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Coaches use short, memorable phrases to teach their best lessons. Yann and Michael discuss their best and the best from around the world, from many sports. Also: what do you get tennis players as gifts? And: Big time controversy in sportsmanship over flag-planting in college.

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Loree Stringer, ATP and ITF manager, joins the pod to discuss tennis parenting, travels in Europe and Africa, Tristan's Stringer's rising career, and invaluable tips 

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Yann and Michael debate whether any youngster can make the pros without starting tennis at a young age and achieving Pre-Puberty Mastery. Also: Buy or Sell? Nadal staying retired, the brand of ball mattering, Eagles and Commanders, and which major would you rather win?

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Yann and Michael discuss their most HATED and beloved tennis personalities, the travel team life as a parent, and a mailbag of questions from listeners.

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Angel Vazquez Rojas joins the podcast. He's the tournament director of the Team USA Tryouts, a sectional and national qualifying event to send two American juniors to Paris for the Open du Stade Francais. Yann and Michael also tackle: Should coaching be allowed at tournaments? How do you deal with cheating players?

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Tennis Central CEO Alexis Baguelin joins the podcast to discuss the college search for young athletes. Yann and Michael debate what the ATP and WTA Tours can do to help Top 200 players make a decent living, as well as why F1's Drive to Survive is better than tennis's Break Point.

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Yann and Michael welcome tennis coach Brant Switzler to discuss how martial arts relate to tennis and his views on junior tennis. Plus Yann and Brant square off in trivia game "Arsene or Aristotle?"---Kung Fu edition.

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Yann and Michael introduce The Tweener podcast about junior sports and parenting, focusing on tennis. Today: Yann's Davis Cup career, debunking the myths of tennis, and Debate It on Jannik Sinner's failed test, trans-girls in the high school ranks, and distracted teen players.