The ATP Tennis Radio Podcast

Jill Craybas sits down with Miami Open Tournament Director James Blake to discuss a number of subjects such as the men's and women's tours working more closely together, the role that data and analytics will play in the future and his friendship with fellow American player, Andy Roddick.

Welcome back to Tennis Paradise at the end of the BNP Paribas Open, another exhilarating Masters 1000 showcase here in Indian Wells and over the course of the next forty minutes, we hear from the champion, Taylor Fritz, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Paul Annacone, Michael Chang, Ivan Ljubicic, Gilles Cervara and Craig Boyton, the coach of next week’s Miami Open defending champion Hubi Hurkacz .

Presenter - Seb Lauzier

Podcast guest - former WTA player, Jill Craybas.

Michael Chang feature supplied by ATP Uncovered TV Show.

American Christopher Eubanks speaks to former player Jill Craybas about training with Serena Williams, learning Tik Tok from Coco Gauff, playing at the Mouratoglu Academy and hanging out with legendary movie star, Jamie Foxx.

Seb Lauzier and Jill Craybas present the show from Indian Wells. Along the way they hear from Daniil Medvedev, Andy Murray, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Rafael Nadal and Alexander Zverev. As the conflict in Ukraine continues, they also give their views about tennis’ reaction to that, as well as a number of other topics including some of the new player and coach relationships on tour. 

South African doubles player Raven Klaasen speaks to Chris Bowers about his career and the development of the game in Africa.

With the first ATP Masters 1000 of the year, the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells just around the corner, this week we are all-American. We here from in-form Tommy Paul, we go behind-the-scenes with Sebastian Korda and start with a California native who recently reached the quarter-finals in Acapulco and before that the semi-finals in Dallas, Marcos Giron. Finally, in the week where so much has gone on in eastern Europe that so many of us are struggling to comprehend, we have a deeply personal piece with Serb Dusan Lajovic remembering his war-torn early years.

Part of Seb Korda's coaching set-up, Dean Goldfine talks to Anne-Marie Batson about guiding the young American through the early stages of his career and how they got things wrong in the aftermath of the 21-year-old winning the Australian Open Juniors title in 2018.

In the week Dannil Medvedev claimed the world number one spot, we hear from the Russian, as well as the man he replaced, Novak Djokovic. We also get the views of Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray and former world number one, Jim Courier, plus we hear how Denis Shapovalov is getting on with his new coach, Jamie Delgado and we speak to a doubles player in a rich vein of form.

Barry Cowan speaks to Facundo Lagones, coach of British tennis player, Cameron Norrie. In this conversation they speak about training regimes, fitness and Norries hopes for the future.

This week Seb Lauzier introduces the podcast from Rio where he’s been working for the TV operation all week, but we also air interviews with players who’ve been competing at the three other ATP events this past week. We hear from Carlos Alcaraz, Matteo Berrettini, Felix Auger-Aliassime, Jo Wilfried-Tsonga, Karen Khachanov and Marcelo Arevalo.

Interviews by Seb Lauzier, Paul King and Mike Cation. Felix Auger-Aliassime taken from the ATP Media News Feed.