Fantastic Tennis

Whether you started following her as Jarmila Gajdosova or as Jarka Wolfe, this talented Slovak-Australian was a top WTA player for over 16 years on the WTA Tour, and reached #25 in the world by beating the very best to get there. This week we celebrate not only her career, but also the 10 year anniversary of her amazing run to the 2013 Australian Open Mixed Doubles title with countrymen, Matthew E...

The 2023 tennis season has started with an absolute brilliant bullet. From Naomi Osaka, to the “Break Point curse,” to a story-filled Australian Open…..join host, Jon Guerrica along with tennis media giants, Caitlin Thompson & Nick McCarvel as they take an insider's look at all the happenings this month in tennis. How much do we hate when two players wear the same outfit?! How amazing was the Vika...

We’re kicking off our Season 3 premiere with some tennis headlines from a newsworthy week in the sport. In this brief episode, we talk our favorite 2023 Australian Open 1st round match-ups, Naomi Osaka, and of course, we preview our first player interview of the season, the fantastic, Bethanie Mattek-Sands. If you need a quickie for your car ride or morning walk, we have you covered! 

We open Season 3 of Fantastic Tennis with one of the most decorated and loved WTA champions still playing the game today, the fantastic, Bethanie Mattek-Sands. Bethanie joins host, Jon Guerrica to discuss a career that's now entering its third decade on tour, and shows no signs of slowing down. This high-energy interview is an in-depth look at what it takes to continue to thrive at the top of the...

For over a decade, Andrea Petkovic has been much more than just a fan-favorite on the WTA Tour. Few players have been able to produce her brand of consistent talent, wit, grit, fight and dancing ability to help them climb all the way to number #9 in the world. Andrea joins us this week to discuss a storied tennis career that saw her finish with 7 WTA singles titles and more importantly, the utmost...

No pro tennis?! We've got you covered this week as we catch up with two decorated WTA players that just finished successful seasons on tour. Madison Brengle cracked the top 50 this past October after a stellar season that saw her achieve her best ranking in 6 seasons by winning 4 ITF titles.. Samatha Crawford on the other hand, made a successful comeback to professional tennis after knee surgery h...

Today, Fantastic Tennis is honored to welcome the legend, the pioneer, the trailblazer, Rosie Casals to the show. Through nearly 4 decades of pro tennis, Rosie shares stories from a career that ultimately saw her win 12 grand slam doubles titles, 112 WTA doubles events and enter the Tennis Hall of Fame not once, but twice. Whether you’re a tennis fan that’s familiar with the history of the sport o...

After the US Open, tennis fans were an emotional wreck. What better way to cure the Serena, Roger & Petkovic retirement news, than with some good ole fun fall tennis! Join host Jon Guerrica as he's joined by this week's co-host Max Markham as they discuss everything fall, from pumpkin spice latte's to Barbora Krejcikova's title runs in Tallinn & Ostrava. We're happy to be back and talking about th...

This week, our guest is the most decorated WTA player to ever play for the country of Hungary. Former doubles world #1, Timea Babos joins Fantastic Tennis for an interesting look at a player that knows what it feels like to be on top of the women's game, and is doing all she can to get back there once again. As a junior phenom, she was just one match away from completing the coveted calendar grand...

Our guest this week joins us as she celebrates her 25th birthday from a WTA event in Granby, Canada. Having reached a career high ranking of world #69 last year after her impressive run to the 2021 US Open 3rd round, Greet Minnen talks with host Jon Guerrica about the pressures of tour life and having to defend vital ranking points from her milestone season. We discuss her 2022 success as well, as...

You’ll find very few players that frustrate and confuse their opponents by playing with two hands on both sides, like our guest this week, Catherine Harrison. Join us as we get to know a player that's officially coming off the biggest result of her pro tennis career by qualifying and making the 2nd round of her first grand slam at Wimbledon. Catherine shares stories from her transition from colleg...

Glorified exhibition or historic grand slam? However you Tatjana Maria slice it, Wimbledon 2022 was one for the history books. Join host Jon Guerrica as he's joined by two major fan-experts of the game, to dissect round by round the extremely entertaining Wimbledon Championships. Don't forget to follow us on twitter @fantennispod or on Instagram @fantastictennispod and hopefully you can join the p...

When I thought about which player I’d love to spotlight during Pride month, I instantly thought of our guest this week….the fantastic Sachia Vickery. As an unbelievable ally for the LBGTQ+ community, she’s used her voice to speak out on many important social issues throughout her time on tour, so I’m especially honored to discuss her decade long career this week. Having reached WTA world #73, she...

As we celebrate and watch the 2022 French Open this week, we're truly excited to welcome 2004 French Open Mixed Doubles Champion from France, Tatiana Golovin to discuss her fascinating life & playing career. Tatiana was an instant fan favorite as she burst onto the scene as a 16yo Nick Bollettieri prodigy, and would ultimately be named the 2004 WTA Newcomer of the Year after a highly successfu...

Whether you remember our guest as Dominique Van Roost, or today as Dominique Monami, you won't soon forget her decade long career and the long list of accomplishments she was able to achieve after listening to this week's episode. Before Kim Clijsters & Justine Henin put Belgian tennis on the map, Dominique fiercely broke records of her own. First, by becoming the first Belgian player to enter the...

Our guest this week had a whirlwind 6 months on tour, as she would go from winning her first WTA singles title, to reaching her first grand slam semifinal at the 2020 US Open, to then top that just a few months later as she would advance to her first grand slam final at the 2021 Australian Open. She's been sidelined with a foot injury for 8 months, but she's back hungrier than ever to talk about h...

It’s always been a dream of mine to gather a huge group of my favorite tennis friends and spend a week in Indian Wells paradise….and this past week, it finally came true. In this episode we cover the fantastic Indian Wells Masters event, and we look forward to the always fun & sunny Miami Open. We also check in with a friend of the pod, former WTA top 20, Daria Saville as she talks about comeb...

Our guest this week had an immediate rise up the WTA rankings when she made her first tour final at just 16 years old. Now ten years later, with a decade of experience under her belt, she continues to be a force in the tennis world, most recently her surprise run to her 3rd career WTA singles title in Courmayeur, Italy to cap off an extremely difficult year. It was a season of question marks as sh...

Our guest this week is the legendary 4-time grand slam singles champion, Hana Mandlikova. Join Hana, host Jon Guerrica as well as Hana's biggest fan from Paris, France as they navigate through a resume unlike many others in tennis history. Learn about what it was like balancing a professional tennis career inside communist Czechoslovakia, and how politics motivated Hana to the top of the game. Hea...

At the 2012 Australian Open, Victoria Azarenka not only captured her first grand slam title and the attention of the tennis world, but she also became a national hero and the 21st player in the open era to achieve the #1 world ranking….not bad for a girl that came from meager beginnings in Belarus. Join host, Jon Guerrica, and Vika herself, as they take a fun look back at a successful career that...

We kick off our 2nd season of Fantastic Tennis with a blockbuster episode featuring former WTA #1, tennis legend and icon, Chris Evert . In this hour long in-depth interview, Chris takes listeners through her catalogue of years on tour and shares never before heard stories from her legendary career. From her favorite moments with longtime rival Martina Navratilova, to her thoughts on her own caree...

Our guest this week has a list of accomplishments so long, that we had to have a super-sized episode just to get through her amazing career highlights. With 11 grand slam titles, a combined 83 WTA titles and an Olympic bronze medal, Lisa Raymond is one of the most accomplished players from the past few decades....and as a nominee to the class of 2022 for the Tennis Hall of Fame, it's no wonder why...

If the 2021 season was a fairytale story, you’d certainly have Emma Raducanu as its young talented fair maiden ruling the land of barely 50% vaccinated tennis players, while legendary godparents Serena & Roger rest and waive majestically from atop their thrones. Our episode this week highlights each and every major topic from this jam-packed 2021 tennis year. It began with a mouse-filled quara...

Our guest this week is currently preparing for her third straight season-ending WTA Championships in Guadalajara, Mexico.... which can only mean, she's wrapping up another stellar year on tour. As a winner of 14 career WTA doubles titles and counting, Demi Schuurs is no stranger to big matches, and this week she sits down with host Jon Guerrica to share her remarkable journey of becoming of double...

While the tennis world shifted its attention toward Novak Djokovic and his quest for the calendar slam at the 2021 US Open, our guest this week not only achieved this historic feat, but she went one step further as she became the first tennis player since 1988, and the very first in the sport of wheelchair tennis to achieve the "golden slam." Dutch wheelchair great, Diede de Groot is a living lege...