The Craig Shapiro Tennis Podcast

By Craig Shapiro

What's The Craig Shapiro Tennis Podcast about?

Welcome to The Craig Shapiro Tennis Podcast , where I speak with the most interesting people in the sport. This is the show for tennis insiders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The Craig Shapiro Tennis Podcast episodes:

04.18.2024
Aussie Stalwart Johnny Millman Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro
Like many players on tour, John Millman has had an incredible journey in tennis. The youngest of 5, he was snubbed by Tennis Australia as a junior and used that as motivation to grind, and he went to Europe as...
04.01.2024
José Higueras Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro
The former world #6 José Higueras won 16 titles on the pro tour, semi'd the French twice, and upon retirement coached a massive amount of players to huge success. José coached Michael Chang to his French Open title in 1989,...
03.20.2024
Giri Nathan Talks Mushrooms and The Sunshine Double with Craig Shapiro
Giri Nathan of Defector and The Second Serve chatted with me via Zoom, we both were in Indian Wells and we discussed all of the on and off court hot button topics, including Novak's odd departure from tournament, the Rybakina...
03.14.2024
Patrick McEnroe Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro
Patrick McEnroe the Stanford Cardinal and the former World #28 in addition to being a broadcaster for ESPN is now the president of The International Tennis Hall of Fame. We had a tremendous chat here in the desert, and covered...
03.12.2024
Jim Courier Talks BNP PARIBAS OPEN with Craig Shapiro
The 4 TimeMajor Champion, World #1 The Hall of Famer Jim Courier and I chopped it up on the Tennis Channel patio in what has become an annual event, discussing the BNP Paribas Open and all the hot button topics...
03.05.2024
All American Jonny Levine Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro
Jonny Levine has lived an incredible life in tennis. In the early 80s he reached the finals of the Kalamazoo National 18s and was a 2 time All American at Texas. He appears to have the distinction of being the...
03.03.2024
WTA World #103 Maria Timofeeva Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro
Maria Timofeeva, known to all as Masha, was born in Moscow in 2003, learned tennis at the famous tennis school Spartak and In 2017 she won the prestigious under 14 tournament L'Petit As, and from then was on a...
02.06.2024
Tennis Mom Extraordinaire Aneke Rune Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro
As it pertains to her son, the world #7 Holger Rune. she is always in the mix. For me, she is the preeminent tennis mom in our game, dressed in black head to toe, conspicuously cool in the player's box....
01.19.2024
AUSSIE OPEN LIVE SPECIAL WITH OSAKA BIOGRAPHER BEN ROTHENBERG & OSAKA AGENT STU DUGUID
On January 16th Ben Rothenberg and I hosted a full house at the best coffee shop in Melbourne for a live podcast/book signing. The Osaka book was available for purchase and Ben signed books, and Naomi's agent Stu Duguid joined...
01.09.2024
Journalist Giri Nathan of Defector Discusses Current Events with Craig Shapiro
Giri Nathan of DEFECTOR and I kick off the 8th season with a current events special to get everyone excited about the Summer Down Under. We talked the Rafa situation, the Joker wrist, as well as Grigor, Coco, Iga, Rybakina,...
12.22.2023
Milos Raonic Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro
Born in Montenegro and raised in the suburbs of Toronto, a decade ago Milos Raonic put Canadian tennis on the map, and in 2016 got to 3 in the world, reaching the finals of Wimbledon. The big server has made...
12.08.2023
Ben Rothenberg Discusses Current Events and His Osaka Biography with Craig Shapiro
Ben Rothenberg is the host of the podcast No Challenges Remaining and was the tennis writer for the New York Times from 2011-2021, and spent the better part of his career with a keen eye on Naomi Osaka, from way...
12.01.2023
Laura Siegemund Talks Tennis With Craig Shapiro
Laura Siegemund has lived an incredible life in tennis. She was born in Filderstadt, Germany and was identified as talent by the German federation at a young age, culminating with a big win at the 2000 Orange Bowl where...
11.23.2023
Mark Knowles Discusses the Machinations of The ATP with Craig Shapiro
The Bahamian with the tight blond curls Mark Knowles has lived an amazing life in tennis. He was identified by Nick Bollettieri when he was 10 years old and was given a scholarship to join the action in Bradenton,...
11.13.2023
Karue Sell of MY TENNIS HQ Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro
He's the closest thing to tennis' version of a street ball legend. Elite Brazilian junior, goes 78-12 at UCLA playing 4,5,and 6, then sort of waits to try playing pro tennis, and supplements tennis teaching income by playing...
11.02.2023
Corentin Moutet Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro
In his first match at the 2023 Australian Open, the left handed Frenchman Corentin Moutet snapped the sheath that holds the ligaments in his right wrist, and went on to play with a one handed backhand for the entire year....
10.26.2023
Former World #18 Amos Mansdorf Discusses the War and Tennis with Craig Shapiro
Amos Mansdorf grew up outside of Tel Aviv, a 2nd generation Israeli, as his grandparents migrated to Israel in the 20's. In 1987 he got to 18 in the world, the highest ranking ever for an Israeli, and had an...
10.18.2023
British Stalwart Dan Evans Talks Tennis With Craig Shapiro
There's just nothing better than taking a deep dive with a player that has been through the fire, and Dan Evans fits that bill. In August Dan came out of a six match losing streak and won his second ATP...
09.18.2023
Argentine Leyenda Jose Luis Clerc Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro
Jose Luis Clerc represented Argentina on their Davis Cup Team from 1976-1989, alongside Guillermo Vilas for most of those years, and did battle with McEnroe, Wilander, Connors and Lendl to name a few. He got to 4 in the world...
09.09.2023
Indian Legend Anand Amritraj Talks Tennis With Craig Shapiro
Along with his brothers Vijay, Anand Amritraj is Indian Tennis Royalty and is considered to be amongst the first Indians to compete on the elite level. He posted a win over John McEnroe on grass, and won 7 titles. In...
09.01.2023
Israeli Davis Cupper Gilad Bloom Talks Tennis With Craig Shapiro
Gilad Bloom has lived an incredible life in tennis. He grew up outside of Tel Aviv, Israel, and was an elite junior. He carried the torch for Israel's National Team in both the Davis Cup and The Olympics from 1984-1995, and...
08.25.2023
Ali Riske-Amritraj Talks Tennis With Craig Shapiro
Ali Riske-Armritraj grew up in Pittsburgh and in 2009 chose not to attend Vanderbilt University and turn pro. Ten years later she defeated Ash Barty to reach the quarters of Wimbledon and got to 18 in the world. She has...
08.22.2023
Peruvian Giant Killer Jaime Yzaga talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro
Jaime Yzaga grew up in Lima, Peru with a grandfather that worked him into tennis at a young age, and in 1985 he won the French Open Juniors beating Thomas Muster 6-0 in the 3rd. With the great Colon Nuñez...
07.26.2023
Hall of Famer Pam Shriver Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro
In 1978 at the age of 16 years old, Baltimore, MD native Pam Shriver got to the final of The US Open as an amateur, defeating world #1 Martina Navratilova in the semis. She was on tour for 20 years,...
06.16.2023
Roman Prokes Talks Tennis Racquets with Craig Shapiro
Racquet Guru Roman Prokes of AGASSI Fame broke down everything all you tech fiends ever wanted to know. Swiatek, Alcaraz, Djokovic, add weight, subtract weight, big grips, small grips, overgrips, string patterns, strings. The 2023 Racquet Tech Special is...
06.13.2023
Dusan Lajovic Discusses Novak Djokovic
Currently ranked 45 in the world, Dusan Lajovic has posted wins over Medvedev, Murray, Rublev, and beat Novak Djokovic just a few weeks ago in Banja Luka. On the mend in Belgrade after contracting Chicken Pox on the day...
06.04.2023
Antoine Benneteau Discusses Roland Garros Week 1 with Craig Shapiro
Author, Filmmaker, and Broadcaster Antoine Benneteau joined me from Le Clubhouse on the 2nd floor of Court Philippe Chatrier to discuss week 1 of Roland Garros. Antoine provided an interesting French perspective as we discussed the presence of Noah,...
05.22.2023
The Sweet and Lowdown with Author and Journalist Christopher Clarey
Christopher Clarey was born in Newport, Rhode Island, and has had an exemplary career as a journalist, and on the day we spoke, filed his final article as a staffer for The New York Times, the culmination of a 30...
03.19.2023
Reilly Opelka on the ATP, WTA, the Media, and the Politics of Dancing
Reilly Opelka joined me Saturday morning from New York City, on the back end of a week where he was referenced in a New Yorker Magazine article regarding his stance on eliminating doubles as we know it. We discussed...
03.09.2023
BRAD GILBERT TALKS TENNIS AND TAKES QUESTIONS WITH CRAIG SHAPIRO
This past Saturday Brad Gilbert joined me for a practice and Q&A; Breakfast at the Malibu Racquet Club where he drilled 15 of my players and then we had a tremendous Q&A; that I moderated. We talked a lot about...
02.28.2023
Roscoe Tanner Discusses A Troubled Life with Craig Shapiro
Roscoe Tanner has had a singular life to say the least. Armed with a carbonated left arm and a quick toss explosive style cannon of a serve serve he won the Australian Open in 1977, and in 1979 he reached the...
02.10.2023
The Tao of Dmitry Tursunov
Dmitry Tursunov joined me from his hotel in Abu Dhabi where he is coaching world #9 Belinda Bencic on their day off before their quarterfinal match vs Shelby Rogers. We had a lengthy chat and discussed all of his players-past...
01.27.2023
John Newcombe Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro
26 major titles, 67 tournament wins, 5 Davis Cup titles, World #1 in 1967, the great Australian John Newcombe joined me from the roof of Rod Laver Arena and it was a tremendous thrill. In the 60s and 70s John...
01.23.2023
Aussie Open Mid Tournament Special with Wally Masur
Former World #15 and Australia Davis Cup Captain Wally Masur and I chatted on the middle Saturday of The Australian Open on the roof of Rod Laver Arena. We discussed the tournament, the draws, Seb Korda, Andy Murray, the...
01.11.2023
Former World #21 John Lloyd
Born and raised in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England, John Lloyd has lived a legendary tennis life. We discussed what his junior career was like, how he came up with Borg and Vitas, and how he knew he could be a pro...
12.25.2022
Ivan Lendl Christmas Day Special
The legendary Ivan Lendl joined me for the inaugural Practice and Breakfast Series, where he coached 11 players on 2 separate courts, and then we had a free flowing organic hour Q and A . We discussed his life...
12.22.2022
Rajeev Ram Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro
38 year old Rajeev Ram became the #1 doubles player in the world in October, the culmination of a tremendous career He collected a national championship in 2003 at The University of Illinois where they went undefeated, and got...
12.03.2022
Hall of Famer Kim Clijsters
The Hall of Famer Kim Clijsters joined me right before Thanksgiving, and just as Belgium played their first The World Cup game. We had a magnificent chat. She began her pro career in 1998 and In 2003 at the age...
11.28.2022
Former World #6 Ecuadorian Hero Nicolas Lapentti
Nicolas Lapentti reached the semis of the 1999 Australian Open and the quarters of Wimbledon in 2002. In 2000 he got to 6 in the world and over the course of his career he posted wins over world #1s Kafelnikov,...
11.28.2022
HALL OF FAME AGENT, DAVIS CUP CAPTAIN DONALD DELL
Elite player. Davis Cup Captain. Agent. Broadcaster. Businessman. The Ultimate Dealmaker. Hall of Famer Donald Dell's life in tennis has been remarkable. The architect of the ATP, the first player agent, he has the distinction of...
11.05.2022
Lisa Raymond Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro
Over the course of her incredible life in tennis, Lisa Raymond won 2 NCAA singles titles, led the University of Florida to their first team title, and then got to 15 in the world in singles, posting wins over...
10.20.2022
Nicole Melichar-Martinez Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro
Nicole Melichar-Martinez joined me last week on a moist day in San Diego, as she was getting ready to play the semifinal of the San Diego Open. Born in the Czech Republic and raised in Florida, Nicole and I discussed...
10.19.2022
L. Jon Wertheim Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro
With the 2022 tennis season just about finished, Jon Wertheim joined me while on a road trip from Erie, Pennsylvania to Cleveland, Ohio, and we discussed the year in review. We discussed Emma Raducanu, Ons Jabeur, the health of...
10.11.2022
2022 TENNIS SHOE SPECIAL with FOOT DOCTOR ZACH
Back by popular demand is the tennis shoe special featuring the great Dr Zach Thomas, the Tennis Shoe expert that forensically studies and dissects all the shoes. The Craig Shapiro Tennis Podcast is Powered by Sergio Tacchini. Diadora is...
10.06.2022
Coach Petar Popovic Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro
Born and raised in Novi Sad in the former Yugoslavia, Petar Popovic has spent his entire life in tennis, first as a player and then most significantly as a coach. We discussed the machinations of pro tennis from the...
09.06.2022
Jan Michael Gambill US Open Breakdown Special
Day 8 of the US Open, the quarterfinals are in motion and former world #14 Jan Michael Gambill and I discussed it all in a rapid fire staccato. Serena, Coco, Rafa, Raducanu, and of course Kygrios. Recorded and Released on...
08.18.2022
Stevie Johnson talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro
In 2016 Stevie Johnson grew up in Orange County and had the most elite career in college tennis history, leading USC to four straight NCAA championships. In 2016 he won his first tour title in Nottingham, got...
08.03.2022
Marion Bartoli Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro
Marion Bartoli grew up in France and blasted her way into pro tennis with a 29 inch racquet and two fists on both wings. She battled her way to the 2007 Wimbledon Final where she lost to Venus Williams, and...
07.22.2022
BIG SASCHA TALKS TENNIS WITH CRAIG SHAPIRO
Sascha Bajin grew up in Munich, Germany and for 8 years, beginning in 2008, was ever present on tour as a member of the Serena Williams team, and he was with Serena as her hitting partner while she won 11...
06.21.2022
Superstar Tennis Agent Stuart Duguid
Scotsman Stuart Duguid joined me late last week to discuss the business of tennis, in particular the business of his clients Naomi Osaka and Nick Kygrios. We talked in length about the split from IMG and the creation of...

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The Craig Shapiro Tennis Podcast episodes:

Aussie Stalwart Johnny Millman Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro

José Higueras Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro

Giri Nathan Talks Mushrooms and The Sunshine Double with Craig Shapiro

Patrick McEnroe Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro

Jim Courier Talks BNP PARIBAS OPEN with Craig Shapiro

All American Jonny Levine Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro

WTA World #103 Maria Timofeeva Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro

Tennis Mom Extraordinaire Aneke Rune Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro

AUSSIE OPEN LIVE SPECIAL WITH OSAKA BIOGRAPHER BEN ROTHENBERG & OSAKA AGENT STU DUGUID

Journalist Giri Nathan of Defector Discusses Current Events with Craig Shapiro

Milos Raonic Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro

Ben Rothenberg Discusses Current Events and His Osaka Biography with Craig Shapiro

Laura Siegemund Talks Tennis With Craig Shapiro

Mark Knowles Discusses the Machinations of The ATP with Craig Shapiro

Karue Sell of MY TENNIS HQ Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro

Corentin Moutet Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro

Former World #18 Amos Mansdorf Discusses the War and Tennis with Craig Shapiro

British Stalwart Dan Evans Talks Tennis With Craig Shapiro

Argentine Leyenda Jose Luis Clerc Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro

Indian Legend Anand Amritraj Talks Tennis With Craig Shapiro

Israeli Davis Cupper Gilad Bloom Talks Tennis With Craig Shapiro

Ali Riske-Amritraj Talks Tennis With Craig Shapiro

Peruvian Giant Killer Jaime Yzaga talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro

Hall of Famer Pam Shriver Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro

Roman Prokes Talks Tennis Racquets with Craig Shapiro

Dusan Lajovic Discusses Novak Djokovic

Antoine Benneteau Discusses Roland Garros Week 1 with Craig Shapiro

The Sweet and Lowdown with Author and Journalist Christopher Clarey

Reilly Opelka on the ATP, WTA, the Media, and the Politics of Dancing

BRAD GILBERT TALKS TENNIS AND TAKES QUESTIONS WITH CRAIG SHAPIRO

Roscoe Tanner Discusses A Troubled Life with Craig Shapiro

The Tao of Dmitry Tursunov

John Newcombe Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro

Aussie Open Mid Tournament Special with Wally Masur

Former World #21 John Lloyd

Ivan Lendl Christmas Day Special

Rajeev Ram Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro

Hall of Famer Kim Clijsters

Former World #6 Ecuadorian Hero Nicolas Lapentti

HALL OF FAME AGENT, DAVIS CUP CAPTAIN DONALD DELL

Lisa Raymond Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro

Nicole Melichar-Martinez Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro

L. Jon Wertheim Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro

2022 TENNIS SHOE SPECIAL with FOOT DOCTOR ZACH

Coach Petar Popovic Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro

Jan Michael Gambill US Open Breakdown Special

Stevie Johnson talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro

Marion Bartoli Talks Tennis with Craig Shapiro

BIG SASCHA TALKS TENNIS WITH CRAIG SHAPIRO

Superstar Tennis Agent Stuart Duguid