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A podcast discussing the happenings in the wacky world of professional tennis. Hosted by Ben Rothenberg and Courtney Nguyen.

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Episode 349: Sabalenka and ...

01.31.2023

Ben and Tumaini Carayol wrap up the year's first Slam with two hours of chatting across all sorts of topics. First, we discuss the breakthrough win of Aryna Sabalenka, who conquered her demons (and braved new frontiers in her iconic ...

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01.31.2023 Episode 349: Sabalenka and Djokovic on Top Down Under at Australian Open Ben and Tumaini Carayol wrap up the year's first Slam with two hours of chatting across all sorts of topics. First, we discuss the breakthrough win of Aryna Sabalenka, who conquered her demons (and braved new frontiers in her iconic ...
01.14.2023 Episode 348: Australian Open Draw Show, 2023 Ben and Tumaini Carayol break down the women's and men's draws at the year's first Grand Slam event, and also discuss some of the early season storylines like United Cup and Netflix's "Break Point" that have dominated discussion in the ...
01.09.2023 Episode 347: Netflix’s ”Break Point” Hits and Misses To start our 12th(!) season of NCR, Ben and Reem Abulleil preview and review the highly anticipated Netflix tennis docuseries "Break Point," which features a group of young challengers on the tours in the first half of the 2022 season. ...
11.01.2022 Episode 346: Men of the Year (With Ricky Dimon) Ben is stepping back briefly from book writing hiatus on the occasion of being joined by Ricky Dimon of The Grandstand for a look back at the year that was in men's tennis, and how it's setting up for the ...
09.14.2022 Episode 345: Swiatek, Alcaraz Reach New Heights at US Open Ben and Tumaini Carayol reconvene a bit after the U.S. Open to reflect on the tournament that was, with two winners who capped off great seasons with their first titles in New York. And they've only just begun? First, Iga ...
08.28.2022 Episode 344: U.S. Open Draw Show 2022! Ben and Tumaini Carayol are courtside at the U.S. Open to give you the outlook on how the year's last Grand Slam and Serena Williams' last tournament is shaking up. We start with the women, where we discuss Iga Swiatek ...
08.10.2022 Episode 343: Serena’s Sunset Ben and Tumaini Carayol convene to discuss Serena Williams, the greatest women's tennis player of our lives, calling time on her career. Well, she didn't exactly call Time; she called Vogue, and penned a first-person cover story explaining her thoughts ...
07.10.2022 Episode 342: Rybakina and Djokovic Win Wimbledon Ben and Tumaini Carayol (before he turns into a pumpkin) wrap up the Wimbledon that was, which featured both some feel-good and some uncomfortable storylines across the fortnight. We begin with the women, with Elena Rybakina making good on her ...
06.26.2022 Episode 341: Walking Around Wimbledon’s Century On the 100th birthday of Centre Court, Ben is joined by Alexandra Willis, the director of communications and marketing for Wimbledon, and the two of them take a walk into Centre Court's most hallowed places. Along the way, we discuss ...
06.24.2022 Episode 340: Wimbledon 2022 Draw Preview Ben and Tumaini Carayol are back together again at Wimbledon for another look ahead at a Grand Slam draw, looking at the men's field, the women's field, and a concerning hole on the side of Court 14. After a general ...
06.18.2022 Episode 339: The Book on Emma Raducanu (With Mike Dickson) As Emma Raducanu readies for her first Wimbledon as a Grand Slam champion, Ben chats with Mike Dickson, the man who literally wrote the book on the young British sensation's origin story and remarkably meteoric rise to stardom last year. ...
06.06.2022 Episode 338: Swiatek and Nadal Roll Roland Garros Ben and Tumaini Carayol meet back up just hours after the men's final at Roland Garros to discuss Rafael Nadal's record extending 14th title here and Iga Swiatek's streak extending 35th win and second French Open title. We start with ...
05.21.2022 Episode 337: Draw Me Like One of Your French Opens, 2022 We are delighted to return to you, and to return to Paris, and to return our favorite annual episode title! Ben and Tumaini Carayol start this French Open draw show with a bit first on the big news of the ...
04.22.2022 Episode 336: Was Wimbledon Right to Ban Russians and Belarusians? Wimbledon took the drastic step of banning all Russian and Belarusian players from this year's tournament, escalating the impact that Russia's invasion of Ukraine has had on the world of tennis. Tumaini Carayol joins Ben to discuss this decision, where ...
04.15.2022 Episode 335: José Morgado on Tennis Twitter Taking the face of your tennis scrolling into your ears, Ben is joined by José Morgado, the Portuguese reporter and commentator who has become the most complete and comprehensive stop on Tennis Twitter for news and information about this never-stopping ...
04.03.2022 Episode 334: Harvey Fialkov, Miami Maven Harvey Fialkov, a veteran sportswriter who covers the Miami Open with more gusto than anybody, joins Ben to share his contagious excitements for all things tennis. Chatting before the women's final, Ben and Harvey discuss the pros and cons of ...
04.01.2022 Episode 333: Rick Macci on ’King Richard’ In a week where the Williams family got a bizarre twist on what should have been a Hollywood ending for their cinematic journey, Ben traveled to the Rick Macci Tennis Academy in Boca Raton to chat with Rick Macci, whose ...
03.23.2022 Episode 332: Ash Barty Goes Out On Top Emergency Episode! Top-ranked Ash Barty's surprise announcement that she is calling it a career at only 25 years old and less than two months after winning the Australian Open was urgent cause for our first emergency episode in a long ...
03.22.2022 Episode 331: Indian Wells - Fritz Breaks Through; Swiatek Soars Just back from the desert, Ben chats with David Avakian about the weeks that were at Indian Wells, with culminated in a surprise triumph for Taylor Fritz over Rafael Nadal, and an increasingly expected victory for Iga Swiatek, over Maria ...
03.03.2022 Episode 330: Dayana Yastremska on Escaping the War in Ukraine [Reupload] (Reuploading this episode as a duplicate because of issues with iTunes and Apple Podcasts services) With war suddenly raging in Ukraine after Russia's invasion, Ben is joined on this episode by Dayana Yastremska, the 21-year-old WTA player who had to ...
03.02.2022 Episode 330: Dayana Yastremska on Escaping the War in Ukraine With war suddenly raging in Ukraine after Russia's invasion, Ben is joined on this episode by Dayana Yastremska, the 21-year-old WTA player who had to flee her hometown of Odessa, Ukraine, after the bombs began dropping on her city. Yastremska ...
02.25.2022 Episode 329: The Men in Mexico (with Mike Cation) Acapulco has turned into one of the biggest tennis destinations on the ATP calendar, and our buddy Mike Cation is there this week, checking in on a week of festive fun, new highs, and distressing lows. We discuss the atmosphere ...
02.20.2022 Episode 328: Our Woman in Dubai (with Reem Abulleil) Ben is joined by NCR's intrepid Middle East and North Africa correspondent Reem Abulleil to discuss the tennis happening in Dubai this month, where she enjoyed more access to players than she has been able to get at any time ...
02.15.2022 Episode 327: Adiós, Delpo With Juan Martín del Potro playing what is set to be the last match of his career last week in Buenos Aires, Ben and Courtney reflect on the career of the gentle giant who had an outsized presence and popularity ...
02.04.2022 Episode 326: Australian Open - Nadal and Barty’s Fairytale Endings The stormy lead-up to the Australian Open ended with two great resplendent victories, with Ash Barty becoming the first Aussie champ in Melbourne in four decades, and Rafael Nadal winning just his second Australian Open to win a record 21st ...
01.27.2022 Episode 325: Australian Open - Semifinal Showdowns Ben and Tumaini Carayol are back to discuss the four women and four men still in contention to win this Australian Open, which has held up to set up for some surprisingly unsurprising semifinals. On the women's side, can anyone ...
01.23.2022 Episode 324: Australian Open - The Slam After the Storm Now that the Djokovic debacle has ended and the tennis has begun, Ben and Tumaini Carayol wrap up the big stories of the first week of the Australian Open. What did we see from Naomi Osaka in how she won ...
01.17.2022 Episode 323: Djokovic’s Deportation Debacle is Done The Djokovic deportation drama dragged deliriously Down Under, feeling a whole 'nother Grand Slam's worth of drama and intrigue before finally resolving itself on Sunday with a panel of judges upholding a second deportation order and sending Djokovic on a ...
01.16.2022 Episode 322: 2022 Australian Open Draw Preview Ben and Courtney(!) know that a whole lot else has been going on in the world of tennis, but now that Novak Djokovic is on a plane out of Australia (which wasn't yet settled when we recorded), the coast is ...
01.07.2022 Episode 321: Deciphering Details of Djokovic’s Deportation Drama Novak Djokovic's Australian Open fate changed drastically while he was up in the air during the recording of our last episode, but luckily for us Paul Sakkal, Victoria Political reporter for The Age, is here to break everything down with ...
01.05.2022 Episode 320: Djokovic’s Exemption and The Vibes Ben and Tumaini Carayol reunite in Melbourne's newest arena (which could have better acoustics, sorry) to discuss the great vibes at the tournament, and the news which harshed them considerably. Novak Djokovic's announcement that he had received a medical exemption ...
12.08.2021 Episode 319: Wrapping Up Tennis in December (With Reem Abulleil) Ben is rejoined by NCR's Middle East and North Africa correspondent Reem Abulleil for a discussion of the very late and fairly busy finish to the tennis season, which went into December and will have less than a month of ...
12.03.2021 Episode 318: WTA Stands Up Against China For Peng Shuai After the WTA backed up its strong talk by suspending all of its tournaments in China because of the continued censorship of Peng Shuai, Ben is joined by Human Rights Watch's Senior China Researcher Yaqiu Wang to discuss how Peng's ...
11.18.2021 Episode 317: Peng Shuai, China, and the End of WTAsia? Ben is joined by The Guardian's Tumaini Carayol to discuss the fallout of the accusations made by Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai against a senior government official, the WTA's strong stance, and the impact on tennis in China going forward. ...
11.11.2021 Episode 316: NCR Movie Club - KING RICHARD (2021) Ben and David Avakian are delighted to bring you an NCR Movie Club installment on what is set to be the biggest tennis movie in a long time, and perhaps ever: KING RICHARD, which stars Will Smith as Richard Williams ...
11.05.2021 Episode 315: Prague Progress Report (with Jannik Schneider) The first edition of the Billie Jean King Cup (née Fed Cup) is happening this week, and so Ben is joined by the German reporter Jannik Schneider, who was there in Prague covering the event. We discuss how the event's ...
10.27.2021 Episode 314: Backroom Business (With Bret McCormick) There's been batches of backroom brouhahas brewing this year in tennis as the sport continues to be in a moment of flux and transition during the pandemic. To make sense of the landscape, Ben is joined by Sports Business Journal's ...
10.07.2021 Episode 313: ATP is Investigating Zverev; What Comes Next? Nearly a year after Olga Sharypova publicly accused tennis star Alexander Zverev of repeated physical and emotional abuse during their relationship, the ATP announced this week that it is opening an investigation into (one of the) accusations, which Zverev has ...
10.04.2021 Episode 312: Starting up in San Diego (With Dani Vallverdu) The tennis map has been redrawn this year as the world continues shifting during the pandemic, bringing the tours to many new stops that it previously left out. This has included many major American cities such as Chicago, Cleveland, and ...
09.23.2021 Episode 311: Bridging the App Gap On this episode, Ben chats with Lewis Simmons, creator of the TNNS Live app, who has helped fill the void left by the sudden disappearance of the simple but essential ATP-WTA live score mobile app last year, which left many ...
09.18.2021 Episode 310b: Medvedev Beats Djokovic for U.S. Open Title; the Grand Slam Is Hard Ben and Courtney begin "Boys' Time!" at the U.S. Open with a discussion of Novak Djokovic falling one match short of his historic bid for the Grand Slam (which means a specific thing, y'all). What signs were there that Djokovic ...
09.17.2021 Episode 310a: Emma Raducanu Wins U.S. Open; What, Like It‘s Hard? Ben and Courtney dive right into the paradigm shifting, generational groundshaking moment that shocked the tennis world this week in New York: the photo of Maria Sharapova with the Williams Sisters at the Met Gala. After that, we turn our ...
09.09.2021 Episode 309: Mardy Fish‘s Breaking Point Ben and Courtney both took the time during this U.S. Open to watch the new Netflix documentary "Untold: Breaking Point" about Mardy Fish and his struggles with anxiety and mental health during the end of his elite tennis career. We ...
08.29.2021 Episode 308: Live, From New York, It's US Open Draw Show! Reunited for their first in-person show together in more than 18 months, Ben and Courtney chat in New York on the eve of the U.S. Open about storylines from the men's and women's draws, including: Who, if anyone, can derail ...
08.02.2021 Episode 307: Tokyo Takes a Toll (With Tumaini Carayol) Our guy Tumaini Carayol joins from Tokyo, where he's covering the Olympics for The Guardian, for a discussion of the happenings in tennis and elsewhere at the Games. What happened to Novak Djokovic, who was cruising toward a Golden Slam ...
07.31.2021 Episode 306: Checking Back in in the Capital As the Olympic results surprise on the other side of the globe, we take a moment to check back in more locally on the tennis scene stateside, where the Citi Open in Washington is set to begin this weekend with ...
07.22.2021 Episode 305: Ringing in the Olympic Tennis Draws (With Alex Gruskin) The Olympics are on the horizon at last in the Land of the Rising Sun, and so Ben is joined by Alex Gruskin of Cracked Racquets to break down the women's and men's singles draws for the fast-approaching Tokyo tennis ...
07.14.2021 Episode 304: Barty, Djokovic Win Wimbledon; Olympic Exodus Back stateside, Ben reconnects with Courtney to discuss the Wimbledon finals, which saw Ash Barty win her 2nd and Novak Djokovic win his 20th. On Barty, what does her win say about the current conversation around mental health? And on ...
07.10.2021 Episode 303d: Wimbledon's Second Week, With Tumaini Carayol On the eve of the finals, Ben and Tumaini Carayol catch up on the second week that was at Wimbledon, which has set up two pretty strong finals: Djokovic-Berrettini and Barty-Pliskova. Plenty else happened along the way to those showdowns, ...
07.04.2021 Episode 303c: Wimbledon, on the Last Middle Sunday Ben and Courtney convene for the last of what has been a tradition: a Middle Sunday episode from Wimbledon. What do we make of this tradition being phased out? And how about this first week at Wimbledon, which seemed to ...

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Episode 349: Sabalenka and Djokovic on Top Down Under at Australian Open

Episode 348: Australian Open Draw Show, 2023

Episode 347: Netflix’s ”Break Point” Hits and Misses

Episode 346: Men of the Year (With Ricky Dimon)

Episode 345: Swiatek, Alcaraz Reach New Heights at US Open

Episode 344: U.S. Open Draw Show 2022!

Episode 343: Serena’s Sunset

Episode 342: Rybakina and Djokovic Win Wimbledon

Episode 341: Walking Around Wimbledon’s Century

Episode 340: Wimbledon 2022 Draw Preview

Episode 339: The Book on Emma Raducanu (With Mike Dickson)

Episode 338: Swiatek and Nadal Roll Roland Garros

Episode 337: Draw Me Like One of Your French Opens, 2022

Episode 336: Was Wimbledon Right to Ban Russians and Belarusians?

Episode 335: José Morgado on Tennis Twitter

Episode 334: Harvey Fialkov, Miami Maven

Episode 333: Rick Macci on ’King Richard’

Episode 332: Ash Barty Goes Out On Top

Episode 331: Indian Wells - Fritz Breaks Through; Swiatek Soars

Episode 330: Dayana Yastremska on Escaping the War in Ukraine [Reupload]

Episode 330: Dayana Yastremska on Escaping the War in Ukraine

Episode 329: The Men in Mexico (with Mike Cation)

Episode 328: Our Woman in Dubai (with Reem Abulleil)

Episode 327: Adiós, Delpo

Episode 326: Australian Open - Nadal and Barty’s Fairytale Endings

Episode 325: Australian Open - Semifinal Showdowns

Episode 324: Australian Open - The Slam After the Storm

Episode 323: Djokovic’s Deportation Debacle is Done

Episode 322: 2022 Australian Open Draw Preview

Episode 321: Deciphering Details of Djokovic’s Deportation Drama

Episode 320: Djokovic’s Exemption and The Vibes

Episode 319: Wrapping Up Tennis in December (With Reem Abulleil)

Episode 318: WTA Stands Up Against China For Peng Shuai

Episode 317: Peng Shuai, China, and the End of WTAsia?

Episode 316: NCR Movie Club - KING RICHARD (2021)

Episode 315: Prague Progress Report (with Jannik Schneider)

Episode 314: Backroom Business (With Bret McCormick)

Episode 313: ATP is Investigating Zverev; What Comes Next?

Episode 312: Starting up in San Diego (With Dani Vallverdu)

Episode 311: Bridging the App Gap

Episode 310b: Medvedev Beats Djokovic for U.S. Open Title; the Grand Slam Is Hard

Episode 310a: Emma Raducanu Wins U.S. Open; What, Like It‘s Hard?

Episode 309: Mardy Fish‘s Breaking Point

Episode 308: Live, From New York, It's US Open Draw Show!

Episode 307: Tokyo Takes a Toll (With Tumaini Carayol)

Episode 306: Checking Back in in the Capital

Episode 305: Ringing in the Olympic Tennis Draws (With Alex Gruskin)

Episode 304: Barty, Djokovic Win Wimbledon; Olympic Exodus

Episode 303d: Wimbledon's Second Week, With Tumaini Carayol

Episode 303c: Wimbledon, on the Last Middle Sunday