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Tennis podcast featuring casual, semi-respectable conversations about the ATP & WTA.

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Pocketful of Sunshine (Double)

03.25.2023

We’re coming to you mid-Sunshine Double, which at this point is more like Sunshine Month? Sunshine Quarter? Anyway, pack your SPF. We’re seeing storylines emerge for the year: is there a WTA Big 3 emerging? Who else will join that ...

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03.25.2023 Pocketful of Sunshine (Double) We’re coming to you mid-Sunshine Double, which at this point is more like Sunshine Month? Sunshine Quarter? Anyway, pack your SPF. We’re seeing storylines emerge for the year: is there a WTA Big 3 emerging? Who else will join that ...
03.14.2023 Say Something It’s a little bit of everything this week -- first, some thoughts on the first week of Indian Wells, whose courts are slower than Daniil Medvedev’s bathroom breaks (his words). We chat about Murray, Medvedev, Raducanu, Muchová, and the undeniable ...
03.07.2023 Fly Like A Bird It’s been a rough week in the Body Serve household, as we said goodbye to our beautiful 16-year-old beagle Vince. He’s felt like a third co-host over the years, a presence who was always just off-mic (and sometimes on it ...
02.22.2023 We Need a Preposition February in tennis: four continents, three Iga bagels, two male US Open champs winning titles, and one white woman wearing racially inappropriate hairstyles. This month is nothing if not eclectic. We also chat about Hsieh dropping in then dropping out ...
02.10.2023 Same As It Ever Was Post-Australian Open tennis continues around the world, but this week we’re mostly talking about the seeming conclusions of the ATP’s two highest profile domestic violence cases (but not their only cases, btw). The ATP quietly dropped a new release shortly ...
01.31.2023 Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss: Aus Open Wrap On the 14th day since the Australian Open started, we rested while Novak wept. The victimhood tour is complete, Jonathan is annoyed, and we pay it as much (or as little) attention as we can muster. Meanwhile, Aryna Sabalenka did ...
01.24.2023 That’s Not The Rule, Kerrilyn Welcome to the third installment of our Australian Open series! We're at the quarterfinals, and the men's draw is giving chaos while the women's seems kind of … correct? We talk about Djokovic's mini-battle with the press and overall less ...
01.20.2023 The Bushbirds Are Sh*tting Hey there, just popping in to offer some thoughts on the first few days of the 2023 Australian Open and the first three episodes of Netflix’s tennis docuseries Break Point! We talk about a few standouts from a pretty rocky ...
01.13.2023 Pregnant With Possibilities: Australian Open Preview The first Slam of the year doesn't give us many weeks of tennis to form opinions, but it's delivered on story lines, with one taking the cake: Naomi Osaka -- having already withdrawn from the Australian Open -- announced she's ...
01.06.2023 A Positive Start Welcome to The Body Serve 9! We're recovering from our first-ever bout with COVID but tennis never stops and the show must go on. We offer some things to look out for in 2023 -- a true rival to Iga? ...
12.16.2022 How Did We Get Here? TBS Culture Edition To cap off our 8th season and tide you over until 2023, we’re bringing you the rare TBS culture episode. No tennis talk whatsoever -- we even had a few tennis-related items on the agenda which we deleted. We’ve got: ...
12.01.2022 The Merchants of Menace: 2022 ATP Wrap It’s time to wrap up the 2022 ATP season, and we’re treating the guys with a healthy (and earned!) dose of suspicion, starting with a rundown of the most badly behaved children of the year. But it’s not all bad ...
11.22.2022 The Inroads (and Outroads?) of the 2022 WTA Season The 2022 WTA season had everything: a 37-match win streak, the retirements of the current #1 (abrupt) and the GOAT (expected), a Wimbledon with no ranking points, and a major drug suspension. Iga Swiatek’s dominance didn’t leave much room for ...
11.10.2022 Muchas Garcías The WTA regular season comes to a close with comeback kid Caroline Garcia grabbing her biggest career title, dispatching Iga-vanquisher Aryna Sabalenka in a boom-boom final. We discuss the last-minute nature of the event and the tough financial and ethical ...
11.01.2022 Félix Aviation Administration Canadian King Félix Auger-Aliassime. As Rihanna said, let’s start there. Félix has turned around his final-round performances to the tune of three straight titles, beating world #1 Alcaraz twice in the past few weeks. Elsewhere, in Texaaaas, the world’s best ...
10.25.2022 The October Surprise Just when we thought we could go away for a spell without anything crazy happening, the ghost of an ugly hotel carpet threw things into disarray with Simona Halep testing positive for a banned substance. We begin the episode by ...
10.11.2022 25 Languages But Is Arabic One? This is a hodgepodge episode, catching up with the recent tournament results across four continents, including Tunisia’s first WTA event, Djokovic’s clearing of the Next and CurrentGen, and Tiafoe’s continuing run of good form. We spend a good amount of ...
10.02.2022 Question: Tell Me What You Think About ... Thanks to you, our listeners, we’re back with a special mailbag episode, answering your questions about any and everything. You asked about tennis, of course – lots of questions lingering from Laver Cup and Roger’s retirement, and about the states ...
09.27.2022 It Doesn’t Even Matter And just like that, another GOAT says goodbye. This time, it’s Roger Federer at Laver Cup, giving tennis and his fans one last glimpse at his greatness. Confession: we haven’t always been the biggest FedFans, but we’re still paying respect ...
09.13.2022 Barely Bleating: US Open Wrap The final Slam of the season sees Iga Swiatek troubleshoot and learn now to extend her dominance, and the coronation of the (not very) long awaited Carlos Alcaraz as a major winner and youngest male #1 in history. As always, ...
09.05.2022 Very Good, Serena Williams: US Open Week One Well folks, that was quite the first week of the US Open, wasn't it? Jonathan is back from his trip to Flushing Meadows, and we are back to talk about Serena's last dance (or at least our first stab at ...
08.26.2022 Looks Like We Made It: US Open Preview We're piecing together a preview for the US Open on precarious hotel wifi, but the show must go on! After all, this is Serena's final Slam. Jonathan is in NY taking in the action, while James holds down the TBS ...
08.23.2022 No Qualifier Needed Cincinnati lost its stars early but still brought us a wickedly good weekend, with comeback kids Borna Coric and Caroline Garcia taking the titles. We talk new shoulder (Borna), new confidence (Caro), new professionalism (Stef?), and the resurgent Petra and ...
08.16.2022 In The 6ix We’re back after attending our first live tennis in THREE YEARS! Wow, what a moment. A moment most pleasing to us in our podcasting careers. The happy feelings didn’t last long as we had to grapple with the end of ...
08.05.2022 Summer Renaissance: Hardcourt Preview The unbearable August heat and humidity means it’s time for the North American hardcourt swing, for a brief magical period known as the US Open Series. Instead of a typical recap, we decided to present a summer hardcourt preview to ...
07.25.2022 In Our (Mail) Bag It’s the hottest part of the summer and the post-Wimbledon haze is the perfect time to outsource our agenda planning by asking our readers for questions. Fortunately, your questions were well in sync with important topics of the day and ...
07.12.2022 The S#&% Show Must Go On: Wimbledon Wrap Let's start with the good news: Elena Rybakina powered her way to a major title, and Ons Jabeur reached another career milestone while winning hearts and eyeballs around the world. The men's side was, uh, less appealing. Nick Kyrgios reached ...
07.03.2022 In Perfect DisHarmony: Wimbledon Week One Wimbledon week one saw a GOAT come and go, her sister light up the doubles court, the two male legends anchor their sides of the draw, and the loquacious Cornet end Swiatek's 37-match win streak. Saturday lit up the tournament ...
06.25.2022 You Just Gotta Be Ready: Wimbledon Preview 2022 Wimbledon prep had been dominated by the ban of Russian and Belarusian players, and then Serena Williams stopped the world by announcing her return to competitive tennis, first in Eastbourne doubles (OnsRena 4ever) and ultimately the Wimbledon singles draw. ...
06.21.2022 Ted Tinling: Tennis’ Needle and Thread Cuthbert Collingwood "Ted" Tinling was a man whose unlikely story threads throughout the eras of twentieth century tennis like no one else's. A product of a patrician English family who moved to the French Riviera, Ted found himself umpiring for ...
06.07.2022 Je Ne Comprends Pas Iga Swiatek and Rafael Nadal are joint winners at Roland Garros for the second time, with Iga extending her dominance over women’s tennis and Rafa entering truly uncharted territory as a 14-time RG winner and extending his lead in the ...
05.31.2022 If Is a Dangerous Word The Roland Garros quarterfinals are set, and despite a brief scare, Iga Swiatek continues her stunning win streak as the lone remaining top 10 seed in the women’s draw. But fear not, the quarterfinal match-ups are cracker (RIP Derry Girls). ...
05.22.2022 Thoughts and Prayers: Roland Garros Preview Not more than four short months ago, we were reveling in Rafa and Ash’s Australian Open glory. Now that we’ve been abandoned by Ash, and Rafa’s foot has set alarm bells ringing, we enter the year’s second Slam with that ...
05.10.2022 Out Here Ons Her Own Two drop shots to rule them all: Ons Jabeur wins her first WTA 1000 title and Carlos Alcaraz slices through two GOATs and a [redacted] to win his fourth title of the year. In a shorter episode than usual, we ...
05.01.2022 I Don’t Know (and Other Insights) As we get older, we get more comfortable existing in the “I don’t know” space, which might be a strange thing to say while also producing a podcast where we share our opinions. But as the debate about Wimbledon rages ...
04.26.2022 Making The Ban Thank you all for your patience while we’ve been away! We’re back to recap all the tournaments we’ve missed – almost three weeks of them. Iga Swiatek wins her 23rd straight match by beating repeat runner-up Sabalenka in Stuttgart, while ...
04.07.2022 Doing The Most It's been barely two weeks since Ash Barty's retirement and already Iga Swiatek is answering our questions about what's next for the WTA. Riding a 17-match win streak, she knocks out fellow heiress apparent Naomi Osaka to win her third ...
03.26.2022 Bye Bye Barty Ash Barty shocked the tennis world this week by announcing her departure from the game as a 25-year-old dominant #1. After the shock wore off, though, it started to make sense based on what we know about Ash, as a ...
03.22.2022 Indian Wells (Taylor’s Version) The finals may not have lived up to their billing, but Indian Wells advanced a number of the season's major storylines: the continued growth of Iga Swiatek, the battle to stick out from the WTA pack, Rafa's hardcourt win streak, ...
03.10.2022 FFS, When Will It End? Starting off on a difficult subject - the invasion of Ukraine and the response from tennis authorities and the players affected by it. As always, it’s fair to ask who sets the moral standards and what’s the right thing to ...
02.27.2022 Take Flight It’s not exactly your average February on the ATP: we’ve got a new #1; a recent #1 and GOAT doing (dubious) damage control as he struggles to find tournaments that will have him; a different 35-year-old GOAT starting the year ...
02.14.2022 My Funny Mail-entine: TBS Mailbag Part II Welcome back for the second part of our mailbag episode, made possible by February boredom and listeners like you. This time around we’re talking about the changes to tennis during pandemic times and whether we’d like to see them stay; ...
02.10.2022 Winter Break: TBS Mailbag Part I We asked for your questions, and wow, did you deliver. So much so that we’ve decided to stretch this mailbag into a two-part super episode. The post-Australian Open hangover is real, so we’ve got some light-hearted and non-tennis subject matter ...
01.31.2022 Dare To Dream Ash Barty and Rafa Nadal are your 2022 Australian Open champions -- Barty winning her third Slam and further cementing her #1 status, and Nadal notching an unlikely victory from a two-sets-to-love hole against a much younger opponent, leading the ...
01.24.2022 So Siuuu Me Week one of the Australian Open is in the books, with Barty carving her way through the draw, Sam Stosur retiring from singles, and most of the men's contenders surviving. Although many feared the tournament would be overshadowed by the ...
01.15.2022 The Leaning Tower of Visa: Aus Open Preview The 2022 Australian Open is around the corner and guess what is still dominating headlines: visa cancellation 2.0, appeal 2.0, and the various foibles and f- er, muck-ups of Djokovic and co. After discussing that for a moment, we focus ...
01.11.2022 Playing In Our Faces The Australia v. Djokovic saga has dominated new cycles for the past week in and outside of the tennis world; it highlighted many of the anxieties and political squabbles of the COVID-19 pandemic, spurred infighting between various levels of Australian ...
01.07.2022 Party Like It’s 1999 Many of us look back at 1999 as the dawning of the modern golden age of women’s tennis, a season that saw four different Slam champs, the abrupt exit of one GOAT, and the breakthrough of a new one. Lindsay, ...
12.12.2021 Dire Strai(gh)ts: ATP Wrap In our season seven finale, we’re recapping this odd and transitional year on the ATP Tour, a year in which Novak Djokovic came very close to winning the first Grand Slam since 1969 and a bunch of youngsters shook the ...
12.03.2021 Holy Spirit Activate: WTA Wrap Friends, we’re finally at the end of our WTA season. So much of what we recapped didn’t even feel like it happened in 2021. Kenin signing with Motorola but tweeting about it from her iPhone? 2021, really? Badosa and Kostyuk ...

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The Body Serve episodes:

Pocketful of Sunshine (Double)

Say Something

Fly Like A Bird

We Need a Preposition

Same As It Ever Was

Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss: Aus Open Wrap

That’s Not The Rule, Kerrilyn

The Bushbirds Are Sh*tting

Pregnant With Possibilities: Australian Open Preview

A Positive Start

How Did We Get Here? TBS Culture Edition

The Merchants of Menace: 2022 ATP Wrap

The Inroads (and Outroads?) of the 2022 WTA Season

Muchas Garcías

Félix Aviation Administration

The October Surprise

25 Languages But Is Arabic One?

Question: Tell Me What You Think About ...

It Doesn’t Even Matter

Barely Bleating: US Open Wrap

Very Good, Serena Williams: US Open Week One

Looks Like We Made It: US Open Preview

No Qualifier Needed

In The 6ix

Summer Renaissance: Hardcourt Preview

In Our (Mail) Bag

The S#&% Show Must Go On: Wimbledon Wrap

In Perfect DisHarmony: Wimbledon Week One

You Just Gotta Be Ready: Wimbledon Preview

Ted Tinling: Tennis’ Needle and Thread

Je Ne Comprends Pas

If Is a Dangerous Word

Thoughts and Prayers: Roland Garros Preview

Out Here Ons Her Own

I Don’t Know (and Other Insights)

Making The Ban

Doing The Most

Bye Bye Barty

Indian Wells (Taylor’s Version)

FFS, When Will It End?

Take Flight

My Funny Mail-entine: TBS Mailbag Part II

Winter Break: TBS Mailbag Part I

Dare To Dream

So Siuuu Me

The Leaning Tower of Visa: Aus Open Preview

Playing In Our Faces

Party Like It’s 1999

Dire Strai(gh)ts: ATP Wrap

Holy Spirit Activate: WTA Wrap