Racquet co-founder Caitlin Thompson on how we consume tennis in the United States — and how that media consumption could be better

Episode 307 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Caitlin Thompson, the co-founder of Racquet, a tennis-focused media company with a flagship quarterly print magazine, and the co-host of The Racquet Magazine Podcast with Rennae Stubbs. In this podcast, Thompson and Deitsch discuss the most interesting players today; whether tennis needs a 1-2 rivalry at the top such as Iga Swiatek versus Aryna Sabalanka; how Thompson formed Racquet and the challenges of running a tennis media brand; how she views coverage of tennis today from the broadcast end to the lack of legacy publications covering the sport daily; the nightmare of watching the French Open because of multiple broadcast entities; her biggest issues with ESPN as a dominant tennis career; the sport hurting itself by who it doesn’t credential and limiting highlight access; what tennis Twitter is like and more.  You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, and more.

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