The First Serve

What a week it has been for Storm Hunter, winning the doubles title in Austin on Sunday, racing to get to Indian Wells by Monday, gets two qualifying wins on Monday and Tuesday and today comes from a set down to defeat Poland's Magdalena Frech to book a spot in the 2nd round of Indian Wells to play 12th seed Belinda Bencic. She has risen from 426-199 live in singles so far this year. Learn more ab...

First 1000 main draw win has Aussie Talia Gibson right on the cusp of the top 100 (101 Live) after taking down World Number 38 Ann Li 6-3, 7-5 in Indian Wells. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3rd win from her last four starts. The Aussie sets up a 2nd round match with China's Xinyu Wang (30) in Indian Wells Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The best performed Aussie woman of the year so far gets a 9th main draw win at tour level in 2026 defeating Oskana Selekhmeteva 6-1, 6-4 to set up another clash with Canadian 10th seed Victoria Mboko. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Third time is the charm for the Aussie who was 0-2 against the Frenchman who gets his 2nd main draw win of 2026 to set up a 2nd round match up at Indian Wells against 25th seed Learner Tien. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The First Serve Live Host Brett Phillips opens the show, after it was made official the departure of Craig Tiley from Tennis Australia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lachlan Puyol joins The First Serve Live with his weekly Aussies in College update. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The First Serve Live each Monday always gets some interesting emails into the mailbag. You can send to thefirstservesen@gmail.com. Here is this weeks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jumping on The First Serve Live was Aussie pros Ally Osborne and Tom Fancutt joining from Launceston where the Australian Pro Tour is this week to also preview our podcast 'The Grind' for 2026. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Phillips is back with another big episode of the show including Craig Tiley's official departure from TA, the honour roll of champions, Ally Osborne and Tom Fancutt join the show from Launceston where the Australian Pro Tour is to preview the return of 'The Grind' , The First Serve Mailbag about the concerns around player development and the latest college news of the week with Lachlan Puyol...

Welcome to the first episode of The Masters Zone for 2026, hosted by Tim Prince which delves into the ITF Masters tour in Australia and around the world. In this edition, a wrap of the MT1000 on the Gold Coast to start the year, the latest world rankings, current World number four Andy Brothers, founder of Tennis Asia and feature guest the one and only Patrick McEnroe. Learn more about your ad cho...

16 year old Mustafa Ege Sik has been the story of the last 48 hours, reported in The Age that Tennis Australia is in a tug of war with the Turkish Federation about his future allegiance. Your reaction in the Mailbag Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard Tattershaw, Global Marketing Director - Sports Group joins The Firsrt Serve Live to talk through the world's oldest tennis court surface manufacturer Laykold celebrating 100 years of inventing and reinventing tennis courts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lachlan Puyol joins The First Serve Live with his weekly Aussies in College update. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Co Host of our Junior Journey Podcast Beti Sekulovski on 'The First Serve Live introducing you to Athletes Pavilion - follow on Facebook and Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Phillips is back with another big show honouring the champions of the past week, Beti Sekulovski in studio introducing the Athletes Pavillion, Aussie stocktake on tour plus the AGE story on Mustafa Ege Sik, 16 year old Turkish player who Tennis Australia are in a tug of war with the Turkish Federation to secure plus the strong reaction from the tennis community, Laykold, the world's oldest t...

Michael Logarzo and Beti Sekulovski are back for Season 3 of 'The Junior Journey' talking all things junior tennis for players, coaches, parents and tennis fans. They open 2026 reflecting back on the AO Junior Finals and their key observations tying in their thoughts on player development here in AUS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Commentator Jade Culph from BeIn Sports chats to Brett Phillips on The First Serve Live about the latest week in Brisbane featuring an ATP Challenger and ITF W75. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lachlan Puyol joins The First Serve Live with his weekly Aussies in College update. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emily Chesterman from Tennis Victoria wraps up another big Country Week held in Shepparton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A timeline is given as to when current Tennis Australia CEO Craig Tiley will be announced as the new USTA CEO. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Phillips is back with another big show covering the world of tennis. On the menu - Craig Tiley USTA Announcement timeline, Award winning tennis journalist Linda Pearce, Honour roll of champions for the week, Tennis Victoria Country Week wrap, Aussie pro tour wrap with Jade Culph from BeIn Sports, Lachlan Puyol with our Aussies in College segment and much more. Learn more about your ad choice...

Lachlan Puyol is back with Episode 1 for 2026 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 first episode of 2026, Lachlan chats to Melbourne's Julian Blainey who is in his freshman year at Weatherford College in Texas....

Lachlan Puyol joins The First Serve Live with his weekly Aussies in College update. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On The First Serve Live, Aussie Tom Fancutt spoke about his return to tennis from his ban, taking out the PTT-UTR Gold Coast event Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices