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The Push, our dedicated wheelchair tennis podcast is back for episode seven for 2025 with hosts Tim Connelly - Manager of Hume Tennis and Community Centre and Home of the Melbourne and Victorian Wheelchair Open and Aussie quad pro Heath Davidson OAM. 

Tim and Heath reflect back on the US Open and the new Washington tournament lead in and the recent European tour taking in Sardinia and the French Riveria. Also looking ahead to the Australian summer of tennis and the planned integration of wheelchair events into the able bodied calendar and a discussion around the wheelchair junior d...

Host Lachlan Puyol is back with his weekly college segment on The First Serve 'Live' for 2025 with the latest news.

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 playusatennispathways@gmail.com

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Coach, Businessman, Commentator and founder of UTS (Universal Tennis Showdown) Patrick Mouratoglou joined Brett Phillips on The First Serve Live with UTS launching in Hong Kong for the first time.

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Brett Phillips is back with the latest instalment of 'The State of Play' going inside the landscape of Australian tennis with more of your correspondence

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Brett Phillips brings this weeks show from Vienna for the ATP 500, saluting the honour role of champions over the past week on the ATP/WTA Tours, also looking back at attending the UTS in Hong Kong with a feature chat with founder Patrick Mouratoglou, the State of Play returns, going inside the Australian tennis landscape, our college segment, plus all the other tennis news of the week.

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On this episode of Tennis in QLD, host Adon Kronk chats to a Queenslander who played college tennis in the USA where he also went on to coach and in returning to Australia became National Head coach in WA, then National Women's coach at the NTA in Brisbane. He is currently the Director of Coaching at Tennis Australia.

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Beti Sekulovski and Michael Logarzo are back for episode nine for 2025, unpacking the junior tennis landscape in Australia.

In this episode, feature guest is Aussie pro and former junior world number one Daria Saville who shares her junior journey from the experiences gained to the lessons learned. It is a great chat for all players, coaches, parents and tennis fans to listen into.

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Brett Phillips is back with the latest instalment of 'The State of Play' going inside the landscape of Australian tennis with more of your correspondence

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Brett Phillips is back with another big show having touched down in Hong Kong from Shanghai for this weeks Universal Tennis Showdown (UTS). Looking back on the unbelievable win by Monaco's Valentin Vacherot at the Shanghai Masters, we reveal more on the Alex de Minaur hip issue, The State of Play is back going inside the Australian Tennis Landscape and our future on the world stage, our regular College segment with Lachlan Puyol, an ITF Darwin wrap plus lots of other tennis news.

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Lachlan Puyol is back with Episode 9 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 ninth episode of the year, Lachlan chats to Jake Bucek from Geelong who is in his sophmore year at Copiah Lincoln Community College

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Tennis Tragic Roddy Reynolds and Tennis Pro Alexandra (Ally) Osborne are back for a great episode nine of The Grind for 2025, our dedicated monthly podcast focusing on the Challenger/ITF tours.. In this episode, Ally's travel challenges, young guns Lilli Tagger (Austria) and Emerson Jones (Australia) in focus, feature guest is Burundi trailblazer Sada Nahamina (a great listen) along with player and tournament of the month.

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Tennis Australia Competitive Play Co-ordinator Sean Spralja joined The First Serve Live to wrap up the first ever Green Ball 10u Nationals held in Adelaide.

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bein Sports Commentator Val Febbo, wraps up the past week of the Australian Pro Tour in Darwin featuring the ITF35.

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The State of Play is our look at the Australian tennis landscape on a global stage featured on ' The First Serve Live' each week. This week's segment was your continued feedback around the resignation of Paul Vassalo - Director of Talent at Tennis Australia and further correspondence that came into the show.

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Brett Phillips is back with another big show live from Shanghai for the ATP 1000 Shanghai Masters where Aussie No 1 Alex de Minaur is featuring, speaking to Alex. The State of Play (inside the Australian tennis landscape) is back with a lot of feedback coming in post our show last week on the recent departure of Director of Talent Paul Vassalo. We chat Green Ball Nationals - 10u and its debut with TA's Sean Spralja, our college segment with Lachlan Puyol and Kenny Nouchi from Yonex, takes us inside its reach in Japan + lots more in the world of tennis.<...

After a first round bye Alex de Minaur is through to R3 of the ATP Masters 1000 Shanghai after a 6-4, 6-2 win over Camilo Ugo Carabelli - reflecting on the win, the slow courts and also looking back at his match vs. Jannik Sinner in the semi finals of Beijing earlier in the week.

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The State of Play is our look at the Australian tennis landscape on a global stage featured on ' The First Serve Live' each week. This week's segment featured a discussion around the resignation of Paul Vassalo - Director of Talent at Tennis Australia and your correspondence that came into the show along with some details from the Gemba Report reviewing Tennis Australia's Competitive Play structure.

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With the Australian Pro Tour spending the fortnight in Darwin, Tennis NT CEO Tania Tandora joined Brett Phillips on The First Serve Live

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Feature guest on 'The First Serve Live' was ATP Executive Vice President - International Region inc Australia, Asia, Middle East and Africa - Alison Lee, 28 years with the ATP based out of their Sydney office. Brett Phillips sat down with Alison in Tokyo at the Japan Open.

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Brett Phillips is back with another big show live from Tokyo for the ATP 500 Japan Open with special guest Alison Lee - Executive Vice President of the ATP International Region including Asia. A look back on Laver Cup 2025, plus the State of Play (inside the Australian tennis landscape) on the recent departure of Director of Talent Paul Vassalo and what that means plus a chat with Tennis NT CEO Tania Tandora about the Australian Pro Tour returning to the top end......plus lots lots more from a big week in tennis.

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Welcome to Episode 6 of our new podcast in 2025, Beyond the Tramlines, hosted by Josh Heriot, which explores the stories and journeys of people achieving great things in the world of tennis.

Feature guest for this episode is founder of The First Serve - Brett Phillips, sharing his journey as a long time tennis broadcaster and the evolution of The First Serve as a leading independent tennis content provider based out of Australia.

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Welcome to the third episode of the Masters Zone, hosted by Tim Prince which delves into the ITF Masters tour in Australia and around the world. Feature guests for this episode are ex pro Wayne Pascoe and Stephen Dance who are #1 in the world for M70's doubles joined with Shaun Summers who is organising the first MT100 event in Tasmania along with another ex pro Janne Hedman from Sweden, who is currently coaching in Germany.

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Listen in to Team Europe - Yannik Noah (c), Tomas Machac, Flavio Cobolli, Jakub Mensik, Tim Henman (vc), Casper Ruud, Holger Rune, Alexander Zverev and Carlos Alcaraz ahead of Laver Cup 2025.

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Aussie tennis legend Pat Rafter is the new assistant team captain of Team World for this years Laver Cup. He catches up with our Brett Phillips in San Francisco.

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18 year old Brazilian Joao Fonseca is the youngest ever to play in the Laver Cup. He caught up with our Brett Phillips in San Francisco.

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Padel Pow Wow is back for episode six of 2025 with Matt Barelle in the host chair (the godfather of Padel in AUS) once again joined by the king of padel vibes Ryan Bougie. The latest results of the past month, Aussie Crocs upcoming tour including the great Pat Rafter, the continued growth of clubs around Australia and noise reducing balls a thing of the future.

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Brett Phillips is back with another big show dissecting Australia's Davis Cup exit and the future of Lleyton Hewitt. All the results from around Australia and the globe, the State of Play in AUS and our weekly college segment. Plenty to take in.

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On this episode of Tennis in QLD, host Adon Kronk is joined by feature guest, long time coach Bruce Rayner from Bruce Rayner Pro Tennis in Maryborough, central QLD.

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Beti Sekulovski and Michael Logarzo are back for episode eight for 2025, unpacking the junior tennis landscape in Australia.

In this episode, the theme is 'Know the Level' - Observations from the best 14's juniors in the world at Le Petits (Tarbs) one of the most prestigious 14/u European tournaments you can play.

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Brett Phillips is back with another big show from New York wrapping up the 2025 US Open with the insights of Carlos Alcaraz and Aryna Sabalenka. Plenty of discussion around Alex de Minaur's QF run, outside of New York all the news and results back in OZ and around the world plus our regular college segment with Lachlan Puyol.

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Lachlan Puyol is back with Episode 8 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 eighth episode of the year, Lachlan chats to Eddie Winter from Adelaide who is in his junior year at Pepperdine University in California and Derek Pham from Perth who is in his Sophomore year at Oaklahoma State University.

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Tennis Tragic Roddy Reynolds and Tennis Pro Alexandra (Ally) Osborne are back for a great episode eight of The Grind for 2025, our dedicated monthly podcast focusing on the Challenger/ITF tours.. In this episode some US mixed doubles reflections, US Open main draw Challenger success stories, Tom Fancutt's ITIA ban, special guest is former Aussie Pro now coach Andrew Harris, along with the player and tournament of the month.

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Sean A'Hearn wraps up the Tennis Victoria State Grade Final action from the weekend won by Kooyong on the women's and men's side, with special guests Jasmine Starr and David Bidmeade/Tom Patton

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Host Lachlan Puyol is back with his weekly college segment on The First Serve 'Live' for 2025 with special guests Eddie Winter - Junior at Pepperdine University in California and Derek Pham - Sophmore at Oklahoma State.

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Kale Nairn joins 'The First Serve Live' to recap the Week 2 UTR-PTT event on the Gold Coast chatting to winners Scott Jones and Kaylah McPhee

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Brett Phillips is back with another big show from New York after Week 1 of the US Open with a reliable Aussie presence in Alex de Minaur still in the draw. Away from all the latest US Open news, all the news back in OZ, 'The State of Play' a full recap of the UTR-PTT round on the Gold Coast, a Grand Final recap of Tennis Victoria State Grade, our regular college segment and anything else in tennis in between.

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The Push, our dedicated wheelchair tennis podcast is back for episode six for 2025 with hosts Tim Connelly - Manager of Hume Tennis and Community Centre and Home of the Melbourne and Victorian Wheelchair Open and Aussie quad pro Heath Davidson OAM.

Tim and Heath are in Washington at an ITF lead in event to the US Open Wheelchair Championships next week.

Special guest is Gabby Hesse, Head of Wheelchair and Adaptive Tennis at JTCC (Junior Tennis Champions Centre)

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Back to Back straight sets victories for the Aussie Number one Alex de Minaur def Japan's Shintaro Mochizuki 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 to move into Round 3 of US Open and a match up with Germany's Daniel Altmaier.

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Daria Kasatkina was down for the count and on a flight out of New York rallying from 1-4 down in the final set to covercome good friend Kamilla Rakhimova 6-2, 4-5, 7-5 to book her place in the third round of the US Open.

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Host Lachlan Puyol is back with his weekly college segment on The First Serve 'Live' for 2025 with special guest Lachlan Brain - University of North Alabama.

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 playusatennispathways@gmail.com

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Sean A'Hearn wraps up Tennis Victoria State Grade Semi Final action from the weekend, chatting to the two mens winners - Fawkner - Chanchai Sookton Eng and Kooyong's David Bidmeade.

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Kale Nairn joins 'The First Serve Live' to recap the latest UTR-PTT event on the Gold Coast chatting to winners Naomi McKenzie and Zane Stevens

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Former Pro and two time Australian Open semi finalist Wayne Ferreira, as of right now the coach of Alexei Popyrin was a special on 'The First Serve Live'

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International Tennis Hall of Fame CEO joined The First Serve Live ahead of the induction of Maria Sharapova and Bob/Mike Bryan.

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Welcome to the second episode of the Masters Zone, hosted by Tim Prince which delves into the ITF Masters tour in Australia and around the world. Feature guests for this episode are Aussie David Rogers, just back from competing for Australia at the world championships in Portugal, fellow Aussie Helen Worland from a women's perspective and French-American player Mylene Martin from an international perspective.

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Priscilla Hon is the first Aussie through to Round 3 of the US Open. First time to this stage of a major and taking down top 20 player in Liudmila Samsonova in the process - 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 which edges her close to the top 100 for the first time at 105 in the live rankings. You will hear about her secret weapon 'Eric'.

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Welcome to Episode 5 of our new podcast in 2025, Beyond the Tramlines, hosted by Josh Heriot, which explores the stories and journeys of people achieving great things in the world of tennis.

Feature guest for this episode is British tennis journalist, commentator, historian and author Chris Bowers. A magnificent chat with a man who has lived and worked through some of the greatest eras in the sport. Put the headphones in and enjoy.

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Brett Phillips is live in New York City for the start of the US Open (a Sunday start) with a recap of the Aussies hearing from Jordan Thompson and Rinky Hijikata and the Daniil Medvedev blow up. Feature Guest is the coach of Alexei Popyrin - Wayne Ferreira, plus Brett's trip to the International Tennis Hall of Fame Induction of Maria Sharapova and the Bryan Brothers and guest CEO - Faber, plus a Tennis Victoria State Grade wrap, UTR-PTT action on the Gold Coast, the return of The State of Play and our weekly college segment with Lachlan Puyol.<...

Padel Pow Wow is back for episode five of 2025 with Matt Barelle in the host chair (the godfather of Padel in AUS) joined by the king of padel vibes Ryan Bougie discussing what makes a padel club thrive.

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The State of Play, chatting the performance space/pathway structure in Australian tennis. The landscape as it stands with an eye to the future as a Grand Slam nation with a rich tennis history. A regular each Monday Night at 9pm AEST.

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Host Lachlan Puyol is back with his weekly college segment on The First Serve 'Live' for 2025 with special guest Amy Stevens who spent four years at Vanderbilt University and on the weekend won her first ITF pro singles title.

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Host Lachlan Puyol is back with his weekly college segment on The First Serve 'Live' for 2025 with special guests: Josh Cooper from Melbourne - Transferring to Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, Mississippi for his Sophomore Year and John Paci - Melbourne Tennis Coach at POWA Tennis at Eildon Park TC

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Sean A'Hearn wraps up Tennis Victoria State Grade R14, the final round before finals with special guest Emilia Richter who represents Heatherdale TC.

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Brett Phillips comes to you from Cincinnati ahead of the Monday singles finals featuring Alcaraz/Sinner and Paolini/Swiatek. All the news of the week on and off the court wrapped up. Launching the State of Play a regular segment till the end the year looking at the current landscape of Australian tennis on the global stage, plus a wrap of Tennis Victoria State Grade Round 14 and our weekly College segment with Lachlan Puyol with special guest Amy Stevens on the back of winning her first ITF Pro Singles title.

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On this episode of Tennis in QLD, host Adon Kronk is joined by feature guest the highly credentialed Damon Lucht, Founder of Redline Tennis, sharing their coaching philosophy. Damon has an extensive history of coaching touring professionals to Queensland representatives. He recently was the manager of the Qld team at the national teams event on the Gold Coast.

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Beti Sekulovski and Michael Logarzo are back for episode seven for 2025, unpacking the junior tennis landscape in Australia.

In this episode, they chat with Dr Mark Kovacs, internationally renowned Sports Science and Human Performance expert discussing are junior players fitter now than in the past, what is a good training schedule and the importance of athletic development early, consistency and competitiveness in training and using data productively.

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Head of PR at the ATP/WTA 1000 Cincinnati Open Pete Holtermann sits down with Brett Phillips to discuss the 260 million dollar refurbishment of the site for the 2025 edition and looking back at the history of the tournament.

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Kooyong Classic Tournament Director Peter Johnstone with an update on the events return for January 2026 with some big name players signing on. For Tickets and Hospitality packages head to www.kooyongclassic.com.au

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Sean A'Hearn wraps up the latest Tennis Victoria State Grade Round with special guest Will Ma from North Ringwood Tennis Club.

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Brett Phillips brings you this weeks show from the ATP/WTA 1000 Cincinnati Open. You will hear from Aussie duo Adam Walton and Maya Joint one on one advancing to the R32 in a further breakthough week on tour.

We go inside the 260 million dollar transformation of the Cincinnati site with head of PR Pete Holtermann, look back on the Canadian swing wrapping up with 'Thursday' finals, 14 year old Aussie Ceressa Jackson from QLD gives her view on the state of play of player development in Australia, on the back of our discussion of Australia not qualifying for...

Aussie Adam Walton has taken his biggest scalp defeating former world number one and thirteenth seed Daniil Medvedev 6-7(0), 6-4, 6-1 to progress to the R32 at the ATP Masters 1000 Cincinnati Open. Coming in he was 0-11 vs top 50 players and 0-24 sets. Speaking to Brett Phillips

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19 year old Aussie Maya Joint has won back to back WTA 1000 main draw matches for the first time in her career, defeating 18th seed Beatriz Haddad Maia 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 in just under three hours in the Cincinnati hot sun.

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Tennis Tragic Roddy Reynolds and Tennis Pro Alexandra (Ally) Osborne are back for a great episode seven of The Grind for 2025, our dedicated monthly podcast focusing on the Challenger/ITF tours.. In this episode, Bill Ackman's controveersial doubles appearance in Newport gets a run, wildcards and what to do with them, reaction to the Tara Moore four year ban, feature guest the engaging rising 19 year old American Clervie Ngounoue, along with the player and tournament of the month.

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Welcome to the first episode of the Masters Zone, hosted by Tim Prince which delves into the ITF Masters tour in Australia and around the world. Feature guest for this episode is John Brunner from Yarrawonga in Victoria who tells his story of taking up tennis and tournament play later in life.

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Lachlan Puyol is back with Episode 7 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 seventh episode of the year, Lachlan chats to Jeret Johnson, Head Mens and Womens Coach at Pratt Community College in Kansas and Aussie Jeremy Jin who is about to enter his junior year at the University of Florida.

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Kale Nairn with special guest Elijah Cham review the latest PTT-UTR Australia round in Sydney.

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Host Lachlan Puyol is back with his weekly college segment on The First Serve 'Live' for 2025 with special guest Lily Taylor from Brisbane who plays at Arizona State University entering her Sophomore Year. She also just represented Australia at the FISU World University Games in Germany

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Sean A'Hearn wraps up the latest Tennis Victoria State Grade Round with special guest Amanda McVay from the Beaumaris Lawn Women’s team

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Toronto Masters 1000 Tournament Director Karl Hale joined Brett Phillips for a chat on The First Serve Live to go inside the Candian swing.

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Brett Phillips is live in Toronto for this weeks show at the ATP Masters 1000, featuring Alex de Minaur and Alexei Popyrin through to the QF's. Tournament Director Karl Hale and Eva Harris, Tennis Canada Senior Vice President of Tennis Development and Partnerships go inside the tournament and Canadian tennis. Closer to home in Australia, a discussion of no Australian representation at the 14's under World Junior Finals, an Australian coach being investigated by the ITIA, Tennis Victoria State Grade Round 12 wrap, the latest on the PTT/UTR round in NSW and our regular college segment.

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Alex de Minaur is into the Toronto Masters 1000 Quarter Finals defeating American Frances Tiafoe 6-2, 4-6, 6-4. Speaking to the media with the first question about the incredible point in the third set at 4-4 40-40.

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Defending champion Alexei Popyrin has come from a set down to move into the quarter finals of the ATP Masters 1000 Toronto defeating Holger Rune 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 to set up a clash with Alexander Zverev.

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Just before 1am Friday Morning, defending champion Alexei Popyrin pulls through to take down tenth seed Daniil Medvedev 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 to book a spot in the R16 at the ATP Masters 1000 Toronto, Canada.

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The Push, our dedicated wheelchair tennis podcast is back for epside five for 2025 with hosts Tim Connolly - Manager of Hume Tennis and Community Centre and Home of the Melbourne and Victorian Wheelchair Open and Aussie quad pro Heath Davidson OAM. Special guest for this episode is GB's Lucy Shuker BEM, who last year competed in her 5th Paralympics and acted as the flag bearer. This is a great chat about her life in and out of tennis. You will love it. The trio also chat about the recent announcement of the Wheelchair premier tennis tour that is coming...

Man on a mission. Alex de Minaur (9) backs up his Washington title with a first up win at the ATP Masters 1000 Toronto 6-4, 6-2 def Argentine Francisco Comesana. Next he will play fellow Aussie Chris O'Connell

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Chris O'Connell in one his finest performances takes down Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 to advance to the third round of the ATP Masters 1000 Toronto.

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Aussie Aleksandar Vukic is through to the third round of the ATP Masters 1000 Toronto, Canada after taking down former world number eight and 31st seed Cam Norrie of GB - 6-3, 6-7(2), 6-3.

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Host Lachlan Puyol is back with his weekly college segment on The First Serve 'Live' for 2025 featuring a look at the World University Games again with Derek Pham - Oklahoma State University and David Hodge - Coach of Team Australia at the FISU World University Ganes in Germany

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Sean A'Hearn wraps the latest Tennis Victoria State Grade action including special guest Chanchai Sookton-Eng from Fawkner Tennis Club

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Washington DC 500 Volunteer Manager Jennifer Gregg spoke to The First Serve Live on the ground, going behind the scenes at the tournament and what it takes to put it together.

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We featured Mark Ein, Chair of the ATP/WTA 500 Washington tournament on The First Serve Live talking to the assembled media on the ground starting off with the facilities.

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Padel Pow Wow is back for episode four of 2025 with hosts Matt Barelle (the godfather of Padel in AUS) and Rob Daley (COO of Game4 Padel in Melbourne) as they chat the most recent results on the Australian Padel Tour, news on the Aussie Crocs upcoming and the latest on more clubs opening up around Australia.

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Brett Phillips wraps up a big week spent at the ATP/WTA 500 in Washington and an Aussie win to Alex de Minaur, also going behind the scenes with Chair of the tournament Mark Ein and volunteer manager Jennifer Gregg. The honour roll from the other events played, news of the week off court, the latest from Round 11 of Tennis Victoria State Grade with Sean A'Hearn with special guest Chanchai Sookton Eng from Fawkner and our weekly college segment with Lachlan Puyol reflecting on the World University games with Derek Pham - Oklahoma State University and David Hodge - Coach...

Alex de Minaur makes it three consecutive wins to advance to the semi finals of the ATP 500 Washington after a 6-4, 6-4 victory over American Brandon Nakashima. He will face French lucky loser Corentin Moutet for a place in the final who took down Daniil Medvedev.

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Welcome to Episode 4 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.

Feature guest for this episode is Aussie Donna Kelso, a trailblazer in the women's officiating space in tennis. Currently a WTA Supervisor, but we trace her journey all the way back to being a chair umpire and before that about how she entered the sport. A great insightful chat to a crucial behind the scenes role in this vast global sport.

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Alex de Minaur in the hottest conditions of the week so far has advanced to his 51st tour level Quarter Final with a 7-6(4), 6-7(6), 6-4 win over Czech Jiri Lehecka at the ATP 500 Washington. Hear his inner thoughts on the match and his game overall as he keep working on the things to improve.

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Alex de Minaur as the 7th seed this week in Washington as the only combined 500 men's and women's event on tour defeats China's Yunchaokete Bu 7-6(5), 6-2 to move into the Round of 16 and a match up with Czech Jiri Lehecka. He chats the match, plus possible US Open mixed doubles for her and Katie Boulter and electronic line calling.

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Host Lachlan Puyol is back with his weekly college segment on The First Serve 'Live' for 2025 featuring a look at the World University Games and a chat with Jeremy Jin as well as another Aussie Ashley Fisher, head mens coach at the University of South Florida.

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Sean A'Hearn wraps the latest Tennis Victoria State Grade action including special guest Miranda Poile from Grace Park Hawthorn

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Kale Nairn with special guest Stefan Storch review the latest PTT-UTR Australia round in Brisbane

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Co hosts of our dedicated wheelchair podcast 'The Push' Tim Connolly and Heath Davidson joined The First Serve Live to talk about the big development of wheelchair tennis being intergrated into the ATP/WTA calendars in 2026.

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The Billie Jean King Cup Playoffs in November will feature Australia in a group with Brazil and Portugal to be played at the Domain Tennis Centre in Hobart. CEO of Tennis Tasmania Darren Sturgess joined The First Serve's Rick Fontyn to chat about the announcement.

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At Wimbledon, Brett Phillips sat down with British Broadcaster Marcus Buckland who co wrote Roger Taylor - The Official Autobiography, the man who saved Wimbledon.

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On our 14th July 'The First Serve Live' Brett Phillips sat down with 14 year old Queenslander Ceressa Jackson at Wimbledon about her experience playing the 14 and Under Invitational tournament.

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On our 14th July 'The First Serve Live' Brett Phillips sat down with 12 year old Victorian Novak Palombo at Wimbledon about his experience playing the 14 and Under Invitational tournament.

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On 'The First Serve Live' 14th July show Brett Phillips and Connor Joyce sat down at Wimbledon to take a mid yer look at our Aussie womens stocks in the now and in the future.

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On 'The First Serve Live' 14th July show Brett Phillips and Connor Joyce sat down at Wimbledon to take a mid yer look at our Aussie mens stocks in the now and in the future.

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Brett Phillips is back with anothrer big show live from Washington DC for the only combined ATP/WTA 500 on tour..... Venus Williams returns, Honour roll of the past week, news regarding another ITIA investigation going on concerning an Australian tennis identity, our podcast The Push co hosts Tim Connolly and Heath Davidson react to the new Wheelchair premier tour coming in for 2026, Sean A'Hearn with the latest Tennis Victoria State Grade wrap, Kale Nairn wraps the latest PTT UTR event in Brisbane and Lachlan Puyol from Play USA Tennis Pathways with the latest college news featuring Jeremy Jin and...

Beti Sekulovski and Michael Logarzo are back for episode six for 2025, unpacking the junior tennis landscape in Australia. In this episode, they chat with the highly credentialed Tom Downs, Australian coach based in the USA. Tom has worked with numerous top junior players transitioning into the pros including current world number 34 Peyton Stearns and shared his journey with her, the importance of the training environment and a winners mindset.

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On this episode of Tennis in QLD, host Adon Kronk is joined by Jack Mellish from headquarters to wrap up all the action across the winter period from the Rod Laver lead in and the Queensland championships.

Feature guests is the Sunshine Coasts Pat Flynn from Mentally Tough Tennis, exceptional junior who played the junior grand slams, college tennis and still competes on the open circuit across AUS.

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