The ATP Tennis Radio Podcast

Brian Clark presents another packed show as we hear from young American player Taylor Fritz and the Assistant Tournament Director of the upcoming Masters 1000 event in Cincinnati, Eric Butorac, but first, with the National Bank Open presented by Rogers having reached it’s conclusion with a final between Daniil Medvedev and Reilly Opelka, Brian gets the view of match commentators Joe Shennan and Mi...

Recorded before the final at the Citi Open in Washington, commentator Brian Clark is joined by former player and regular Tennis Channel contributor, Leif Shiras, to look back over events in the US capital and ahead to the National Bank Open, presented by Rogers in Toronto. Along the way we hear from the likes of Washington finalist Jannik Sinner, Tokyo Olympic hero, Kei Nishikori and former Citi O...

Chris Bowers is joined by former Olympian, Jill Craybas to discuss events in Tokyo and to also look ahead to the upcoming tournaments in Washington, Toronto and Cincinnati. We also hear from former players Patrick McEnroe, who spent seven years shaping the US Tennis Association and from Brad Gilbert who’s book ‘Winning Ugly’ is now 28 years old, but as Brad explains, still as relevant as ever.

With the Olympics in Tokyo officially underway, we turn our attention to the tennis event and discuss who’s in the running for Gold, Silver and Bronze. We also hear from a man with two Gold Medals, Chile’s Nicolas Massu and from young player Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, who takes his place in the Spanish team, but we start by getting the perspective of freelance tennis journalist, Reem Abulleil wh...

We hear from man of the moment Novak Djokovic, the man he’s now trying to emulate by becoming Olympic champion, that’s Andy Murray and we also have an embarrassment of tennis legends including Stan Smith and Michael Stich.

Chris Bowers is joined by New York Times tennis correspondent, Christopher Clarey to look back over the past two weeks at Wimbledon. They talk Novak Djokovic’s charge to glory as well as looking at what's next for Roger Federer and Andy Murray and talk about some of the younger players who’ve made their mark. We also hear from leading Serbian journalist and commentator, Nebojsa Viskovic and look b...

This week Chris Bowers is joined by former player Jill Craybas who’s working for the the Wimbledon Radio Channel, to look back over the first week of the Championships and ahead to week 2. Along the way we also hear from Swiss tennis journalist Rene Stauffer, author of 'Roger Federer the Biography’, Indian doubles player, Rohan Bopanna, the Canadian who beat Andy Murray in the third round, Denis S...

Chris Bowers looks ahead to Wimbledon in the company of doubles player, Joe Salisbury. There's also interviews and features with Andy Murray, Daniil Medvedev, Seb Korda and Alex De Minaur, plus Frances Tiafoe's coach, Wayne Ferreira talks about the young American's development and ahead of his match against Novak Djokovic, LTA Consultant Coach, James Trottman speaks about working with young Britis...

Seb Lauzier introduces reaction and exclusive content from the two ATP 500 events taking place at the Queens Club in London and Halle, Germany. We hear from Queens Champion, Matteo Berrettini, British players Andy Murray and Jack Draper, young Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, Roger Federer and an American whose got a love for grass courts, Maxime Cressy.

It’s a bumper edition of the podcast this week as Chris Bowers is joined by 17-time Grand Slam Champion Mark Woodforde to look back on all the talking points from the past fortnight in Paris and by former world number 4 and Roland Garros semi-finalist, Sébastien Grosjean who speaks about the lack of French players making it into the second week of the tournament. We also head to ATP 500 events in...

Radio Roland Garros commentators Chris Bowers and Eleanor Preston look back on events on-and-off the court during the first week of Roland Garros and ahead to the second week of action, plus we get the views of former World Number 1, Jim Courier with regard to the importance on having a symbiotic player and media relationship.

Radio Roland Garros and ATP Tennis Radio commentator Gigi Salmon is joined by Canadian tennis journalist Stephanie Myles to look over the Roland Garros draw and discuss the major talking points heading into the second Grand Slam of the year. During the course of the programme we also hear from World Number 2, Daniil Medvedev, the legend that is Roger Federer answers fans questions, courtesy of ATP...

This week we bring you two Dominics, Thiem and Koepfer, Doubles star Marcus Daniell teaches us about Effective Altruism, recent giant-killing Spaniard Pablo Andujar talks about making multiple comebacks from injury, but we start with a re-edited version of an interview with Roger Federer that was initially recorded in Doha.

It is another Italian job for Rafal Nadal title number 10 in Rome for the king of clay. It was always going to happen, finally the Big 3 have struck back after four straight Masters 1000 titles won by the 25-and-unders, dating back to Daniil Medvedev’s title in Paris last year. Since then Hubert Hurkacz has won in Miami, Stefanos Tsitsipas in Monte Carlo and, most recently Sascha Zverev took the s...

What a week it has been here in Madrid, upwards of 5000 fans every day in the Caja Magica, that’s felt special in itself, not that they got everything they wanted with Rafa Nadal, the greatest there’s ever been on clay beaten in his own house, outgunned at altitude on a court where the big hitters continue to shine. Two of them in the top 10 making it through to the final, with Alexander Zverev be...

It's another packed ATP Podcast, this time from Spain’s capital Madrid ahead of the Mutua Madrid Open and after the disappointments of 2020 we have tennis, we have fans and we have Rafael Nadal as tournament favourite. We’ll hear from Rafa very soon plus a number of his main challengers, but first we speak to Tournament Director Feliciano Lopez, delighted simply to have tennis being played at all.

We hear from the king of clay Rafael Nadal and the man with more tour wins so far this year than anyone else, Stefanos Tsitsipas. Andy Murray looks back on the past 12 months, we have teen sensations Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, there’s also Denis Shapovalov on hitting the clay, Diego Schwartzman on perhaps his sweetest success yet and we’re with one of the top coaches on tour, Dante Bottini.

Seb Lauzier looks back on events in Monte-Carlo with the help of ATP Tennis Radio commentators Gigi Salmon and Miles Maclagan. In addition to the discussion, we also hear from the champion, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Fernando Vicente, coach of runner-up Andrey Rublev. There's also an exclusive interview with ATP Chairman Andrea Gaudenzi who sat down in Monte-Carlo to address all of the issues facing t...

We've got two Nadal's for the price of one on this week's podcast as Rafa talks about getting going again on Clay, whilst Uncle Toni joins us to talk about his new coaching relationship with young Canadian, Felix Auger-Aliassime. We also hear from recent Miami Masters champion, Hubert Hurkacz and runner-up at that event, Jannik Sinner, plus David Goffin's new coach, Germain Gigounon joins Paul Kin...

Seb Lauzier presents the final podcast from Miami, a tournament in which Hubert Hurkacz of Poland claimed his maiden Masters 1000 title and a first title at that level for a Polish player. During the course of the podcast we hear from Hurkacz, alongside his coach, Craig Boynton and we also get the views of Jannik Sinner's coach, Riccardo Piatti, hear from Tournament Director, James Blake and speak...

We look back on events from week 1 of the Miami Open presented by Itaú and hear from Frances Tiafoe's coach, Wayne Ferreira, Frédéric Fontang, coach of Felix Auger-Aliassime and young American players Mackenzie McDonald and Ernesto Escobedo. With tennis players mental health being front and centre of mind, we also speak to Todd Ellenbecker, the ATP's Vice President for Medical Services.

This week's programme comes from Miami and is hosted by presenter Seb Lauzier. As well as setting the scene on the ground, Seb also speaks to Tournament Director James Blake about what’s it’s taken to put this event on and to young American player Michael Mmoh who, along with Andy Murray, is one of the wildcard choices for the 2021 edition. Before hearing from Blake and Mmoh, we also round up even...

As Novak Djokovic reaches a milestone most weeks at number 1 in the FedEx ATP Rankings, we look back over the Serb's career, from his first ATP title and Grand Slam victories, to the Career Golden Career and his thoughts on what being world number 1 means to him. In a packed show we also get some more reflection, a year on from the tour being halted due to the Covid pandemic. Italian Fabio Fognini...

We talk to Rotterdam champion Andrey Rublev, speak to fellow Russian, Daniil Medvedev after his exploits in Australia, hear from Andy Murray and Felix Auger-Aliassime and we also look back on Novak Djokovic's journey to nine Australian Open Grand Slam titles and hear about the amazing journey of doubles player Filip Polasek, from career-threatening injury, to Australian Open Champion.

This week's podcast focusses on the subject of mental health in tennis. During the Australian Open, ATP Tennis Radio commentator Chris Bowers was fortunate enough to sit down with Australian tennis player Thanasi Kokkinakis, who opened up about the mental health issues that he's gone through as a result of time away from the game due to injury and illness. We hear that extended chat and then Chris...