag consists of flour, rice, oil, grains, tea, milk and sanitary products, and can feed a family of five. As we hear in this interview, Qureshi got out in the field himself, making deliveries to those families.
5/6/2020 • 25 minutes, 24 seconds
Freddie Rosengren on coaching Karen Khachanov
Swede, Freddie Rosengren has coached some of the game’s greats including his countrymen Magnus Norman, Jonas Bjorkman and Robin Soderling, but he’s recently turned his attention to 23-year-old Russian Karen Khachnov who breached the world’s top 10 for the first time in 2019. In this extended chat, we spoke about that new coaching relationship, life on tour, what he’s learnt over the years and how he’s coping in these strange times of lockdown.
5/3/2020 • 36 minutes, 59 seconds
Sam Querrey, Vasek Pospisil & Tennys Sandgren
Sam Querrey joins us to talk about the cancellation of some of his favourite tournaments including Indian Wells, Miami and Wimbledon, how he’s keeping one of the game’s great serves ticking over in these times of lockdown, his work on the ATP Player Council and most importantly about life as a new dad.
We also hear from two players who started the year in great form: Canada’s Vasek Pospisil talks about his injury comeback and Tennys Sandgren looks back on an incredible Australian Open.
4/26/2020 • 39 minutes, 12 seconds
Podcast Special: Feliciano Lopez
Mutua Madrid Open Tournament Director, Feliciano Lopez talks about the Virtual Pro, the innovative tournament in which some of the best tennis players in the world will square off from their homes from 27 to 30 April in a Manolo Santana Stadium that has been recreated in exquisite detail in the Tennis World Tour video game (Nacon Gaming). In the discussion Feliciano speaks about the player field involved in the gaming event and the fact that some might be better prepared than others! He also talks about the possibilities of moving the Mutua Madrid Open to a slot later in the year, his memories of the 2019 Fever-Tree Championships campaign at the Queens Club in London and the reality of life in lockdown.
4/24/2020 • 29 minutes, 22 seconds
David Goffin, Thomas Johansson, Mike Bryan & Dusan Lajovic
Exclusive interviews with former Australian Open Champion, Thomas Johansson and father-to-be, Mike Bryan, as well as player features with David Goffin and Dusan Lajovic.
4/19/2020 • 39 minutes, 28 seconds
Podcast Special: ATP Chairman Andrea Gaudenzi
In this special programme, ATP Chairman, Andrea Gaudenzi joins ATP Tennis Radio Podcast host Seb Lauzier to discuss his vision for the game, as well as the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Tour. Throughout the interview they discuss topics such as player relief, rankings, working with tournaments and other governing bodies and how the media landscape is changing. Gaudenzi also discusses how he first got into tennis, his playing career and how an entrepreneurial background is informing the decisions he is making now.
4/17/2020 • 37 minutes, 10 seconds
Paul Annacone on Taylor Fritz, Pete Sampras & Roger Federer
Legendary coach Paul Annacone joins us to discuss a number of topics including coaching American player Taylor Fritz, what he learnt from working with Pete Sampras, Tim Henman and Roger Federer, his work on the Tennis Channel and how the life lessons he wrote in his book 'Coaching for Life' are really coming in useful at the moment.
As well as hearing from Paul, we also re-live the moment, almost a year to the day, when Fabio Fognini won the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters title.
4/12/2020 • 38 minutes, 4 seconds
Jamie Delgado Exclusive
Jamie Delgado, coach of Andy Murray joins us for special chat this week after it was announced during the week by the All England Tennis club that Wimbledon had been cancelled for the first time since the second world war. That obviously due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. In conjunction with that cancellation, the ATP and WTA also announced the continued suspension of both Tours until July 13, 2020. In addition to Wimbledon, that suspension now covers the whole European grass court swing, including ATP events in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Stuttgart, London’s Queen’s club, Halle, Mallorca and Eastbourne, as well as WTA events in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Nottingham, Birmingham, Berlin, Eastbourne and Bad Homburg as well as the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF World Tennis Tour. At this time, tournaments taking place from July 13 onwards are still planning to proceed as per the published schedule. Stay glued to ATP Tour.com for all the latest, including the best of the players’ tweets in response to what’s going on, from Roger Federer practicing at home in the snow to Rafa Nadal sweating it out on the treadmill, but for now, enjoy our chat with Jamie Delgado which took in subjects like Andy Murray's fitness, working remotely and of course, the grass-court announcement.
4/5/2020 • 31 minutes, 23 seconds
#TennisAtHome
This week we have more of the latest on how the coronavirus is affecting tennis, including the #TennisAtHome campaign, we're at home with Dominic Thiem and focus on five young players making big strides in the game, including Jannick Sinner, Casper Ruud, Felix Auger-Aliassime, Miomir Kecmanovic and Sebastien Korda.
3/29/2020 • 34 minutes, 24 seconds
Tiafoe, Fritz, Murray, Raonic, Albot & Stepanek
We start this week’s podcast with a fascinating focus on the man right at the top of the game the world number one Novak Djokovic. Before play was halted this year Djokovic was dominating having won all 18 of his matches to scoop the ATP Cup, Australian Open and the title in Dubai. One man who’s worked with him closely in the past its former world number eight Radek Stepanek and Jill Craybas caught up with Stepanek to find out what it was like working with the Serb. Also in this podcast we hear from Frances Tiafoe and his coach, Zack Evenden, Taylor Fritz, Jamie Murray, Milos Raonic and Radu Albot.
3/22/2020 • 37 minutes, 44 seconds
Exclusive Interviews And How The Health Situation Is Affecting Tennis
It's not the podcast that we were all expecting it to be this time last week, and that of course is because the coronavirus regrettably has taken hold…. and, among many other things, global sport has ground to a halt and with it the ATP tour. So rather than bringing you the latest action from Indian Wells we’re hunkering down in the camps of Marin Cilic, the former world Number three fighting his way back to full fitness and we also hear from 20 year old Dennis Shapovalov who at 16 in the world is currently the top ranked Canadian, but before we get into all of that we do get a little bit of action as we cast our memories back a year to the 2019 Indian Wells final between Roger Federer and Dominic Thiem as well as replying the Championship-winning moments in Miami, Monte-Carlo and Barcelona.
3/15/2020 • 36 minutes, 13 seconds
Gael Monfils Exclusive
Ahead of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, we bring you an exclusive interview with one of the form players of 2020. A first title on home soil in Montpellier was followed by another in Rotterdam and a semi-final loss only to the world number 1 Novak Djokovic in Dubai – it’s been some time since Gael Monfils has looked quite so good and in Dubai he spoke with prolific tennis writer Reem Abulleil about life on tour, his relationship with Elina Svitolina and his hopes for the future.
Also on the programme, defending Indian Wells champion Dominic Thiem and his coach Nicolas Massu join us for a chat, we hear from Stefanos Tsitspias’ mum after she gate-crashed one of his press conferences in Dubai and we hear from doubles champions of Dubai, Michael Venus and John Peers.
3/8/2020 • 32 minutes, 49 seconds
The View From Dubai And Acapulco
This week we lift the lid on two of the game’s most enigmatic characters, Italian Fabio Fognini and Brit Dan Evans, we hear from Boy band member-turned-tennis star Andrey Rublev, who has his sights set firmly on the world top 10, there’s all 6 foot 10 of John Isner and the other half of Serbia’s all conquering ATP Cup singles line-up – can you remember who that is? – but we start in Dubai in the camp of world number 6 Stefanos Tsistipas the Nitto ATP Finals champion who only recently defended his Marseille crown of 2019 and reached the final in Dubai. Marcus Buckland has been speaking with Apostolos Tsitipas about his dual role as coach and dad.
3/1/2020 • 29 minutes, 24 seconds
Brazilian Legends, Russian Bears and a Norweigen Newbie
The globe-trotting continues as we hone in on events in Rio, Delray Beach and Marseille. In Brazil we hear from one of the legends of the game, Gustavo Kuerten. Bruno Soares talks doubles, Casper Ruud speaks about his first tour title and Borna Coric tells us about his hopes for the future.
In Marseille, top seed Daniil Medvedev speaks about the dealing with the pressure of being a top seed in events now and we also hear from Kazakh, Alexander Bublik. Staying in France we also speak to Jeremy Chardy about the challenges of being Tournament Director in his home event in Pau.
For more exclusive interview content from the ATP Tour go to - https://tunein.com/podcasts/Tennis/ATP-Tennis-Radio-Exclusives-p1121920/
2/23/2020 • 34 minutes, 47 seconds
The Road To The Masters 1000
The ATP Tour continues to cross the globe, as the players continue their build up to the Masters 1000 events in March. In this episode we hear from 3 of the top 6 players in the world - Novak Djokovic, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Dominic Thiem. Plus, we’re in Rotterdam, to get the low down on rising star Felix Auger Aliassime. From New York, we size up all 6 ft 11” of Reilly Opelka, with the help of his coach Jay Berger. Finally, to Rio, where history will be made, when electronic line calling is used for the very first time at an ATP clay court event.
For more interviews head to our 'Exclusives' Channel on TuneIn - https://tunein.com/podcasts/Tennis/ATP-Tennis-Radio-Exclusives-p1121920/ and for our live commentary from Indian Wells and Miami click on the 'listen' button at the top of the ATP Tour homepage.
2/16/2020 • 37 minutes, 49 seconds
Back On Tour
After a month of Tennis in Australia, this week's show focusses on the players as they return to the ATP Tour proper. Starting in Argentina, we speak to Guido Pella, Pablo Andujar and Cristian Garin's coach, Andres Schneiter. We then move to Pune in India and hear from doubles great Leander Paes as he plays his final tournament in his home country and then it's onto Montpellier where Gael Monfils is top seed and Jill Craybas managed to speak with his coach, Liam Smith.
For more interviews head to our 'Exclusives' Channel on TuneIn - https://tunein.com/podcasts/Tennis/ATP-Tennis-Radio-Exclusives-p1121920/ and for our live commentary from Indian Wells and Miami click on the 'listen' button at the top of the ATP Tour homepage.
2/9/2020 • 33 minutes, 49 seconds
Djokovic Edges AO Final Thriller
AO Radio commentators Peter Marcato and Chris Bowers are on hand yet again to round-up all the action from the Australian Open where Novak Djokovic claimed an 8th title.
If you enjoy this podcast, check out the ATP Tennis Radio 'Exclusives' Channel on TuneIn, where you can find long-form interviews and features and for more live radio commentary in March, listen in to the 24/7 ATP Tennis Radio channel via the 'listen' button on the ATP Tour website.
2/2/2020 • 36 minutes, 29 seconds
Halfway Through The 2020 Australian Open
Recorded before the Roger Federer v Marton Fucsovics match, AO Radio commentators Peter Marcato and Chris Bowers discuss the major talking points from the first seven days of the Australian Open.
1/26/2020 • 37 minutes, 58 seconds
2020 Australian Open Preview Part 2 - Time Capsule
Gigi Salmon, Peter Marcato and Chris Bowers host this week's show from Melbourne Park on the eve of the first Grand Slam of the year. In Part 1 they discussed the changes to this year's event, qualifying, some of the notable first round match-ups and of course, the bushfires and how players and public alike have rallied round. In this part the team discuss this year's ATP Tennis Radio time capsule entries. To hear what the Time Capsule is all about, check out the show and then tweet us on @atptennisradio to give us your views.
1/19/2020 • 38 minutes, 46 seconds
2020 Australian Open Preview Part 2 - Time Capsule
Gigi Salmon, Peter Marcato and Chris Bowers host this week's show from Melbourne Park on the eve of the first Grand Slam of the year. In Part 1 they discussed the changes to this year's event, qualifying, some of the notable first round match-ups and of course, the bushfires and how players and public alike have rallied round. In this part the team discuss this year's ATP Tennis Radio time capsule entries. To hear what the Time Capsule is all about, check out the show and then tweet us on @atptennisradio to give us your views.
1/18/2020 • 38 minutes, 46 seconds
2020 Australian Open Preview Part 1 - Scene Set
Gigi Salmon, Peter Marcato and Chris Bowers host this week's show from Melbourne Park on the eve of the first Grand Slam of the year. In Part 1 they discuss the changes to this year's event, qualifying, some of the notable first round match-ups and of course, the bushfires and how players and public alike have rallied round. In Part 2, the team discuss this year's ATP Tennis Radio time-capsule entries.
1/18/2020 • 20 minutes, 15 seconds
ATP Cup Review & Australian Open Preview
It's all things Australia this week as ATP Tennis Radio regulars Peter Marcato and Mike Cation look back on the inaugural ATP Cup and ahead to the first Grand Slam of the year, the Australian Open.
Mike also talks about his own podcast that he hosts with American player, Noah Rubin and the commentary work he does on the ATP Challenger Tour and courtesy of the ATP's weekly TV magazine show, ATP Uncovered, we also hear from the new Chairman of the governing body for men's tennis, Andrea Gaudenzi.
1/13/2020 • 32 minutes, 31 seconds
Early Rounds Deliver At The ATP Cup
ATP Tennis Radio's very own Australian, Peter Marcato is joined by former player, Arvind Parmar in Brisbane to look back over the first few days at the ATP Cup and ahead at what's promising to become a great inaugural event.
Along the way the duo also introduce interviews and features with the likes of Alex De Minaur, Cristian Garin, Christian and Casper Ruud, Yoshihito Nishioka, Jeff Coetzee, Grigor Dimitrov, Marin Cilic and Borna Coric.
Download and listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and the ATP Website.
1/5/2020 • 39 minutes, 15 seconds
ATP Cup Preview
In the final ATP Tennis Radio Podcast of 2019, Seb Lauzier looks ahead to a tournament that’s becoming the talk of the town. With contributions from tennis greats such Lleyton Hewitt, Marat Safin, Boris Becker, Tim Henman and Thomas Muster, plus an exclusive guide to Australia with John Millman, we discuss all things ATP Cup as the new competition on the ATP Tour is set to get underway on 3rd Jan 2020.
12/28/2019 • 30 minutes, 49 seconds
Quiz Time
There's a festive feel to things this week as it's Quiz Time. At last months ATP Nitto ATP Finals, ATP Tennis Radio commentator, Chris Bowers turned from broadcaster, into Quizmaster.
12/22/2019 • 30 minutes, 26 seconds
Media Special
Seb Lauzier introduces an ATP Tennis Radio Podcast Special, focussing on the role of the media in the game. We hear from those behind the commentators mic as one of the best in the business, ESPN's Chris Fowler talk's us through his relationship with his co-commentators, we get the players view from young South African, Lloyd Harris, who attended the recent ATP University in London. Often perceived as simply the brains behind the money, Player Manager Enric Molina talks us through how agents can be essential in guiding a young player’s development. Of course there’s the written press and three of the UK’s leading writers, Stuart Fraser of the times, Simon Briggs from the Telegraph and Guardian journalist, Tumaini Carayol discuss developing stories and working with players. We head behind the cameras with tour photographer Peter Staples and leading television cameramen Brucie Smith, on how frame the perfect picture and presenter and social media guru, Blair Henley talks followers, likes, views and retweets, how to get them, how to maintain them and what works and what doesn't.
12/15/2019 • 36 minutes, 55 seconds
How To Guide The Early Stages Of A Promising Career
Legendary tennis coach Riccardo Piatti talks to Barry Cowan about how he's plotting the early stages of Jannick Sinner's career. As well as speaking to the coach, we also hear from the NextGen Champion and Nick McCarvel and Lucie Ahl discuss Piatti's tactical approach in the ATP Tennis Radio studio.
12/8/2019 • 32 minutes, 52 seconds
The View From The Top
This week Seb Lauzier introduces interviews with outgoing Executive Chairman and President of the ATP, Chris Kermode and the man in charge of the NextGen ATP Finals, Ross Hutchings. Barry Cowan and Nick McCarvel putting the questions to the men at the top of the game.
12/1/2019 • 37 minutes, 30 seconds
Top Players Say Their Farewell In London
The ATP Finals in London provided the perfect setting for a number of the game's top stars to say their farewell to the game as they prepare for life beyond tennis. Amongst the players we hear from in this podcast are Tomas Berdych, Radek Stepanek and David Ferrer, plus American Rajeev Ram pays tribute to the Bryan Brothers who are set to call it a day after the 2020 US Open. Nick McCarvel and Chris Bowers with the questions and check out the ATP Tennis Radio Exclusives channel on TuneIn for more interviews with other retirees such as Macros Baghdatis, Victor Estrella Burgos, Nicolas Almagro and Mikhail Youzhny.
11/24/2019 • 33 minutes, 31 seconds
Story of 2019 Nitto ATP Finals in London
Relive all the action from the 2019 Nitto ATP Finals in London and watch tennis throughout the year on tennistv.com
11/19/2019 • 3 minutes, 50 seconds
Stefanos Shines in London
A special programme recorded directly after Stefanos Tsitsipas' victory at the Nitto ATP Finals. Presenter Gigi Salmon is joined on court by roving reporter, Nick McCarvel as well as fellow commentators, Peter Marcato, Chris Bowers, Miles Maclagan and Colin Fleming to discuss the Greek's biggest title to-date.
We also hear from the young star's parents, Julia and Apostolos, coach Patrick Mouratoglu and Marcos Baghdatis explains why he's got to know the ATP Tennis Radio team very well over the past eight days.
All that plus the ATP Tennis Radio end of season awards take place with the winner of the year-long time capsule and predictions competitions being announced.
11/18/2019 • 35 minutes, 37 seconds
Story of 2019 NextGen ATP Finals
Relive all the action from the 2019 NextGen ATP Finals and watch live tennis on tennistv.com
11/10/2019 • 4 minutes, 7 seconds
Sinner Shines To Be Crowned Campione In Milano
Peter Marcato and Miles Maclagan look back on a momentous week in Milan which saw 18-year-old home favourite, Jannick Sinner crowned NextGen ATP Finals Champion. As well as discussing the action on the court, the duo also introduce interviews that Barry Cowan conducted behind-the-scenes with the likes of Riccardo Piatti, Miomir Kecmanovic and Mikael Ymer, plus they also look ahead to the Nitto ATP Finals in London.
11/9/2019 • 36 minutes, 55 seconds
Story of 2019 Rolex Paris Masters
Relive all the action from the 2019 Rolex Paris Masters and watch live tennis on tennistv.com
11/4/2019 • 3 minutes, 4 seconds
Novak Djokovic edges closer to year-end No.1 with Paris win
Gigi Salmon and Miles Maclagan look back on a fantastic week in Paris in which Novak Djokovic claimed another Masters Title and in doing so, edged closer to the year-end number 1 finish. Along the way, we hear from Djokovic's coach Goran Ivanisevic, and the man looking after Denis Shapovalov's interests, Mikhail Youzhny, plus Stefanos Tsitsipas' Mum joins us for a chat.
11/3/2019 • 38 minutes, 16 seconds
Story of 2019 Swiss Indoors Basel
Relive the best action from the 2019 Swiss Indoors Basel and watch live tennis on tennistv.com
10/28/2019 • 3 minutes, 1 second
Story of 2019 Erste Bank Open In Vienna
Relive the best action from the 2019 Erste Bank Open in Vienna and watch live tennis on tennistv.com
10/28/2019 • 3 minutes, 16 seconds
PeRFect 10 For Federer In Basel and Dominic Delivers In Vienna
Roger Federer discusses what it means to win his tenth title at his home event of Basel, Dominic Thiem tells us what it was like to finally win at his home event in Vienna, we hear from young Swede, Mikael Ymer, who became the final direct qualifier to the NextGen ATP Finals and Richard Gasquet looks ahead to the Rolex Paris Masters, plus presenters Chris Bowers and Naomi Cavaday discuss all the major talking points of the week.
10/27/2019 • 28 minutes, 53 seconds
Basel and Vienna Preview with a sprinkling of Murray Magic
Roger Federer and his mum, Lynette join us to look ahead to the Swiss Indoors Basel 500 event and we also hear from Dominic Thiem's coach, Nicolas Massu ahead of the Erste Bank Open 500 in Vienna, along with recent Tour Finals qualifiers, Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo. All that plus, as Andy Murray secures his first singles championship after hip surgery, we hear from the man himself in his emotional victory speech.
10/20/2019 • 34 minutes, 58 seconds
Story of 2019 Rolex Shanghai Masters
Relive the best action from the 2019 Rolex Shanghai Masters and watch live tennis on tennistv.com
10/14/2019 • 3 minutes, 30 seconds
2019 Rolex Shanghai Masters Review
Gigi Salmon, Barry Cowan and Jill Craybas look back on events at the 2019 Rolex Shanghai Masters and discuss the hot topic, will Daniil Medvedev ever get beaten again!
As well as debate and discussion, we also hear from Medvedev's coach, Gilles Cervara and Stefanos Tsitsipas' coach, Apostolos Tsitsipas, who were both speaking with ATP Tennis Radio reporter Lee Goodall.
Lee Goodall is in Shanghai to preview the penultimate Masters 1000 event of the year as well as round up events from the ATP 500 tournaments in Tokyo and Beijing. Along the way we hear from Shanghai defending champion, Novak Djokovic, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Roberto Bautista Agut, Matteo Berrettini, Denis Shapovalov, Alexander Bublik and Andy Murray, plus Tournament Director Michael Luevano joins Lee for an in-depth chat.
10/6/2019 • 33 minutes, 38 seconds
Story of 2019 China Open in Beijing
Relive the best action from the 2019 China Open in Beijing and watch live tennis on tennistv.com
10/5/2019 • 3 minutes, 4 seconds
Story of Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships in Tokyo
Relive the best action from the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships in Tokyo and watch live tennis on tennistv.com
10/5/2019 • 3 minutes, 14 seconds
Programme 128 - Louis Cayer Doubles Masterclass
In the second of two programmes focussing on the doubles game, ATP Tennis Radio commentator Chris Bowers introduces an exclusive interview that Jill Craybas conducted with leading doubles coach Louis Cayer, at the recent Rogers Cup event in Montreal.
9/29/2019 • 31 minutes, 36 seconds
Programme 127 - Doubles Special
The first of two special programmes focussing on the doubles game. This week, ATP Tennis Radio's Chris Bowers introduces interviews with doubles teams Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury and Kevin Krawietz and his partner Andreas Mies, plus we also hear from one half of the new Murray and Skupski team, Neal Skupski. Our thanks to ATP Tennis Radio reporters Mike Cation and Jill Craybas for those interviews.
9/22/2019 • 30 minutes, 24 seconds
Programme 126 - ATP Cup Draw Special
ATP Tennis Radio’s Peter Marcato presents a special programme from Australia focussing on the ATP Cup Draw. Throughout the show, we speak to the past and present of Australian tennis and also hear from the likes of Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Daniil Medvedev and Grigor Dimitrov, as to what it means to be part of the inaugural event.
9/16/2019 • 19 minutes, 57 seconds
Programme 125 - 2019 US Open Review
US Open Radio commentators Brian Clark and Sophie Amiach look back on an epic men's final involving Rafael Nadal and Daniil Medvedev and discuss the 2019 US Open as a whole. Brian's also joined by Kevin Anderson's coach, Brad Stine to discuss injuries and players training schedules.
9/9/2019 • 39 minutes, 21 seconds
Programme 124 - The Halfway Stage Of The 2019 US Open
Recorded before the fourth round matches between Dominik Koepfer and Daniil Medvedev and Novak Djokovic and Stan Wawrinka, US Open Radio commentators Brian Clark and Mike Cation look back on week 1 of the US Open and ahead to week 2 and along the way, introduce interviews with Marin Cilic's coach, Wayne Ferreira, and former doubles players, Andre Sa, who spoke in his capacity as an ATP Cup ambassador.
9/1/2019 • 39 minutes, 58 seconds
Programme 123 - 2019 US Open Preview
Gigi Salmon is joined by US Open Radio's Nick McCarvel as they look ahead to the final Grand Slam of the year. Along the way, they also introduce exclusive interviews with Denis Shapovalov, Patrick McEnroe, Jack Sock and Reilly Opelka's coach, Jay Berger.
8/25/2019 • 47 minutes, 25 seconds
Story of Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati
Relive the best action from the 2019 Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati and watch live tennis on tennistv.com
8/20/2019 • 4 minutes, 37 seconds
Programme 122 - Daniil's Day In Cincinnati
Gigi Salmon and Noami Cavaday look back on events at the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati, which saw Russian Daniil Medvedev crowned champion. As well as hearing from the winner, the duo also introduces a series of interviews conducted by our man on the ground, Mike Cation, including the coaches of Medvedev, Goffin, Bautista Agut and Murray, plus an in-depth chat with another young Russian, Andrey Rublev.
8/19/2019 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 25 seconds
Story of 2019 Coupe Rogers in Montreal
Relive the best action from the 2019 Coupe Rogers in Montreal and watch live tennis on tennistv.com
8/13/2019 • 3 minutes, 24 seconds
Programme 121 - Rafa Rolls To Masters 1000 Title 35
Brian Clark and Lucie Ahl look back on events at the Coupe Rogers in Montreal where Rafal Nadal won his 35 Masters 1000 title.
As well as discussing what's next for Rafa, the duo also introduce interviews with beaten finalist, Daniil Medvedev, Gael Monfils' coach, Liam Smith, John Isner, and Jamie Murray.
8/12/2019 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 42 seconds
Story of 2019 Citi Open in Washington
Relive the best action from the 2019 Citi Open in Washington and watch live tennis on tennistv.com
8/6/2019 • 3 minutes, 29 seconds
Programme 120 - Kyrgios Can't Be Touched In D.C.
Pete Odgers and Barry Cowan look back on Nick Kyrgios' amazing week in Washington where he won the Citi Open title as well as looking ahead to the Rogers Cup in Montreal, the first of two Masters 1000 events on the US Hard Courts.
8/5/2019 • 45 minutes, 2 seconds
Story of 2019 Hamburg European Open
Relive the best action from the 2019 Hamburg European Open and watch live tennis on tennistv.com
7/29/2019 • 3 minutes, 9 seconds
Programme 119 - Basilashvili Claims Second Straight Hamburg Crown
Seb Lauzier rounds-up events in Hamburg where Nikoloz Basilashvili beat Andrey Rublev to claim the title for the second time. We hear from the Georgian and his coach Jan De Witt as well as replaying the press conference in which Alexander Zverev announced he was no longer working with coach Ivan Lendl.
As attention now turns to the US Open Series, we hear from players Daniil Medvedev, Felix Auger-Aliassime and doubles star Raven Klaasen ahead of the Citi Open In Washington and also speak to tour photographer, Pete Staples, to get an insight into a tennis life played out away from the court.
7/28/2019 • 37 minutes, 48 seconds
Programme 118 - A Week On From Wimbledon
Seb Lauzier introduces exclusive interviews with Wimbledon Doubles Champion Robert Farah and his coach Jeff Coetzee, Wimbledon semi-finalist Roberto Bautista Agut and quarter-finalist Guido Pella, Prakash Armitraj on life growing up as the son of legendary tennis player, Vijay, Marcos Baghdatis on his retirement from the game and Nikoloz Basilashvili ahead of his title defence in Hamburg.
7/19/2019 • 1 hour, 11 seconds
Programme 117 - 2019 Wimbledon Review
Recorded after the 2019 Wimbledon Men's Singles Final, ATP Tennis Radio commentators, Peter Marcato and Chris Bowers discuss the record-breaking conclusion to Championships as well as some of the major stories from the second week.
7/14/2019 • 40 minutes, 10 seconds
Programme 116 - Halfway through Wimbledon 2019
Recorded at the conclusion of play on day 6 of the Wimbledon Championships 2019, ATP Tennis Radio commentators Peter Marcato and Chris Bowers reflect on events both on and off the court from the first week including Andy Murray's return to Centre Court with Serena Williams, the big three progressing whilst other top seeds faltered, the standout match between Rafael Nadal and Nick Kyrgios, Marcos Bagdatis' retirement from the game, the new Court One roof being used to extend the days play, plus errant champagne corks and faulty sprinklers!
7/7/2019 • 35 minutes, 24 seconds
Programme 115 - 2019 Wimbledon Preview
Seb Lauzier is joined by Andy Murray's former coach, Miles Maclagan and former British player, Barry Cowan to look through the singles and doubles draws ahead of the Championships. Other talking points include the new Court One roof and the introduction of a tie-break at 12-all in the fifth set. The team also introduce interviews with the aforementioned Murray, Dominic Thiem and his coach, Nicolas Massu, Alexander Zverev and Kyle Edmund's coach, Mark Hilton.
6/29/2019 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 48 seconds
Story of the 2019 Fever-Tree Championships
Relive the best action of the 2019 Fever-Tree Championships and watch live tennis on tennistv.com
6/24/2019 • 3 minutes, 29 seconds
Story of the 2019 Noventi Open
Relive the best action of the 2019 Noventi Open and watch live tennis on tennistv.com
6/24/2019 • 3 minutes, 39 seconds
Programme 114 - Magic From Federer, Murray and Lopez
This week we look back on events at both the Noventi Open in Halle, Germany, where Roger Federer won his 10th championship title and at the Fever-Tree Championships in London which saw Andy Murray make a victorious return to action alongside doubles partner Feliciano Lopez, who also won the singles title.
We hear from the winners, plus an extra exclusive chat with Roger Federer, who explains how he first got into tennis and we speak to losing Queen's finalist, Gilles Simon. We also replay the dramatic match tiebreaker in the doubles final in London.
6/23/2019 • 39 minutes, 14 seconds
Programme 113 - 2019 Preview Of The Fever-Tree Championships In London And Noventi Open In Halle
Seb Lauzier looks ahead to both ATP 500 events taking place this week. In Halle, Seb speaks with Roger Federer, Borna Coric and local favourite, Alexander Zverev whilst in London we get the views of leading players including Marin Cilic, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Juan Martin Del Potro and Andy Murray, who's back on court in doubles action.
6/16/2019 • 22 minutes, 52 seconds
Programme 112 - Unstoppable Rafa At Roland Garros
Gigi Salmon is joined by Radio Roland Garros commentators Peter Marcato and Nick McCarvel to look back over a fortnight which culminated in Rafael Nadal's twelfth title in the French capital.
As well as discussing the final and the past two weeks, the team also introduces a special ATP Uncovered feature charting Rafa's 2019 season as a whole.
6/9/2019 • 58 minutes, 23 seconds
Programme 111 - Halfway Stage Of Roland-Garros 2019
Gigi Salmon is joined by Radio Roland-Garros commentators Matt Brown and Simon Cambers to dissect the action from the first week of Roland-Garros.
Along the way, the team also introduce interviews with Jan-Lennard Stuff, the only unseeded player in the round of 16, Stefanos Tsitsipas' coach, Patrick Mouratoglou plus there's an update on the Race to Milan and a feature on one of the under 21 players hoping to be in the mix for the end-of-year finals, Casper Ruud.
6/2/2019 • 47 minutes, 54 seconds
Programme 110 - 2019 Roland Garros Preview
Gigi Salmon, Nick McCarvel and Matt Brown from Radio Roland Garros look ahead to the second major of the year and discuss all the major talking points.
The team also introduce features with Dominic Thiem and Fabio Fognini and link to interviews with french journalist, Carole Bouchard and doubles specialist, Robert Farah.
5/25/2019 • 53 minutes, 33 seconds
Story of Internazionale BNL d'Italia 2019
Relive the best action of the 2019 Internazionale BNL d'Italia and watch live tennis on Tennistv.com
5/20/2019 • 4 minutes, 2 seconds
Programme 109 - Nadal's Ninth Title In Rome
Gigi Salmon and Miles Maclagan look back on Rafael Nadal's victory over Novak Djokovic in the final of the Internazionale BNL d'Italia plus introduce interviews with Jamie Murray, Diego Schwartzman, Flavia Pennetta, Matteo Berrettini, Maria Sakkari and Joao Sousa.
5/19/2019 • 56 minutes, 47 seconds
Programme 108 - Novak Ties Rafa's Masters 1000 Record
Steve Pearce and Lucie Ahl discuss events at the Mutua Madrid Open which saw Novak Djokovic claim his 33rd Masters 1000 title, beating Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final.
As well as looking back on all the action, the duo also discuss the return of Roger Federer and the farewell from David Ferrer.
All that plus we hear from Gael Monfils, Nicolas Massu and Apostolos Tsitsipas to name a few.
5/12/2019 • 51 minutes, 43 seconds
Programme 107 - 2019 Mutua Madrid Open Preview
Seb Lauzier is joined by tennis journalist Reem Abulleil to preview the Mutua Madrid Masters. They discuss Roger Federer's return to clay, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic's lack of form and Dominic Thiem's recent run of success.
They also hear from Spanish legend, David Ferrer and discuss his contribution to the game ahead of his final event before retirement and Andy Murray's coach, Jamie Delgado, talks about growing up in Tenerife.
5/5/2019 • 45 minutes, 51 seconds
Story of 2019 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell
Relive the best action from the 2019 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell and watch live tennis on the TennisTV website and app
4/29/2019 • 2 minutes, 59 seconds
Programme 106 - Thiem Clinches Barcelona Title
Barry Millns and Miles Maclagan look back on Dominic Thiem's successful week at the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell, plus we hear from Spanish youngster, Jaume Munar, Toni Nadal pays tribute to David Ferrer, Nicolas Almagro looks back on his career, we take a look at the academy structure in Spain and look ahead to the Mutua Madrid Open with a Swiss journalist who's worked closely alongside Roger Federer over the years.
4/28/2019 • 55 minutes, 53 seconds
Story of Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters
Relive the best action from the 2019 Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters and watch live tennis on the TennisTV website and app.
4/22/2019 • 3 minutes, 37 seconds
Programme 105 - Forza Fabio!
Gigi Salmon and Barry Cowan reflect on a fabulous week in Monaco for Fabio Fognini plus they introduce exclusive interviews with Dusan Lajovic, Daniil Medvedev, Nicolas Massu, Pierre-Hughes Herbert, Robin Haase and Toni Nadal.
4/21/2019 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 2 seconds
Programme 104 - 2019 Rolex Monte-Carlo Preview
Seb Lauzier is joined by tennis writer and ATP Tennis Radio commentator, Simon Cambers to preview the latest edition of the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters. Along the way, the duo also introduce features with upcoming Canadian sensation, Felix Auger Aliassime, number six seed, Stefanos Tsitsipas and interviews with David Goffin's coach, Thomas Johansson and one of the games foremost tactical coaches, Craig O'Shannessy.
4/14/2019 • 44 minutes, 24 seconds
Programme 103 - Coaching Special
In a special edition of the ATP Tennis Radio podcast, Seb Lauzier introduces a coaching Masterclass with three men who between them have guided the form and fortunes of Roger Federer, Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, Lleyton Hewitt, Serena Williams, Simona Halep, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Taylor Fritz - that's six world number ones and two of the most exciting young prospects in the game today - we are talking about Patrick Mouratoglou, Paul Annacone and Darren Cahill, all of whom spoke recently with our very own Jill Craybas.
4/7/2019 • 48 minutes, 48 seconds
Story of Miami Open presented by Itau
Relive the best action of the 2019 Miami Open presented by Itau and watch live tennis on Tennistv.com
4/1/2019 • 3 minutes, 30 seconds
Programme 102 - Tennis Mastery 101
As Roger Federer makes it title 101, we speak to his longtime coach, Severin Luthi, plus Rob Steckley joins us to discuss how he's looking to shape the young career of Denis Shapovalov, Frederic Fontang talks about working with another Canadian youngster, Felix Auger-Aliassime, David Goffin speaks about returning from injury, coaches Jamon Crabb, Jay Berger and Mark Hilton discuss the work they are doing with their charges and finally, doubles finalist Wesley Koolhof talks about playing tennis under the spotlight.
3/31/2019 • 59 minutes, 25 seconds
Programme 101 - Halfway through the 2019 Miami Open
On this week's podcast our reporter at the Miami Open, Seb Lauzier, introduces exclusive interviews with Tournament Director, James Blake, Serb, Janko Tipsarevic plus youngsters Alexander Bublik, Jaume Munar, Andrey Rublev and Stefanos Tsitsipas.
3/24/2019 • 53 minutes, 27 seconds
Story of BNP Paribas Open 2019
Relive the best action of the 2019 Story of BNP Paribas Open and watch live tennis on Tennistv.com
3/18/2019 • 3 minutes, 42 seconds
Programme 100 - Dominic's Desert Delight
We hear from BNP Paribas Masters champion Dominic Thiem, plus Karen Khachanov's coach Vedran Martic talks about his player's start to the year, Fabrice Santoro talks coaching techniques, Jimmy Arias gives us the inside track on Miomir Kecmanovic, Markus Giron speak about coming up through the ranks and Craig Boynton explains how he came about working with Hubert Hurkacz. All that plus presenter Gigi Salmon and Miles Maclagan look ahead to the Miami Masters and discuss listener predictions for that tournament.
3/18/2019 • 59 minutes, 46 seconds
Programme 99 - Pick of the interviews from Indian Wells
Gigi Salmon introduces the pick of Jill Craybas' interviews from week one in the Californian desert.
3/10/2019 • 51 minutes, 41 seconds
Story of Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships 2019
Relive the best action of the 2019 Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships and watch live tennis on Tennistv.com
3/4/2019 • 3 minutes, 20 seconds
Programme 98 - Federer Claims 100th Title
Roger Federer speaks to us about achieving his 100th career title in Dubai, plus we also hear from Nick Kyrgios after his victory in Acapulco, get to know a little bit more about first-time ATP Tour winners Laslo Djere and Radu Albot, spend some time with young Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime and preview the BNP Paribas Masters in Indian Wells with the likes of Sascha Zverev, Kei Nishikori, Borna Coric, Marin Cilic, Stan Wawrinka, Milos Raonic and John Isner.
3/3/2019 • 34 minutes, 50 seconds
Story of 2019 Rio Open presented by Claro
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2/25/2019 • 2 minutes, 50 seconds
Programme 97 - Tennis in Brazil
Seb Lauzier is joined by Brazil legend Gustavo 'Guga' Kuerten and another Brazilian only recently retired from the tour, Andre Sa to discuss the development of the game in the country and how to help the sport grow.
2/24/2019 • 27 minutes, 19 seconds
Story of 2019 ABN Amro World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam
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2/18/2019 • 3 minutes, 11 seconds
Programme 96 - Monfils Wins Eighth ATP Tour Title In Rotterdam
We hear from Gael Monfils after his victory in Rotterdam as well of a whole host of other players who took part this week including Daniil Medvedev, Kei Nishikori, Karen Khachanov and Tomas Berdych. Talking you through the podcast is commentator, Pete Odgers and former Fed Cup player, Claire Curran.
As the regular ATP Tour season kicks back into action in Argentina, France and Bulgaria we spend time with some of the game’s brightest stars.
First we hear from three players in Sofia who, between them, climbed an incredible 164 places in the ATP Rankings in 2018. ATP Tour Uncovered’s Gabriel Clarke spoke with Georgia’s Nikoloz Basilashvili, young Russian Daniil Medvedev and first the biggest thing to come out of Greece for quite some time, Stefanos Tsitsipas.
And while those three have been in action in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia, on the south coast of France in Montpellier 19-year-old Denis Shapovalov has been one of the star attractions. In the off-season ATP Uncovered spent some time with the young Canadian and his new coach, Rob Steckley, ahead of their assault on 2019.
Finally this week to Argentina and the third of the ATP 250s reaching a climax in Cordoba. Number 5 seed Nicolas Jarry fell in the first round, but the 23-year-old Chilean enjoyed a strong South American swing this time last year, off the back of a challenger win on home soil.
There are three more ATP Tour events next week with 250s in New York and Buenos Aires and the first 500 of the year in Rotterdam – as ever we’ll have live commentary of Sunday’s Rotterdam Final on ATP Tennis Radio - please join us for that via the TuneIn Radio app or ATPTour.com - and if you can’t join us live, listen to next week’s ATP Tennis Radio Podcast as we’ll round up all the action look ahead to Rio and other key events in February.
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2/10/2019 • 30 minutes, 49 seconds
Programme 94 - The Stars Of The Australian Open
In this week's show Seb Lauzier takes a look back at the Australian Open by hearing from some of the events star turns and those around them. We speak to the man who provides the statistical analysis that leaves no stone unturned for Novak Djokovic, Lucas Pouille looks at his career path to-date and we hear from some of the NextGen stars including, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Frances Tiafoe, Alex De Minaur and Alexei Popyrin.
2/3/2019 • 32 minutes, 18 seconds
Programme 93 - Djokovic Wins Record Seventh Australian Open Crown
Gigi Salmon and Jill Craybas look back on Novak Djokovic's history-making triumph at the Australian Open, plus pick out the best moments from across the two weeks and introduce a special feature that the ATP Tour Uncovered team did with doubles legend, Bob Bryan.
1/27/2019 • 55 minutes, 20 seconds
Programme 92 - 2019 Australian Open Halfway Report
At the halfway stage of the Australian Open, Gigi Salmon is joined by ATP Tennis Radio regulars, Simon Cambers and Nick McCarvel to look back over all of the talking points from week one of the tournament and to look ahead to week two.
In addition to the chat, the team also introduce features with Alexei Popyrin, Tomas Berdych and Daniil Medvedev.
1/20/2019 • 56 minutes, 37 seconds
Programme 91 - 2019 Australian Open Preview
Gigi Salmon and Peter Marcato set the scene from Melbourne Park and discuss the major talking points ahead of the first Grand Slam of the year, the Australian Open, including Andy Murray's announcement that he's to retire and the duo also pick our their favourite match-ups from round one.
Along the way we also hear from Australians Thanasi Kokkinakis and Alex De Minaur and Tennis legend Mats Wilander gives his views as to what to look out for in 2019.
1/13/2019 • 54 minutes, 19 seconds
Programme 90 - And They're Off...
As the ATP Tour season kicks off, Seb Lauzier is joined by Andy Murray's former coach, Miles Maclagan and another former top British player, Arvind Parmar to preview the year and give their top tips on what they think will happen along the way.
We also hear from world number 1, Novak Djokovic and two of the stars of the 2018 season - Borna Coric and Alex De Minaur.
1/6/2019 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 19 seconds
Programme 89 - Quiz Time
There are two halves to this week’s show – both featuring seasoned tennis journalist Chris Bowers, biographer of both Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic among others.. At the recent Nitto ATP Finals Chris challenged the rest of the commentary team to a quiz on the history of the finals.
That quiz more difficult than we thought it would be so, fortunately, we all had the chance for revenge when the tables were turned and Chris became the very first contestant to play ATP Tennis Radio Mastermind.. We all chipped in with two questions each on his specialist subject, which was Roger Federer.
12/30/2018 • 42 minutes, 59 seconds
Programme 88 - Best of 2018 Interviews Vol.2
We continue our look-back on the story of 2018 with some of our favourite interviews from the year. Picking up the story in Toronto, the sixth ATP masters 1000 of the year but of course there’d been a lot of water under the bridge since Rome – Rafael Nadal winning his 11th French Open and Novak Djokovic confirming that he was well and truly back by taking his fourth Wimbledon and after that Djokovic started as the favourite in Toronto but came up against a red-hot young Greek, Stefanos Tsitsipas who beat him in three sets and afterwards Jill Craybas spoke with his coach and father Apostolos.
Onto Cincinnati where all the talk was about Novak Djokovic and a career golden masters and shortly after the Serb clinched victory, he spoke with Paul King.
And the plaudits would keep coming for Djokovic after he followed up that success with his third US Open triumph to tie the great Pete Sampras on 14 career grand slams. He would march onto the penultimate ATP Masters 1000 of the year in Shanghai. And it was in China that Lee Goodall went off the beaten track to find out a little more about one of the year’s biggest climbers, Georgia’s Nikoloz Basilashvili, who had just won his second title of the year in Beijing, which was also just the second of his career. One reason behind that improvement is coach Jan de Witt, formerly with Frenchman Gilles Simon and now enjoying working with the only Georgian at the top of the game.
Having beaten Denis Shapovalov, Basilashvili would lose to Shanghai semi finalist Sascha Zverev .. but in the end everyone would bow to Djokovic who beat Borna Coric in the final.. and so we arrived in Paris for the final masters of the year with Djokovic eying the world number 1 ranking. But trumping even that in the headlines was big news in the Grigor Dimitrov camp. Andre Agassi, formerly with Novak of course, was back, this time alongside the struggling Dimitrov and his coach Dani Vallverdu kindly took time out to Seb Lauzier.
And if achieving potential is the benchmark for success, one man well ahead of the curve so far is 19-year-old Australian Alex de Minaur. Newcomer of the year in the ATP Awards, he also finished runner-up in the Next Gen finals and closer to home became the Australian number 1 – which is what he was mainly reflecting on when he spoke with Lee Goodall.
And from one young man, we finish this week with another… Sascha Zverev’s year would finish in the best possible way, achieving the unthinkable for many in beating Novak Djokovic to win his first Nitto ATP Finals.. shortly we’ll hear the reaction we got straight afterwards from close friend Marcelo Melo and fitness coach Jez Green.
12/23/2018 • 52 minutes, 58 seconds
Programme 87 - Best of 2018 Interviews Vol.1
As the year draws to a close and the players either put their feet up somewhere warm and sunny or get back into the lung-busting job of pre-season training blocks, this week we start to look back on the story of 2018 by hearing again some of our favourite interviews from the first half of the season, from the American hard courts of the tennis mecca that is Indian Wells through to the sun-burnt clay and imperial majesty of Rome.
We start in Indian Wells where Sascha Zverev was bidding to follow on from his breakthrough year in 2017. Key to building the Zverev game has been building the Zverev body and the responsibility for that job has fallen squarely on the shoulders of Jez Green. Formerly conditioning coach for Tomas Berdych and more recently Andy Murray, Green spoke with Jill Craybas at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden and shared some of the secrets to his success.
We then we move to Miami and another man off and running quicker than ever before in 2018 was Britain’s Kyle Edmund, a semi-finalist at the Australian Open and already making huge strides under a new head coach, Freddie Rosengren. Always ready and available to share his thoughts, Freddie spoke with Seb Lauzier in the players’ garden in Miami about Kyle’s rapid rise.
Moving to Europe and on the clay courts of the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters we heard from Boris Becker, before moving to Madrid and a look at tennis in Spain with a legend of that country, Emilio Sanchez.
Finally to Rome where along the way there had been plenty for Italian tennis to cheer about, Fabio Fognini rising to the occasion and good wins for Marco Cecchinato and Matteo Berrettini, all of which left the country’s Davis Cup captain Corrado Berrazutti in a good mood when he spoke to us alongside the magnificent Pietrangeli court.
And remember, these interviews and many more are also available on our 'Exclusives' channel on TuneIn - https://bit.ly/2CNeiz1
12/16/2018 • 51 minutes, 41 seconds
Programme 86 - Gilles Muller Special
This week we all get to know a little bit more, a lot more in fact, about the newest member of the Tennis TV and ATP Tennis Radio commentary team.. that is none other than recent world number 21 Gilles Muller who hung up his racquets at the end of this year’s US Open and has since been enjoying some long overdue family time and also putting in his maiden performance as part of our team at the Nitto ATP Finals.
12/9/2018 • 46 minutes, 53 seconds
Programme 85 - The Development of Tennis Around The World
Seb Lauzier introduces three exclusive interviews recorded during the season-ending Nitto ATP Finals. We get a unique insight into the number-crunching and detail that has helped take Novak Djokovic back to number 1 in the world, we hear from Dave Miley who was Head of Development at the ITF and is now at the cutting edge of leading tennis development in Asia as the Director of Development for the Asian Tennis Federation and staying in that part of the world, the Times of India's Prajwal Hegde talks about the country's fascination with the sport.
12/2/2018 • 44 minutes, 4 seconds
Programme 84 - Santoro, Henman, Nalbandian, Grosjean and many more
A week on from the Nitto ATP Finals, Seb Lauzier brings you some more of our favourite interviews from our week in London including chats with Fabrice Santoro, Sebastien Grosjean, Tim Henman, Nikolay Davydenko, David Nalbandian and Louis Cayer.
11/25/2018 • 37 minutes, 5 seconds
Story of Nitto ATP Finals in London 2018
Relive the best action from the Nitto ATP Finals held in London, 2018. Watch all the live tennis on www.tennistv.com
11/20/2018 • 3 minutes, 6 seconds
Programme 83 - Stunning Sascha Takes His Biggest Title
We hear from Sascha Zverev's fitness coach, Jez Green and best friend, Marcelo Melo after the 21-year-old's victory at the Nitto ATP Finals.
All that plus Borna Coric joins us for a chat, Mats Wilander looks at the history of the tournament and ATP Executive Chairman and President of the ATP, Chris Kermode explains why the ATP is making changes on and off the court.
11/19/2018 • 1 hour, 32 seconds
Story of the Next Gen ATP Finals in Milan 2018
Relive the best of the action from Milan as eight of the best young players in the world competed for glory at the 2018 Next Gen ATP Finals. Watch live streaming on www.tennistv.com
11/12/2018 • 4 minutes, 7 seconds
Programme 82 – NEXTGEN Review
Peter Macarto and Naomi Cavaday look back over events at the ATP Next Gen Finals, where Stefanos Tsitsipas lit up the final to claim victory over Alex De Minaur. We'll hear from Tournament Director Ross Hutchins and Senior Vice President of Marketing George Ciz as they reflect on the second year of this tournament, find out more about the alternate Lloyd Harris, and get the reflections of Eric Butorac the USTA Player Liaison Officer on the new rules he's enforced this year. Plus Peter and Naomi look ahead to the season ending Nitto ATP Finals.
11/11/2018 • 45 minutes, 18 seconds
Story of the Rolex Paris Masters
Watch highlights from the week that culminated in Karen Khachanov defeating Novak Djokovic to capture his first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title at the Rolex Paris Masters
11/5/2018 • 4 minutes, 10 seconds
Programme 81 - Rolex Paris Masters Review & NextGen Preview
Gigi Salmon and Miles Maclagan look back over events at the Rolex Paris Masters, where Karen Khachanov stunned the tennis world to beat Novak Djokovic to the title. As well as hearing from Khachanov, we also speak to some of the world's leading coaches including Marian Vajda, Dante Bottini and Gunter Bresnik, whilst Dani Vallverdu speaks about why he brought Andre Agassi into the Grigor Dimitrov camp. All that plus Tennis TV's Lee Goodall and Colin Fleming look ahead to the NextGen ATP Finals in Milan.
11/4/2018 • 57 minutes, 44 seconds
Programme 80 - Federer Flies, Anderson Qualifies And Paris Awaits
Roger Federer talks about title number 99, Kevin Anderson reflects on his first ATP 500 title, Borna Coric looks back on a fantastic year, Stefanos Tsitsipas discusses life post-Stockholm win and Rolex Paris Masters Tournament Director Guy Forget look ahead to the final Masters 1000 event of the year.
10/28/2018 • 43 minutes, 8 seconds
Programme 79 - Race to London Doubles Special
An ATP Tennis Radio Doubles Special presented by Seb Lauzier and focussing on the Race to London as the final few places are contended.
We hear from those having booked their places including Oliver Marach, Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah, Marcelo Melo, Jamie Murray, Mike Bryan and Pierre-Hughes Herbert and Nicolas Mahut and those still vying for a spot including Nikola Mektic and Alexander Peya and Michael Venus.
10/21/2018 • 38 minutes, 34 seconds
Story of the Rolex Shanghai Masters
Relive the best of the action from the 2018 Rolex Shanghai Masters & watch live tennis at tennistv.com.
10/15/2018 • 3 minutes, 34 seconds
Programme 78 - Asian Swing Review
This week Gigi Salmon is joined by Miles Maclagan and Jill Craybas to review the 2018 Asian swing culminating in Novak Djokovic winning his fourth Rolex Shanghai Masters after defeating Borna Coric. Hear from Djokovic himself on completing his Golden Masters, Alex de Minaur on becoming Australian number one, Marco Cecchinato on his strong season, and from Nikoloz Basilashvili's coach Jan de Witt
10/14/2018 • 50 minutes, 19 seconds
Story of the China Open in Beijing
Relive the best moments from the 2018 China Open in Beijing. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com
10/8/2018 • 2 minutes, 27 seconds
Story of Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships 2018 in Tokyo
Relive the best moments from the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships 2018, where Daniil Medvedev won his first ATP World Tour 500-level title.
10/8/2018 • 3 minutes, 6 seconds
Programme 77 - Wins for Medvedev and Basilashvili as the Asian Swing continues
This week Mikey Perera and Jill Craybas discuss events in Tokyo and Beijing where Nikoloz Bashilashvili and Daniil Medvedev added their names to the winner's rostrums and Lee Goodall previews the Rolex Shanghai Masters with Tournament Director, Michael Luevano.
10/7/2018 • 31 minutes, 58 seconds
Programme 76 - Tennis In Asia Special
As the world's leading players prepare for two ATP 500s in Beijing and Tokyo en route to the eighth Masters 1000 of the year in Shanghai, this week we're all about tennis in Asia.
We hear from Kei Nishikori and his coach, Dante Bottini, Korea's world number 23 Hyeon Chung and China's rising star Yibing Wu and we venture down the tramlines onto the doubles court with Aisam-Ul-Haq-Qureshi and Rohan Bopanna.
9/30/2018 • 51 minutes, 11 seconds
Programme 75 - Race To Milan Special
It's one of the most talked-about events of the year and with just six weeks to go, Seb Lauzier presents a special podcast focussing on the NextGen ATP Finals in Milan.
Over the course of the programme we hear in-depth interviews and features with Tournament Director, Ross Hutchings, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Denis Shapovalov, Alex Di Minaur, Frances Tiafoe's coach, Robby Ginepri, Taylor Fritz's coach, Paul Annacone, Michael Mmoh, Hubert Hurkacz, Lloyd Harris and Casper Ruud.
9/23/2018 • 52 minutes, 14 seconds
Programme 74 - Training Techniques, Davis Cup And Coaching Top Players
This week's ATP Tennis Radio Podcast is presented by Gigi Salmon and features interviews conducted by former tour player, Jill Craybas.
Former Davis Cup player Jessie Levine talks about the training techniques that he uses and transitioning from being a player.
Roger Rasheed speaks about what it was like to work with the likes of Lleyton Hewitt, Gael Monfils, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Grigor Dimitrov.
9/16/2018 • 36 minutes, 50 seconds
Programme 73 - Novak's Third US Open Title
As Novak Djokovic wins his second Grand Slam of the year, ATP Tennis Radio presenter Gigi Salmon is joined by former tour player, Jill Craybas and BBC Radio Five Live and Tennis Podcast presenter, David Law to look back over the fortnight and to discuss what it all means for the rest of the season building up to the Nitto ATP Finals at London's O2 Arena in November.
As well as the in-depth chat, we also hear from one of the stories of the 2018 US Open, Australian, John Millman.
9/10/2018 • 43 minutes, 23 seconds
Programme 72 - Week One At The 2018 US Open
Gigi Salmon is joined by Tennis TV commentators Robbie Koenig and Nick Lester to look back on events during week one of the US Open at Flushing Meadows.
In addition to the discussion, ATP Tennis Radio reporters Jill Craybas and Seb Lauzier introduce interviews with ESPN anchor, Sam Gore, former US Open semi-finalist, Jimmy Arias and the voice of the ATP Challenger Tour in the US and commentator on US Open Radio, Mike Cation.
9/2/2018 • 53 minutes, 19 seconds
Programme 71 - 2018 US Open Preview
Gigi Salmon and Nick McCarvel, presenter of the official podcast of the US Open, Courtside, preview the final major of the year from a bustling Manhattan, whilst former tour player Jill Craybas introduces exclusive interviews with 2017 US Open runner-up, Kevin Anderson, John Isner's coach, David Macpherson, qualifier, Bradley Klahn and Andre Agassi's former coach, Brad Gilbert.
8/26/2018 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 31 seconds
Story of 2018 Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati
Novak Djokovic defeated Roger Federer to become the first player to even win all nine Masters 1000 titles on finals day at the Western and Southern Open. Bruno Soares and Jamie Murray won the doubles title. Watch official ATP tennis streams all year round: http://tnn.is/YouTube
8/21/2018 • 3 minutes, 31 seconds
Programme 70 - Djokovic Clinches Career Golden Masters
Gigi Salmon and Naomi Cavaday reflect on Novak Djokovic's moment of history as he became the first singles player to achieve the Career Golden Masters.
As well as looking back on a fantastic final against Roger Federer, we also bring you exclusive interviews with Marin Cilic's coach, Ivan Cinkus, Karen Khachanov, Mischa Zverev, Mike Bryan and his father, Wayne and we hear from Bruno Soares and Jamie Murray as they claimed their maiden Master's title.
8/20/2018 • 52 minutes, 44 seconds
Story of 2018 Rogers Cup in Toronto
World No.1 Rafael Nadal put Greek youngster Stefanos Tsistsipas through his paces as he recorded his 80th title win at the Toronto Open. Watch official ATP tennis streams all year round: http://tnn.is/YouTube
8/14/2018 • 3 minutes, 39 seconds
Programme 69 - 33 Masters 1000 Titles And Counting For Rafael Nadal
Gigi Salmon and Miles Maclagan look back on events at the Rogers Cup in Toronto, where Rafael Nadal beat young star Stefanos Tsitsipas, to capture a record 33rd Masters 1000 crown.
We also hear from the runner-ups' father, Apostolos Tsitsipas, plus Kevin Anderson's coach, Brad Stine discusses the South Africans stand-out season, Karen Khachanov's coach, Vedran Martic speaks to Jill Craybas and Tournament Referee Tony Cho talks about dealing with adverse weather and the shot clock.
8/13/2018 • 58 minutes, 40 seconds
Story of 2018 Citi Open in Washington
Alexander Zverev retained his Citi Open in Washington, D.C. with a command performance against Alex De Minaur ...Watch official highlights
8/7/2018 • 3 minutes, 15 seconds
Programme 68 - Zverev Rolls To Washington Title
This week, Pete Odgers and Naomi Cavaday look back on events in Washington where Sascha Zverev successfully defended his title. As well as hearing from the German, we also speak to his brother, Mischa.
Kei Nishikori, Kyle Edmund and John Isner talk about the shot clock, Andy Murray discusses his comeback and Jill Craybas looks ahead to events this week in Toronto by speaking to Karl Hale, Tournament Director of the Rogers Cup presented by National Bank.
8/6/2018 • 56 minutes, 36 seconds
Story of German Tennis Championships 2018 presented by Kampmann
Highlights of the German Tennis Championships in Hamburg where Nikoloz Basilashvili clinched his first ATP World Tour title, defeating two-time Hamburg champ Leonardo Mayer.
8/3/2018 • 3 minutes, 12 seconds
Programme 67 - Georgian History As Basilashvili Lifts Maiden Title In Hamburg
The clay court season is officially over with Nikoloz Basilashvili crowned champion in Hamburg, but the hard court season is right around the corner.
Presenter Pete Odgers is joined by Miles Maclagan to review the German Open, look ahead to the US hard court series including Miles predictions for who will shine during this tournament and discuss the abundance of American players on the Tour. Plus we hear from International Tennis Hall of Fame inductee, Michael Stich.
8/2/2018 • 44 minutes, 5 seconds
Programme 66 - A Stellar Cast
A blockbuster ATP Tennis Radio Podcast this week as we hear from Roger Federer, Kevin Anderson, Kei Nishikori, Dominic Thiem, Milos Raonic and Stefanos Tsitsipas.
Presenter Seb Lauzier is joined by former Fed Cup player, Claire Curran to discuss the issues and talking points that the player's raise and ahead of the German Tennis Championships 2018 presented by Kampmann, we also hear from German stars Sascha Zverev and Max Marterer.
7/22/2018 • 52 minutes, 35 seconds
Programme 65 - Djokovic Returns To The Grand Slam Winners' Circle
Gigi Salmon is joined by former players Naomi Cavaday and Jill Craybas and one of the leading commentators on tour, Nick Lester to look back over a scintillating fortnight action at Wimbledon.
7/15/2018 • 39 minutes, 29 seconds
Programme 64 - Week One at Wimbledon
Presenter Gigi Salmon is joined by Australian commentator and a familiar voice on ATP Tennis Radio, Peter Marcato as they look back on the first week of action at the All England Club and look ahead to an intriguing week 2.
There's also in-depth interviews as Jill Craybas chats to doubles legend, Mark Woodforde and Miles Maclagan talks to 1983 Wimbledon runner-up Chris Lewis as he looks back on his final with John McEnroe and also talks about how fitness regimes have changed over the years.
7/8/2018 • 57 minutes, 58 seconds
Programme 63 - 2018 Wimbledon Preview
Seb Lauzier is joined by Andy Murray’s former coach, Miles Maclagan as they sit down in a cafe in the Wimbledon Village to preview the 2018 Championships. As well as discussing the draw and various talking points, there’s also an exclusive interview with Novak Djokovic’s coach, Marian Vajda, Ivan Ljubicic discusses working with Roger Federer, Riccardo Piatti talks about Borna Coric’s potential, Thierry van Cleemput explains why his charge, David Goffin, feels at ease in London and Steve Johnson and his coach, Craig Boynton, break down why it’s difficult to transition to grass.
7/1/2018 • 46 minutes, 45 seconds
Story of Fever-Tree Championships at the Queens Club in London
Watch highlights as Marin Cilic comes back to defeat Novak Djokovic and lift his second Fever-Tree Championships trophy
6/26/2018 • 2 minutes, 56 seconds
Story of Gerry Weber Open in Halle
Watch as Borna Coric defeats nine-time champion Roger Federer to win his first tour-level grass-court title at the Gerry Weber Open in Halle.
6/25/2018 • 2 minutes, 28 seconds
Programme 62 - Coric stuns Federer and Cilic is the King of Queens
A bumper edition of the ATP Tennis Radio Podcast looking back on events in Halle, where Borna Coric beat Roger Federer and the Fever Tree Championships in Queens where Marin Cilic defeated a resurgent Novak Djokovic.
We hear from both champions, plus Catherine Whitaker speaks to Andy Murray, Gigi Salmon talks to Lleyton Hewitt and Seb Lauzier speaks to both Daniel Nestor and Damir Dzumhur.
6/24/2018 • 49 minutes, 43 seconds
Programme 61 - Queens and Halle Preview
This weeks show comes from the Queens Club in London on the eve of the Fever Tree Championships. Presenter Seb Lauzier is joined by Tournament Director, Stephen Farrow to look over a packed draw which includes the return of Andy Murray. Other talking points include the change in title sponsorship and a new broadcast partner in Amazon Prime Video.
We hear from the British number 2, plus Roland Garros doubles champions Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hughes Hebert look back on their recent Grand Slam success as they prepare for Queens and Roger Federer, Alexander Zverev, Dominic Thiem and Kei Nishikori discuss what it takes to transition from clay to grass.
Not forgetting the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, we hear from Tournament Director, Ralf Weber about the changes to that tournament over the years.
6/17/2018 • 32 minutes, 51 seconds
Programme 60 - Nadal Captures 11th Roland Garros Crown
Commentators Peter Marcato, Matt Brown and Nick McCarvel join presenter Gigi Salmon to look back over the last two weeks of Roland Garros, a tournament in which Rafael Nadal celebrated his 11th title.
6/10/2018 • 39 minutes, 18 seconds
Programme 59 - At the halfway stage of the French Open
Nadal's fine form continues, Sascha Zverev reaches a Grand Slam quarter-final for the first time and Italian Marco Cecchinato makes a name for himself; just a few of the headlines that presenter Gigi Salmon discusses with ATP Tennis Radio commentators Matt Brown and Peter Marcato as they look back on the first week of Roland Garros.
6/4/2018 • 34 minutes, 38 seconds
Programme 58 - 2018 French Open Preview
Gigi Salmon and Nick McCarvel discusses whether anyone can prevent Rafael Nadal from winning an eleventh Roland Garros title, plus we hear from Dominic Thiem, upcoming star, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Charlotte Gabas from beIN Sports France, looks at the chances for the home players.
5/26/2018 • 48 minutes, 33 seconds
Programme 57 - Rafa Reigns in Rome
Reaction as Rafael Nadal gets back to winning ways with victory over Alexander Zverev in the Internazionale BNL d'Italia.
We also hear from Marin Cilic's coach, Ivan Cinkus, enigmatic Frenchman, Benoit Paire, Italy's Davis Cup Captain, Corrado Barazzutti and ATP Executive Chairman and President Chris Kermode on the NextGen ATP Finals in Milan.
5/20/2018 • 1 hour, 58 seconds
Programme 56 - Sascha Streaks To Madrid Title
Richard Connelly and Naomi Cavaday discuss Alexander Zverev's third Masters 1000 title in a year as well as looking back over the main talking points of the Mutua Madrid Open.
We also hear from Rafael Nadal on his defeat to Dominic Thiem, Alex Corretja and Emilio Sánchez talk all things Spanish Tennis, Dusan Lajovic invites us to his coffee shop in Serbia and Freddie Rosengren tells us how he's building brit Kyle Edmund into a player who can regularly challenge at the top of the game.
5/13/2018 • 53 minutes, 30 seconds
Programme 55 - Mutua Madrid Open Preview
Nick McCarvel is joined by Reem Abulleil from Dubai's Sport 360 and Eduardo Salan from SetBall Radio, the Mutua Madrid Open's official tournament radio station, to look ahead to the fourth Masters 1000 tournament of the season.
The team discuss whether anyone stands a chance of preventing yet another clay-court title for Rafael Nadal and we also hear from Assistant Tournament Director, Feliciano Lopez and young Canadian, Denis Shapovalov, who progressed through to round 2 after one of the few first-round matches to be played on Sunday.
5/6/2018 • 34 minutes, 40 seconds
Story of Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell
Relive the story of the 2018 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell and watch live tennis at tennistv.com
5/1/2018 • 2 minutes, 39 seconds
Programme 54 - Rafa Romps To 11th Barcelona Title
We hear from Rafael Nadal after another victory on the clay of Barcelona, plus Novak Djokovic explains why he's struggling to find his top form and coach David Sammel discusses the theory behind his book, Locker Room Power.
4/29/2018 • 35 minutes, 42 seconds
Story of the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters
Watch as Rafael Nadal defeats Kei Nishikori to win his 11th Rolex-Monte-Carlo Masters title and a record 31st overall ATP World Tour Masters 1000 crown. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com
4/23/2018 • 3 minutes, 17 seconds
Programme 53 - Rafael Nadal Clinches Title Number 11 in Monte-Carlo
On this week's ATP Tennis Radio Podcast, Gigi Salmon and Arvind Parmar look back on events in Monte-Carlo where Rafael Nadal won his eleventh title.
In addition, there are also exclusive interviews with Nadal's coach, Carlos Moya and runner-up Kei Nishikori's coach, Dante Bottini. Richard Gasquet talks about reaching 500 career victories alongside his coach, Fabrice Santoro and tennis great Boris Becker looks back on his career.
4/22/2018 • 47 minutes, 40 seconds
Programme 52 - Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters Preview
Tennis journalists Simon Cambers and Carole Bouchard join presenter Seb Lauzier as they sit down to preview the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters and discuss whether anyone can get close to beating Rafael Nadal this week.
In addition, we also hear from top youngster, Stefanos Tsitsipas and doubles player Oliver Marach and also find out why former England and Liverpool midfielder Jamie Redknapp was spending time on court.
4/15/2018 • 34 minutes, 35 seconds
Programme 51 - Coaches corner
We're joined by three top coaches on this week's ATP Tennis Radio Podcast. Brad Stine talks to Jill Craybas about a successful start to his relationship with Kevin Anderson, Petar Popovic looks back to those memorable shirt-raising scenes in Paris 2017 as his player, Filip Krajinovic reached the final and Canadian Martin Laurendeau shares his strategy for the young star, Denis Shapovalov.
All that plus, in the week of Davis Cup action, brit Cameron Norrie recalls fond memories of the clay in 2017.
4/8/2018 • 29 minutes, 52 seconds
Story of Miami Open presented by Itau
Relive all the drama and gripping moments from the 2018 Miami Open presented by Itau in Florida.
4/3/2018 • 2 minutes, 58 seconds
Programme 50 - Isner's Maiden Masters Moment
As John Isner claims his maiden Master's title, we speak to his coach, David Macpherson as part of a special programme looking back over the Miami Open presented by Itaú.
We also hear from Argentine journalist, Agostina Larocca to discover how Juan Martin del Potro's recent success has been received back home, Goran Ivanisevic joins us to talk about teaming up with Milos Raonic, Hyeon Chung's coach, Neville Godwin drops in for a chat and one of the original super-coaches Brad Gilbert explains why he hates that term.
4/1/2018 • 36 minutes, 5 seconds
Programme 49 - Week 1 in Miami
In a special podcast from the Miami Open presented by Itaú, reporter Seb Lauzier takes us behind-the-scenes with exclusive interviews including Tournament Director, James Blake, legendary coach Nick Bollettieri and young American star Michael Mmoh.
3/25/2018 • 33 minutes, 42 seconds
Story of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells
Another year in the California sunshine is complete - and what a tournament it was. Watch official ATP tennis all year round at tennistv.com
3/21/2018 • 2 minutes, 25 seconds
Programme 48 - Delpo Claims First Masters 1000 Title
Gigi Salmon and Miles Maclagan look back over events at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells where Juan Martin Del Potro claimed his first Masters 1000 title.
Along the way, you'll hear highlights of that epic final, plus we have an exclusive with Roger Federer's coach, Severin Luthi and also hear from Hyeon Chung's coach, Neville Godwin, victorious doubles pair, Jack Sock and John Isner and roving reporter Jill Craybas swaps interview notes with former World Number One, Jim Courier.
3/19/2018 • 44 minutes, 37 seconds
Programme 47 - Week 1 in Indian Wells
In a special podcast from the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, reporter Jill Craybas takes us behind-the-scenes with exclusive interviews including Tournament Director, Tommy Haas, Jez Green, fitness trainer to Alexander Zverev, Taylor Fritz's mum and former player, Kathy May and doubles player, Oliver Marach.
3/11/2018 • 41 minutes, 58 seconds
Story of Abierto Mexicano Telcel presentado por HSBC
Watch highlights as Juan Martin del Potro beats Kevin Anderson to win the Abierto Mexicano Telcel presentado por HSBC
3/6/2018 • 2 minutes, 10 seconds
Story of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships
Watch highlights as Roberto Bautista Agut defeats Lucas Pouille to win the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships.
3/5/2018 • 2 minutes, 27 seconds
Programme 46 - Finals of Dubai and Acapulco
This week Pete Odgers is joined by Arvind Parmar to look back on the ATP 500 events in Dubai and Acapulco.
We hear from Acapulco winner Juan Martin Del Potro and Dubai winner, Roberto Bautista Agut, plus the guys discuss the latest injury issue with Rafael Nadal and look ahead to the ATP Masters 1000 event in Indian Wells
3/4/2018 • 27 minutes, 41 seconds
Story of the Rio Open presented by Claro
Watch highlights as Diego Schwartzman clinches his first ATP World Tour 500-level title at the Rio Open presented by Claro.
2/27/2018 • 1 minute, 56 seconds
Programme 45 - Diego Reigns in Rio
This week presenter Gigi Salmon is joined by Arvind Parmar to look back over events in Rio, where Argentine Diego Schwartzman won the first ATP 500 title of his career.
We also talk to Brazilian tennis legend Gustavo Kuerten and hear from Dominic Thiem and Marin Cilic, to get their hopes for the season.
2/25/2018 • 37 minutes, 5 seconds
Story of the ABN Amro World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam
Watch highlights as Roger Federer re-claims the World Number One position by winning the ABN Amro World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam.
2/20/2018 • 2 minutes, 46 seconds
Programme 44 - Federer Breezes To Rotterdam Crown
In a special podcast from Rotterdam, Barry Millns and Naomi Cavaday look back on a week in which Roger Federer claimed the ABN Amro World Tennis Tournament title in Rotterdam and regained the World Number One spot as well.
This programme looks back on those achievements and well as taking a look at what it takes to become a good indoor tennis player and we also bring you a feature with young Canadian hot shot, Felix Auger-Aliassime.
2/18/2018 • 26 minutes, 4 seconds
Programme 43 - Will history be made in Rotterdam?
On the eve of the first ATP 500 tournament of the season, the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam, we hear from Nitto ATP World Tour Finals champion Grigor Dimitrov as he talks about the season ahead and explains why it wouldn’t surprise him if Roger Federer became the oldest-ever world number one this week.
We also hear from the in-form doubles team, Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic and there’s more doubles chat as Bruno Soares and Jamie Murray talk about their ‘firsts’. Robin Soderling explains why he’s helping fellow Swede, Elias Ymer, Dominic Thiem answers fans questions and as we continue our series of features from the Challenger our, Josh Meisels speaks to a young Serbian who’s just broken into the world’s top 200.
2/11/2018 • 22 minutes, 27 seconds
Programme 42 - Federer, Cilic, Dimitrov, Edmund, Chung, Nishikori and more
Just days after a momentous two weeks in Australia, we look back on the twists, the turns and the Federer-fuelled magic of the first Grand Slam of the season.
Seb Lauzier introduces features with the champion himself, plus interviews with Marin Cilic, Grigor Dimitrov, Kyle Edmund, Hyeon Chung, Lleyton Hewitt, Michael Chang and Kei Nishikori.
2/4/2018 • 27 minutes, 36 seconds
Programme 41 - Roger Federer Wins 20th Major Crown
From Melbourne Park, Gigi Salmon, Jill Craybas and Peter Marcato look back on an Australian Open in which Roger Federer added another chapter to his phenomenal career by capturing his 20th Grand Slam championship crown to retain his Australian Open title with a thrilling 6-2, 6-7(5), 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 victory over Marin Cilic in the night-time final.
The ATP Tennis Radio commentators also look back over the whole fortnight to discuss the various stories and bring you an ATP World Tour Uncovered feature with Aussie, Nick Kyrgios.
1/28/2018 • 48 minutes, 29 seconds
Programme 40 - At the halfway stage of the Australian Open
At the halfway stage of the Australian Open, Gigi Salmon is joined by AO Radio commentators Simon Cambers and Nick McCarvel to look back on the first week of action.
The team discuss the fortunes of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Nick Kyrgios, Grigor Dimitrov and Kyle Edmund and the early exits of Stan Wawrinka, Alexander Zverev and a host of American players.
There’s also discussion about Will Ferrell and Will Smith’s appearances courtside during week 1 and Andy Murray’s road to recovery and we also bring you an ATP Tennis Radio exclusive interview with Kyle Edmund’s coach, Fredrik Rosengren and an ATP World Tour Uncovered feature on Lleyton Hewitt.
1/21/2018 • 39 minutes, 33 seconds
Programme 39 - Australian Open Preview
Gigi Salmon and AO Radio commentator Peter Marcato guide you through the ATP Tennis Radio preview of the first Grand Slam of the year, the Australian Open.
As well as discussing all the latest stories in the build-up to the competition, the presenting duo, situated in the AO Radio commentary box on Rod Laver Arena, also introduce the ATP Tennis Radio 'Time Capsule', a season-long prediction game involving the whole of the on and off air team.
1/13/2018 • 49 minutes, 17 seconds
Programme 38 - 2018 Season Preview
Join Seb Lauzier, Miles Maclagan and Naomi Cavaday as they look ahead to the 2018 ATP World Tour season and discuss all the major talking points ahead of the first Grand Slam of the season, The Australian Open.
We also hear from world number one, Rafael Nadal, Americans Steve Johnson, Taylor Fritz and Bradley Klahn and we join the Zverev brothers in the gym for a pre-season workout.
Get in touch - Leave a review on iTunes and we'll read them out or tweet us @ATPTennisRadio. You can also listen to the show via the ATP World Tour Website - http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/tennis-radio and via TuneIn - https://tunein.com/radio/ATP-Tennis-Radio-Podcast-p1003879/
1/7/2018 • 42 minutes, 40 seconds
Programme 37 - Review of the Hard Court season part 2
Concluding our look back on the 2017 ATP World Tour season, Seb Lauzier introduces interviews and features from the US Open and Masters 1000 events in Shanghai and Paris. During the course of the programme we hear from Paul Annacone, Denis Shapovalov, Craig Boynton, Kevin Anderson, Andrey Rublev, Carlos Moya, Yibing Wu, Duckhee Lee, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Filip Krajinovic and Jack Sock. The programme concludes with a promotion of the Nitto ATP Finals and NextGen Finals special programmes that we recorded at the time of those finals and that are currently available on iTunes.
12/31/2017 • 42 minutes, 54 seconds
Programme 36 - Review of the Hard Court season part 1
Continuing our look back on the 2017 ATP World Tour season, we focus on the start of the hard-court swing, from Sascha Zverev's victories in Washington and Montreal through to Grigor Dimitrov's maiden Masters 1000 title in Cincinnati.
Along the way, we hear from Andy Roddick, Wayne Gretzky, Sascha Zverev, Brad Gilbert, Nick Kyrgios, Mark Woodforde and Grigor Dimitrov's coach, Dani Vallverdu.
12/24/2017 • 48 minutes, 11 seconds
Programme 35 - Review of the Grass Court season
In the second of our programmes looking back over the 2017 ATP World Tour season, we focus on the Grass Court swing from preparations on the courts of Queen and Halle through to Roger Federer's historic 8th Wimbledon title.
Along the way we bring you in-depth interviews and features with Denis Shapovalov, Feliciano Lopez, Jonas Bjorkman, Paul Annacone, Miles Maclagan, Sascha Bublik, Gilles Muller, Jeff Tarango and Roger Federer.
12/17/2017 • 38 minutes, 53 seconds
Programme 34 - Review of the Clay Court season
In the first of our seasonal review programmes, Seb Lauzier takes a look back on a clay court season in which Rafael Nadal dominated.
In a programme bringing you the best interviews, features and commentary from that part of the season, we also hear in-depth interviews with Thomas Muster, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Alex Corretja, Rod Laver, Mats Wilander and Dominic Thiem's coach, Gunter Bresnik.
12/10/2017 • 36 minutes, 40 seconds
Story of the Nitto ATP Finals in London
Watch highlights as Grigor Dimitrov battles past David Goffin in his debut at The O2 to win the Nitto ATP Finals.
The rule innovations trialled in Milan have started many a conversation about what the game of tennis might look like in the future and this week we hear from those involved in devising the rules in the first place, to players, coaches and journalists.
The programme starts by hearing from Executive Chairman and President of the ATP, Chris Kermode and the ATP’s Executive Vice President of Rules and Competition, Gayle Bradshaw as they explain the process going forward. We then hear from Hawkeye’s Head of Tennis, Sam Greean on Hawkeye Live, Richard Krajicek, gives the view of a former player and now Tournament Director of a 500 event, NextGen players Andrey Rublev and Karen Khachanov discuss what it was like to actually play with the rules, Fabio Goretti and Jan Michael Gambill give the coaches perspective, Leon Smith compares the Davis Cup coaching to that of the NextGen and finally we hear from the men tasked with bringing the whole thing together - ATP Chief Player Officer and Tournament Director in Milan, Ross Hutchins and George Ciz, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Business Development at the ATP.
12/3/2017 • 42 minutes, 37 seconds
Programme 32 - A cast of thousands
A week on, Seb Lauzier takes a reflective look back on the Nitto ATP Finals with some of the biggest names in the business. Alex Corretja, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Sebastien Grosjean, Mark Woodforde and Peter Fleming talk about what a great event the finals have become and also look back on playing in the 90s, Rajeev Ram and Sam Querry talk about being event alternates and we join Grigor Dimitrov the day after his finals success.
11/26/2017 • 35 minutes, 3 seconds
Programme 31 - And the winners are...
Gigi Salmon looks back over the Nitto ATP Finals with the help of former pros, Miles Maclagan, Naomi Cavaday and Barry Cowan, plus we hear exclusive interviews with Carlos Moya and Tim Henman and doubles legend Mark Woodforde causes mischief in the ATP Tennis Radio commentary box
11/19/2017 • 45 minutes, 11 seconds
Story of Next Gen ATP Finals in Milan
Relive the inaugural ATP Finals in Milan as Andrey Rublev, Daniil Medvedev, Karen Khachanov, Hyeon Chung, Jared Donaldson, Denis Shapovalov, Borna Coric and Gianluigi Quinzi all took to the court.
11/14/2017 • 4 minutes, 41 seconds
Programme 30 - NextGen Review
Milan has been the focus of our attention this week as the stars of the future graced the Fiero Milano with Hyeon Chung crowned champion.
Join Peter Marcato and Arvind Parmar as they reflect on the inaugural NextGen ATP Finals and give their thoughts on the tournament. They hear from Richard Krajicek, Marcelo Melo, and find out more about the third place finisher Danill Medvedev. Plus London is right around the corner so we hear about tournament preparations from Dani Vallverdu.
11/12/2017 • 44 minutes, 37 seconds
Programme 29 - All Set For London
What a week in the French capital and one to remember with a first-time Masters 1000 winner in the American Jack Sock, fairytale runs for others and a week and highs and lows for Rafael Nadal, confirmed as year-end number one day, only to withdraw injured the next. Our eight for London are confirmed, the NextGen ATP Finals are around the corner, which means a lot to talk about on the latest edition of the ATP Tennis Radio Podcast.
In addition to presenters Gigi Salmon and Miles Maclagan tackling the issues of the week, we also hear from Filip Krajinovic and coach, Petar Popovic, French wildcard sensation Julien Benneteau, Rafael Nadal, David Goffin and Kyle Edmund's coach Fredrick Rosengren.
11/5/2017 • 56 minutes, 49 seconds
Story of the Swiss Indoors Basel
Watch highlights of the Swiss Indoors Basel which includes Roger Federer's victory over Juan Martin del Potro in the final. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com
11/1/2017 • 3 minutes, 37 seconds
Story of the Erste Bank Open 500 in Vienna
Watch highlights of the Erste Bank Open 500 in Vienna, where Lucas Pouille defeated countryman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com
10/30/2017 • 3 minutes, 43 seconds
Programme 28 - Federer and Pouille claim the final 500 titles of the season
This week on ATP Tennis Radio we round up events in Basel and Vienna and hear from Roger Federer, Juan Martin del Potro, Pablo Carreno Busta, David Goffin and Marin Cilic, plus as we build-up to the Rolex Paris Masters, we hear from Tournament Director, Guy Forget.
10/29/2017 • 38 minutes, 13 seconds
Story of the Rolex Paris Masters
Watch highlights as Jack Sock wins the Rolex Paris Masters, his first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title.
10/24/2017 • 3 minutes, 28 seconds
Programme 27 - Race to London Special
With Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Alexander Zverev and Dominic Thiem having already qualified for the Nitto ATP Finals in London, presenter Seb Lauzier takes a look at those hoping to book their tickets as the Race to London intensifies.
We hear from the men who are nearly there, Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov and Croatian, Marin Cilic, those who are following closely behind in David Goffin and Pablo Carreno Busta and those with an outside chance of qualification including, Sam Querry, Kevin Anderson and Juan Martin del Potro.
10/22/2017 • 36 minutes, 5 seconds
Story of the Shanghai Rolex Masters
Highlights and hot shots as Roger Federer beats Rafa Nadal for the fifth time in a row - to win the 2017 Shanghai Rolex Masters. Watch official ATP tennis streams all year round: http://tnn.is/YouTube
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10/16/2017 • 3 minutes, 34 seconds
Programme 26 - Federer Flies to Second Shanghai Title
This week's ATP Tennis Radio podcast comes from Shanghai as Roger Federer makes it title number five for the season.
Presenters Gigi Salmon and Arvind Parmar discuss events on the court and reporter Matt Brown meets up with Dominic Thiem's coach, Joakim Nystrom, young Russian Next Gen star, Andrey Rublev and China's teen sensation, Wu Yibing.
We also hear from John McEnroe, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, courtesy of tennis impersonator, Josh Berry.
10/15/2017 • 48 minutes, 6 seconds
Story of China Open in Beijing
Rafael Nadal wins his first title in Beijing since 2005! Watch official ATP tennis streams all year round: http://tnn.is/YouTube
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10/10/2017 • 2 minutes, 58 seconds
Story of the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships in Tokyo
David Goffin Wins Tokyo Title | Rakuten Japan Open 2017 Highlights
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10/9/2017 • 3 minutes, 20 seconds
Programme 25 - The Asian Swing hots up
It's a victory for David Goffin in Tokyo, while Rafa reigns supreme in Beijing. Barry Millns and Naomi Cavaday discuss the latest events on the Asian swing and look ahead to the Shanghai Rolex Masters.
10/8/2017 • 38 minutes, 40 seconds
Programme 24 - Tennis in Asia
It's now over 28 years since a fresh-faced Michael Chang became the first player of Asian origin to win a Grand Slam, that at the 1989 French Open and while Li Na has claimed two slams since then the closest any man has come since is Kei Nishikori’s runner-up spot at the 2014 US Open. Nishikori remains the continent’s preeminent player and will take up his challenge when he returns from injury in 2018, but in the meantime his absence is allowing others to forge growing reputations and during this programme we’ll hear from a number of them as the Asian swing gets underway with 500s in Beijing and Tokyo leading up to the latest masters 1000 event, the Shanghai Rolex Masters.
10/1/2017 • 32 minutes, 25 seconds
Programme 23 - Doubles Special
This week’s ATP Tennis Radio Podcast focuses on the doubles game and the Race to London.
Presenter Gigi Salmon introduces interviews and features with race leaders Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo, New Zealander Michael Venus, US Open champions Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau, legendary doubles team, Bob and Mike Bryan, Jamie Murray, Mark Knowles, Rohan Bopanna, Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi, London hopefuls Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram and Alexander Zverev, who speaks about playing with his brother, Mischa.
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9/24/2017 • 37 minutes, 59 seconds
Programme 22 - #NextGen Special
As the countdown clock passes 50 days to go and with crucial qualification points still on offer, this week’s ATP Tennis Radio Podcast focuses on the Race to Milan, the NextGen Finals.
Presenter Gigi Salmon introduces interviews and feature with Alexander Zverev, Denis Shapovalov, Karen Khachanov, Frances Tiafoe, Andrey Rublev, Borna Coric and young Italian hopeful, Matteo Berrettini and we also bring you interviews with Jimmy Arias and Sam Gore on the state of American tennis and Ross Hutchings and Chris Kermode give the ATP perspective.
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9/17/2017 • 38 minutes, 11 seconds
Programme 21 - Rafa Reigns in New York
As Rafael Nadal wins the final Grand Slam of the year at Flushing Meadows, presenter Gigi Salmon is joined by tennis commentators David Law and Courtney Nguyen to look back over the fortnight and to discuss what it all means for the rest of the season building up to the Nitto ATP Finals at London’s O2 Arena in November.
As well as speaking to the guests, we also hear about what Carlos Moya has been working on with the new US Open champion, Kevin Anderson’s wife, Kelsey, gives us an insiders guide to life on the road, we bring you ATP World Tour Uncovered’s feature with Pablo Carreno Busta and hear from one-half of the victorious doubles team at the US Open, John-Julien Rojer.
9/10/2017 • 41 minutes, 17 seconds
Programme 20 - The Fairytale of New York
Inside the US Open Podcast presenter, Nick McCarvel joins Gigi Salmon to look back on week one of the US Open.
The discussion ranges from Denis Shapovalov's scintillating form to Federer and Nadal's struggles early on and the unusual look to the bottom half of the draw.
Along the way, there are also interviews with Denis Shapovalov, Vasek Pospisil, Kevin Anderson, Sam Querry's coach, Craig Boynton and David Goffin's coach Thierry Van Cleemput.
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9/3/2017 • 39 minutes, 24 seconds
Programme 19 - US Open Preview
We preview the US Open with three time US Open doubles champion, Mark Woodforde. We speak about the challengers for the title, hear from Paul Annacone, Jose Higueras, plus doubles contender Bruno Soares. Plus we get Mark's top 5 hard court players and find out what tennis players do in their time off in New York.
8/27/2017 • 45 minutes, 36 seconds
Story of Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati
In a battle of two first-time Masters 1000 finalists, Grigor Dimitrov beat Nick Kyrgios to win in Cincinnati! Watch official ATP tennis streams all year round: http://tnn.is/YouTube
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8/22/2017 • 3 minutes, 42 seconds
Programme 18 - Grigor Grabs Maiden Masters Crown
We hear from Grigor Dimitrov as he claims his first title at Masters 1000 level beating Nick Kyrgios in the final of the Western and Southern Open.
We also speak to Dimitrov's coach, Dani Vallverdu, Mike Russell talks about his charge, American youngster, Frances Tiafoe, Brad Gilbert explains why Alexander Zverev is set to dominate the game and as Rafael Nadal returns to number one in the Emirates ATP Rankings, his peers pay a fitting tribute.
8/20/2017 • 36 minutes, 42 seconds
Story of Rogers Cup in Montreal
German Sascha Zverev wins his second Masters 1000 title of 2017, handing Roger Federer his first loss in a final this season. Watch official ATP tennis streams all year round: http://tnn.is/YouTube
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8/16/2017 • 3 minutes, 33 seconds
Programme 17 - Apprentice beats the Master in Montreal
We hear from Alexander Zverev as he reacts to his victory over Roger Federer at the Montreal Masters, plus we take a look back at some of the week's other big stories.
Leading Canadian journalist Tom Tebbutt gives us the background info on rising Canadian star, Denis Shapovalov and we bring you an exclusive sit down interview with another NextGen star, Jared Donaldson.
And if that wasn't enough, we speak to the greatest Canadian sportsman of all-time, the legendary Wayne Gretzky.
Guiding you through the next 30 minutes is Gigi Salmon and Andy Murray's former coach, Miles Maclagan.
8/13/2017 • 40 minutes, 50 seconds
Story of Citi Open in Washington
20 year old Sascha Zverev won his fifth career title in Washington, defeating Kevin Anderson in straight sets. This was his first career outdoor hard court title. Highlights of that victory plus the rest of the week. Watch official ATP tennis streams all year round: http://tnn.is/YouTube
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8/8/2017 • 2 minutes, 55 seconds
Programme 16 - Zverev wins in Washington
Alexander Zverev wins his fourth final out of five in 2017 to continue his momentum right to the very top of the game and we bring you highlights and analysis from his latest victory against South African, Kevin Anderson in the Washington 500 event.
We also hear from young Australian, Thanasi Kokkinakis after his runner-up placing in Los Cabos and as we begin the hard court season, American Donald Young and Argentinian, Juan Martin Del Potro talk to us about their preparations and Canadian youngster, Denis Shapovalov discusses the pressures of being a home player this week in the Montreal Masters.
8/6/2017 • 36 minutes, 9 seconds
Story of German Tennis Championships 2017 in Hamburg
Highlights from the German Open as home favourite Florian Mayer met Leonardo Mayer of Argentina for the title.
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7/31/2017 • 3 minutes, 37 seconds
Programme 15 - Battle of the Mayer's
Andy Roddick speaks to us in the week when he added his name to the illustrious list who can call themselves Hall of Famers.
We also here from upcoming Russian star Karen Khachanov and discuss the week's big story - Novak Djokovic deciding to call time on his 2017 season due to injury.
We start though with the news that lucky loser Leonardo Mayer claimed the Hamburg title against fellow Mayer, Florian and whilst in Germany, also meet up with a home favourite, Philipp Kohlschreiber.
This week's show is presented by Tennis Commentator, Barry Millns, whose guest is former British Davis Cup player, Arvind Parmar.
7/30/2017 • 35 minutes, 30 seconds
Programme 14 - What makes Roger Federer the greatest-ever?
Presenter Seb Lauzier asks Andy Murray's former coach Miles Maclagan to break down the game of Roger Federer and explain what makes the Swiss star so effective.
Miles also names his top 5 All-Time Hard Court players and answers listeners questions on a variety of topics.
We also hear the feature that the ATP World Tour Uncovered weekly magazine show did with Sascha Zverev and look ahead to the Hamburg 500 event in Germany.
7/23/2017 • 38 minutes, 45 seconds
Programme 13 - Eight Wimbledon titles and counting!
Roger Federer makes history becoming the only man to win eight Wimbledon titles.
Podcast host Gigi Salmon speaks to Tennis TV commentators, Nick Lester and Robbie Koenig about this achievement, plus we also hear the views of former British number one, Lucie Ahl and former player turned commentator for the BBC, Jeff Tarango.
Reporter Seb Lauzier also speaks to Gilles Muller to find out what's turned the Luxembourg stars form around at such a late stage in his career.
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7/16/2017 • 0
Programme 12 - Jonas Bjorkman, Pat Cash and Sasha Bublik
At the halfway stage of Wimbledon, presenter Gigi Salmon is joined by Tennis TV commentators Robbie Koenig and Nick Lester to look back over a story-filled opening week.
As well as looking at the runners and riders, we also hear from new kid on the block, Alexander Bublik, Pat Cash talks grass court technique 30 years after winning Wimbledon and Jonas Bjorkman looks back over his singles and doubles career in which winning his first Wimbledon doubles title was a career highlight
7/9/2017 • 0
Programme 11 - The Wimbledon Preview
This week Andy Murray discusses the defence of his Wimbledon title, Rafael Nadal talks about his desire to maintain his form on grass, Nick Kyrgios dissects his game with the help of fellow Aussie, Pat Cash, ATP World Tour Uncovered take an in-depth look at Grigor Dimitrov and also get an exclusive interview with Milos Raonic's new coach, Mark Knowles and coach Paul Annocone tells us why he decided to help Stan Wawrinka at Wimbledon.
Presenter Seb Lauzier is joined by Andy Murray's former coach Miles Maclagan, as the pair take a look at the draw and give out their favourite for the title.
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7/2/2017 • 0
Story of Aegon Championships
Watch highlights from the Aegon Championships, where Feliciano Lopez got his hands on the trophy in thrilling fashion. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com. Getty Images photo.
6/27/2017 • 3 minutes, 33 seconds
Story of Gerry Weber Open in Halle
Highlights from Halle as Roger Federer produces a devastating performance to claim his ninth title in Halle. Watch official ATP streams all year round: http://tnn.is/WatchLive
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6/27/2017 • 3 minutes, 56 seconds
Programme 10 - Federer wins in Halle, Lopez clinches Queens
In a specially extended ATP Tennis Radio podcast, we hear from Roger Federer as he claims his ninth title in Halle and Feliciano Lopez speaks about rolling back the years to clinch the title in Queens.
Presenter Rupert Bell is joined by former British player, Naomi Cavaday as they look back on the week's events as well as bring you exclusive interviews with Marin Cilic's coach, Jonas Bjorkman and NextGen rising star, Denis Shapovalov.
6/25/2017 • 0
Programme 09 - The view from the Queen's balcony!
Andy Murray talks Queens and Roger Federer looks ahead to Halle. Just two of the exclusive interviews that we bring you in a special podcast hosted at the Aegon Championships on the eve of two outstanding ATP 500 events.
Presenter Seb Lauzier is joined by the Aegon Championships Tournament Director, Stephen Farrow as they discuss the changes that have been made for this year's event in London and look at the player field in depth.
Stan Wawrinka also joins us to talk about his new member of his coaching team, Paul Annacone and in Halle, Dominic Thiem speaks about his goal to take his fantastic clay court form, onto the grass.
6/18/2017 • 0
Programme 08 - Rafa makes in 10 in Paris
As Rafael Nadal makes it ten titles at Roland Garros, we hear from the great and the good of the game on this mammoth achievement. Among those giving their view are Alex Corretja, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Dominic Thiem, Mats Wilander and Tournament Director and former player, Guy Forget.
Presenter Gigi Salmon is joined overlooking Philippe-Chatrier court by RadioSport New Zealand's Matt Brown with contributions from the Live @ Roland Garros TV programme and commentary clips from Radio Roland Garros.
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6/11/2017 • 0
Programme 07 - Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray on week 1 of Roland Garros
As the first week of Roland-Garros reaches it's conclusion, we hear from Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray and NextGen star Karen Khachanov, plus we get to know a bit more about Argentina's Diego Schwartzman in an exclusive interview.
Presenter Gigi Salmon is joined overlooking Philippe-Chatrier Court by RadioSport New Zealand's Matt Brown and Tennis Journalist and roving reporter for Live at Roland-Garros, Nick McCarvel.
6/4/2017 • 0
Programme 06 - Novak Djokovic on Andre Agassi
Novak Djokovic talks about working with Andre Agassi, Juan Carlos Ferrero explains why he thinks Rafael Nadal will win La Decima, Andy Murray discusses his poor form and Dominic Thiem hopes to continue his fine run on clay this year.
Presenter Gigi Salmon is joined by RadoSport New Zealand's Matt Brown as they guide you through all the build-up to Roland Garros, plus we hear from ATP Executive Chairman and President, Chris Kermode and Boris Becker at the unveiling of the Nitto ATP World Tour Finals.
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5/28/2017 • 0
ATP World Tour Season So Far
Legends Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal have dominated the 2017 tennis season so far, but young stars Dominic Thiem and Sascha Zverev have had plenty of success too. Watch official ATP tennis streams all year round: http://tnn.is/YouTube
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5/23/2017 • 0
Story of Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome
Sascha Zverev triumphs in his first Masters 1000 final against 30-time Masters 1000 champion Novak Djokovic. The highlight to what was a memorable week in Rome.
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5/23/2017 • 0
Programme 05 - Alexander Zverev on his first Masters 1000 title
Rome winner Alexander Zverev speaks to us, we hear how Novak Djokovic was able to convince Andre Agassi to help him return to the top of the game, legends Nicola Pietrangeli and Rod Laver stop by for a chat and we get the latest on the experimental rules trials from the ATP's Chris Kermode and Ross Hutchins.
Presenter Gigi Slmon is joined in the studio by Andy Murray's former coach, Miles Maclagan.
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5/21/2017 • 0
Story of Mutua Madrid Open
Highlights from the ATP Masters 1000 clay court tournament in Madrid, as King of Clay Rafael Nadal took on a world-class field as he looked to continue his fantastic form. Watch official ATP tennis streams all year round: http://tnn.is/YouTube
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5/16/2017 • 0
Programme 04 - La Decima for Nadal and the shot of the year from Cuevas
After Rafael Nadal excels at the Mutua Madrid Open, we bring you all the reaction and analysis, plus we relive what could turn out to be the shot of the year and hear from Spanish tennis great, Alex Corretja.
Presenter Gigi Salmon is joined by Andy Murray's former coach, Miles Maclagan who gives his expert view on events in Madrid and also looks ahead to the Internazionali BNL D'Italia in Rome.
5/14/2017 • 0
Programme 03 - Novak Djokovic parts with his coaching team
Novak Djokovic discusses his decision to part with his entire coaching team and Andy Murray talks about the prospect of his season kicking into gear in Madrid.
Presenter, Seb Lauzier is joined by TennisTV and World Feed commentator, Sam Gore and Pedro Guttierez, from the tournament's own Spanish radio station, SetBall radio as they discuss the runners and riders for the Mutua Madrid Open title and discuss whether anyone will be able to beat Rafael Nadal who's begun the clay court season on fire.
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5/7/2017 • 0
Programme 02 - La Decima for Rafael Nadal in Barcelona
Highlights and reaction as Rafael Nadal makes it ten titles in Barcelona, following on from a 10th victory in Monte-Carlo a week earlier.
Presenter Gigi Salmon and Andy Murray's former coach, Miles Maclagan also round-up the rest of the week's events in Barcelona and in Budapest, where Lucas Pouille claimed victory.
We also hear from Milos Raonic on the comeback trail and the big-serving Canadian is also the subject of our new feature, MyBigShot.
4/30/2017 • 0
Story of Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell in Barcelona
The King of Clay defeats Dominic Thiem to score ten in Barcelona. highlights from the final plus a look back at the rest of the week.
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4/30/2017 • 0
Story of Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters
Rafael Nadal's Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters victory was a landmark occasion for the Spaniard. Watch official live tennis streams from the tournament here: http://tnn.is/YouTube
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4/27/2017 • 0
Programme 01 - ATP Tennis Radio begins
The very first Tennis Radio podcast rounds up all the action from the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters. Presenter Gigi Salmon and former British Number 1, Chris Wilkinson look back on an event which saw the King of Clay, Rafal Nadal make it ten titles at the Monte-Carlo Country Club. There's also exclusive interviews with the clay-court legend, Thomas Muster, Grigor Dimitrov's coach, Danny Vallverdu talks coaching techniques and the ATP's vice-president of player relations, Ross Hutchins looks ahead to the NextGen tournament in Milan at the end of the year. All that plus we go behind-the-scenes with Monte-Carlo Country Club Assistant Manager Eric Seigle, discuss the relationship Rolex has with the tournament and get the view on the future of the game from Executive Chairman and President of the ATP, Chris Kermode.
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4/23/2017 • 0
Tennis Radio Coming Soon
Tennis Radio, your comprehensive look at the ATP World Tour, including highlights, interviews, features and much, much more.
4/12/2017 • 0
Story of Miami Open presented by Itau
Roger Federer defeated Rafa Nadal in straight sets - his fourth consecutive victory over the Spaniard - to win back-to-back titles in Indian Wells and Miami. Watch official ATP tennis streams all year round: http://tnn.is/YouTube
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4/3/2017 • 0
Story of BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells
Roger Federer defeats Stan Wawrinka in straight sets to win his 25th ATP Masters 1000 title at the 2017 BNP Paribas Open. Watch official ATP tennis streams all year round: http://tnn.is/YouTube
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3/20/2017 • 0
Story of Abierto Mexicano Telcel in Mexico
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3/5/2017 • 0
Story of Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships in Dubai
Highlights of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships in Dubai, cluminating in the final which saw Andy Murray take on Spanish lefty Fernando Verdasco. Watch official ATP streams all year round: http://tnn.is/YouTube
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3/5/2017 • 0
Story of Rio Open presented by Claro
Dominic Thiem battled past Pablo Carreno in straight sets for his 8th career title at Rio. Watch official ATP matches live and on demand all year round at Tennis TV: http://tnn.is/WatchLive
2/27/2017 • 0
Story of ABN Amro World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam
Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga sought a first ATP title in 18 months, as he faced new top-10 player David Goffin in the Rotterdam final. Watch official ATP streams all year round: http://tnn.is/WatchLive
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