The First Serve

Tennis Australia's Frances Soyer spoke to Brett Phillips about this weeks Australian Junior Tour Finals 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 with the latest news, featuring Melbourne's Steffi Webb with her announcement signing. 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...

Brett Phillips is live in Saudi Arabia for the WTA Finals with a few tech difficulties, but managed to get this edition to air, including The State of Play - a recap of the TA CEO Craig Tiley interview, three years this week, plus Aaron Klump the first ever coach of Adam Walton, Lachlan Puyol is back with his weekly college segment, beIN Sports Commentator Beti Sekulovski recaps the Aussie pro tou...

Aaron Klump is the first ever coach of Australian top 100 player Adam Walton, who joined Brett Phillips on The First Serve Live to talk about his journey, also offering up some thoughts about the general state of the game in Australia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Episode 7 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 Aussie aspiring pro Sam Dineen from Melbourne who is tackling the college pathway as an entry point to the pro ranks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch...

Alex de Minaur has taken down Karen Khachanov in straight sets in just over an our to progress through to the QF's of the Paris Masters and also lock in a spot in the season ending ATP Finals in Turin. Chatting to Brett Phillips post match. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To open his ATP Masters 1000 Paris campaign, Aussie Number 1 Alex de Minaur has had to overcome talented young Canadian Gabriel Diallo (World Number 41) 7-6(8), 4-6, 6-3 to advance to the Round 16, edging closer to securing his spot for Turin. Chatting to Brett Phillips as he stepped off court. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the fourth episode of the Masters Zone, hosted by Tim Prince which delves into the ITF Masters tour in Australia and around the world. Feature guests for this episode are Joerg Pfuhl author of a great book about his journey and experiences playing the ITF Masters Tour and respected Australian coach Matt Gregory about coaching older players, plus a full tournaments wrap up from October....

Brett Phillips is back with the latest instalment of 'The State of Play' going inside the landscape of Australian tennis with more of your correspondence and a special guest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The First Serve Live chatted to Tim Connelly from Hume Tennis and Community Centre after his recent induction into the Tennis Coaches Australia Hall of Fame. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

beIn Sports Commentator Beti Sekulovski gave us the low down on the latest stop on the Australian Pro Tour for the men and women in Brisbane. 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. 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 college pathway in the United States, contact Lachlan Puyo...

Brett Phillips is back with another big show live from Paris for the final ATP Masters 1000 for the year, taking a look back at the honour roll for the week, The State of Play returns going inside the Australian tennis landscape, TCA Hall of Famer Tim Connelly jumps on and all the other news of the week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Padel Pow Wow is back for episode seven 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 edition focuses on the FIP (International Padel Federation) Asia Cup where our Aussie men and women both made the semi finals. They did go down to the UAE and Japan (both eventual champions) and then our men claimed the b...

The Push, our dedicated wheelchair tennis podcast is back for episode seven 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 reflect back on the US Open and the new Washington tournament lead in and the recent European tour taking in Sardinia and the French R...

Host Lachlan Puyol is back with his weekly college segment on The First Serve 'Live' for 2025 with the latest news. 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 college pathway in the United States, cont...

Coach, Businessman, Commentator and founder of UTS (Universal Tennis Showdown) Patrick Mouratoglou joined Brett Phillips on The First Serve Live with UTS launching in Hong Kong for the first time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Phillips is back with the latest instalment of 'The State of Play' going inside the landscape of Australian tennis with more of your correspondence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Phillips brings this weeks show from Vienna for the ATP 500, saluting the honour role of champions over the past week on the ATP/WTA Tours, also looking back at attending the UTS in Hong Kong with a feature chat with founder Patrick Mouratoglou, the State of Play returns, going inside the Australian tennis landscape, our college segment, plus all the other tennis news of the week. Learn more...

On this episode of Tennis in QLD, host Adon Kronk chats to a Queenslander who played college tennis in the USA where he also went on to coach and in returning to Australia became National Head coach in WA, then National Women's coach at the NTA in Brisbane. He is currently the Director of Coaching at Tennis Australia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Beti Sekulovski and Michael Logarzo are back for episode nine for 2025, unpacking the junior tennis landscape in Australia. In this episode, feature guest is Aussie pro and former junior world number one Daria Saville who shares her junior journey from the experiences gained to the lessons learned. It is a great chat for all players, coaches, parents and tennis fans to listen into. Learn more abou...

Brett Phillips is back with the latest instalment of 'The State of Play' going inside the landscape of Australian tennis with more of your correspondence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Phillips is back with another big show having touched down in Hong Kong from Shanghai for this weeks Universal Tennis Showdown (UTS). Looking back on the unbelievable win by Monaco's Valentin Vacherot at the Shanghai Masters, we reveal more on the Alex de Minaur hip issue, The State of Play is back going inside the Australian Tennis Landscape and our future on the world stage, our regular Co...

Lachlan Puyol is back with Episode 9 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 ninth episode of the year, Lachlan chats to Jake Bucek from Geelong who is in his sophmore year at Copiah Lincoln Community Coll...

Tennis Tragic Roddy Reynolds and Tennis Pro Alexandra (Ally) Osborne are back for a great episode nine of The Grind for 2025, our dedicated monthly podcast focusing on the Challenger/ITF tours.. In this episode, Ally's travel challenges, young guns Lilli Tagger (Austria) and Emerson Jones (Australia) in focus, feature guest is Burundi trailblazer Sada Nahamina (a great listen) along with player an...