What you talking about Willis a Tennis podcast looking at the stories and people working in Tennis around the world. We talk about the physical, mental, tactical and technical sides of the best sport in the world. Your hosts are Dave Earl a coach of 20 years and Level 5 qualified alongside Wimbledon hero and former pro player Marcus Willis.

In this Podcast we’re joined by Keith Carder who is The Lawn Tennis Association Head of Competition and he’s looking at big changes coming our way. We’ll be reviewing the state of competition and the introduction of the new World Tennis Number which will rank all players in Singles and Doubles. You can follow British competitions on Twitter @LTACompetitions or visit the LTA website and go to the competition page.

Give Dave a follow on Twitter or Instagram @Boom_tennis and Marcus is @Willbomb90. Please rate and subscribe to this pod and tell others in Tennis what we’re doing.

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Ollie Golding was a junior world number 2 and US Open champion but after reaching an ATP ranking of 327 he gave it all up and now works in banking. Ollie joins Marcus and Dave to talk about his story, what we can learn from the junior to senior transition and how sitting in a hotel room after a loss was a step too far!

Email the pod [email protected] or follow the boys on Twitter, Marcus is @Willbomb90 and Dave is @Boom_Tennis. Thanks for listening and tell your mates!

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Sarah Borwell is former GB Doubles number one and now runs Tennis Smart recruiting young players to American college Tennis. In this episode Sarah tells Marcus and Dave why the best of the best have to consider US College above a professional career as well as drawing on her own experiences as a student and player. Marcus regrets having not gone down the College route and tells all young players it's the most professional way of becoming a professsional.

Contact the pod on email [email protected] or follow us all on twitter; Marcus is @Willbomb90, Sarah is @sarahborwell and Davis is @boom_tennis

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Mike Cation is THE commentator whose voice you hear at the start of the podcast "is that a candy bar and an R C Cola"....Marcus and Dave cover a wide range of topics with Mike such as how to boost interest in watching Tennis, the quality of US Tennis, what it's like to see an XL Willis in action and we even mention REO Speedwagon! Email the show on [email protected]

Follow Marcus on Twitter @Willbomb90 , Dave is on @Boom_tennis and Mike Cation is @MikeCTennis

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Barry Fulcher was 680 ATP and like most players of his level he struggled to make a living and could see flaws in the British competition system. Barry set about creating a Tennis tour that worked for aspiring players, club players and professionals and in our chat today we cover the LTA Ratings system, club tennis in the Uk and find out that Barry's chasing a record of his own!

Follow Marcus Willis on twitter @Willbomb90, Dave is on @Boom_tennis and Barry is on @Barry_Fulcher. If you want to contact us then email [email protected]. Thanks for listening and keep spreading the word!

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Dan Travis from The Art of Winning looks at the stats behind matches and we talk about every level from what makes Federer the biggest pusher out there right through to how you can beat the club level hacker! Dan is on Twitter so give him a follow @DanTravis, Dave is on @Boom_Tennis and Marcus @Willbomb90. If you want to contact us then drop Dave an email [email protected]

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In todays pod we go back over the career of Marcus Willis and create an opponent that could keep him up at night! We're Dr Frankenstein and we're making the monster!

Get in touch with the pod via email [email protected] and follow us on Twitter @Willbomb90 or @Boom_tennis . Thanks for listening and please like & subscribe to the podcast so more people get to know about us because we both love attention.

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Marcus Willis and Dave Earl are joined by one of the UK's best coaches Matt Smith. Matt had a prestigious playing career that was cut short by injury but he's stayed on court becoming one of the best performance coaches working today. We cover junior tournaments, problems with social media, where our young players are going wrong and as it's Matt we have to talk briefly about Liverpool FC! Follow Matt on twitter @smithy_red, follow Marcus on @Willbomb90 and Dave @boom_tennis.

To contact the pod email [email protected] and tell your mates about what we're doing. Thanks for listening.

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Marcus Willis and Dave Earl are today talking about the reality of life on The International Tennis Federation Futures Tour. The money is bad, players all make a loss, practice courts aren't available and even the Tennis balls aren't up to it. Here's an insider view to life as a low world ranked Tennis player live from a Greek ITF event.

Follow Marcus on Twitter @Willbomb90 and Dave is on @Boom_tennis

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Marcus and Dave look into the way we learn Tennis and whether coaches could have done things differently. Marcus reflects on his junior days as well as what he does today while Dave who is a full time coach reflects on the learning process and observations about junior development. Todays guest is Luke Regan who you can follow on Twitter @lwgregan and he's happy to speak in more depth about the Constraints Lead Approach to coaching

Follow Marcus on Twitter @Willbomb90 or Dave on @Boom_Tennis

You can email the show [email protected]

Marcus and Dave want you to join in the fun INSTAGRAM  and YOUTUBE

Please like and subscribe to this podcast and spread the word! 

Thanks to Ali for the social coverage and Finchy for exec production.