SERVING ACES: Conversations with Alexandra Stevenson

"Serving Aces", Conversations with Alexandra Stevenson and co-host Hugues Laverdière discuss the second week of Wimbledon with the play of men and women.  Ougi discusses the slice and the slow grass while Alexandra laments the lack of excitement in the women's game.  Alexandra cites the men for entertaining play including Alcaraz, Sinner, Fritz, Paul, Djokovic.  Ougi picks Sinner and Ryb...

Alexandra Stevenson and Hugues Laverdière discuss Wimbledon, champions, ESPYS, Princess Catherine, Slow grass, Paolini, Djokovic, Alcaraz and Krejcikova. It was a Wimbledon recap - and a look at Serena hosting the ESPYs with 8 outfit changes during the broadcast. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertis...

Alexandra Stevenson and Hugues Laverdière discuss first round at Wimbledon - the ambience, the play - and the special look at Wimbledon Village.  Alexandra gives her four picks to the semifinals and Hugues comes up with his in both men's and women's draw.  They talk about the Euro Cup and England tying the match with a flip kick that was amazing at the 95th minute.  Ougi brings up Caitlin Clark an...

"Serving Aces" with Alexandra Stevenson and co host Hugues Laverdière discuss pre Wimbledon results with Halle, Queens, Berlin.  Tommy Paul gains number one knocking out Taylor Fritz and is number one American.  Jess Pegula is back from injury.  Alexandra talks fashion at Vogue World.  Ougi discusses his lessons on grass and what a player needs to remember on the grass surface.  He choos...

Conversations with Alexandra Stevenson on "Serving Aces" with co-host Hugues Laverdière talk about Roger Federer and his commencement speech at Dartmouth University, commanding the graduate audience with his timely discussion of life being bigger than a tennis court.  He is now Dr. Roger Federer, with a Doctorate in Humane Letters. Alexandra brings in the Tony Awards to the conversation,...

In "Serving Aces", Alexandra Stevenson and co-host Hugues Laverdière talk French Open winners and losers - and why Iga Swiatek and Carlos Alcaraz are so far ahead of their peers.  Carlos Alcaraz is the youngest male player to win Grand Slams on three surfaces hard, clay, and grass. Alcaraz commanded the fourth and fifth sets - against Zverev. Alexandra talks about Swiatek moving through...

In Serving Aces, Alexandra Stevenson and co-host Hugues Laverdière talk everything French Open.  Iga Swiatek crying in the gym after beating Naomi Osaka.  Novak Djokovic playing the longest match ever at the French Open.  Emma Navarro making it to the fourth round and beating Madison Keys in the third round.  They discuss European coaches, tactics and footwork.  Alexandra rates the best food and n...

Alexandra Stevenson and Hugues Laverdière discuss the first week of the French Open 2024 in "Serving Aces."  Ougi takes off 'in the ball is in Ougi's Court" with how to play on clay courts.  Alexandra and Ougi break down the top five men and the top five women and talk about their clay ranking points for the season.  Alexandra throws out the popcorn match with Nadal-Zverev on Monday...

Serving Aces, Conversations with Alexandra Stevenson and Hugues Laverdière talk Rome, French Open Qualifying, and in Ougi's "The Ball is in Ougi's Court," the duo invite Amelia Laverdière, Ougi's daughter onto the podcast.  Amelia talks about her recent college graduation and her college tennis career.  She graduated with an international business degree with honors in the Professional T...

Serving Aces, Conversations with Alexandra Stevenson and Hugues Laverdière.  Alexandra and Ougi talk about young Ben Shelton and his clay court preparation in Rome.  They discuss Novak Djokovic and his hit on the head by a metal water bottle.  He most likely suffered a concussion and lost his match.  Nadal's exit and the Rock Star audience of 15,000 people serenading him as he left Rome.  Below th...

Alexandra and Ougi discuss, the clay court winners in Barcelona, Stuttgart. Nadal and his quotes on playing. Clay court style and who is successful at it. They discuss the WTA Tour going to Saudi Arabia for the year end Championships, and Martina Navratilova's statement about it. Alexandra brings in her newsy notes, including Zendaya on the cover of Vogue. And....The overnight drop of Miss Swift d...

 In Serving Aces, Alexandra Stevenson and co-host Hugues Laverdière talk tennis,golf, and newsy notes in pop culture. Alexandra says there are parallels in golf and tennis. She talks about Scottie Scheffler Masters win and the ability to bring in new people to his team, something she sees in tennis. Ougi talks about the Masters, including technique and what he saw.   Alexandra and Ougi complimente...

Alexandra Stevenson and co-host Hugues Laverdière join together to break down sports across the board.  The women's NCAA basketball leads the podcast with a cast of characters that has made everyone who cares about sport - tune in - in fact 14 million tuned in for Iowa-U Conn.  Alexandra gives props to South Carolina Coach Dawn Staley - for her coaching and her fashion.  She gives a nod to South C...

Alexandra Stevenson and co-host Hugues Laverdière bring Serving Aces to a new level with a discussion of tennis and basketball.  Alexandra discusses Dimitrov bringing the one-handed backhand back at the Miami Open - and putting himself into the top ten.  Ougi joins in with the women and Danielle Collins -and in Ougi's court - he talks about the Serve and the difficulties and differences of getting...

Serving Aces, Conversations with Alexandra Stevenson and co-host Hugues Laverdière talk Miami Open.  The Saudi Arabia billion dollar bid to take over the ATP and WTA Tours.  The Four Grand Slams coming up with the Premier Tour - trying to take it away from the Saudis.  Alexandra spent the week at the Junior Easter Bowl.  Ougi discusses cheating juniors and the rampant cheating on the tennis court...

Alexandra Stevenson and co-host Hugues "Ougi" Laverdiere discuss Carlos Alcaraz and the complete Spanish style of play during his matches at Indian Wells.  They note that his second serve was impressive and the ability to come to net and keep Medvedev off balance.  Medvedev showed that playing from the far back of the court didn't ultimately help him against Alcaraz.  After the close fir...

In "Serving Aces" Alexandra Stevenson and co-host Hugues Laverdière talk about Novak Djokovic's three set loss to the Italian, Luca Nardi, a 20 year-old, who kept Djokovic's poster on his bedroom wall in the town of Pesaro, Italy. Alexandra discusses the extra sand that is used to lay the court - prior to the tournament start -that is making it difficult for players in their matches. Ale...

Alexandra Stevenson in Serving Aces, discusses the Nadal Alcaraz exhibition, Alcaraz winning.  She moves on to the top five women seeds and the top five men seeds at Indian Wells, which begins Wednesday.  Alexandra welcomes her youngest guest, junior tennis player, Kareena Cross - no. 6 in 12s and no. 36 in the nation in 12s.  Kareena discusses what it's like to be a junior player, her goals, and...

Alexandra Stevenson and co-host Hugues Laverdière break down the incident in the Dubai Tennis Championships when Coco Gauff had an altercation with the chair umpire Pierre Bacchi.  Alexandra examines the idea of an older white man talking down to a young black woman.  The argument went on for about five to six minutes - Coco demanding a Tour Supervisor and Bacchi refusing. Coco was playing Pliskov...

Alexandra Stevenson and Hugues Laverdière in Serving Aces discuss the one handed back hand - the art of the one-handed backhand and why it is disappearing.  Alexandra says no more one-handed players in men's top 10 with the new rankings. Sakkari and Pegula let go of their coaches.  Sakkari had Tom Hill for six years.  Pegula had David Witt for five years.  They discuss winners and losers in the di...

Super Bowl is a worldwide event and certainly an American national unofficial holiday.  Alexandra and Ougi in Serving Aces do a next day post super Bowl wrap up with the highlights that brought the Chiefs their Championships 25-22. Alexandra talks about Patrick Mahomes and his amazing ability to make plays when it matters and the wild defensive play on both sides.  The duo gets in Usher, fashion,...

Ougi is in Las Vegas with his family.  Alexandra talked about the scene in front of him - Las Vegas spread outing front of him.  They talk 49ers KC Chiefs.  Alexandra says her heart is with Mahomes but she picks 49ers to win and Ougi picks the Chiefs.  They talk where in the world is tennis in a season that has everyone yawning so far.  David Witt leaving Jessica Pegula as her coach was biggest ne...

Alexandra Stevenson in "Serving Aces," with co-host Hugues Laverdière open the podcast with the biggest weekend in the NFL - the AFC and NFC Championships.  Kansas City won the AFC - and San Francisco - won the NFC Championships.  The interesting part of this podcast are the mental challenges that all of the teams and athletes faced this weekend.  Alexandra emphasized that it was the big...

Alexandra and Ougi talk Taylor Swift and her cool jackets that she wears to the Chiefs games. Alexandra gives a shout out to two insta-influencers who are WAGS, the girl friends of Taylor Fritz and Francis Tiafoe. Alexandra says they have the best AO fashion beating out any players. Alexandra and Ougi discuss Australia Day 9 - men's and Women's players. Alexandra and Ougi note that's its the bigge...

Alexandra and Ougi bring in D.J. Linx and discuss the players at the Australian Open.  They talk Day Seven matches .  Medvedev. Gauff. Felix. Shelton. Paul. The women who went down.  The men who went down.  Kyrgios and his lack of sparkling personality - unable at this time to bring controversial and fun banter in the television box as a commentator.  Kyrgios is big on social media - but D.J. Linx...