Inside the Wires | Platform Tennis and Paddle podcast

Join us this week for our discussion with "M-Series" Macie and "T-City" Tomas as we recap the year, discuss who were the best teams this year, who was the most improved, and give our take for the final paddle dance of the year, Philly Nationals!

Join us this week with our guest, Anton Protsenko. The famous "Buffalo" Protsenko recaps the final paddle Grand Prix of the year, Short Hills, along with sharing his insights on this game we love, the year end platform tennis National Championship, and even his new exploits in the fast growing sport of Padel. As always, a fun time with Anton and we hope you enjoy the show!

For this week's episode, Brad Easterbrook, the Master Yoda of platform tennis, joins us to give everyone a Master Class on all things paddle. As we gear up for the final Grand Prix of the year, Brad recaps recent APTA Tour events, talks paddle strategy from Tour to Club level, and delivers a fun oddsmaker conversation for Short Hills.

It's a new year, and to kick off 2025, we have a new team that has skyrocketed up the platform tennis ranks as our guests. Joining us this week to discuss the first half of the paddle season and recap this past Grand Prix, we have the formidable team representing the strength and finesse from the EU, Bea Lopez and Tea Pejic!

Join us this week with our guest, Marc "Here Comes The BOOM" Powers, where we talk about last week's APTA Tour and NRT results, how Mr. Powers got into platform tennis and became one of paddle's best players, and what he's looking forward to this season!

New hosts Eric and Nobu bring you the pride of Poland, Filip "The Flow" Rams, to recap current events on the APTA Tour and get to know the man with the best flow on and off the cage!

What started as a way to kill time and long for paddle during the COVID lockdown, has turned into Inside the Wires with a great following of passionate paddle players. In this episode, we pass the torch to some great new hosts

Nationals are over so we discuss some amazing action, upcoming Team Nationals, new partnerships and Ben's travel plans.

We're happy to be joined this week by rapidly rising young player Andrew Ong for a preview of Nationals this weekend, some predictions and a discussion of all things paddle

We're excited to be joined this week by some of the rising stars of the game. They've been creating a lot of excitement this year with their incredibly exciting play and success in National tournaments. Get to know a bit more about Bea Lopex, Alvi Regalado, Jose Salazar and Guillermo Nunez!

It was a slow start to 2024 with no episodes, but we're back with 2 of the best. Philly's own Tomas Christian and JC Cotto on Inside the Wires

Chicago players making some noise on the national scene Andrew Ong (owner of one of the finest man buns in paddle) and Robert Stineman, join for a fun paddle talk

We're happy to have on a frequent guest and 4 time National Champ, Drew Broderick. Drew talks PFP, the state of the game, and the upcoming young group of talented players

So it was bound to happen, after almost 4 years of recording, we had some SERIOUS technical difficulties with our recording. We tried to fix it as best we could but the content was so good, we wanted to make sure we put it on air. This episode we have the duo of pros at the Short Hills Club in NJ, Vera Bessanova and Chris Humphries, 2 major fixtures in top level tournament play.

Fresh off an amazing inaugural tournament, the tournament directors of the Baltimore Open, Nobu Tanaka and Sam Byram discuss what it takes to put together a successful platform tennis tournament.

Coming back to defend their title this year, the 2023 Women's National Platform Tennis Champs join us to talk about the summer, defending their title and what lies ahead!

So you think you have all the training you need by warming up for 5 minutes before a match. Wait until you meet Volley, the new training machine for paddle! We're joined by John Weinlader and Marek Czerwinski for a look at what's in store for anyone serious about getting better at paddle.

This week we have straight from Owl's Nest in NH, Mark Innes. In addition to a high level playing career, Mark has been a teaching Pro and in the last couple of years has contributed greatly to paddle with MiPaddle with instructional content, social media for the APTA as well as live streaming of events. Mark brings a unique perspective to the game and is always a great guest.

Ben and Noah are back to recap what happened over the summer, new things coming up, and we start to get ready for the season!

It might be the 6th title for Johan and the 3rd for Stephen (and 3rd together) but we found plenty to talk about. It was supposed to be a quick 30 minute conversation that lasted almost 2 hours! Join us for a fun one with the men's National champs! Get the behind the scenes video at https://www.youtube.com/@insidethewirespodcast

Ben's sick, Noah and Ara had a fun conversation with the new women's champs, Lynn Kiro and Macie Medeiros. Learn how quickly a new team came together and some elite players both won Nationals in only their second year of playing paddle (easy game?) Hear about all the help along the way from many people to support the journey.

He's been mentioned repeatedly, played in Nationals this weekend and is a legend of Chicago paddle. Listen to what you've been missing, Jay (Woldy) Woldenberg! Want to see what happened behind the scenes? Watch and listen at Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@insidethewirespodcast

While there's some question if you can be Canadian and not play in the Canadian Open (especially because you're going to Prom. You'll need to listen for more info on this), Eric West is a rising star in paddle and joins us for a fun conversation.

A great episode to give you the inside look at playing with one of the greats of the game, Steve DeRose. Plus all you've eve wanted to know about the guy in tournaments wearing the old NHL teams shirts and jerseys. There are plenty of names dropped as the targets of Jun's pranks and scares too. This one was fun!

This is a long one because it just got fun. Greg Robertson, the founder/host of the Last Chance Event in NJ at the end of the season, which is another don't miss, but invite only tourneys. Greg is also a long time APTA umpire with a distinctive booming voice when announcing. There's some fun stories and some name dropping, enjoy!