Is it really just nice to be nominated?

On this episode, Courtney Nguyen is joined by wtatennis.com web editor David Kane for a free-ranging discussion about the 2015 WTA Award nominees, but conversation is about more than that. The awards are a jumping off point to discuss the season as a whole and the big storylines that drove it home: Serena Williams' domination, the rise of Team Santina, the encouraging future of Russian tennis, and why it's so difficult to label the individual seasons of so many top players, like Simona Halep, Flavia Pennetta, Maria Sharapova, Karolina Pliskova, and Timea Bacsinszky. If you've been jonesing for a WTA deep dive, this is it.