This week’s episode will be an interview with the highly touted 17-year-old Holger Rune. Holger is currently the reigning Junior Roland Garros champion, and ended last year as the junior ITF world champion and junior world no.1  

20 years ago, Mary Pierce ended France’s 33-year drought at Roland Garros, by becoming the first woman to lift the Suzanne Lenglen trophy since 1967. Since then, despite success in doubles, no French player, male or female, has been able to replicate Pierce’s win at the French Open. 

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Former world #5 Henri Leconte was in good spirits as he spoke to me at his office in Luxembourg. Of course given the current circumstances, we talked virtually via Zoom. It was a fun chat and we covered many topics such as why reaching the 1988 French Open Final was his highest point and also the lowest point of life, ending France's 59 year drought of Davis Cup glory in 1991, the future of French tennis, and more.

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Dinara Safina is a Russian former world number 1 and is a three-time Grand Slam finalist with 12 career titles under her belt. She is the younger sister of three-time Grand Slam champion and ATP World number 1, Marat Safin. They are the only brother-sister duo in tennis history to ever achieve this status.

Craig O’Shannessy is arguably one of the best tennis strategists out there. He was the strategist for Dustin Brown when he shocked the tennis world by beating Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon in 2015. Recently he was the strategist for world no.1 Novak Djokovic (2018-2020). He will talk about that experience being part of team Djokovic and what makes him such a special player, what the strategy is to beat Rafael Nadal, and more.

Former world no.1 and 2003 Roland Garros Champion, Juan Carlos Ferrero, spoke exclusively to The Double Bagel Podcast last week talking about his playing career and what he has been doing post-retirement. The 40-year-old retired in 2012, and has been active in the tennis world by managing two tennis academies in the world- one in Spain and one in China, and has coached Alexander Zverev, and is now coaching 16-year-old Carlos Alcaraz.

Paul Annacone is the former coach of Pete Sampras and Roger Federer. He is now a full-time analyst for 'Tennis Channel' and the coach for Taylor Fritz.