The First Serve

Brett Phillips brings you this weeks show live from Paris on the back of a epic French Open mens final between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner and a drama filled womens final between Coco Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka hearing from all four post match plus all the news of the week at thefirstserve.com.au, the latest college update with Lachlan Puyol and the latest round of the UTR PTT. Learn more abou...

Host Lachlan Puyol is back with his weekly college segment on The First Serve 'Live' for 2025 featuring Ned Simpson - From Ocean Grove. Committed to Meridian Community College (Mississippi) in August 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, p...

All the latest from Tennis Victoria State Grade Round 6 including special guest Aaron Leeder Chard from Royal South Yarra. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Christopher Clarey is an American sports journalist and author who wrote the biography of Roger Federer 'The Master' and has just released 'The Warrior - Rafael Nadal and his Kingdom of Clay. He sat down with Brett Phillips at Roland Garros to chat about it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Beti Sekulovski and Michael Logarzo are back for episode four for 2025, unpacking the junior tennis landscape in Australia. In this episode they review they talk about the best form of training. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Phillips is live from Roland Garros as we turn the page into week 2 with all the latest from the 2nd major of the year hearing from the top players plus a chat with esteemed journalist and author of 'The Warrior - Rafael Nadal and his Kingdom of Clay' Christopher Clarey plus Tennis Victoria State Grade R6 - special guest Aaron Leeder Chard from Royal South Yarra, Kale Nairn wraps up the late...

In 2024, Matt Ebden and John Peers won the Olympic Gold Medal at Roland Garros. Their 8 match win streak in Paris came to an end today in the 3rd round going down in a tight three set battle 7-6, 4-6, 4-6 to British paur Skupski and Salisbury. They reflected with Brett Phillips. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

World Number 1 Aussie Junior and top seed Emerson Jones is through to the third round of the Roland Garros Junior Girls draw after a three set win over Czech Vendula Valdmannova 6-1, 2-6, 6-4. Chatting to Brett Phillips straight after the match. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Episode 2 of our brand new podcast Beyond the Tramlines, hosted by Josh Heriot, which explores the stories and journeys of people achieving great things in the world of tennis. Feature guest for this episode is Aussie Alan Stone, former player in the amateur/professional era and post his career to this day one of the longest serving tennis tv commentators and a great story teller. Learn...

Aussie doubles specialist JP Smith and his partner Fernando Romboli have scored a stirring second round win at Roland Garros defeating local pair Mayot/Caxaux 7-5, 6-7, 6-4 in nearly three hours. in front of packed French crowd. The two 36 year olds chatted to Connor Joyce. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daria Kasatkina moves into the 4th round of Roland Garros for a fourth time in her career after defeated tenth seed Paula Badosa 6-1, 7-5. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Padel Pow Wow is back for episode two 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 court in the last month, go through all the steps to start a padel club and compare Australia to the rest of the world in terms of costs and structure of clubs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic...

Alexei Popyrin is into the 4th round of a major for the first time after a straight sets win over Portugal's Nuno Borges 6-4, 7-6, 7-6 at Roland Garros to set up a meeting with American Tommy Paul Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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