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Padel Pow Wow is back for episode eight of 2025 with Matt Barelle in the host chair (the godfather of Padel in AUS) once again joined by the king of padel vibes Ryan Bougie. This final edition of 2025 edition comes to you from the final padel event of the year at Docklands in Melbourne, as the guys also look ahead to a big January of Padel events in Australia and reveal more and more new clubs ope...

Welcome to Episode 8 of our new podcast in 2025, 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 leading Australian historian Richard Naughton who goes inside the history of the Australian Open. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Kachel jumped on 'The First Serve Live' to let everyone know of a tribute luncheon coming up to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Mark Edmonson being the last home Aussie mens grand slam champion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week on The First Serve, we present The State of Play, going inside the Australian tennis landscape and what our future looks like on the world stage. For our final show of 2025 included is a chat with 19 year old Jarrod Joyce who has an ATP Ranking having earned two ATP points, but has decided to leave tennis for football. He shares his story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon...

Host Lachlan Puyol is back with his weekly college segment on The First Serve with the latest news, featuring Aussie Sam Simmonds whohas committed to Saint Mary’s College of California in the Spring 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, pa...

Brett Phillips is back for the final show of 2025 from Bolonga following an unbelievable Davis Cup win for Italy. A look back at the year on the road that started in Buenos Aires, ending in Bologna, where thefirstserve.com.au's Christian Montegan joins Brett to take a close look at the Davis Cup week. The State of Play is back with feature guest 19 year old Jarrod Joyce who has turned his back on...

Part 2 of 23 year old Carol Lee creating history from the Northern Mariana Islands has had a breakout year on tour. She joined Brett Phillips on 'The First Serve Live' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

www.thefirstserve.com.au Senior Writer Christian Montegan joined Brett Phillips on The First Serve Live to wrap up the Davis Cup week in Bologna. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It has been a big year on the road for The First Serve, following and covering the tour. Relive a compilation of the best of 'The First Serve Live' heard each Monday Night on SEN with Brett Phillips. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Push, our dedicated wheelchair tennis podcast is back for episode eight for 2025 with hosts Tim Connelly - Manager of Hume Tennis and Community Centre and Home of the Melbourne and Victorian Wheelchair Open and Aussie quad pro Heath Davidson OAM.  Tim and Heath are at the ITF Wheelchair Masters in China as they record just prior to Heath competing in the doubles final. They are joined by Heath...

ATP Chairman Andrea Gaudenzi spoke to the media at the ATP Finals in Turin also to The First Serve Live about the big topics in tennis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Lachlan Puyol is back with his weekly college segment on The First Serve with the latest news, featuring Aussie Jeremy Jin from the University of Florida. 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 th...

23 year old Carol Lee creating history from the Northern Mariana Islands has had a breakout year on tour. She joined Brett Phillips on 'The First Serve Live' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Kooyong Classic will be back for 2026 leading into the Australian Open. Tournament Director Peter Johnstone joined 'The First Serve Live to update the playing field added to Musetti, Khachanov, Bublik and Berrettini for January Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Phillps is in Turin presenting this weeks show recapping the ATP Finals and Australia's Billie Jean King Cup win. He also chats to ATP Chairman Andrea Gaudenzi, plus Peter Johnstone from the Kooyong Classic with an updated player field. The State of Play is back, plus a feature chat with Carol Lee and her great rise on the tour this year, making history from the Northern Mariana Islands, plu...

On this episode of Tennis in QLD, host Adon Kronk chats one on one with Tennis QLD Chairperson Jane Prentice about her role and the bigger picture of overseeing tennis in a state as big as QLD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Beti Sekulovski and Michael Logarzo are back for episode ten for 2025, unpacking the junior tennis landscape in Australia. In this episode, feature guest is the very experienced Slovakian coach Vladimir Platenik who has coached some of the biggest names on the WTA Tour who is currently working with a top 10 junior on her journey. A great listen for players, parents and coaches. Learn more about yo...

Each week on The First Serve, we present The State of Play, going inside the Australian tennis landscape and what our future looks like on the world stage. This week, we reveal a very interesting letter from the inside which might resonate back home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Lachlan Puyol is back with his weekly college segment on The First Serve with the latest news, featuring Lily Taylor: Sophomore at Arizona State University in Phoenix. Lily is from Brisbane. 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, paren...

Tennis Australia's Frances Soyer joined The First Serve Live to wrap up the winner of the 12/14's De Minaur Junior Tour Finals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On our trip to the WTA Finals in Riyadh, 20 year old Saudi Arabian Bader Idrees (aspiring pro and hitting partner for the players) joined us to take us inside his journey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Phillips is live in Turin for the ATP Finals after Alex de Minaur's opening day appearance. The full honour roll of champions of the past week, plus going inside his week in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for the WTA Finals including special guest Bader Idrees, Saudi aspiring pro. The State of Play is back, going inside the Australian tennis landscape with an interesting letter, plus a wrap of the 12/...

Lachlan Puyol is back with Episode 10 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 tenth and final episode of the year, Lachlan chats to Nikita Volonski from Sydney who is in his junior year at the University o...

Each week on The First Serve, we present The State of Play, going inside the Australian tennis landscape and what our future looks like on the world stage. This week, we decided to reflect on an interview we aired three years this week with Tennis Australia CEO Craig Tiley about the State of Australian tennis. 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 ten of The Grind to round out 2025, our dedicated monthly podcast focusing on the Challenger/ITF tours. In this episode, Ally recaps her 9 months on the road, a look back at the last month on the Australian Pro Tour, and looking ahead to the three events left on the Challenger/ITF Tour in Australia fo...