We dive into what its like as a professional or collegiate player these days - feelings of isolation and/or unpreparedness, the uncertainty of covid protocols, etc and Dr. Lauer gives some advice on how to try to process and deal with all of this.

Quick breakdown of yesterday's RD of 16 womens matches, a great event for USA women, and talking food with Jenny Brady.

Its the end of the first week in Melbourne. New lockdown rules in place after a spike of community covid emerges. How will it impact the players? Also Marcos Giron stops by to chat.

Day 1 of the AO and what do you do if you want to watch the Super Bowl?

Tennis was back on schedule Friday. And the draw was released.

Emergency pod - Thursday play halted due to contact tracing. A quarantine worker from the Grand Hyatt (1 of 3 quarantine hotels for the AO) tests positive.

3 days of matches under our belts - lots of commonalities so far. @marclucero on IG and twitter let me know what you want to know about!

what did the tennis look like today?

Veteran tour strength & conditioning performance coach Richard Woodroof explains how players have prepared for the upcoming events, how to make the most of the quarantine, and what we can expect to see in the coming weeks.

Special guest Alison Riske, WTA #24, joins Check the Marc today to talk about her mentality entering a Grand Slam after being under hard quarantine.