The First Serve

Newest Aussie Daria Kasatkina is through to the third round of Roland Garros after a straight sets 6-4, 6-2 win over French wildcard Leolia Jeanjean in the final match of the day on Court Suzanne Lenglen that saw her come into press at midnight chatting about the match, the quality of players in the womens draw and looking ahead to her next opponent Paula Badosa. Learn more about your ad choices....

Alexei Popyrin is the first Aussie through to Round 3 of Roland Garros with another straights sets win, this time defeated Chilean Alejandro Tabilo 7-5, 6-3, 6-4. This will be his first time in the Round of 32 in Paris to play Portugal's Nuno Borges. 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 featuring a chat with Aussie Jarryd Chaplin, Assiociate Head Coach at University of Georgia. 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 goals. If you are a player, parent, or coa...

In Tennis Victoria State Grade over the weekend the Keon Park TC women's team had their first ever victory. Eleanor Schuster was a special guest on The First Serve Live, also chatting about her Samoan heritage as she tries to inspire kids in the Oceania region to play tennis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adam Walton completed all the Aussies competing in Round 1 of Roland Garros on Tuesday with a five set win over German qualifier Maximilian Marterer - 7-6, 4-6, 6-3, 2-6, 6-2, just his 2nd main draw win at a major and first in Paris. Chatting with Brett Phillips. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our newest Aussie Daria Kasatkina has navigated her way through the first round of Roland Garros defeating Katerina Siniakova 6-1, 3-6, 6-2. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Number 1 Aussie Alex de Minaur continues his great streak winning first round matches at the majors, accounting for Serbia's Laslo Djere 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 to set up a second round meeting with Kazak Alexander Bublik. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Phillips is back with another big show live from Roland Garros, catching up one on one with a big Aussie contingent including Destanee Aiava, Rinky Hijikata, Tristan Schoolkate, Daria Saville, Maya Joint, Ajla Tomljanovic, James Duckworth, Olivia Gadecki and Aleksandar Vukic plus Chris Mahoney, coach of Maya Joint, our weekly college wrap with Lachlan Puyol from Play USA Tennis pathways and...

Host Lachlan Puyol is back with his weekly college segment on The First Serve 'Live' for 2025 catching up with ITA CEO David Mullins, NJCAA National Tournament Director Rob Hill and Aussie Alex Despoia from Adelaide in his sophmore year at Tyler Junior College Play USA Tennis Pathways supports athletes who want to go down the college pathway, assisting players to get recruited to a college that me...

Plenty of domestic action as we wrap Tennis Victoria State Grade R3 and PTT-UTR at Hume TC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Connor Joyce looks back on the first big final between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner fighting for the Italian Open trophy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Phillips is joined by Connor Joyce from the Foro Italico in Rome to reflect on a fortnight at the Italian Open. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Phillips touches on some news items of the week including Kooyong, Laver Cup and State of Australian Tennis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Phillips is back with another big show wrapping up a massive fortnight at the Foro Italico for the Italian Open plus all the latest news of the week, Aussies abroad, Tennis VIC State Grade, PTT UTR latest round, Aussies in College update + more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tennis Tragic Roddy Reynolds and Tennis Pro Alexandra (Ally) Osborne are back for episode three of The Grind for 2025, our dedicated monthly podcast focusing on the Challenger/ITF tours.. In this episode, Great Britains Tara Moore and the crazy situation she is going through defending her innocence, player nationality alliegance switching, some broadcast and rankings news and our player and tourna...

Tennis Tragic Roddy Reynolds and Tennis Pro Alexandra (Ally) Osborne are back for episode four of The Grind for 2025, our dedicated monthly podcast focusing on the Challenger/ITF tours.. In this episode, Ally celebrates her W50 doubles title win, Canadian tennis journalist Steve Boughton from theslicetennis.com features who has covered both tours, a Challenger cash update and our player and tourna...

Our latest Tennis in QLD episode with host Adon Kronk chats to Gail Bates, Vice President and Tournament Director of Tennis Seniors QLD, recognised for her outstanding service over 25 years. You can start playing Tennis Seniors at 30. It is a great chat. 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 catching up with Aussie duo Catherine Aulia (University of Tennessee) and Charlotte Kempenaers-Pocz (University of Texas) 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 goals. If you...

Victorian Andrew Harris who stopped playing around a year ago due to injury immediately stepping into coaching. He chats to The First Serve Live from the Italian Open. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

15 year old Amelia Nedarajah playing for North Ringwood TC in Tennis Victoria State Grade joined The First Serve Live to reflect on Round 2 and her tennis journey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former World Number 22 as a player and current Italian Billie Jean King Cup Captain Tathiana Garbin joined The First Serve Live in Rome to talk about the Italian Open and the success of Italian tennis right now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Phillips is live from the Foro Italico for the 2nd Monday of the Italian Open with Aussie Alex de Minaur in action and Connor Joyce is courtside with the latest. Former World no 22 and current Italian Billie Jean King Cup captain Tathiana Garbin sits down to talk about the strength of Italian tennis, a full round up of tennis results outside of Rome including Tennis Victoria State Grade with...

Alex de Minaur chats to Connor Joyce after his R32 win over Hugo Dellien (LL) 6-4, 6-4 to make it through to a last 16 match up with American Tommy Paul at the ATP Masters 1000 Rome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lachlan Puyol is back with Episode 4 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 fourth episode of the year, Lachlan chats to Aussie Darcy Nicholls from Melbourne, who is in his junior year at Samford Universi...

Number 1 Aussie Alex de Minaur kicked off his Italian Open campaign with a 6-4, 7-5 win over Italian wildcard Luca Nardi, dealing with a rowdy home crowd with one spectator in particular over stepping the mark. Chatting to Brett Phillips while on the exercise bike in recovery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices