Inside the Wires | Platform Tennis and Paddle podcast

In this episode we get to talk to Will Colmar, who along with Adam Morgan won the first APTA Tour tournament of the new season. In a wide ranging talk, we discuss strategy, tournaments, and The Platform Files video series.

In addition to Ben, Ana and Noah, we were joined by Mark Innes and Mikk Irdoja from MiPaddle, Sven Burus, Chris Humphrey and some other top players floating around at Owl's Nest Resort in NH. We talk about camps, tournaments and getting started for a new season.

Football has started, that means paddle season is close behind! Blake is having a baby BOY! and Ana is celebrating her birthday at the US Open so Ben and Noah get the season started. We're looking forward to a great season of reviewing, interviewing and in general talking about PADDLE.

Another fun episode. Go to Brian Heil's house late the night before the best summer paddle tournament in the country, the Mudhole (hear where the name came from early in the show), add a few drinks and just start recording. Brian name drops many of the top players of the last 15 years with funny stories from his years near the top of the APTA rankings. There is a fun group of passionate paddle pla...

Today we have Doug Jones on the show. Doug has done a ton of work to promote paddle in Cincinnati and build up a year round league. Complete with some of the best video compilations on Youtube that are out there.

We are trying something new, it's summer so we hope you'll bear with us. Wanting to keep his anonymity, we have Mr. X who runs the Detroit Platform Tennis Instagram account joining us in all his (and our) voice garbled greatness. Hope you enjoy this summer paddle infusion.

A great year end wrap up show featuring Ben, Blake, Brad Easterbrook and Mark Innes. We review some of the best matches of the year, the most improved players, best teams and more in a fun conversation with 2 people who watched (and talked about) a lot of paddle this season!

We're joined by the recently crowned (re-crowned) National Chamions, Johan (the Lion) DuRandt, Stephen Mitchell and Florentina Hanisch and Ana Marija Zubori to talk about the season and the championships in the rain.

In our final episode before 2021 Nationals, we talk with Drew Broderick, Jared Palmer, Johan DuRandt and Stephen Mitchell. We are looking forward to a great championship weekend of paddle.

As we prep for Nationals, we talk with 2 players always in the running for the finals at tournaments, Jess Guyaux from Pittsburgh and Randy Lofgren from Charlotte.

Amazing episode! Steve Baird with 9 men's National titles, and Hank Irvine with 4 of his own, have a chat as Noah and Ben tear up the script and just listen to stories of Wimbledon, Rod Laver, paddle matches broadcast on NBC, a tour with $10k of prize money (in the 70's) and much more. You don't want to miss this. In the second segment, we're joined by APTA CEO Amin Khadduri and Jody Herzog from F...

As we roll into Nationals, we have a double episode this week. Top men's player Max LiPevert (who also owns Clark Trophies) and court builder David Dodge from Total Platform Tennis talk with us in a longer episode. Max will talk about his run this season with his partner Anton Protsenko as they head into Nationals as well as what keeps him busy when off the court, running Clark Trophies. Then we a...

A wide ranging talk about some recent tournaments, foot faults, what's in your bag and grips when hitting shots.

Ever had a question about balls or paddles, why they cost what they do, how they are made, etc. This is the episode for you. Noah talks about all the knowledge gained with starting Xenon Paddle.

Get a chance to sit around the virtual table with some top names in women's paddle: Ana Marija Zubori leads a talk with Heather Prop, Lauren Gebbia, Florentina Hanisch, Kerri Delmonico and APTA President, Tiernan Cavanna as they talk about the evolution of the game, strategy, PTI and the future of paddle. What else would they rather be doing on Valentine's evening but talking (or in Kerri's case p...

The voice of Inside the Wires (ITW) and paddle player in Chicago for the last 8 years. Join Terry as he talks favorite tournaments to play (he's played a ton!), what it's like traveling with Noah, and how he got started

After knocking off the defending National Champions in the final of the Western New England Grand Prix event, Mikk and Sven join us to share some knowledge and talk about what goes on behind the scenes when Johan is driving the ball at you!

Flip and Scott provide plenty of history for older players and a transition to top teams of today. Get some great perspective from players that have transcended 3 decades of paddle and won 8 national titles while making the finals 12 times in a 15 year span!

Fresh off their Grand Prix victory in Cincinnati, Scott Kahler and Filip Rams join us. Great to get insight from them on how to change momentum in a match as well as learn more about Filip, widely regarded as one of the sharpest dressers, and best hair on the men's side.

You don't want to miss this. In our new segment, Local legends, where we talk to every day paddle players, not only are we graced by the APTA president Tiernan Cavanna jumping in to do an interview, but we get to meet Ryan Nally.  Ryan is part of the huge and vibrant program at Rowayton CT. Ryan shares some great stories including how he may have single handedly altered the history of men's p...

You've heard him on the APTA livestreaming broadcasts, now get some behind the scenes insight from a man who has seen and been involved with a lot of paddle over the years. We're happy to have on Mark Fischl.

We're trying a new segment. Learn more about some fellow players, their background, how they got started, etc. We start with a series 1 player in Chicago, Kevin Anderson. 

Hard to believe, but we started and got out a ton of podcast episodes in this crazy COVID year. Hope you all enjoyed them. Here are our year end awards!

Following up on the roadtrip to Louisville where drinks were involved, we decided to do a Christmas edition at Ben's place with Jeronie Barnes, a pro in Chicago and top player nationally. Plenty of stories are told, mainly about one person, but every paddle community probably has someone similar, someone who is a good player, and is content to play as long as it takes until you make a mistake... H...

Happy to have on the show Kerri Delmonico and Lauren Gebbia. Two women with a long list of paddle accomplishments. Not only did they seem to have too much fun doing the interview, but be sure to listen for some great paddle insight and strategy.