The First Serve

21 year old Talia Gibson has won through to her first Wimbledon Main Draw defeating tenth seed Argentine Solana Sierra 6-4, 3-6, 7-5. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

21 year old Aussie James McCabe appearing in Wimbledon qualifying for the first time is now onto the main draw after defeating fifith seed Marcelo Barrios Vera 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(5), 7-6(7) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

27 year old Aussie Priscilla Hon in her 7th attempt has qualified for the Wimbledon Main Draw defeating Canada's Victoria Mboko in dramatic fashion 4-6, 7-6(4), 6-1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Padel Pow Wow is back for episode three of 2025 with hosts Matt Barelle (the godfather of Padel in AUS) and Rob Daley (COO of Game4 Padel in Melbourne) as they review the latest on and court in the last month and have a great chat with feature guest Gareth Keating on a life time in tennis and panel, who has just opened up his own padel club in Brisbane. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...

27 year old Aussie Priscilla Hon is one win away from her first ever Wimbledon main draw after a 2nd round qualifying win defeating Switzerland's Leonie Kung 6-1, 6-3. Chatting to Brett Phillips post match Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

32 year old Aussie Alex Bolt is through to the final round of Wimbledon qualifying after a 7-6(5), 2-6, 6-2 victory over American tenth seed Eliot Spizzirri. Chatting to Brett Phillips Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

16 year old Aussie Emerson Jones is one win away from playing in her first Wimbledon main draw after defeating Serbia's Lola Radivojevic 6-4, 6-4 in the 2nd round of qualifying. Chatting to Brett Phillips. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

21 year old Aussie Talia Gibson for the 2nd consecutive year is into the final round of Wimbledon qualies, hoping to go one better after a 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 victory over Arianne Hartono of the Netherlands. Chatting to Brett Phillips. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

21 year old Sydneysider James McCabe in his first Wimbledon qualifying campaign is into the final round after a straight sets win over Argentine Roman Burruchaga. Chatting to Brett Phillips. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

29 year old Aussie Li Tu is one away from playing in the main draw of Wimbledon for the first time after saving a 2nd set match point and being down 6-9 in the deciding super tie break. He spoke to Brett Phillips post match. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A big Round 7 of State Grade action was played over the weekend. Sean A'Hearn wraps and chats to Peninsula Fire's Stefan Storch 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 Sam Dinneen - going to Pratt Community College in August and Stefan Woolley - Sam's Coach and Director of POWA Tennis. 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....

The long standing Australian Teams Championships for Australia's junior talent (11's, 13's and 15's) is taking place on the Gold Coast at KDV Sport. Tournament Director Frances Soyer stopped by for a chat after Monday's play had been washed out and what that meant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the back of the news that Hobart's Domain Tennis Centre has been awarded hosting rights for November's Billie Jean King Cup Playoff between Australia, Portugal and Brazil, CEO of Tennis Tasmania Darren Sturgess joined our Rick Fontyn on what it means for his state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Phillips is live as Wimbledon Qualifying is getting underway. The Honour Roll of the past week, Tennis Tasmania CEO Darren Sturgess on Hobart chosen to host the BJK Cup Playoffs, News of the week, 16 year old Aussie Tahlia Kokkinis after winning her first pro singles title, the currency markets thanks to Sports fx if your earning money overseas, Frances Soyer, Tournament Director of the Aust...

Beti Sekulovski and Michael Logarzo are back for episode five for 2025, unpacking the junior tennis landscape in Australia. In this episode they chat one on one with Aussie Roisin Gilheany who has been down all three training options in the pathway - an academy, a hybrid or regular conventional schooling. 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 featuring Aussie Jordan Szabo, in his first season as women's coach at Auburn University. 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 coach...

Sean A'Hearn wraps up Round 6 of the Tennis Victoria State Grade season with a special guest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Phillips is back with another big edition of the show wrapping up the week on tour, providing a Wimbledon briefing, a look into our latest podcast drops, a Tennis Victoria State Grade Round 6 wrap and the latest college news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our latest Tennis in Queensland episode with host Adon Kronk is a one on one chat with Queensland and Australian coaching legend Gary Stickler. Sit back and enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tennis Tragic Roddy Reynolds and Tennis Pro Alexandra (Ally) Osborne are back for episode five of The Grind for 2025, our dedicated monthly podcast focusing on the Challenger/ITF tours.. In this episode, a midway recap, also touching on Ally's adventures navigating doubles signing in, in Italy (that's a story worth hearing to give you the full 'grind' perspective of the tours) and the guys chat Lo...

Lachlan Puyol is back with Episode 5 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 fifth episode of the year, Lachlan chats to Aussie duo Jarryd Chaplin, Associate Head Women's Coach at the University of Georgia...

Brett Phillips chats to Tournament Chairman Mark Ein of the annual ATP/WTA 500 in Washington DC who was in Paris at the French Open about life as a tournament director. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kale Nairn wraps week 2 of the first Sydney leg for 2025 of the UTR Professional Tennis Tour chatting to mens winner Jeremy Zhang. 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 Aussie Tennika McGiffin, UTR Manager, Player Relations 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 coach and are interested in the...