The ATP Tennis Radio Podcast

Radio Roland Garros commentators Chris Bowers and Eleanor Preston look back on events on-and-off the court during the first week of Roland Garros and ahead to the second week of action, plus we get the views of former World Number 1, Jim Courier with regard to the importance on having a symbiotic player and media relationship.

Radio Roland Garros and ATP Tennis Radio commentator Gigi Salmon is joined by Canadian tennis journalist Stephanie Myles to look over the Roland Garros draw and discuss the major talking points heading into the second Grand Slam of the year. During the course of the programme we also hear from World Number 2, Daniil Medvedev, the legend that is Roger Federer answers fans questions, courtesy of ATP Uncovered and our man Chris Bowers catches up with Christian Ruud, coach and father of Casper, who’s been in great form throughout the clay season.

This week we bring you two Dominics, Thiem and Koepfer, Doubles star Marcus Daniell teaches us about Effective Altruism, recent giant-killing Spaniard Pablo Andujar talks about making multiple comebacks from injury, but we start with a re-edited version of an interview with Roger Federer that was initially recorded in Doha.

It is another Italian job for Rafal Nadal title number 10 in Rome for the king of clay. It was always going to happen, finally the Big 3 have struck back after four straight Masters 1000 titles won by the 25-and-unders, dating back to Daniil Medvedev’s title in Paris last year. Since then Hubert Hurkacz has won in Miami, Stefanos Tsitsipas in Monte Carlo and, most recently Sascha Zverev took the spoils in Madrid just last week but this was a week and a final for the historians, for the purists, for the statisticians. Nadal and Djokovic have faced off in all four Grand Slam finas, five times at the Nitto ATP Finals, at nine different ATP Masters, at the ATP Cup, the Davis Cup and the Olympics, but nowhere have these two giants of the game met more often than at the Foro Italico. Today was their ninth meeting in Rome and their sixth final and we bring you all the reaction.

What a week it’s been in Italy’s capital. We also hear from Tournament Director Sergio Palmieri, the world’s number two Italian, 19 year old Jannik Sinner, Italian commentator Diego Nargisso and our very own ATP Tennis Radio commentators, Chris Bowers and Andy Murray's former coach, Miles Maclagan.

What a week it has been here in Madrid, upwards of 5000 fans every day in the Caja Magica, that’s felt special in itself, not that they got everything they wanted with Rafa Nadal, the greatest there’s ever been on clay beaten in his own house, outgunned at altitude on a court where the big hitters continue to shine. Two of them in the top 10 making it through to the final, with Alexander Zverev beating Italy's Matteo Berrettini and over the course of this podcast we'll hear from Zverev, get the reaction from the ATP Tennis Radio commentary booth, speak to Spanish great, Alberto Berasategui and look ahead to Rome with the Technical Director of the Italian Federation, Filippo Volandri.

It's another packed ATP Podcast, this time from Spain’s capital Madrid ahead of the Mutua Madrid Open and after the disappointments of 2020 we have tennis, we have fans and we have Rafael Nadal as tournament favourite. We’ll hear from Rafa very soon plus a number of his main challengers, but first we speak to Tournament Director Feliciano Lopez, delighted simply to have tennis being played at all.

We hear from the king of clay Rafael Nadal and the man with more tour wins so far this year than anyone else, Stefanos Tsitsipas. Andy Murray looks back on the past 12 months, we have teen sensations Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, there’s also Denis Shapovalov on hitting the clay, Diego Schwartzman on perhaps his sweetest success yet and we’re with one of the top coaches on tour, Dante Bottini.

Seb Lauzier looks back on events in Monte-Carlo with the help of ATP Tennis Radio commentators Gigi Salmon and Miles Maclagan. In addition to the discussion, we also hear from the champion, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Fernando Vicente, coach of runner-up Andrey Rublev. There's also an exclusive interview with ATP Chairman Andrea Gaudenzi who sat down in Monte-Carlo to address all of the issues facing the tour at the moment.

We've got two Nadal's for the price of one on this week's podcast as Rafa talks about getting going again on Clay, whilst Uncle Toni joins us to talk about his new coaching relationship with young Canadian, Felix Auger-Aliassime.

We also hear from recent Miami Masters champion, Hubert Hurkacz and runner-up at that event, Jannik Sinner, plus David Goffin's new coach, Germain Gigounon joins Paul King for an extended chat and we also hear how Australian Jordan Thompson challenges himself to get better on the red stuff.

Seb Lauzier presents the final podcast from Miami, a tournament in which Hubert Hurkacz of Poland claimed his maiden Masters 1000 title and a first title at that level for a Polish player. During the course of the podcast we hear from Hurkacz, alongside his coach, Craig Boynton and we also get the views of Jannik Sinner's coach, Riccardo Piatti, hear from Tournament Director, James Blake and speak to another in form youngster in America's Seb Korda.