The First Serve

On our trip to the WTA Finals in Riyadh, 20 year old Saudi Arabian Bader Idrees (aspiring pro and hitting partner for the players) joined us to take us inside his journey.

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Brett Phillips is live in Turin for the ATP Finals after Alex de Minaur's opening day appearance. The full honour roll of champions of the past week, plus going inside his week in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for the WTA Finals including special guest Bader Idrees, Saudi aspiring pro. The State of Play is back, going inside the Australian tennis landscape with an interesting letter, plus a wrap of the 12/14 De Minaur Junior Tour finals and our weekly college segment.

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Lachlan Puyol is back with Episode 10 for 2025 thanks to Play USA Tennis Pathways, dedicated to the US College space for those aspiring to go down this path, providing plenty of education on the US System chatting to Australian players, coaches and administrators.

In this tenth and final episode of the year, Lachlan chats to Nikita Volonski from Sydney who is in his junior year at the University of Tulsa, and Melbourne tennis coach John Paci from POWA Tennis at Eildon Park about his observations of the deficiences of the ITF Tour and how College can bridge that gap.

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Each week on The First Serve, we present The State of Play, going inside the Australian tennis landscape and what our future looks like on the world stage. This week, we decided to reflect on an interview we aired three years this week with Tennis Australia CEO Craig Tiley about the State of Australian tennis.

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Tennis Tragic Roddy Reynolds and Tennis Pro Alexandra (Ally) Osborne are back for a great episode ten of The Grind to round out 2025, our dedicated monthly podcast focusing on the Challenger/ITF tours.

In this episode, Ally recaps her 9 months on the road, a look back at the last month on the Australian Pro Tour, and looking ahead to the three events left on the Challenger/ITF Tour in Australia for this year playing for a AO Wildcard and Ally reflects on her time sitting on the ITF Player Panel and the gains made over the last four years.

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Tennis Australia's Frances Soyer spoke to Brett Phillips about this weeks Australian Junior Tour Finals in Sydney

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Host Lachlan Puyol is back with his weekly college segment on The First Serve with the latest news, featuring Melbourne's Steffi Webb with her announcement signing.

Play USA Tennis Pathways supports athletes who want to go down the college pathway, assisting players to get recruited to a college that meets their academic and athletic goals. If you are a player, parent, or coach and are interested in the college pathway in the United States, contact Lachlan Puyol at [email protected]

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Brett Phillips is live in Saudi Arabia for the WTA Finals with a few tech difficulties, but managed to get this edition to air, including The State of Play - a recap of the TA CEO Craig Tiley interview, three years this week, plus Aaron Klump the first ever coach of Adam Walton, Lachlan Puyol is back with his weekly college segment, beIN Sports Commentator Beti Sekulovski recaps the Aussie pro tour in Brisbane over the weekend, plus a recap of the tennis news of the week.

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Aaron Klump is the first ever coach of Australian top 100 player Adam Walton, who joined Brett Phillips on The First Serve Live to talk about his journey, also offering up some thoughts about the general state of the game in Australia.

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Welcome to Episode 7 of our new podcast in 2025, Beyond the Tramlines, hosted by Josh Heriot, which explores the stories and journeys of people achieving great things in the world of tennis.

Feature guest for this episode is Aussie aspiring pro Sam Dineen from Melbourne who is tackling the college pathway as an entry point to the pro ranks.

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