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UTS GRAND FINAL TICKETS Tennis Weekly is the official podcast partner of the UTS Grand Final in London.  The UTS Grand Final is coming to London’s ExCeL Arena from the 15th to the 17th of December. Confirmed players include Andrey Rublev, Casper Ruud and Gael Monfils. For more information about UTS go to www.uts.live   For tickets go use the link below: https://www.eventim.co.uk/artist/u...

UTS GRAND FINAL TICKETS Tennis Weekly is the official podcast partner of the UTS Grand Final in London.  The UTS Grand Final is coming to London’s ExCeL Arena from the 15th to the 17th of December. Confirmed players include Andrey Rublev, Casper Ruud and Gael Monfils. For more information about UTS go to www.uts.live   For tickets go use the link below: https://www.eventim.co.uk/artist/u...

Joel, Kim and Chris are back to catch up on the past week on tour, including FAA’s return to title winning ways in Basel, Sinner getting the better of Daniil Medvedev in a fantastic three set Vienna final and Beatriz Haddad Maia clinching the WTA Elite Trophy over home hope Qinwen Zheng. The trio also discuss the controversy in Cancun over the WTA’s setup of the WTA Finals, Iga Swiatek’s quest to...

Never a dull week on the tour for the Tennis Weekly trio as they take in all the major highlights and talking points over the last seven days which saw Gael Monfils back to winning ways at the Stockholm Open, Ben Shelton clinching his debut tour title in Tokyo and the Kazakhstan Tennis Federation VP making some worrying claims about the future state of WTA Finances. They also discuss Emma Raducanu...

In the latest episode of Tennis Weekly, Joel, Kim and Chris are back to round up all the action from the Asian Swing, which has seen a host of tournaments grace the headlines and screens in the past two weeks. With Hubert Hurkacz winning in Shanghai in a dramatic final against Andrey Rublev, Iga Swiatek taking home yet another 1000 Title in Beijing and Qinwen Zheng delighting home fans with a win...

The Asian Swing has arrived with Joel, Kim and Chris on hand to discuss all the events so far from Tokyo and Beijing 500s (including Wednesday finishes!), plus the start of the Shanghai Masters and WTA 1000 event in Beijing. They recap on Sinner’s first victory over Daniil Medvedev to claim the Beijing title, Kudermetova upsetting the top seeds to win Tokyo, Ons Jabeur being back to title winning...

Joel, Kim and Chris are back together to catch up on the past week on tour, which saw Maria Sakkari end her title drought by clinching the WTA1000 event in Guadalajara and Team World thrash Team Europe in the latest edition of the Laver Cup. With contentious performance byes, the release of the Davis Cup Finals draw and a new venue for the WTA Finals in Cancun, the trio discuss all the latest news...

GB have done it, they have qualified for the Davis Cup Finals in Malaga! It came down to the final game of the final tie in Manchester and what a match it was. Dan Evans and Neal Skupski sealed the win, saving 4 match points to book their place in the Finals.  Also in the finals will be Australia who defeated Switzerland 3-0 to guarantee their place in the last 8. Big wins for Alex de Minaur...

Andy Murray gets another Davis Cup win in Manchester. Chris and Joel are on site to unpack all the action and the emotional victory for Andy. GB stay undefeated and on track to make the Finals in Malaga. Hosts Spain crash out and the talk of the press room is about whether a neutral location and the existing format can be a success or will it have to change. Stan Wawrinka and Andy Murray give thei...

Tennis never stops and Tennis Weekly are on the road with Joel and Chris in Manchester for one of the four Davis Cup Finals Group stage events with GB, Australia, France and Switzerland. On this episode, they chat about Jack Draper's dream debut win for GB as they pull through against Australia, with Dan Evans also enjoying victory against current no.12 Alex De Minaur. Elsewhere, they react to the...

It’s Finals weekend at the US Open and Joel, Kim and Chris reunite to round up the results, which saw Coco Gauff win her maiden Grand Slam title and Novak Djokovic become a 24-time Grand Slam Champion as he continues to make history on the court. With Gauff fighting back from a set down to put aside the new world No.1 Aryna Sabalenka and become the fairytale story of New York, and Djokovic winning...

In the latest episode of Tennis Weekly, Joel, Kim and Chris are back (in parts!) to round up all the action from the men’s and women’s semi final action at the US Open. With Daniil Medvedev springing a surprise to topple top seed and defending Champion Carlos Alcaraz, and Aryna Sabalenka fending off a tough Madison Keys to make her second Slam final of the year, there is lots to discuss! From Djok...

Kim and Chris are back in action to discuss the Quarter Final headlines from the US Open, which saw young Americans Coco Gauff and Ben Shelton make it into the Final Four at their Home Slam, and new World Number 1’s Novak Djokovic and Aryna Sabalenka proceed comfortably through with straight set scorelines. From Muchova’s extended bagel break, Djokovic’s unique form of crowd control, JPeg’s double...

Ostapenko pulls off the biggest upset of the US Open beating Swiatek and stripping her of the number one ranking. Joel and Chris analyse the fallout including Sabalenka’s rise to the top. They discuss Iga’s grand slam season and what 2024 might hold for her.  Although Jack Draper bowed out, the American men have continued to win with three making it through to the quarter-finals for the first...

Joel and Chris cover all Round 3 events in Flushing Meadows, from Djokovic’s Djere escape to Jack Draper making the second week of a slam for the first time. Chris is still reporting from New York experiencing the US Open first hand and provides the inside courtside scoop on the action. Wozniacki keeps her dream run alive, Pegula scuppers Svitolina’s chance to go further than Wimbledon and the US...

We are live from the US Open. Chris is courtside in New York and reporting live from the grounds as we talk Alcaraz, Djokovic and the upsets of Round 2.  They cover the British success with seven brits through to Round 2 and four through to Round 3. They talk Ruud and Tsitsipas upsets as well as the upset of the women’s draw with returning Caroline Wozniacki taking out the world number 11 in...

It's Flushing Meadows time in New York City! Joel and Kim are back to chat through the main highlights from almost all of Round 1 at the US Open. With Brits Miyazaki, Boulter and Norrie all through in straight sets at the time of recording, Novak Djokovic reclaiming the world Number 1 ranking, Dominic Theim getting his first Slam win in over 2 years and Coco Gauff surviving a tetchy encounter agai...

The Tennis Weekly trio reunite to chat all things US Open as the final slam of the year lies just around the corner. Joel, Kim and Chris preview the women’s and men’s singles draws, with an eye on who is most likely to be taking home that silverware in a fortnight’s time. Approaching the draws quarter by quarter they assess the top seeds routes through the draw and earmark potential upsets before...

Joel and Kim are reunited to round up on all the Finals action from Cincinnati, which saw Novak Djokovic avenge his Wimbledon defeat to Carlos Alcaraz with a marathon Masters victory in just shy of 4 hours, as well as Coco Gauff claiming the biggest title of her career (again!) with a straight sets win over Karolina Muchova. Elsewhere, Britain’s Jamie Murray succumbed in the doubles final with his...

The players are making their final preparations for the US Open and Joel and Chris are here to discuss who impressed them at the National Bank Open in Montreal and Canada. Will Jessica Pegula take her blistering form to Cincinnati and Flushing Meadows? Has Jannik Sinner cemented his spot as a favourite for the title in the Big Apple?  They also unpack the debate and uproar around scheduling i...

On today's pod Joel & Chris talk about Coco Gauff and Dan Evans winning the biggest titles of their careers in Washington and what led to their breakthrough at 500 level. They cover off the events elsewhere in Prague and notably Dominic Thiem’s return to an ATP final at home in Kitzbuhel.  Joel sets a Roger Federer themed ‘par for the courts’ quiz that pushes Chris to his limits. Joel &am...

Back on the tour, back as a three! Chris returns from his travels in Hamburg and is reunited with Joel and Kim to catch up on all the hard and clay court action from the past week on the ATP and WTA Tours. With Champions Iga Swiatek, Taylor Fritz and Sascha Zverev enjoying home success in Warsaw, Atlanta and Hamburg respectively, and first time titles for Arantxa Rus and Elisabetta Cocciaretto in...

In a special episode of TW Meets... Chris gets to sit down and chat with current Top 10 players Casper Ruud, Andrey Rublev plus former World No. 2 and Tournament Director Magnus Norman at the Nordea Open. We hear from Ruud on his approach, where he thinks his level is currently at and what he made of home hope Elias Ymer's suspension as it broke in the media. In addition, Rublev talks his clothing...

In the first post-Wimbledon Tour catch-up, Chris and Kim are back together to round up the action from across the ATP and WTA Tours with 250s abound in Bastad, Gstaad, Newport, Palermo and Budapest as we see the return of the Hopman Cup in a new location and time of year. With Andrey Rublev getting the better of Casper Ruud (and his dog!) at the Nordea Open, three first time tour titalists in Pedr...

Fifteen-Love is out now and Tennis Weekly has an EXCLUSIVE interview with the show's creator Hania Elkington alongside tennis star and script consultant Naomi Cavaday about the must watch Aidan Turner and Ella Lily Hyland tennis drama. The show is centered around Justine, a former tennis prodigy who makes an explosive allegation against her former coach. After the allegation, everyone is forced to...