The First Serve

Our dedicated podcast around the Challenger/ITF Tour is back for a big Episode Eight of 2026, hosted by fellow pros Alex Osborne and Tom Fancutt. In this edition, Ally and Tom look back on their year on tour thus far, sharing their travel stories, on court experiences, future goals, and take a look at the Aussies on tour. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week the future of Australian tennis is up for discussion on 'The First Serve Live'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Coach and Co-Host of our Junior Journey Podcast Beti Sekulovski joined Brett Phillips on 'The First Serve Live' to chat the WT W35 in Wagga Wagga and her observations of our next layer of Aussie prospects wearing her commentary hat with BeIn Sports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

23 year old Aussie Casey Hoole from Brisbane who won his first professional singles title over the weekend at the WT M25 in Darwin joined 'The First Serve Live' with Brett Phillips. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Phillips was back with another big show with the Asian Swing in 'full swing' plus the Future of Australian tennis, a chat with young Aussie Casey Hoole after winning his first pro title the M25 in Darwin, Aussie coach and co-host of our Junior Journey Podcast Beti Sekulovski who was at the W35 in Wagga Wagga, about the level of our young Aussie women, plus all the news of the week. Learn mor...

Welcome to Episode 4 of Season 2 of Beyond the Tramlines, hosted by Josh Heriot, which explores the stories and journeys of people achieving great things in the world of tennis.  Feature guest for this fourth episode of 2026 is Aussie Louise Pleming from playing to coaching to commentating and founder and CEO of Rally4Ever formed to improve the mental and physical wellbeing of our community t...

The Future of Australian tennis, now under a new CEO in Andrew Abdo continues to be a big talking point. On The First Serve Live on Monday Night, Brett Phillips covered it across two segments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former player, turrn coach and commentator Louise Pleming joined Brett Phillips on The First Serve Live with her Rally4Ever hat on as Founder and CEO, which was formed to improve the mental and physical wellbeing of our community through tennis and social connection. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nick Scott from 135 Tennis Intelligence (www.135ti.com) was back on The First Serve Live with the topic of AI in tennis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Phillips is back with another big show saluting Kim Birrell's first career title, plus all the latest on court news. The Future of Australian tennis discussion continued with plenty of emails coming in. Lou Plemming jumped on the show to chat her great passion - Rally4Ever, using tennis as a vehice for improved mental health and Nick Scott from 135 Tennis Intelligence, our data analyst discu...

Welcome to the seventh episode of The Masters Zone for 2026, hosted by Tim Prince which delves into the ITF Masters tour in Australia and around the world.  In this edition Tim's special guest is Benoit Foucher, who has a whole philosophy and regime for training over 40's Masters Players. He has also been the coach of Arthur Fery, the surprise Wimbledon semi finalist this year after going pro...

The Push, our dedicated wheelchair tennis podcast is back for episode six for 2026 with hosts Tim Connelly - Tennis Director of Hume Tennis and Community Centre and Home of the Melbourne & Victorian Wheelchair Open, and Aussie quad pro Heath Davidson OAM. This sixth ep of the year, comes from Orlando, Florida after Team Australia (Heath Davidson, Jin Woodman and Ben Wenzel) claimed the silver meda...

Episode 8 of Season 3 of 'The Junior Journey' is here talking all things junior tennis for players, coaches, parents and tennis fans. Your Co Hosts Michael Logarzo and Beti Sekulovski in this episode get a parents perspective with an indepth chat with Rachael Finch - Australian TV host, model and beauty pageant titleholder and owning natural cosmetics and consumable products company, Kissed Earth....

On the back of the weekend's article in The Australian newspaper about the state of Australian tennis titled ' Tennis Fiasco: Newk the lot' host of The First Serve Live Brett Phillips responded. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

George Kallis has produced an App for Coaches and Parents called Courtside Stats. He joined Brett Phillips to explain how the app works on The First Serve Live, also with a special 60% discount offer. To receive the special discount link, email - thefirstservesen@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kale Nairn from UTR Sports joins Brett Phillips on The First Serve Live to wrap up the UTR-PTT latest tournament in Sydney chatting with women's winner Belle Thompson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Phillips was back with another big show wrapping up the US Open, the state of Australian tennis on the back of the article in 'The Australian Newspaper' - Tennis Fiasco: Newk the lot, plus a wrap of UTR-PTT Sydney chatting to women's winner Belle Thompson and George Kallis, creator of the Courtside Stats App for Coaches and Parents Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic...

Lachlan Puyol is back with S4, E8 of Play USA thanks to Play USA Tennis Pathways. Lachlan catches up with Aussie pair Aadi Pai, in his Freshman year at Collin College - NJCAA (Texas) and Deagan Tomkins, Grad Assistant and Masters student at Springfield College - NCAA D3 (Massachusetts) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this seventh episode of the year host Adon Kronk from KT Academy on the Sunshine Coast, has former Aussie pro from Queensland Robert Smeets as his special guest reliving his career and now sitting on the Tennis Qld Board. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Tennis Victoria State Grade season wrapped up over the weekend with the Grand Finals - Beaumaris LTC took out the women's, Kooyong LTC the men's title. Savannah James from Beaumaris and David Bidmeade from Kooyong were guests on The First Serve Live to reflect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Phillips was back with another big show at the halfway point of the US Open, plus a recap of the Tennis Victoria State Grade Grand Finals and the Mailbag returned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our dedicated podcast around the Challenger/ITF Tour is back for a big Episode Seven of 2026, hosted by fellow pros Alex Osborne and Tom Fancutt. In this edition, Ally and Tom catch up with Japan's Seita Watanabe, Tom's doubles partner for the last few tournaments for a fascinating chat about his tennis life and the pair catch up on what has transpired for them both on tour in the last month as th...

Australia's most celebrated wheelchair tennis player David Hall OAM, joined Brett Phillips on The First Serve Live, ahead of celebrations at the US Open to mark 50 years of wheelchair tennis and to talk about his memoir Superbeast detailing his incredible journey and achievements. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The latest UTR-PTT Tournament was on the Gold Coast over the weekend. Hear from the two winners with Kale Nairn that featured on The First Serve Live. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tennis Victoria State Grade Semi Finals were played last weekend. Emily Chesterman from Tennis Victoria joined Brett Phillips on The First Serve Live to recap and look ahead to the Grand Finals this weekend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices