The ATP Tennis Radio Podcast

Welcome to another podcast and this week, although the tennis news out of the UK has been up and down, we are sticking with the Brits. There’s been good news for Andy Murray, the former world number one has scored a morale boosting win against old rival Rafael Nadal at the Mubadala World Tennis Championship in Abu Dhabi. Great also to see Nadal back in action. We’ll hear from Andy later in the programme and we also hear from doubles player Neal Skupski, but we start this time with Andy’s brother, Jamie Murray who’s had a frustrating week. It is no mean feat putting on any tennis event and as Tournament Director and player he would have been looking forward to the Battle of the Brits more than anyone until it was postponed on Friday, the latest sporting victim of Covid 19. The tournament will be pushed back to 2022, which, on the plus side, gives him even more time to pick up ideas and tips from other events, which is exactly what he was doing when he spoke with Barry Cowan at the recent Nitto ATP Finals in Turin.

In this phenomenal conversation, Jill Craybas sits down with former British player and coach, turned commentator, Mark Petchey to discuss what he's learnt during his time in the game. From working with the likes of Andy Murray, Emma Raducanu and Maria Sakkari, to his views on US college tennis, finding mentors and why he thinks the only success he's had is as a coach, this interview is packed full of insight and honesty.

Even in the off-season we’re still globe-trotting! We’re with a South African, a Brit and an Italian coaching a Finn, but with the groups and match schedule announced this week for the ATP Cup on the 1st to 9th January in Sydney, where better to start than with an Aussie and one very likely to be take his place in the home team. Mike Cation recently caught up with a doubles specialist Luke Saville who’s spent most of the year on the road.

Hubert Hurkacz's coach, Craig Boynton sits down with Jill Craybas to talk about working with the young Pole as well as subjects like on-court coaching, nutrition, rest and recovery and what he's learnt from the players he's coached in the past.

This week we are in the camps of five men who between them have 48 ATP tour titles and they have a bit in common. They’re all over 30, they’re all still going strong and they’ve all had to contend with some serious injuries over the past few years. Over the next 30 minutes or so we’ll hear from Marin Cilic, Milos Raonic and David Goffin, we’re with Grigor Dimitrov’s coach Dante Bottini and we start with the senior statesman of the group, title winner in Newport earlier this year having dropped outside the world’s top 100, at 35 years young South Africa’s Kevin Anderson.

Presented by Seb Lauzier

Interviews by Mike Cation and Jill Craybas

Features from ATP Tour Uncovered

Coach Brad Stine speaks to Jill Craybas about working with American players Tommy Paul and Jennifer Brady, as well as his previous coaching relationships with Kevin Anderson and Jim Courier.

Ciao e benvenuti! Hello and welcome to another ATP podcast presented by Seb Lauzier where this week we look under the bonnet of one of the world’s most prolific tennising and sporting countries. Italy now hosts the season-ending Nitto ATP Finals in Turin and the Next Gen ATP finals in Milan and the country’s players are clearly inspired making up 8 of the world’s top 100 men as things stand and two of the Top 10, world number 7 Matteo Berrettini and number 10 Jannik Sinner, both present this year in Turin. Over the course of the programme we hear from one of the men behind Berrettini’s surge up the rankings, Umberto Rianna, who also looks after the over 18s for the Italian Tennis Federation, as well as coach and tv star, Diego Nargiso, performance coach, Lorenzo Beltrame and tour coach and Director of Brain Game Tennis, Craig O'Shannessy.

British Tennis coach Rob Morgan speaks to Barry Cowan, at the Nitto ATP Finals, about working with doubles pair Rajeev Ram an Joe Salisbury and his new trial coaching relationship with Dan Evans.

Seb Lauzier looks back on events in Turin as Alexander Zverev and Herbert and Mahut take Nitto ATP Finals glory. Along the way were hear from match commentators Miles Maclagan, Chris Bowers and Candy Reid, ATP Chairman Andrea Gaudenzi talks about the events first year in the Italian city, Italian player Paolo Lorenzi looks back on his career, we hear from promising youngster, Samir Banerjee and as the ATP Live channel comes to an end of it’s broadcast, we look back on some of the lighter moments over the past five years.

Barry Cowan spoke to Romanian Tennis player, Horia Tecau to look back over his career.