ATP Tennis Radio Podcast

As the regular ATP Tour season kicks back into action in Argentina, France and Bulgaria we spend time with some of the game’s brightest stars. First we hear from three players in Sofia who, between them, climbed an incredible 164 places in the ATP Rankings in 2018. ATP Tour Uncovered’s Gabriel Clarke spoke with Georgia’s Nikoloz Basilashvili, young Russian Daniil Medvedev and first the biggest thing to come out of Greece for quite some time, Stefanos Tsitsipas. And while those three have been in action in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia, on the south coast of France in Montpellier 19-year-old Denis Shapovalov has been one of the star attractions. In the off-season ATP Uncovered spent some time with the young Canadian and his new coach, Rob Steckley, ahead of their assault on 2019. Finally this week to Argentina and the third of the ATP 250s reaching a climax in Cordoba. Number 5 seed Nicolas Jarry fell in the first round, but the 23-year-old Chilean enjoyed a strong South American swing this time last year, off the back of a challenger win on home soil. There are three more ATP Tour events next week with 250s in New York and Buenos Aires and the first 500 of the year in Rotterdam – as ever we’ll have live commentary of Sunday’s Rotterdam Final on ATP Tennis Radio - please join us for that via the TuneIn Radio app or ATPTour.com - and if you can’t join us live, listen to next week’s ATP Tennis Radio Podcast as we’ll round up all the action look ahead to Rio and other key events in February. Remember you can get in touch on Twitter and Instagram – that’s @ATPtennisradio – or you can email studio@atptennisradio.com . If you’re listening on iTunes and like what you’ve heard, please leave us a quick review – it only takes a few seconds.

In this week's show Seb Lauzier takes a look back at the Australian Open by hearing from some of the events star turns and those around them. We speak to the man who provides the statistical analysis that leaves no stone unturned for Novak Djokovic, Lucas Pouille looks at his career path to-date and we hear from some of the NextGen stars including, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Frances Tiafoe, Alex De Minaur and Alexei Popyrin.

In this week's show Seb Lauzier takes a look back at the Australian Open by hearing from some of the events star turns and those around them. We speak to the man who provides the statistical analysis that leaves no stone unturned for Novak Djokovic, Lucas Pouille looks at his career path to-date and we hear from some of the NextGen stars including, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Frances Tiafoe, Alex De Minaur and Alexei Popyrin.

Gigi Salmon and Jill Craybas look back on Novak Djokovic's history-making triumph at the Australian Open, plus pick out the best moments from across the two weeks and introduce a special feature that the ATP Tour Uncovered team did with doubles legend, Bob Bryan.

Gigi Salmon and Jill Craybas look back on Novak Djokovic's history-making triumph at the Australian Open, plus pick out the best moments from across the two weeks and introduce a special feature that the ATP Tour Uncovered team did with doubles legend, Bob Bryan.

At the halfway stage of the Australian Open, Gigi Salmon is joined by ATP Tennis Radio regulars, Simon Cambers and Nick McCarvel to look back over all of the talking points from week one of the tournament and to look ahead to week two. In addition to the chat, the team also introduce features with Alexei Popyrin, Tomas Berdych and Daniil Medvedev.

At the halfway stage of the Australian Open, Gigi Salmon is joined by ATP Tennis Radio regulars, Simon Cambers and Nick McCarvel to look back over all of the talking points from week one of the tournament and to look ahead to week two. In addition to the chat, the team also introduce features with Alexei Popyrin, Tomas Berdych and Daniil Medvedev.

Gigi Salmon and Peter Marcato set the scene from Melbourne Park and discuss the major talking points ahead of the first Grand Slam of the year, the Australian Open, including Andy Murray's announcement that he's to retire and the duo also pick our their favourite match-ups from round one. Along the way we also hear from Australians Thanasi Kokkinakis and Alex De Minaur and Tennis legend Mats Wilander gives his views as to what to look out for in 2019.

Gigi Salmon and Peter Marcato set the scene from Melbourne Park and discuss the major talking points ahead of the first Grand Slam of the year, the Australian Open, including Andy Murray's announcement that he's to retire and the duo also pick our their favourite match-ups from round one. Along the way we also hear from Australians Thanasi Kokkinakis and Alex De Minaur and Tennis legend Mats Wilander gives his views as to what to look out for in 2019.

As the ATP Tour season kicks off, Seb Lauzier is joined by Andy Murray's former coach, Miles Maclagan and another former top British player, Arvind Parmar to preview the year and give their top tips on what they think will happen along the way. We also hear from world number 1, Novak Djokovic and two of the stars of the 2018 season - Borna Coric and Alex De Minaur.

As the ATP Tour season kicks off, Seb Lauzier is joined by Andy Murray's former coach, Miles Maclagan and another former top British player, Arvind Parmar to preview the year and give their top tips on what they think will happen along the way. We also hear from world number 1, Novak Djokovic and two of the stars of the 2018 season - Borna Coric and Alex De Minaur.

There are two halves to this week’s show – both featuring seasoned tennis journalist Chris Bowers, biographer of both Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic among others.. At the recent Nitto ATP Finals Chris challenged the rest of the commentary team to a quiz on the history of the finals. That quiz more difficult than we thought it would be so, fortunately, we all had the chance for revenge when the tables were turned and Chris became the very first contestant to play ATP Tennis Radio Mastermind.. We all chipped in with two questions each on his specialist subject, which was Roger Federer.

There are two halves to this week’s show – both featuring seasoned tennis journalist Chris Bowers, biographer of both Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic among others.. At the recent Nitto ATP Finals Chris challenged the rest of the commentary team to a quiz on the history of the finals. That quiz more difficult than we thought it would be so, fortunately, we all had the chance for revenge when the tables were turned and Chris became the very first contestant to play ATP Tennis Radio Mastermind.. We all chipped in with two questions each on his specialist subject, which was Roger Federer.

We continue our look-back on the story of 2018 with some of our favourite interviews from the year. Picking up the story in Toronto, the sixth ATP masters 1000 of the year but of course there’d been a lot of water under the bridge since Rome – Rafael Nadal winning his 11th French Open and Novak Djokovic confirming that he was well and truly back by taking his fourth Wimbledon and after that Djokovic started as the favourite in Toronto but came up against a red-hot young Greek, Stefanos Tsitsipas who beat him in three sets and afterwards Jill Craybas spoke with his coach and father Apostolos. Onto Cincinnati where all the talk was about Novak Djokovic and a career golden masters and shortly after the Serb clinched victory, he spoke with Paul King. And the plaudits would keep coming for Djokovic after he followed up that success with his third US Open triumph to tie the great Pete Sampras on 14 career grand slams. He would march onto the penultimate ATP Masters 1000 of the year in Shanghai. And it was in China that Lee Goodall went off the beaten track to find out a little more about one of the year’s biggest climbers, Georgia’s Nikoloz Basilashvili, who had just won his second title of the year in Beijing, which was also just the second of his career. One reason behind that improvement is coach Jan de Witt, formerly with Frenchman Gilles Simon and now enjoying working with the only Georgian at the top of the game. Having beaten Denis Shapovalov, Basilashvili would lose to Shanghai semi finalist Sascha Zverev .. but in the end everyone would bow to Djokovic who beat Borna Coric in the final.. and so we arrived in Paris for the final masters of the year with Djokovic eying the world number 1 ranking. But trumping even that in the headlines was big news in the Grigor Dimitrov camp. Andre Agassi, formerly with Novak of course, was back, this time alongside the struggling Dimitrov and his coach Dani Vallverdu kindly took time out to Seb Lauzier. And if achieving potential is the benchmark for success, one man well ahead of the curve so far is 19-year-old Australian Alex de Minaur. Newcomer of the year in the ATP Awards, he also finished runner-up in the Next Gen finals and closer to home became the Australian number 1 – which is what he was mainly reflecting on when he spoke with Lee Goodall. And from one young man, we finish this week with another… Sascha Zverev’s year would finish in the best possible way, achieving the unthinkable for many in beating Novak Djokovic to win his first Nitto ATP Finals.. shortly we’ll hear the reaction we got straight afterwards from close friend Marcelo Melo and fitness coach Jez Green.

We continue our look-back on the story of 2018 with some of our favourite interviews from the year. Picking up the story in Toronto, the sixth ATP masters 1000 of the year but of course there’d been a lot of water under the bridge since Rome – Rafael Nadal winning his 11th French Open and Novak Djokovic confirming that he was well and truly back by taking his fourth Wimbledon and after that Djokovic started as the favourite in Toronto but came up against a red-hot young Greek, Stefanos Tsitsipas who beat him in three sets and afterwards Jill Craybas spoke with his coach and father Apostolos. Onto Cincinnati where all the talk was about Novak Djokovic and a career golden masters and shortly after the Serb clinched victory, he spoke with Paul King. And the plaudits would keep coming for Djokovic after he followed up that success with his third US Open triumph to tie the great Pete Sampras on 14 career grand slams. He would march onto the penultimate ATP Masters 1000 of the year in Shanghai. And it was in China that Lee Goodall went off the beaten track to find out a little more about one of the year’s biggest climbers, Georgia’s Nikoloz Basilashvili, who had just won his second title of the year in Beijing, which was also just the second of his career. One reason behind that improvement is coach Jan de Witt, formerly with Frenchman Gilles Simon and now enjoying working with the only Georgian at the top of the game. Having beaten Denis Shapovalov, Basilashvili would lose to Shanghai semi finalist Sascha Zverev .. but in the end everyone would bow to Djokovic who beat Borna Coric in the final.. and so we arrived in Paris for the final masters of the year with Djokovic eying the world number 1 ranking. But trumping even that in the headlines was big news in the Grigor Dimitrov camp. Andre Agassi, formerly with Novak of course, was back, this time alongside the struggling Dimitrov and his coach Dani Vallverdu kindly took time out to Seb Lauzier. And if achieving potential is the benchmark for success, one man well ahead of the curve so far is 19-year-old Australian Alex de Minaur. Newcomer of the year in the ATP Awards, he also finished runner-up in the Next Gen finals and closer to home became the Australian number 1 – which is what he was mainly reflecting on when he spoke with Lee Goodall. And from one young man, we finish this week with another… Sascha Zverev’s year would finish in the best possible way, achieving the unthinkable for many in beating Novak Djokovic to win his first Nitto ATP Finals.. shortly we’ll hear the reaction we got straight afterwards from close friend Marcelo Melo and fitness coach Jez Green.