Tiny South African Amanda Coetzer married the most interesting man in the world, we still have ill feelings towards Martina Hingis and freelance writer Dave Shaftel tells us about his 24-minute Rogers Cup interview with Novak Djokovic.

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What if the world's best tennis players draped themselves in their flags and battled each other for global supremacy? It happens already and nobody cares. In this episode, we fix the Davis and Fed Cup problems with pirates, bad news bears and a heady dash of Rocky IV.

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We haven't recovered from what happened with Serena at this year's U.S. Open, so we talk about everything else: Why we hate Marin Cilic, why Rafa wants to show us his penis, and the redemption of Eugenie and Nick. Then we crown a new Never Number 1: Jana Novotna.

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Internet delight Aminatou Sow, co-host of Call Your Girlfriend, predicts that Drake will soon be carrying Serena's babies, and to talk about her favorite player who was Never Number 1: Goran Ivanisevic.

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We tip our hats to Billie Jean King's World Team Tennis (go Boston Lobsters!), decide that we've earned the right to drop the occasional swear, and introduce a new segment: Never Number 1, an appreciation of players who never quite reached the pinnacle of the sport.

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Remember the heyday of American tennis, when Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras ruled the rankings? Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison does, and he's single-handedly trying make tennis America's premiere sport. Businessweek's Ashlee Vance explains how, from the the NCAA to a pop-up Nobu.

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Our faces are fiery with anger after the New York Times body shamed Serena, and we give HBO's new tennis TV movie 7 Days in Hell a review, of sorts.

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Let no one say we aren’t benevolent here on the podcast: We backtrack on our scathing indictment of Redfoo’s tennis game, check in on the Championships at Wimbledon (the tournament and the fashions) and profess our love for tennis on the radio.

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Should tennis players have caddies? How do you pronounce Nick Kyrgios' name? None of that matters, because we introduce you to a man who built his own private lawn tennis club.

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We get excited about Wimbledon by talking about which pros look like Bond villains, where we stand on tennis whites and our next president, Serena Williams.

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