The First Serve

Host Lachlan Puyol is back with his weekly college segment on The First Serve 'Live' for 2025 catching up with Aussie duo Catherine Aulia (University of Tennessee) and Charlotte Kempenaers-Pocz (University of Texas)

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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Victorian Andrew Harris who stopped playing around a year ago due to injury immediately stepping into coaching. He chats to The First Serve Live from the Italian Open.

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15 year old Amelia Nedarajah playing for North Ringwood TC in Tennis Victoria State Grade joined The First Serve Live to reflect on Round 2 and her tennis journey.

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Former World Number 22 as a player and current Italian Billie Jean King Cup Captain Tathiana Garbin joined The First Serve Live in Rome to talk about the Italian Open and the success of Italian tennis right now.

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Brett Phillips is live from the Foro Italico for the 2nd Monday of the Italian Open with Aussie Alex de Minaur in action and Connor Joyce is courtside with the latest. Former World no 22 and current Italian Billie Jean King Cup captain Tathiana Garbin sits down to talk about the strength of Italian tennis, a full round up of tennis results outside of Rome including Tennis Victoria State Grade with special guest Amelia Nedarajah from North Ringwood. Aussie Pro Andrew Harris joins the show to talk about his transition from playing to coaching and Lachlan Puyol wraps up the latest Aussie college news in the past week.

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Alex de Minaur chats to Connor Joyce after his R32 win over Hugo Dellien (LL) 6-4, 6-4 to make it through to a last 16 match up with American Tommy Paul at the ATP Masters 1000 Rome.

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Lachlan Puyol is back with Episode 4 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 fourth episode of the year, Lachlan chats to Aussie Darcy Nicholls from Melbourne, who is in his junior year at Samford University in Alabama.

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Number 1 Aussie Alex de Minaur kicked off his Italian Open campaign with a 6-4, 7-5 win over Italian wildcard Luca Nardi, dealing with a rowdy home crowd with one spectator in particular over stepping the mark. Chatting to Brett Phillips while on the exercise bike in recovery.

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Brett Phillips and Connor Joyce chat to Alexei Popyrin after he opened his Italian Open campaign with a 6-1, 7-6(4) victory over Spanish qualifier Carlos Taberner to set up a third round meeting with Daniil Medvedev.

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Welcome to Episode 1 of our brand new podcast Beyond the Tramlines, hosted by Josh Heriot, which explores the stories and journeys of people achieving great things in the world of tennis.

First guest is Candy Reid, former pro on tour, who went down the college path and then turned to a broadcasting career with CNN, before becoming a leading commentary voice on the ATP/WTA Tours to this day. A great chat about her journey in tennis.

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