The Body Serve

The Body Serve begins its third season with an extended episode that covers the off-season, the early goings-on of the 2017 tennis season, and some fun and games. We're especially happy to share our new intro, which incorporates quotes from some of our favorite players. Stay tuned for an Australian Open quiz and our nominees for the male players who should start wearing short shorts (for fashion reasons only, obviously).

1:00 January means the Visit Melbourne ad is back! A dramatic reading

5:00 Tennis had no chill in the off-season: Serena-Common interview, Serena gets engaged, Ivanovic retires, Federer Periscopes

13:00 Kvitova shock

18:15 Pliskova wins Brisbane

21:30 Let's talk about Auckland: Serena and Vee underwhelm

27:00 James' mini-treatise on being a Serena fan

30:20 Novak wins Doha; talking about another Novak "incident" 

38:00 Dimitrov beats 3 Top 10 players to win Brisbane

39:45 Taking stock of Nadal's form after winning Abu Dhabi exo

42:45 Mattek-Sands reaches no. 1 in doubles ... misgivings?

46:30 Twitter polls: who do you think will have the best year?

52:45 Et ceteras: Destanee Aiava, Ash Barty, and Jonathan likes Vinci now ....

59:00 Which male players should usher in a short shorts trend? (Accepting a challenge from @themaindraw and @caitlin_thomps)

1:08:00 Jonathan takes an Australian Open quiz!

1:19:30 Some TV shows we're watching

The Body Serve begins its third season with an extended episode that covers the off-season, the early goings-on of the 2017 tennis season, and some fun and games. We're especially happy to share our new intro, which incorporates quotes from some of our favorite players. Stay tuned for an Australian Open quiz and our nominees for the male players who should start wearing short shorts (for fashion reasons only, obviously).

1:00 January means the Visit Melbourne ad is back! A dramatic reading

5:00 Tennis had no chill in the off-season: Serena-Common interview, Serena gets engaged, Ivanovic retires, Federer Periscopes

13:00 Kvitova shock

18:15 Pliskova wins Brisbane

21:30 Let's talk about Auckland: Serena and Vee underwhelm

27:00 James' mini-treatise on being a Serena fan

30:20 Novak wins Doha; talking about another Novak "incident" 

38:00 Dimitrov beats 3 Top 10 players to win Brisbane

39:45 Taking stock of Nadal's form after winning Abu Dhabi exo

42:45 Mattek-Sands reaches no. 1 in doubles ... misgivings?

46:30 Twitter polls: who do you think will have the best year?

52:45 Et ceteras: Destanee Aiava, Ash Barty, and Jonathan likes Vinci now ....

59:00 Which male players should usher in a short shorts trend? (Accepting a challenge from @themaindraw and @caitlin_thomps)

1:08:00 Jonathan takes an Australian Open quiz!

1:19:30 Some TV shows we're watching

Our tennis season is over, but we're leaving you with one final episode of The Body Serve in 2016. We talk about the much hyped Netflix revival of Gilmore Girls: what worked and what didn't, why Rory is such a problem, which of Rory's exes is the hottest, and how Kelly Bishop and Lauren Graham slayed every scene they were in. We also add to our TV episode and recommend a few gems for you to check out over the holidays.

2:30 What worked about the Gilmore Girls revival? #1 Lauren Graham

9:00 Lorelai and Emily: the central relationship of Gilmore Girls?

16:00 Paris Geller, hilarious and terrifying

20:00 Cameos by Parenthood cast, Sutton Foster, and Stars Hollow: The Musical

22:15 An Emily Gilmore meltdown for the ages

24:30 Rory’s exes are all hot now

28:00 What didn’t work? The last four words

29:30 How do you solve a problem like Rory?

33:45 A small diatribe on stereotyping millennials: we didn’t invent participation trophies

37:30 Things that didn’t work in 2016 but might have in 2000

 41:20 Sudden diversity in Stars Hollow and Hartford

50:00 Who’d you rather: Dean, Jess, or Logan?

54:15 Revisiting our TV episode – talking about Transparent’s representation problems

60:00 Atlanta, Stranger Things, High Maintenance

63:45 In praise of season 7 of Shameless, and especially Emmy Rossum

67:00 Check out Club de Cuervos, Mozart in the Jungle, Chewing Gum, and Fleabag

Episode 63 marks the finale of our second season. We spend a good chunk of time thanking some of our supporters by name. (Please forgive us if we missed you - it wasn't intentional!) We have lots of fun chit-chatting about the petty, messy, trying, and frivolous moments in tennis this past year. We also take you back to a once-controversial subject in tennis: the Williams sisters' hair, and its role as a signifier of their outsider status. 

3:15 Rundown of 2016's messy af moments in tennis, starting with Gibbs-Stakhovsky-Murray

As promised, we're back to recap the second half of the 2016 tennis season, picking up where we left off with the crowning of Djokovic and Muguruza at Roland Garros. We recall the good, the bad, and the absurd thrown our way by the tennis gods: the Williamses at Wimbledon, Cilic's two sets to love woes, and everything del Potro did this season. Also, look out for a previously untold story from Cincinnati regarding our interview with Sania Mirza!

02:22 Sharapova handed a two-year tennis prison sentence

09:18 Putting Dominic Thiem to bed...erm...rest...one last time

12:58 Hyperbole alert: Querrey upsets Novak at Wimbledon

15:38 The deleterious effect of Cilic's dark cloud

16:54 Marcus Willis, the fat farm & British press doing the MOST.

18:45 Wimbledon respite for Williams fans

23:05 The hand of God, a trailblazer, and Vladimir Safin elected to HOF

28:10 Rogers Cup: where were you when Federer shut it down?

35:05 Olympic tennis throws a WRENCH in the tennis season

45:16 SanTina calls it quits

47:50 A few untold stories from Cincinnati

57:50 Pliskova effs up our lives & Stan does it AGAIN?!?!

65:53 Blitzing through the Fall: Murray, Woz & Cibulkova

72:21 JMDP bleeds Argentinian blue at Davis Cup

75:25 Leaving on a lighter note, some fond memories of 2016

Trip Down Tennis Twitter Memory Lane

Grab your fine-toothed comb as we sift through the first half of the 2016 tennis season. From Vika and Kerber in Brisbane to Djokovic and Muguruza at Roland Garros, James and Jonathan recap the utter madness of tennis in between. Along the way, we remember Bud Collins, get tongue twisted about the Kitty Chiller chitter chatter, and are generally surprised by how much of the season we'd forgotten/blocked from memory. 

04:10 - Vika kicks things off in Brisbane 

05:40 - James' dalliance with being a Sloane Ranger

11:00 - Nole & Rafa get the ATP season underway

13:20 - Remembering Nole's superhuman stretch of success 

15:36 - Australian Open (the bullshit begins)

17:40 - Kerber saves MP in 1st Rd, contemplating the what ifs?

21:32 - Raonic loses to Murray SIX times in 2016!!!

25:54 - Venus wins #49 after an abominable January

28:12 - That wacky week in February

32:48 - That drab outfit, on that drab podium, with that drab conference furniture, and that drab carpet

36:10 - Kerber gets back on track with a little help from her friends

41:50 - Raymond Moore revisited

46:20 - Either the ball goes over the net or it doesn't (remembering Bud Collins)

51:50 - A week in the life of Serena Williams 

52:40 - Rafa feeling himself in April

61:24 - Kitty Chiller chitter chatter

63:43 - ROLAND GARROS -> deluges & disappointments 

Help celebrate our 60th episode! We're here -- on a more regular schedule, lately -- to talk about Andy Murray cementing his no.1 ranking by taking out frequent foe Novak Djokovic. Who had the better year? Did the WTFs measure up as a memorable tournament? What the hell is going on with Rafa's hair?

:30 Welcome to our Diamond Jubilee

Help celebrate our 60th episode! We're here -- on a more regular schedule, lately -- to talk about Andy Murray cementing his no.1 ranking by taking out frequent foe Novak Djokovic. Who had the better year? Did the WTFs measure up as a memorable tournament? What the hell is going on with Rafa's hair?

:30 Welcome to our Diamond Jubilee

Settle in for our second annual TV episode, where we discuss the many, many shows we've been watching. Ideally, we throw in some analysis, some political content, and praise for the women and people of color who are helping to make TV's second golden age so special. Look out for Transparent, Outlander, Jane the Virgin, Insecure, Orange is the New Black, Queen Sugar, and a withering takedown of former fave UnReal.

5:00 Best New Show - OWN comes into its own

For episode 58, we're talking about WTA Finals champ Cibulkova, Zhuhai winner Kvitova, and men's tennis' new number 1, Sir Andrew Murray. The ATP and WTA have both seen some big shake-ups recently. We chat about all that, plus James takes a tough quiz on ATP Number 1s - play along at home! 

0:30 Welcome back! Thanks for coming!