The First Serve

Padel Pow Wow is back for episode six 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. The latest results of the past month, Aussie Crocs upcoming tour including the great Pat Rafter, the continued growth of clubs around Australia and noise reducing balls a thing of the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Phillips is back with another big show dissecting Australia's Davis Cup exit and the future of Lleyton Hewitt. All the results from around Australia and the globe, the State of Play in AUS and our weekly college segment. Plenty to take in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of Tennis in QLD, host Adon Kronk is joined by feature guest, long time coach Bruce Rayner from Bruce Rayner Pro Tennis in Maryborough, central QLD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Beti Sekulovski and Michael Logarzo are back for episode eight for 2025, unpacking the junior tennis landscape in Australia. In this episode, the theme is 'Know the Level' - Observations from the best 14's juniors in the world at Le Petits (Tarbs) one of the most prestigious 14/u European tournaments you can play. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Phillips is back with another big show from New York wrapping up the 2025 US Open with the insights of Carlos Alcaraz and Aryna Sabalenka. Plenty of discussion around Alex de Minaur's QF run, outside of New York all the news and results back in OZ and around the world plus our regular college segment with Lachlan Puyol. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lachlan Puyol is back with Episode 8 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 eighth episode of the year, Lachlan chats to Eddie Winter from Adelaide who is in his junior year at Pepperdine University in California and Derek Pham from Perth who is in his Sophomore year at Oaklahoma State University. 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 eight of The Grind for 2025, our dedicated monthly podcast focusing on the Challenger/ITF tours.. In this episode some US mixed doubles reflections, US Open main draw Challenger success stories, Tom Fancutt's ITIA ban, special guest is former Aussie Pro now coach Andrew Harris, along with the player and tournament of the month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sean A'Hearn wraps up the Tennis Victoria State Grade Final action from the weekend won by Kooyong on the women's and men's side, with special guests Jasmine Starr and David Bidmeade/Tom Patton 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 with special guests Eddie Winter - Junior at Pepperdine University in California and Derek Pham - Sophmore at Oklahoma State. 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 Puyol at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kale Nairn joins 'The First Serve Live' to recap the Week 2 UTR-PTT event on the Gold Coast chatting to winners Scott Jones and Kaylah McPhee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Phillips is back with another big show from New York after Week 1 of the US Open with a reliable Aussie presence in Alex de Minaur still in the draw. Away from all the latest US Open news, all the news back in OZ, 'The State of Play' a full recap of the UTR-PTT round on the Gold Coast, a Grand Final recap of Tennis Victoria State Grade, our regular college segment and anything else in tennis in between. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Push, our dedicated wheelchair tennis podcast is back for episode six 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 in Washington at an ITF lead in event to the US Open Wheelchair Championships next week. Special guest is Gabby Hesse, Head of Wheelchair and Adaptive Tennis at JTCC (Junior Tennis Champions Centre) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Back to Back straight sets victories for the Aussie Number one Alex de Minaur def Japan's Shintaro Mochizuki 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 to move into Round 3 of US Open and a match up with Germany's Daniel Altmaier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daria Kasatkina was down for the count and on a flight out of New York rallying from 1-4 down in the final set to covercome good friend Kamilla Rakhimova 6-2, 4-5, 7-5 to book her place in the third round of the US Open. 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 with special guest Lachlan Brain - University of North Alabama. 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 Puyol at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sean A'Hearn wraps up Tennis Victoria State Grade Semi Final action from the weekend, chatting to the two mens winners - Fawkner - Chanchai Sookton Eng and Kooyong's David Bidmeade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kale Nairn joins 'The First Serve Live' to recap the latest UTR-PTT event on the Gold Coast chatting to winners Naomi McKenzie and Zane Stevens Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former Pro and two time Australian Open semi finalist Wayne Ferreira, as of right now the coach of Alexei Popyrin was a special on 'The First Serve Live' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

International Tennis Hall of Fame CEO joined The First Serve Live ahead of the induction of Maria Sharapova and Bob/Mike Bryan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the second 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 Aussie David Rogers, just back from competing for Australia at the world championships in Portugal, fellow Aussie Helen Worland from a women's perspective and French-American player Mylene Martin from an international perspective. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Priscilla Hon is the first Aussie through to Round 3 of the US Open. First time to this stage of a major and taking down top 20 player in Liudmila Samsonova in the process - 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 which edges her close to the top 100 for the first time at 105 in the live rankings. You will hear about her secret weapon 'Eric'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Episode 5 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 British tennis journalist, commentator, historian and author Chris Bowers. A magnificent chat with a man who has lived and worked through some of the greatest eras in the sport. Put the headphones in and enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Phillips is live in New York City for the start of the US Open (a Sunday start) with a recap of the Aussies hearing from Jordan Thompson and Rinky Hijikata and the Daniil Medvedev blow up. Feature Guest is the coach of Alexei Popyrin - Wayne Ferreira, plus Brett's trip to the International Tennis Hall of Fame Induction of Maria Sharapova and the Bryan Brothers and guest CEO - Faber, plus a Tennis Victoria State Grade wrap, UTR-PTT action on the Gold Coast, the return of The State of Play and our weekly college segment with Lachlan Puyol. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Padel Pow Wow is back for episode five of 2025 with Matt Barelle in the host chair (the godfather of Padel in AUS) joined by the king of padel vibes Ryan Bougie discussing what makes a padel club thrive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The State of Play, chatting the performance space/pathway structure in Australian tennis. The landscape as it stands with an eye to the future as a Grand Slam nation with a rich tennis history. A regular each Monday Night at 9pm AEST. 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 with special guest Amy Stevens who spent four years at Vanderbilt University and on the weekend won her first ITF pro singles title. 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 Puyol at [email protected] 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 with special guests: Josh Cooper from Melbourne - Transferring to Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, Mississippi for his Sophomore Year and John Paci - Melbourne Tennis Coach at POWA Tennis at Eildon Park TC 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 Puyol at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sean A'Hearn wraps up Tennis Victoria State Grade R14, the final round before finals with special guest Emilia Richter who represents Heatherdale TC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Phillips comes to you from Cincinnati ahead of the Monday singles finals featuring Alcaraz/Sinner and Paolini/Swiatek. All the news of the week on and off the court wrapped up. Launching the State of Play a regular segment till the end the year looking at the current landscape of Australian tennis on the global stage, plus a wrap of Tennis Victoria State Grade Round 14 and our weekly College segment with Lachlan Puyol with special guest Amy Stevens on the back of winning her first ITF Pro Singles title. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of Tennis in QLD, host Adon Kronk is joined by feature guest the highly credentialed Damon Lucht, Founder of Redline Tennis, sharing their coaching philosophy. Damon has an extensive history of coaching touring professionals to Queensland representatives. He recently was the manager of the Qld team at the national teams event on the Gold Coast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Beti Sekulovski and Michael Logarzo are back for episode seven for 2025, unpacking the junior tennis landscape in Australia. In this episode, they chat with Dr Mark Kovacs, internationally renowned Sports Science and Human Performance expert discussing are junior players fitter now than in the past, what is a good training schedule and the importance of athletic development early, consistency and competitiveness in training and using data productively. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Head of PR at the ATP/WTA 1000 Cincinnati Open Pete Holtermann sits down with Brett Phillips to discuss the 260 million dollar refurbishment of the site for the 2025 edition and looking back at the history of the tournament. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kooyong Classic Tournament Director Peter Johnstone with an update on the events return for January 2026 with some big name players signing on. For Tickets and Hospitality packages head to www.kooyongclassic.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sean A'Hearn wraps up the latest Tennis Victoria State Grade Round with special guest Will Ma from North Ringwood Tennis Club. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Phillips brings you this weeks show from the ATP/WTA 1000 Cincinnati Open. You will hear from Aussie duo Adam Walton and Maya Joint one on one advancing to the R32 in a further breakthough week on tour. We go inside the 260 million dollar transformation of the Cincinnati site with head of PR Pete Holtermann, look back on the Canadian swing wrapping up with 'Thursday' finals, 14 year old Aussie Ceressa Jackson from QLD gives her view on the state of play of player development in Australia, on the back of our discussion of Australia not qualifying for the 14's World Junior Finals. Peter Johnstone - Tournament Director for the returning Kooyong Classic jumps on to tell us about the early signings. A wrap of Tennis Victoria State Grade Round 13 with Sean A'Hearn with special guest Will Ma and our weekly college segment with Lachlan Puyol joined by Josh Cooper from Melbourne - Transferring to Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, Mississippi for his Sophomore Year and John Paci - Melbourne Tennis Coach at POWA Tennis at Eildon Park TC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aussie Adam Walton has taken his biggest scalp defeating former world number one and thirteenth seed Daniil Medvedev 6-7(0), 6-4, 6-1 to progress to the R32 at the ATP Masters 1000 Cincinnati Open. Coming in he was 0-11 vs top 50 players and 0-24 sets. Speaking to Brett Phillips Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

19 year old Aussie Maya Joint has won back to back WTA 1000 main draw matches for the first time in her career, defeating 18th seed Beatriz Haddad Maia 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 in just under three hours in the Cincinnati hot sun. 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 seven of The Grind for 2025, our dedicated monthly podcast focusing on the Challenger/ITF tours.. In this episode, Bill Ackman's controveersial doubles appearance in Newport gets a run, wildcards and what to do with them, reaction to the Tara Moore four year ban, feature guest the engaging rising 19 year old American Clervie Ngounoue, along with the player and tournament of the month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the first episode of the Masters Zone, hosted by Tim Prince which delves into the ITF Masters tour in Australia and around the world. Feature guest for this episode is John Brunner from Yarrawonga in Victoria who tells his story of taking up tennis and tournament play later in life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lachlan Puyol is back with Episode 7 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 seventh episode of the year, Lachlan chats to Jeret Johnson, Head Mens and Womens Coach at Pratt Community College in Kansas and Aussie Jeremy Jin who is about to enter his junior year at the University of Florida. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kale Nairn with special guest Elijah Cham review the latest PTT-UTR Australia round 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 'Live' for 2025 with special guest Lily Taylor from Brisbane who plays at Arizona State University entering her Sophomore Year. She also just represented Australia at the FISU World University Games in Germany 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 Puyol at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sean A'Hearn wraps up the latest Tennis Victoria State Grade Round with special guest Amanda McVay from the Beaumaris Lawn Women’s team Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Toronto Masters 1000 Tournament Director Karl Hale joined Brett Phillips for a chat on The First Serve Live to go inside the Candian swing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Phillips is live in Toronto for this weeks show at the ATP Masters 1000, featuring Alex de Minaur and Alexei Popyrin through to the QF's. Tournament Director Karl Hale and Eva Harris, Tennis Canada Senior Vice President of Tennis Development and Partnerships go inside the tournament and Canadian tennis. Closer to home in Australia, a discussion of no Australian representation at the 14's under World Junior Finals, an Australian coach being investigated by the ITIA, Tennis Victoria State Grade Round 12 wrap, the latest on the PTT/UTR round in NSW and our regular college segment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex de Minaur is into the Toronto Masters 1000 Quarter Finals defeating American Frances Tiafoe 6-2, 4-6, 6-4. Speaking to the media with the first question about the incredible point in the third set at 4-4 40-40. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Defending champion Alexei Popyrin has come from a set down to move into the quarter finals of the ATP Masters 1000 Toronto defeating Holger Rune 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 to set up a clash with Alexander Zverev. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just before 1am Friday Morning, defending champion Alexei Popyrin pulls through to take down tenth seed Daniil Medvedev 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 to book a spot in the R16 at the ATP Masters 1000 Toronto, Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Push, our dedicated wheelchair tennis podcast is back for epside five for 2025 with hosts Tim Connolly - Manager of Hume Tennis and Community Centre and Home of the Melbourne and Victorian Wheelchair Open and Aussie quad pro Heath Davidson OAM. Special guest for this episode is GB's Lucy Shuker BEM, who last year competed in her 5th Paralympics and acted as the flag bearer. This is a great chat about her life in and out of tennis. You will love it. The trio also chat about the recent announcement of the Wheelchair premier tennis tour that is coming in 2026. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Man on a mission. Alex de Minaur (9) backs up his Washington title with a first up win at the ATP Masters 1000 Toronto 6-4, 6-2 def Argentine Francisco Comesana. Next he will play fellow Aussie Chris O'Connell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices