The ATP Tennis Radio Podcast

Gigi Salmon and Miles Maclagan look back on events in Paris where Russian Daniil Medvedev claimed his third Masters 1000 title. We also find out about Finnish player, Emil Ruusuvuori and look at how tennis is developing in Italy.

In the build-up to the Rolex Paris Masters, the final ATP Masters 1000 of the year, we are joined by the coach of France’s top-ranked player, the mercurial Gael Monfils who’s called time on his season. We’re also with Monsieur Goffin and Mademoiselle Mertens as they went head-to-head for Belgian bragging rights and we’re with two of France’s brightest prospects, the multi-talented Corentin Moutet, who’s been hitting all the right notes recently on and off the court and the champion of Antwerp last week who’s scaling new and dizzy and heights this year, Ugo Humbert.

Andy Murray's Strength and Conditioning coach Matt Little joins presenter Seb Lauzier and Murray's former coach Miles Maclagan to discuss the exertions of match action and how athletes can better prepare their body for the intensity of competition, by looking at what they are doing in training and assessing if it's the most appropriate preparation. Along the way they answer questions such as 'why do players need to change the way they train?', ‘Is tennis lagging behind other sports in using data to inform best practices?', 'Is data analysis the be-all-and-end-all?' and 'what will tennis look like going forward?’.

We hear from two recent tournament winners. Russia's Andrey Rublev discusses his latest title on home turf in St Petersburg whilst Cologne winner Alexander Zverev gets competitive away from the court as he goes head-to-head in a quiz with the NBA's Dirk Nowitzki. We also turn our attention to the doubles game and hear from Roland Garros champions, Kevin Krawietz and Andres Mies and Jamie Murray and Neal Skupski speak about how they've been getting on since tennis returned.

Chris Bowers is joined by former French player, Sophie Amiach to look back over the past fortnight at Roland Garros and to marvel at Rafael Nadal's dominant performance over Novak Djokovic in the final. As well as discussion, we also bring you an exclusive chat between Tim Henman and Pete Sampras, focussing on the difficulties of playing on clay.

Former player turned media star Daniela Hantuchova and broadcaster extraordinaire Marcus Buckland join ATP Tennis Radio and Radio Roland Garros commentator Gigi Salmon, to look back on events both on and off the court after the first week of Roland Garros.

Gigi Salmon is joined by tennis expert, journalist and Radio Roland Garros commentator, Eleanor Preston to look over the Roland Garros draw and discuss the big issues heading into the third and final Grand Slam of a very different year.

Chris Bowers and Claire Curran look back on events at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia where Novak Djokovic claimed a 36th Masters crown in total. Over the course of the programme the ATP Tennis Radio discuss Djokovic's latest result and what it all means ahead of the final Grand Slam of the year at Roland Garros.

US Open Radio commentator Brian Clark is joined by three-time US Open doubles champion, Mark Woodforde and former world number 31, Leif Shiras to look back on the final between Alexander Zverev and Dominic Thiem and to discuss the storylines from the past fortnight.

US Open Radio commentator, Brian Clark is joined by former world number 5 and US Open semi-finalist, Jimmy Arias to look back over the action from the first week of action. Along the way they discuss life in the bubble and how this event differs from past editions, plus they talk about the players that have impressed throughout the first six days.