The ATP Tennis Radio Podcast

Seb Lauzier rounds-up events in Hamburg where Nikoloz Basilashvili beat Andrey Rublev to claim the title for the second time. We hear from the Georgian and his coach Jan De Witt as well as replaying the press conference in which Alexander Zverev announced he was no longer working with coach Ivan Lendl. As attention now turns to the US Open Series, we hear from players Daniil Medvedev, Felix Auger-Aliassime and doubles star Raven Klaasen ahead of the Citi Open In Washington and also speak to tour photographer, Pete Staples, to get an insight into a tennis life played out away from the court.

Seb Lauzier introduces exclusive interviews with Wimbledon Doubles Champion Robert Farah and his coach Jeff Coetzee, Wimbledon semi-finalist Roberto Bautista Agut and quarter-finalist Guido Pella, Prakash Armitraj on life growing up as the son of legendary tennis player, Vijay, Marcos Baghdatis on his retirement from the game and Nikoloz Basilashvili ahead of his title defence in Hamburg.

Recorded after the 2019 Wimbledon Men's Singles Final, ATP Tennis Radio commentators, Peter Marcato and Chris Bowers discuss the record-breaking conclusion to Championships as well as some of the major stories from the second week.

Recorded at the conclusion of play on day 6 of the Wimbledon Championships 2019, ATP Tennis Radio commentators Peter Marcato and Chris Bowers reflect on events both on and off the court from the first week including Andy Murray's return to Centre Court with Serena Williams, the big three progressing whilst other top seeds faltered, the standout match between Rafael Nadal and Nick Kyrgios, Marcos Bagdatis' retirement from the game, the new Court One roof being used to extend the days play, plus errant champagne corks and faulty sprinklers!

Seb Lauzier is joined by Andy Murray's former coach, Miles Maclagan and former British player, Barry Cowan to look through the singles and doubles draws ahead of the Championships. Other talking points include the new Court One roof and the introduction of a tie-break at 12-all in the fifth set. The team also introduce interviews with the aforementioned Murray, Dominic Thiem and his coach, Nicolas Massu, Alexander Zverev and Kyle Edmund's coach, Mark Hilton.

Relive the best action of the 2019 Fever-Tree Championships and watch live tennis on tennistv.com

Relive the best action of the 2019 Noventi Open and watch live tennis on tennistv.com

This week we look back on events at both the Noventi Open in Halle, Germany, where Roger Federer won his 10th championship title and at the Fever-Tree Championships in London which saw Andy Murray make a victorious return to action alongside doubles partner Feliciano Lopez, who also won the singles title. We hear from the winners, plus an extra exclusive chat with Roger Federer, who explains how he first got into tennis and we speak to losing Queen's finalist, Gilles Simon. We also replay the dramatic match tiebreaker in the doubles final in London.

Seb Lauzier looks ahead to both ATP 500 events taking place this week. In Halle, Seb speaks with Roger Federer, Borna Coric and local favourite, Alexander Zverev whilst in London we get the views of leading players including Marin Cilic, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Juan Martin Del Potro and Andy Murray, who's back on court in doubles action.

Gigi Salmon is joined by Radio Roland Garros commentators Peter Marcato and Nick McCarvel to look back over a fortnight which culminated in Rafael Nadal's twelfth title in the French capital. As well as discussing the final and the past two weeks, the team also introduces a special ATP Uncovered feature charting Rafa's 2019 season as a whole.

Gigi Salmon is joined by Radio Roland-Garros commentators Matt Brown and Simon Cambers to dissect the action from the first week of Roland-Garros. Along the way, the team also introduce interviews with Jan-Lennard Stuff, the only unseeded player in the round of 16, Stefanos Tsitsipas' coach, Patrick Mouratoglou plus there's an update on the Race to Milan and a feature on one of the under 21 players hoping to be in the mix for the end-of-year finals, Casper Ruud.

Gigi Salmon, Nick McCarvel and Matt Brown from Radio Roland Garros look ahead to the second major of the year and discuss all the major talking points. The team also introduce features with Dominic Thiem and Fabio Fognini and link to interviews with french journalist, Carole Bouchard and doubles specialist, Robert Farah.

Relive the best action of the 2019 Internazionale BNL d'Italia and watch live tennis on Tennistv.com

Gigi Salmon and Miles Maclagan look back on Rafael Nadal's victory over Novak Djokovic in the final of the Internazionale BNL d'Italia plus introduce interviews with Jamie Murray, Diego Schwartzman, Flavia Pennetta, Matteo Berrettini, Maria Sakkari and Joao Sousa.

Steve Pearce and Lucie Ahl discuss events at the Mutua Madrid Open which saw Novak Djokovic claim his 33rd Masters 1000 title, beating Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final. As well as looking back on all the action, the duo also discuss the return of Roger Federer and the farewell from David Ferrer. All that plus we hear from Gael Monfils, Nicolas Massu and Apostolos Tsitsipas to name a few.

Seb Lauzier is joined by tennis journalist Reem Abulleil to preview the Mutua Madrid Masters. They discuss Roger Federer's return to clay, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic's lack of form and Dominic Thiem's recent run of success. They also hear from Spanish legend, David Ferrer and discuss his contribution to the game ahead of his final event before retirement and Andy Murray's coach, Jamie Delgado, talks about growing up in Tenerife.

Relive the best action from the 2019 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell and watch live tennis on the TennisTV website and app

Barry Millns and Miles Maclagan look back on Dominic Thiem's successful week at the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell, plus we hear from Spanish youngster, Jaume Munar, Toni Nadal pays tribute to David Ferrer, Nicolas Almagro looks back on his career, we take a look at the academy structure in Spain and look ahead to the Mutua Madrid Open with a Swiss journalist who's worked closely alongside Roger Federer over the years.

Relive the best action from the 2019 Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters and watch live tennis on the TennisTV website and app.

Gigi Salmon and Barry Cowan reflect on a fabulous week in Monaco for Fabio Fognini plus they introduce exclusive interviews with Dusan Lajovic, Daniil Medvedev, Nicolas Massu, Pierre-Hughes Herbert, Robin Haase and Toni Nadal.

Seb Lauzier is joined by tennis writer and ATP Tennis Radio commentator, Simon Cambers to preview the latest edition of the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters. Along the way, the duo also introduce features with upcoming Canadian sensation, Felix Auger Aliassime, number six seed, Stefanos Tsitsipas and interviews with David Goffin's coach, Thomas Johansson and one of the games foremost tactical coaches, Craig O'Shannessy.

In a special edition of the ATP Tennis Radio podcast, Seb Lauzier introduces a coaching Masterclass with three men who between them have guided the form and fortunes of Roger Federer, Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, Lleyton Hewitt, Serena Williams, Simona Halep, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Taylor Fritz - that's six world number ones and two of the most exciting young prospects in the game today - we are talking about Patrick Mouratoglou, Paul Annacone and Darren Cahill, all of whom spoke recently with our very own Jill Craybas.

Relive the best action of the 2019 Miami Open presented by Itau and watch live tennis on Tennistv.com

As Roger Federer makes it title 101, we speak to his longtime coach, Severin Luthi, plus Rob Steckley joins us to discuss how he's looking to shape the young career of Denis Shapovalov, Frederic Fontang talks about working with another Canadian youngster, Felix Auger-Aliassime, David Goffin speaks about returning from injury, coaches Jamon Crabb, Jay Berger and Mark Hilton discuss the work they are doing with their charges and finally, doubles finalist Wesley Koolhof talks about playing tennis under the spotlight.

On this week's podcast our reporter at the Miami Open, Seb Lauzier, introduces exclusive interviews with Tournament Director, James Blake, Serb, Janko Tipsarevic plus youngsters Alexander Bublik, Jaume Munar, Andrey Rublev and Stefanos Tsitsipas.

Relive the best action of the 2019 Story of BNP Paribas Open and watch live tennis on Tennistv.com

We hear from BNP Paribas Masters champion Dominic Thiem, plus Karen Khachanov's coach Vedran Martic talks about his player's start to the year, Fabrice Santoro talks coaching techniques, Jimmy Arias gives us the inside track on Miomir Kecmanovic, Markus Giron speak about coming up through the ranks and Craig Boynton explains how he came about working with Hubert Hurkacz. All that plus presenter Gigi Salmon and Miles Maclagan look ahead to the Miami Masters and discuss listener predictions for that tournament.

Gigi Salmon introduces the pick of Jill Craybas' interviews from week one in the Californian desert.

Relive the best action of the 2019 Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships and watch live tennis on Tennistv.com

Roger Federer speaks to us about achieving his 100th career title in Dubai, plus we also hear from Nick Kyrgios after his victory in Acapulco, get to know a little bit more about first-time ATP Tour winners Laslo Djere and Radu Albot, spend some time with young Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime and preview the BNP Paribas Masters in Indian Wells with the likes of Sascha Zverev, Kei Nishikori, Borna Coric, Marin Cilic, Stan Wawrinka, Milos Raonic and John Isner.

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Seb Lauzier is joined by Brazil legend Gustavo 'Guga' Kuerten and another Brazilian only recently retired from the tour, Andre Sa to discuss the development of the game in the country and how to help the sport grow.

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We hear from Gael Monfils after his victory in Rotterdam as well of a whole host of other players who took part this week including Daniil Medvedev, Kei Nishikori, Karen Khachanov and Tomas Berdych. Talking you through the podcast is commentator, Pete Odgers and former Fed Cup player, Claire Curran.

As the regular ATP Tour season kicks back into action in Argentina, France and Bulgaria we spend time with some of the game’s brightest stars. First we hear from three players in Sofia who, between them, climbed an incredible 164 places in the ATP Rankings in 2018. ATP Tour Uncovered’s Gabriel Clarke spoke with Georgia’s Nikoloz Basilashvili, young Russian Daniil Medvedev and first the biggest thing to come out of Greece for quite some time, Stefanos Tsitsipas. And while those three have been in action in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia, on the south coast of France in Montpellier 19-year-old Denis Shapovalov has been one of the star attractions. In the off-season ATP Uncovered spent some time with the young Canadian and his new coach, Rob Steckley, ahead of their assault on 2019. Finally this week to Argentina and the third of the ATP 250s reaching a climax in Cordoba. Number 5 seed Nicolas Jarry fell in the first round, but the 23-year-old Chilean enjoyed a strong South American swing this time last year, off the back of a challenger win on home soil. There are three more ATP Tour events next week with 250s in New York and Buenos Aires and the first 500 of the year in Rotterdam – as ever we’ll have live commentary of Sunday’s Rotterdam Final on ATP Tennis Radio - please join us for that via the TuneIn Radio app or ATPTour.com - and if you can’t join us live, listen to next week’s ATP Tennis Radio Podcast as we’ll round up all the action look ahead to Rio and other key events in February. Remember you can get in touch on Twitter and Instagram – that’s @ATPtennisradio – or you can email [email protected] . If you’re listening on iTunes and like what you’ve heard, please leave us a quick review – it only takes a few seconds.

In this week's show Seb Lauzier takes a look back at the Australian Open by hearing from some of the events star turns and those around them. We speak to the man who provides the statistical analysis that leaves no stone unturned for Novak Djokovic, Lucas Pouille looks at his career path to-date and we hear from some of the NextGen stars including, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Frances Tiafoe, Alex De Minaur and Alexei Popyrin.

Gigi Salmon and Jill Craybas look back on Novak Djokovic's history-making triumph at the Australian Open, plus pick out the best moments from across the two weeks and introduce a special feature that the ATP Tour Uncovered team did with doubles legend, Bob Bryan.

At the halfway stage of the Australian Open, Gigi Salmon is joined by ATP Tennis Radio regulars, Simon Cambers and Nick McCarvel to look back over all of the talking points from week one of the tournament and to look ahead to week two. In addition to the chat, the team also introduce features with Alexei Popyrin, Tomas Berdych and Daniil Medvedev.

Gigi Salmon and Peter Marcato set the scene from Melbourne Park and discuss the major talking points ahead of the first Grand Slam of the year, the Australian Open, including Andy Murray's announcement that he's to retire and the duo also pick our their favourite match-ups from round one. Along the way we also hear from Australians Thanasi Kokkinakis and Alex De Minaur and Tennis legend Mats Wilander gives his views as to what to look out for in 2019.

As the ATP Tour season kicks off, Seb Lauzier is joined by Andy Murray's former coach, Miles Maclagan and another former top British player, Arvind Parmar to preview the year and give their top tips on what they think will happen along the way. We also hear from world number 1, Novak Djokovic and two of the stars of the 2018 season - Borna Coric and Alex De Minaur.

There are two halves to this week’s show – both featuring seasoned tennis journalist Chris Bowers, biographer of both Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic among others.. At the recent Nitto ATP Finals Chris challenged the rest of the commentary team to a quiz on the history of the finals. That quiz more difficult than we thought it would be so, fortunately, we all had the chance for revenge when the tables were turned and Chris became the very first contestant to play ATP Tennis Radio Mastermind.. We all chipped in with two questions each on his specialist subject, which was Roger Federer.

We continue our look-back on the story of 2018 with some of our favourite interviews from the year. Picking up the story in Toronto, the sixth ATP masters 1000 of the year but of course there’d been a lot of water under the bridge since Rome – Rafael Nadal winning his 11th French Open and Novak Djokovic confirming that he was well and truly back by taking his fourth Wimbledon and after that Djokovic started as the favourite in Toronto but came up against a red-hot young Greek, Stefanos Tsitsipas who beat him in three sets and afterwards Jill Craybas spoke with his coach and father Apostolos. Onto Cincinnati where all the talk was about Novak Djokovic and a career golden masters and shortly after the Serb clinched victory, he spoke with Paul King. And the plaudits would keep coming for Djokovic after he followed up that success with his third US Open triumph to tie the great Pete Sampras on 14 career grand slams. He would march onto the penultimate ATP Masters 1000 of the year in Shanghai. And it was in China that Lee Goodall went off the beaten track to find out a little more about one of the year’s biggest climbers, Georgia’s Nikoloz Basilashvili, who had just won his second title of the year in Beijing, which was also just the second of his career. One reason behind that improvement is coach Jan de Witt, formerly with Frenchman Gilles Simon and now enjoying working with the only Georgian at the top of the game. Having beaten Denis Shapovalov, Basilashvili would lose to Shanghai semi finalist Sascha Zverev .. but in the end everyone would bow to Djokovic who beat Borna Coric in the final.. and so we arrived in Paris for the final masters of the year with Djokovic eying the world number 1 ranking. But trumping even that in the headlines was big news in the Grigor Dimitrov camp. Andre Agassi, formerly with Novak of course, was back, this time alongside the struggling Dimitrov and his coach Dani Vallverdu kindly took time out to Seb Lauzier. And if achieving potential is the benchmark for success, one man well ahead of the curve so far is 19-year-old Australian Alex de Minaur. Newcomer of the year in the ATP Awards, he also finished runner-up in the Next Gen finals and closer to home became the Australian number 1 – which is what he was mainly reflecting on when he spoke with Lee Goodall. And from one young man, we finish this week with another… Sascha Zverev’s year would finish in the best possible way, achieving the unthinkable for many in beating Novak Djokovic to win his first Nitto ATP Finals.. shortly we’ll hear the reaction we got straight afterwards from close friend Marcelo Melo and fitness coach Jez Green.

As the year draws to a close and the players either put their feet up somewhere warm and sunny or get back into the lung-busting job of pre-season training blocks, this week we start to look back on the story of 2018 by hearing again some of our favourite interviews from the first half of the season, from the American hard courts of the tennis mecca that is Indian Wells through to the sun-burnt clay and imperial majesty of Rome. We start in Indian Wells where Sascha Zverev was bidding to follow on from his breakthrough year in 2017. Key to building the Zverev game has been building the Zverev body and the responsibility for that job has fallen squarely on the shoulders of Jez Green. Formerly conditioning coach for Tomas Berdych and more recently Andy Murray, Green spoke with Jill Craybas at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden and shared some of the secrets to his success. We then we move to Miami and another man off and running quicker than ever before in 2018 was Britain’s Kyle Edmund, a semi-finalist at the Australian Open and already making huge strides under a new head coach, Freddie Rosengren. Always ready and available to share his thoughts, Freddie spoke with Seb Lauzier in the players’ garden in Miami about Kyle’s rapid rise. Moving to Europe and on the clay courts of the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters we heard from Boris Becker, before moving to Madrid and a look at tennis in Spain with a legend of that country, Emilio Sanchez. Finally to Rome where along the way there had been plenty for Italian tennis to cheer about, Fabio Fognini rising to the occasion and good wins for Marco Cecchinato and Matteo Berrettini, all of which left the country’s Davis Cup captain Corrado Berrazutti in a good mood when he spoke to us alongside the magnificent Pietrangeli court. And remember, these interviews and many more are also available on our 'Exclusives' channel on TuneIn - https://bit.ly/2CNeiz1

This week we all get to know a little bit more, a lot more in fact, about the newest member of the Tennis TV and ATP Tennis Radio commentary team.. that is none other than recent world number 21 Gilles Muller who hung up his racquets at the end of this year’s US Open and has since been enjoying some long overdue family time and also putting in his maiden performance as part of our team at the Nitto ATP Finals.

Seb Lauzier introduces three exclusive interviews recorded during the season-ending Nitto ATP Finals. We get a unique insight into the number-crunching and detail that has helped take Novak Djokovic back to number 1 in the world, we hear from Dave Miley who was Head of Development at the ITF and is now at the cutting edge of leading tennis development in Asia as the Director of Development for the Asian Tennis Federation and staying in that part of the world, the Times of India's Prajwal Hegde talks about the country's fascination with the sport.

A week on from the Nitto ATP Finals, Seb Lauzier brings you some more of our favourite interviews from our week in London including chats with Fabrice Santoro, Sebastien Grosjean, Tim Henman, Nikolay Davydenko, David Nalbandian and Louis Cayer.

Relive the best action from the Nitto ATP Finals held in London, 2018. Watch all the live tennis on www.tennistv.com

We hear from Sascha Zverev's fitness coach, Jez Green and best friend, Marcelo Melo after the 21-year-old's victory at the Nitto ATP Finals. All that plus Borna Coric joins us for a chat, Mats Wilander looks at the history of the tournament and ATP Executive Chairman and President of the ATP, Chris Kermode explains why the ATP is making changes on and off the court.

Peter Macarto and Naomi Cavaday look back over events at the ATP Next Gen Finals, where Stefanos Tsitsipas lit up the final to claim victory over Alex De Minaur. We'll hear from Tournament Director Ross Hutchins and Senior Vice President of Marketing George Ciz as they reflect on the second year of this tournament, find out more about the alternate Lloyd Harris, and get the reflections of Eric Butorac the USTA Player Liaison Officer on the new rules he's enforced this year. Plus Peter and Naomi look ahead to the season ending Nitto ATP Finals.

Watch highlights from the week that culminated in Karen Khachanov defeating Novak Djokovic to capture his first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title at the Rolex Paris Masters