Open Curtain by Ayaan Paruthi

Meet Sienna Castelli, a talented competitive tennis player from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Lancaster Country Day School (LCDS) graduate! In this episode we discover her journey through junior tennis, PIAA tennis, and high school tennis as she takes the next step to college tennis at the University of Chicago. She is known for her determination, technical skills, and resilience, Sienna shares her...

Have you ever wondered how a thrilling tennis match comes alive through commentary? Join us as Ken Thomas, founder of Radio Tennis, shares his journey from accomplished tennis player to tennis broadcasting entrepreneur. We talk about skills needed for live tennis commentary and bringing every serve, rally, and match point to life for listeners. I learnt a lot about tennis media and sports commenta...

Have you ever wondered what it takes to be part of a professional tennis tournament’s ball crew? Join us as former US Open ball crew member Bob Williams shares his journey, which began at the US Open in 2017 and led him to become Director of Ball persons at the Koser Jewelers Tennis Challenge in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and a trainer at the Miami Open. In this episode, I learnt about teamwork, tra...

What does it take to make a lasting impact on the tennis community? In this episode, Mr. Wilson Pipkin shares about his amazing journey in tennis leadership, player development, and building tennis community. He was recognized with the 2019 USTA Family of the Year honor. He has helped strengthen the sport through leadership, recreation programs, and coaching. I learnt about junior tennis developme...

Ready to talk tennis? We’re serving up big matches, crazy stories, epic comebacks, and everything that makes tennis so much fun! This season, we’re going on and off the court—from junior tennis  to college tennis, player mindset, behind-the-scenes action, and the people who make the game amazing! Before we begin this season, I want to thank my mom. Without her persistent behind the scenes efforts,...

Merry Christmas! Today I will be covering some pretty hilarious jokes that are going to start the new year with a bang! I hope you enjoy my holiday special!

In this episode, I talk about a very interesting book, the inventio n of Hugo Cabret. I also talk about Horology - the concept I learnt when I visited the national Watch and Clock museum in Columbia, PA. I saw a very interesting clock called the Engle clock. Take a look at covert art! I hope you enjoy the episode.

In this episode, I interview Dhruvan (Drew) Sundaram. We go in depth into the wonderful sport of Ice Hockey.

In this episode I review the Book Scavenger book series. I dig deep into different kinds of ciphers like the Pig Pen and Caesar. To know more about the ciphers, check out the links below. Hope you like it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigpen_cipher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_cipher

In this episode, I cover the memorable events from the last week of Paris Olympics and the closing Ceremony!

Re-witness the first week of the Paris Olympics with me.

Dive into the Paris Olympics with me and discover some new things you have never heard about this age old tournament.

Yesterday, 14-July was Super Sports Sunday! What an amazing day! There were four tournaments, one in tennis, One in Cricket and two in Soccer. They were so good, I wanted to do an episode on them. I call the power packed, Super Sports Sunday! I hope you enjoy it!

One of my friends asked me to do an episode on soccer and I promised him, I would. So here it is. Hope you like it!

Hello Friends, guess what today is Pi day! What is so special about this day? What is the history of Pi and lots more things about Pi. I have got it all in this episode. Don't forget to participate in the poll on spotify. Hope you like it!

Dear Listeners, I recorded this episode after learning about Odysseus, the moon lander. Odysseus moon lander was made by a private company, Intuitive Machines. I really enjoyed learning about Odysseus and how intuitive machines, NASA and SpaceX worked together on this mission. I hope you like it!

Earlier this year, I learnt about Poetry in class and I thought it would be fun to do a podcast on this topic. It was fun to learn about different forms of Poetry. As always, I have jokes for you at the end of podcast. Hope you like it!

In this episode, I talk about one of my and my mom's favorite sport - Cricket. Hope you like it!

This summer, I read about Steve Jobs as part of my summer reading assignment and I decided to do an episode on it. I enjoyed learning so much about him and especially his speech. Hope you like it!

This summer break, I went Maryland Science Center and got to learn about Dinosaurs. So I decided to do an episode on them. Hope you like it! Do not forget to vote!

Happy Father’s Day to my dad and to all the cool dads in the world! In this special episode, I interview my dad!! You will find out so many ways in which me and my dad are alike. Here’s a picture of me and my dad, please let me know in the comments to this episode if I look like my dad or does he look like me? I hope you enjoy the episode as much as we enjoyed recording it.

This is my the 20th Episode!! Yay!! Its an important because it is one of my favorite episode and also because my parents did not think I will do 20 Episodes. I made it!! Continuing from my last episode about Chess, in this episode I talk about my favorite Chess player Magnus Carlsen. I talk about how he became the worlds best chess player. A few phrases that I used in the podcast: IGM: Internatio...

In this episode, I share about one of my favorite games - Chess. I talk about the history of chess, the different types of chess and different tournaments in chess. Also, I talk about the world chess championship that were held in Astana, Kazakhstan this year. Ding Liren is the new world chess champion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ding_Liren https://worldchampionship.fide.com/

In this episode, I talk about one of my favorite book series - Spy School. I loved the book series as it is full of adventure, mystery and I learnt about lot of cool spaces around the world. Stuart Gibbs:https://stuartgibbs.com/ Spy School Series:https://www.simonandschuster.com/series/Spy-School

In this episode, I talk about different kinds of cubes and the history of the most commonly used cube 3x3x3. I also talk about different cubing tournaments and the some of the world records. #WCA, #Speedcubers, #cubing World Cube Association: https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/