Control the Controllables
Dan Kiernan, Director of SotoTennis Academy in Spain has created a podcast to entertain, educate and energise the tennis community. Hear Dan pick the brains of professional tennis players, coaches, parents, and others involved in High Performance Tennis.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 69 minutes
- Episodes
- 291
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
2020 Review
This podcast is a review of Control the Controllables in 2020. We discuss our favourites pods, our learnings and what you can expect for 2021 from the podcast. Can we also take this opportunity to wi…
Oli Golding - The different ‘stages’ of Tennis Life
Oli Golding is a US Open Junior Singles Champion. He was a childhood star on the stage, including the West End and he now works at Santander Bank. We discuss the challenges of the journey, and his re…
Xavier Malisse - The X Man!
Xavier Malisse is a former top 20 ATP player who made the semi-finals of Wimbledon in 2002. He had wins over Roger Federer,Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray in his career. Xavier discusses…
John Morris - ‘Show me the money’
John Morris is a sports agent who currently works at the LJ Sports Group with Ivan Ljubicic.
He was Nick Kygrios’s agent for 10 years and shares many stories from the tour, as well as valuable insigh…
Jodie Burrage - On the rise
Young British player Jodie Burrage is already 250 WTA. She has been through 3 major surgeries, but has developed a maturity and resilience from this that puts her in a great place. She discusses how …
Jez Green - Building a body of a champion
Jez Green has been working as a top physical conditioning specialist for more than 20 years on the ATP & WTA Tour.
During this time he´s worked with Tomas Berdych, the USTA, and Harvard University, bu…
Wayne Ferreira - Iron Man
A former World Number 6 in singles and 9 in doubles. A quite incredible record which includes wins over Bjorn Borg and Roger Federer with so many in between. He discusses it all. The Olympic highs an…
Lloyd Glasspool - I did it my way!
Lloyd Glasspool is a former NCAA champion and is currently 150 ATP Doubles. He has partnered Dan Evans, Jamie Murray and Andy Murray in recent months. his journey from quiet teen to pro player who is…
Steve Davies & Matt Allen - Into the Dragon’s Den
Steve and Matt are the Directors of Active Away. Both had strong tennis coaching careers at clubs, with the LTA and made the decision to set up their own Business running Tennis Holidays. Business as…
Allistair McCaw - Champion Minded
Allistair McCaw has dedicated his life to high performance through working with world class athletes including Xavier Malisse and Kevin Anderson on the fitness side of their game.
This has evolved in…
Nick Weal - LTA Head of Coach Education and Development
Nick Weal has spent the last 35 years as a Grand Slam Player, Grand Slam Coach and GB Davis Cup Coach and is now in charge of the LTA Coach Education. He shares his experiences, his vision, his opini…
James Auckland - Pro to Parks
James Auckland is a former British Number 1 Doubles Player with a highest ATP Ranking of 57. We discuss his journey and how the key failures led to the passion and fire to drive and ‘prove people wro…
Episode 79: Anne Keothavong - A full circle to the Copper Box
Anne Keothavong is the GB Billie Jean King Cup Captain, and former British number 1. She reached a high of 48 in the world WTA during her career.
Anne shares her story, from the big impact of her par…
Episode 78: Iain Bates - LTA Head Of Women’s Tennis
Episode 77: Dave Sammel - Mindset College
Dave Sammel was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has spent his 30 years as a coach in the UK working with some of the best players in GB. He is currently Liam Broady´s coach.
Dave h…
Episode 76: Fabio Molle - Functional Tennis
Episode 75: Colin Beecher - ‘Beech’
Episode 74: Stephen Huss - Wimbledon Champ
Stephen Huss partnered Wesley Moodie to win the Men’s Doubles Championship at Wimbledon in 2005. The pair came through qualifying, beating the 1st 2nd and 3rd seeds en route.
Stephen reached a career…
Episode 73: Katie Swan - Young experience
