Irish Tennis Updates Podcast

Hello and welcome back to the Irish Tennis Updates Podcast. This week I’m delighted to be chatting to Mike Cation. Mike is a legend of pro tennis commentary, working primarily on ATP Challenger level tennis on the USTA Pro Circuit. And he’s also worked at the Australian and US Opens. We talk about where this started for Mike, what he loves about the job and some of his best memories. In the second...

Hello and welcome back to the Irish Tennis Updates Podcast. This week I’m talking to Mark Carpenter. Mark has been around tennis his whole life and has a lot to offer to tennis in Ireland. As a junior he grew up in Switzerland and got to experience the tennis system over there. We touch on what we can learn from the Swiss when it comes to competitions. We also discuss other issues in Irish tennis...

Hello and welcome back to the Irish Tennis Updates Podcast. This week I’m chatting to David Wilson. David is an expert in coach education, and how we best learn. He has presented at various ITF and Tennis Europe conferences on topics like these. We chat about where this started for David, as well as discussing the coach education system in Ireland and where he sees room for improvement. Later on w...

Hello and welcome back to the Irish Tennis Updates Podcast. This week I have a great episode to start the new year with Dave Miley. Dave has worked in the administration side of the sport for many years, most notably as the Head of Development in the ITF for over 25 years. A job in which he achieved a lot of good for the sport. Since leaving that role, Dave has run for presidency of the ITF in 201...

Hello and welcome back to the Irish Tennis Updates Podcast. This week I’m chatting to Barry King. Barry had a successful junior career in Ireland before spending four years in the University of Notre Dame. As a pro, Barry reached a career high of 600 in singles, and 431 in doubles. He had great success in Davis Cup and has stayed involved in tennis since retiring from the game in 2011. We chat abo...

Hello, and welcome back to the Irish Tennis Updates Podcast. This week I’m chatting to Dearbhaile Roe, who is currently among the top ten women in the country, and has had great success as a junior and a senior. She grew up playing tennis in Claremorris Tennis Club in County Mayo. We talk about her experiences playing tennis in Connacht, the pros and cons that go with that, and her thoughts on the...

Hello and welcome back to the Irish Tennis Updates Podcast. This week I’m chatting to John Morrissey who shares some stories and insights from his great tennis journey. John had a stellar junior career, with a career high ranking of 30 in the world ITF. He reached the QF of the Youth Olympics in Singapore in 2010, he played all four junior grand slams twice, and was a practice partner for Nadal at...

Hello, and welcome to the Irish Tennis Updates Podcast. This week I’m excited to bring you part 2 of my chat with Tristan Farron Mahon. If you haven’t yet listened to part 1, I’d recommend that you do so before listening to this episode. This week Tristan discusses his experiences with Davis Cup, his thesis on tennis, its effects and the changes that still need to take place in the structure of pr...

Hello, and welcome back to the Irish Tennis Updates Podcast. This week I’ve got a great episode with Tristan Farron Mahon. I really enjoyed getting into Tristan’s tennis journey and what he’s learned along the way. I’ve split this episode into two parts and this week it’s part one. Tristan talks about moving to the Hopman Academy in Florida aged just 10, his junior success and relationship with Ma...

Hello and welcome back to the Irish Tennis Updates Podcast. This week I’m chatting to the brilliant Ross Niland. Ross is currently the CEO of Queen’s Club in London. We talk about how this role came about, how the time has gone so far and Ross’ visions and plans for the future. We also talk about his earlier days in tennis, his experiences representing Munster and Ireland, the similarities between...

Hello, and welcome back to the Irish Tennis Updates Podcast. This week I’m chatting to Dave Mullins. Dave currently lives in Arizona, and is the Managing Director of the ITA, the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. His US college tennis journey started as a player. He then moved into the coaching world before starting in his current role in 2019. We talk about what Dave does in his current role, h...

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Hello and welcome back to the Irish Tennis Updates Podcast. Today I’m chatting to Grainne O’Neill. Grainne grew up playing tennis in Naas, reached the peak of Irish junior tennis aged 18 winning the singles, doubles and mixed at Fitzwilliam, followed that by spending four years playing tennis in Ohio State University and now works in Tennis Ireland promoting women in the sport. I found this a real...

Hello and welcome to the Irish Tennis Updates Podcast. I’m really excited to bring you this week’s episode, a brilliant chat with Irish tennis legend Owen Casey. Owen was Irish number 1 for 15 years, had an incredible record in Davis Cup, played in 3 Olympics and the list goes on. This is part two of two. If you haven’t listened to part one yet, I’d recommend that you do before listening to this e...

Hello and welcome to the Irish Tennis Updates Podcast. I’m really excited to bring you this week’s episode, a brilliant chat with Irish tennis legend Owen Casey. Owen was Irish number 1 for 15 years, had an incredible record in Davis Cup, played in 3 Olympics and the list goes on. I’ve split this episode into two parts. In part one we talk about Owen’s junior success, his time in US college, highl...

Hello, and welcome back to the Irish Tennis Updates Podcast. Thanks for joining me again. I hope you’re doing well and staying safe at the moment. This week I’ve got a slightly different episode to the normal, for the first time on the podcast I’m speaking to a tennis journalist, Stephen Higgins. Stephen makes regular appearances on national radio to discuss tennis and has his own site, Crosscourt...

Hello, and welcome back to series 2 of the Irish Tennis Updates. I'm excited to be back and I think I've got a great guest for you this week. I'm chatting to Yvonne Doyle, winner of 10 professional titles including the Irish Open in 2001. She has career high singles and doubles rankings inside the top 250,  played Fed Cup for Ireland for many years and served as captain of the Fed Cup team for six...

Hello, and welcome back to the Irish Tennis Updates Podcast. Today I’ve got a really special episode with the founder of the Get a Grip Tennis Academy, based in David Lloyd Riverview, Aistis Slajus. Aistis grew up in Lithuania, won the national senior championships aged 15, represented his country in Davis Cup and was captain of the Fed Cup team before moving to Ireland over 10 years ago. And he i...

Hello, and welcome to episode 19 of the Irish Tennis Updates Podcast. Today I’m speaking to James Cluskey. James reached a career high doubles ranking of 145 and won 16 pro doubles titles, including 2 Challengers. Since retiring in 2015, he has broken the world record for the longest doubles match, at over 60 hours, and founded his own high-performance company. He has also written a book, that’s c...

Hi, welcome back to the Irish Tennis Updates Podcast. Thanks for joining me again. This week I’m speaking to Jane Fennelly, a five-time Fed Cup player for Ireland, most recently last year in Montenegro. We discuss her junior days in a thriving Donnybrook, her Fed Cup debut while still a junior, her experiences in US College, how tennis is helping her today in her life and career, the importance of...

Hello, and welcome back to another episode of the Irish Tennis Updates Podcast. Thanks for tuning in. This week I have a great episode. I’m talking to Paul Casey. Paul has been involved in Irish tennis his whole life and is one of the most experienced and respected coaches in the country. As a player, he attended college in the US and since then he has dedicated himself to coaching. He was formerl...

Hi, and welcome back to the Irish Tennis Updates Podcast. This week I think I've got a great episode with a great guest. Garry Cahill has done it all in Irish tennis. He spent 13 years as High Performance Director at Tennis Ireland, during which time he was instrumental in setting up the National Tennis Centre in DCU. He has been captain of the Irish Davis and Fed Cup teams. And last year he set y...

Hi guys and welcome back to another episode of the Irish Tennis Updates Podcast. Today I’m talking to the current Irish number one on the men’s side, with a career high ranking of 512, and the winner of one pro singles title, currently aged 20, it’s Simon Carr. I was really looking forward to talking to Simon and I think that this was a great chat. We talk about the lockdown and return to tennis,...

Hi all, and welcome back to another episode of the Irish Tennis Updates Podcast. Today I’m talking to former Davis Cup player and currently one of the very top coaches in the country, and the current Fed Cup captain, John McGahon. We talk about how he is adapting to and learning from the current situation, his best and worst experiences in tennis, the highlights of his career, what he loves so muc...

Hi all and welcome back to the Irish Tennis Updates Podcast. Thanks for joining me again. Today I am lucky enough to be talking to Peter Bothwell, current pro player with a carrer high singles ranking of 602, and Irish Open champion in 2018. I was really excited to be talking to Peter. We chat about what it was like to be at an event when everything was called off, how visualization has helped him...