So we are beyond elated that our fave Roger Federer is back at Number 1. And with us being the Roger Federer of tennis podcasts aka #FedCast, we got something to say about it. Of course we got something to say about other stuff just the same. So take a listen and DON'T FORGET TO COMMENT BELOW!!! You can also Tweet us at @A_Gallivant (Andreen), @JLR78 (Janina) and @RealzTenisFanz (Realz).

0:03:20 - Davis and Fed Cup results: The Return of Serena to Professional Tennis?? 0:17:35 - Is the WTA on fire or are they just a flickering flame? Petra is on a good run0:20:00 - WTA and ATP Tour events results (WTA Doha and ATP Montpellier, Quito, Sofia, Buenos Aires, Long Island)0:30:15 - Who brings an ATP tournament in Long Island? 0:32:25 - ATP Rotterdam and the Roofers: Why yall so mad Federer has ambition? 0:50:10 - What the fuck Sloane? What the motherfucking fuck is this Sloane? 0:56:35 - Donald Young v Ryan Harrison 1:15:10 - And in other Newz ... THERE WILL BE A WAKANDAN BLACK PANTHER PODCAST IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE!!!

Our 112th podcast sees us going back to the wonderful well of information that is Sergiy Stakhovsky @Stako_tennis. He gave us some insight as to life on the tour as well as all the discussion about players' unions, money matters, the possibilities, dreams and realities of organizing the tour for labour issues. We have some idea of what happened in Melbourne. We ... well Andreen (@A_Gallivant) et moi (@RealzTenisFanz) also provided some "helpful" suggestions to take back to the tour. Janina (@JLR78) was there to reign us in. There is a discussion and the post-discussion of the matter after the interview. SPECIAL THANKS TO SERGIY FOR TAKING THE TIME OUT OF HIS BUSY AND PROFESSIONAL SCHEDULE TO CHAT WITH US AGAIN. DON'T FORGET TO THANK HIM ON SOCIAL MEDIA. IF YOU WANNA CONTINUE TO HATE HIM, DIRECT YOUR HATERATION TO US NOT HIM. HE DOESN'T HAVE TIME FOR THAT. 

NOTE THAT BECAUSE OF TIME ZONES/WI-FI CONNECTIONS, THE SOUND QUALITY MIGHT NOT BE THE BEST BUT DO GIVE A LISTEN AND LET US KNOW HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT THE MATTERS BEING DISCUSSED.

We are here for the final edition of Australian Open 2018 and we are LIVE .... so get ready for another raucous episode where we will discuss Federer, Federer and Federer. As well as Caroline, Simona, Tennys, Conspiracies, Money, Roofs and Heat Index .... Don't forget to tweet us at @A_Gallivant, @JLR78 and @RealzTenisFanz. You can also comment in the YouTube chat as this is #RTFLivecast

0:05:05 - What do you think of the Australian Open?

0:10:18 - The Women's Draw- The Quarters onwards, Semis; The Final Woz v Halep. What's going with Maddy? Angie isn't all the way back? What's up with Halep? Is Woz at the beginning of something here or she's at the end of her slamless effort?

0:45:05 - The Menz Draw - Why we telling Chung to finish the match but not Divadal? The Quiet Quarters. Is Berdych Back? Divadal is continuing being injured. Grigor isn't so Gregarious and Novak isn't looking himself. The Final: Federer v Cilic. #20

1:32:00 - Realz Newz: The Roofers, Scheduling/Preferential Night Sessions, Weather/Climate Change

1:51:00 - Tennis on Tennys - Yall flirting with racism like it's debatable. NO IT'S NOT!!!

2:17:05 - Other Newz No Women v Menz Tours, Fed Cup tickets

2:18:50 - Alize missing tests and other doping things

2:31:20 - Wrapping Up and Embracing these crazy conspiracies theories!

We are here half way through this major but we are giving you the whole story on all the important happenings as well as a live report from the event. As always we are coming to you live and you are free to comment and interact with us on YouTube or via Twitter @A_Gallivant (Andreen), @JLR78 (Janina) and @RealzTenisFanz (Realz). We talk a lot of tennis breaking down what's left of the women's draw and the much of the usual suspects on the men's side.

SPECIAL THANKS TO @shawnyr10 for travelling all the way to Melbourne Australia for his first live Australian Open and giving us a live report though he is disappointed that Serena was not present.

We are set for a MEGA Draw Show as we go through the singles draws .... at least what's present as the qualies aren't even over. But this is 2018 so you know mess around. But we are here to save you from it all!!! Tweet us at @A_Gallivant (Andreen), @JLR78 (Janina) and @RealzTenisFanz (Realz). Join in the chat on YouTube or tweet us #RTFLivecast

WE ARE BACK FOR 2018 for our FOURTH SEASON of podcasting though Murray and Serena won't be with us, we should still celebrate our return. We are picking up where we left off in 2017 with fun, frivolity and fabulous fan perspective on this messy sport of professional tennis. We are also partnering with Tony @tjc05 and TennisWatchers.com @tenniswatchers in our effort to get fanz watching tennis. You can find us on Twitter, @A_Gallivant (Andreen) @JLR78 (Janina) et moi (@RealzTenisFanz), podbean and iTunes! DON'T FORGET TO COMMENT BELOW AND SHARE WITH YOUR FRIENDS!!!

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0:06:00 - Partnership Pause for TennisWatchers.com 0:09:30 - Realz Tennis Resultz (ATP events in Abu Dhabi, SERENA'S RETURN Hopman Cup, Pune, Brisbane and Doha, WTA Brisbane, Shenzhen and Auckland)0:57:10 - Upcoming tennis events1:03:30 - Partnership Pause TennisWatchers.com/twmerch (PROMO: 15% OFF CODE RealzDownUnder)1:06:25 - Realz Newz (Serena's Absence from Australia) 1:11:50 - Nole is Returning?? ATP's Walking Wounded Murray and Kei won't be in Melbourne. The Fragility of Tennis Bodies1:37:20 - Bellucci's Silent Ban and Tennis's Dodgy Doping Stance1:50:30 - Our Tennis Wishlist/New Year's Resolutions for 2018

We are giving out awards yall... Check out our Twitter handles @A_Gallivant, @JLR78 and @RealzTenisFanz for the categories.

Also found on the original birth place of this podcast, the blog: https://realztenisfanz.wordpress.com/2017/12/10/rtflivecast-2017-awards-show/

 

CATEGORY#1: MALE VULTURE OF 2017

Jock Sock at Paris Masters

Novak Djokovic in Eastbourne

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga winning 4 titles in 2017

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CATEGORY#2: FEMALE VULTURE OF 2017

Elena Vesnina at Indian Wells

Jelena Ostapenko at Roland Garros

Julia Georges in Zhuhai

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CATEGORY#3: MALE PLAYER WHO WAS NOT REALLY MISSED IN HIS ABSENCE

Milos Raonic

Novak Djokovic

Stan Wawrinka

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CATEGORY#4: FEMALE PLAYER WHO WAS NOT REALLY MISSED IN HER ABSENCE

Maria Sharapova

Aga Radwanska

Ana Ivanovic

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CATEGORY#5: THE VENUS MATCH THAT TOTALLY KILLED YOU

Aussie Open Final

Wimbledon Final

US Open semifinal

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CATEGORY#6: THE BEST/WORST TENNIS NARRATIVE OF 2017

Return of #TeamNole with Agassi and Stapanek

Andy Murray, the Champion Feminist

Laver Cup puts the nail in the coffin of Davis Cup

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CATEGORY#7: BEST/WORST OFF-COURT TENNIS HAPPENING

Vika and her baby Daddy Drama

Serena, her baby and her wedding

Tennis Divorces

Other Option::_________________

CATEGORY#8: BEST/WORST COMMENTATING

Every time John McEnroe and near everyone at ESPN open their mouth

Every time BBC/EuroSport/Bein Sport talks about British athletes

Doug Adler

Other Option::_________________

CATEGORY#9: BEST ATP NEW STAR

Francis Tiafoe

Denis Shapovalov

Daniil Medvedev (This was really supposed to be Andrey Rublev. The Russians look alike to me)

Other Option::_________________

CATEGORY#10: BEST WTA NEW STAR

Jelena Ostapenko

Cici Bellis

Ashleigh Barty

Other Option::_________________

CATEGORY#11 BEST/WORST COUPLING

Serena and Alex

Trouple Herbert, Goffin et Pouille

Bouchard and her Super Bowl Turd

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CATEGORY#12: BEST/WORST INJURY

BMS at Wimbledon

David Goffin at the French

Kneedal throughout the year

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CATEGORY#13: THE MAGA AWARD SINCE 45 IS PETTY AND NET NEUTRALITY MIGHT GO

Coconut Vandeweghe

John Isner

Tennys Sandgren

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CATEGORY#14: SHADIEST/PETTIEST FEMALE PLAYER

Your pick

Your pick

Your pick

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CATEGORY#15: SHADIEST/PETTIEST MALE PLAYER

Your pick

Your pick

Your pick

Other Option::_________________

THERE WILL BE A FEW OTHER AWARDS GIVEN OUT INCLUDING A FEW SPECIAL JURY PRIZES.....

We are at our penultimate podcast for 2017 with the Nitto ATP Finals coming to it's end. Surprise there is no much hyped Fedal final. We discuss this and much more. You can find us on Twitter, @A_Gallivant (Andreen), @JLR78 (Janina) et moi (@RealzTenisFanz), podbean and iTunes! DON'T FORGET TO COMMENT BELOW AND SHARE WITH YOUR FRIENDS!!!

0:02:30 - Realz Newz (Federer's gratitude, ungrateful Divadal stans, Serena's wedding and other nuptials, Divadal has won his lawsuit, No further investigation in the Petra attack, Murray coachless again..2011 was definitely the best world tour final in) 0:33:45 - Andreen at the #NittoWorldTourFinals. She got some suggestions 0:41:35 - Discussing the tennis 1:03:50 - Who you met at WTF? Deborah cannot leave the event before Federer!!!

We are in the closing stages of the 2017 season of the ATP tour and we are in Milan and London. @A_Gallivant (Andreen) has lived up to her name traveling to the #ATPNextGenFinals and the #NittoATPFinals. We discuss both even along with special guest, Debs @shackle52, one of our biggest fanz who is live from London! We even found time to talk about the Fed Cup final ...Coconut is no flake! You can find us on Twitter, @JLR78 (Janina) et moi (@RealzTenisFanz), YouTube and iTunes! DON'T FORGET TO COMMENT BELOW AND SHARE WITH YOUR FRIENDS!!!

0:02:25 - How do you pronounce the sponsor for the ATP World Tour Finals? Nit-toe? Neat-to? Why doesn't this event have a theme? 0:08:35 - ATP Next Gen Finals with HyChu aka Hyeon Chung winning all the money? Can we talk about that "Drawers Ceremony"? The innovations of this event are worth keeping? Are they transferable to main tour? Andreen let us know what it was like at Milano? 1:08:50 - Andreen traveling to meet Janina's friends in Italia. They are also Federer fanz 1:12:00 - Team USA won Fed Cup 2017.. Well Team Coconut won Fed Cup 2017 for USA. 1:20:00 - Our special guest Deborah aka @shackle52 on Twitter giving a lot of love and all the hot takes for the ATP World Tour Finals and Divadal's knees 1:36:25 - ATP Awards!!!! 1:41:40 - Debs giving us the low down on the afternoon session for Day 1 of the WTF

So we are at the penultimate tournament on the WTA tour and we are discussing the finals in Singapore as well as discussing yet another Delpo v Federer matchup in Basel. Don't forget you can and SHOULD comment below and you can find us on Twitter @A_Gallivant (Andreen), @JLR78 (Janina) and @RealzTenisFanz (Realz).

0:07:00 - WTA Resultz leading up to WTA Singapore 0:09:00 - WTA Finalz Singapore (Halep is Horrendous getting to Number 1, Vintage Venus turned into a Veteran Venus, Slow Courts, Woz's Win 0:29:20 - Venus v Pissy Press0:40:30 - Realz pick of the matches at Singapore 0:44:35 - Benneateau is retiring without a title ... oh okay.... and Martina Hingis is leaving again for the 3rd time (I am wrong. The ball was IN not OUT at the French Open 99 final Hingis v Graf) 0:49:30 - Race to London ATP Finals, Lucas Pouille beat Tsonga in Vienna (WTF), Federer v Del Potro Basel was Basic ...Magnus is OUT1:18:10 - WTA Zhuhai lineup