ATP Tennis Radio Podcast

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 TENN...

Jill Craybas speaks to Dominic Stricker's coach Sven Swinnen about his player's development and about training with Roger Federer as a youngster.

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. WE...

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.

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

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.

Kyle Edmund speaks to Jill Craybas about recovering from wrist Injury, getting into TV commentary and the future.

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’...

British Doubles pair Henry Patten and Julian Cash speak to reporter Candy Reid about making the transition from Challenger to main tour.

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 an...

Matt Ebden speaks to Richard Connelly about his run to the Wimbledon doubles title last year alongside fellow Australian, Max Purcell.

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...

Holland David Cup Captain Paul Haarhuis speaks to our reporter Richard Connelly about how the game is progressing in the country.

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...

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.

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...

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.

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 TH...

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.

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...

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.

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. Withou...

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 Na...

Reporter Candy Reid speaks to coach Mark Gellard about working with world number 19, Magda Linette, Life on tour and how he got into tennis coaching in the first place.