The First Serve

Padel Pow Wow is back for episode five of 2025 with Matt Barelle in the host chair (the godfather of Padel in AUS) joined by the king of padel vibes Ryan Bougie discussing what makes a padel club thrive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The State of Play, chatting the performance space/pathway structure in Australian tennis. The landscape as it stands with an eye to the future as a Grand Slam nation with a rich tennis history. A regular each Monday Night at 9pm AEST. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Lachlan Puyol is back with his weekly college segment on The First Serve 'Live' for 2025 with special guest Amy Stevens who spent four years at Vanderbilt University and on the weekend won her first ITF pro singles title. Play USA Tennis Pathways supports athletes who want to go down the college pathway, assisting players to get recruited to a college that meets their academic and athletic go...

Host Lachlan Puyol is back with his weekly college segment on The First Serve 'Live' for 2025 with special guests: Josh Cooper from Melbourne - Transferring to Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, Mississippi for his Sophomore Year and John Paci - Melbourne Tennis Coach at POWA Tennis at Eildon Park TC Play USA Tennis Pathways supports athletes who want to go down the college pathway, ass...

Sean A'Hearn wraps up Tennis Victoria State Grade R14, the final round before finals with special guest Emilia Richter who represents Heatherdale TC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Phillips comes to you from Cincinnati ahead of the Monday singles finals featuring Alcaraz/Sinner and Paolini/Swiatek. All the news of the week on and off the court wrapped up. Launching the State of Play a regular segment till the end the year looking at the current landscape of Australian tennis on the global stage, plus a wrap of Tennis Victoria State Grade Round 14 and our weekly College...

On this episode of Tennis in QLD, host Adon Kronk is joined by feature guest the highly credentialed Damon Lucht, Founder of Redline Tennis, sharing their coaching philosophy. Damon has an extensive history of coaching touring professionals to Queensland representatives. He recently was the manager of the Qld team at the national teams event on the Gold Coast. Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...

Beti Sekulovski and Michael Logarzo are back for episode seven for 2025, unpacking the junior tennis landscape in Australia. In this episode, they chat with Dr Mark Kovacs, internationally renowned Sports Science and Human Performance expert discussing are junior players fitter now than in the past, what is a good training schedule and the importance of athletic development early, consistency and...

Head of PR at the ATP/WTA 1000 Cincinnati Open Pete Holtermann sits down with Brett Phillips to discuss the 260 million dollar refurbishment of the site for the 2025 edition and looking back at the history of the tournament. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kooyong Classic Tournament Director Peter Johnstone with an update on the events return for January 2026 with some big name players signing on. For Tickets and Hospitality packages head to www.kooyongclassic.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sean A'Hearn wraps up the latest Tennis Victoria State Grade Round with special guest Will Ma from North Ringwood Tennis Club. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Phillips brings you this weeks show from the ATP/WTA 1000 Cincinnati Open. You will hear from Aussie duo Adam Walton and Maya Joint one on one advancing to the R32 in a further breakthough week on tour. We go inside the 260 million dollar transformation of the Cincinnati site with head of PR Pete Holtermann, look back on the Canadian swing wrapping up with 'Thursday' finals, 14 year old Auss...

Aussie Adam Walton has taken his biggest scalp defeating former world number one and thirteenth seed Daniil Medvedev 6-7(0), 6-4, 6-1 to progress to the R32 at the ATP Masters 1000 Cincinnati Open. Coming in he was 0-11 vs top 50 players and 0-24 sets. Speaking to Brett Phillips Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

19 year old Aussie Maya Joint has won back to back WTA 1000 main draw matches for the first time in her career, defeating 18th seed Beatriz Haddad Maia 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 in just under three hours in the Cincinnati hot sun. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tennis Tragic Roddy Reynolds and Tennis Pro Alexandra (Ally) Osborne are back for a great episode seven of The Grind for 2025, our dedicated monthly podcast focusing on the Challenger/ITF tours.. In this episode, Bill Ackman's controveersial doubles appearance in Newport gets a run, wildcards and what to do with them, reaction to the Tara Moore four year ban, feature guest the engaging rising 19 y...

Welcome to the first episode of the Masters Zone, hosted by Tim Prince which delves into the ITF Masters tour in Australia and around the world. Feature guest for this episode is John Brunner from Yarrawonga in Victoria who tells his story of taking up tennis and tournament play later in life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lachlan Puyol is back with Episode 7 for 2025 thanks to Play USA Tennis Pathways, dedicated to the US College space for those aspiring to go down this path, providing plenty of education on the US System chatting to Australian players, coaches and administrators. In this seventh episode of the year, Lachlan chats to Jeret Johnson, Head Mens and Womens Coach at Pratt Community College in Kansas and...

Kale Nairn with special guest Elijah Cham review the latest PTT-UTR Australia round in Sydney. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Lachlan Puyol is back with his weekly college segment on The First Serve 'Live' for 2025 with special guest Lily Taylor from Brisbane who plays at Arizona State University entering her Sophomore Year. She also just represented Australia at the FISU World University Games in Germany Play USA Tennis Pathways supports athletes who want to go down the college pathway, assisting players to get rec...

Sean A'Hearn wraps up the latest Tennis Victoria State Grade Round with special guest Amanda McVay from the Beaumaris Lawn Women’s team Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Toronto Masters 1000 Tournament Director Karl Hale joined Brett Phillips for a chat on The First Serve Live to go inside the Candian swing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Phillips is live in Toronto for this weeks show at the ATP Masters 1000, featuring Alex de Minaur and Alexei Popyrin through to the QF's. Tournament Director Karl Hale and Eva Harris, Tennis Canada Senior Vice President of Tennis Development and Partnerships go inside the tournament and Canadian tennis. Closer to home in Australia, a discussion of no Australian representation at the 14's und...

Alex de Minaur is into the Toronto Masters 1000 Quarter Finals defeating American Frances Tiafoe 6-2, 4-6, 6-4. Speaking to the media with the first question about the incredible point in the third set at 4-4 40-40. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Defending champion Alexei Popyrin has come from a set down to move into the quarter finals of the ATP Masters 1000 Toronto defeating Holger Rune 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 to set up a clash with Alexander Zverev. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just before 1am Friday Morning, defending champion Alexei Popyrin pulls through to take down tenth seed Daniil Medvedev 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 to book a spot in the R16 at the ATP Masters 1000 Toronto, Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices