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
Dan Evans & Neal Skupski - Fire & Ice
Dan Evans & Neal Skupski speak to Control the Controllables fresh from their amazing run at the Miami & Monte Carlo ATP 1000 events.
Dan made his way to his first ever ATP 1000 semi-final including a …
Jonny O´Mara & Toby Smith - Double Trouble
In this week´s episode we speak to GB´s Jonny O´Mara and his coach Toby Smith.
Jonny O´Mara is a doubles specialist from Scotland who has reached a career high ATP doubles ranking of 44. He´s been wor…
Tom Gullikson - Captain Gully
If you´re a fan of McEnroe, Borg, Sampras, Agassi or Courier, this is a must-listen episode!
Tom Gullikson reached as high as 34 in the world in singles and 4 in doubles. He is a 2-time Grand Slam fi…
David Mullins - US College Tennis from all angles
David Mullins is the current Managing Director of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA). He spent 12 years as Head Coach at the University of Oklahoma and previously played for Fresno State in…
Holger Rune - No Doubt
Holger Rune has been the World Junior Number 1 for the last 3 years and at age 17 he has already started to make his move on the ATP Tour reaching the Quarter Finals last week in Santiago, Chile beat…
Marcus Willis - From Zero to Hero!
In 2016, British tennis player Marcus Willis rose to fame with one of the most memorable runs to the 2nd round of Wimbledon in the tournament´s history.
In just a few weeks the 25-year-old went from g…
Australian Open 2021 Review
We review the Australian Open 2021 with our amazing panellists Anne Keothavong, Naomi Broady, Xavier Malisse and Mark Hilton. A fun, insightful show 😊
Craig Veal - Step by step
Craig Veal is the current coach to WTA Doubles 15 in the world Alexa Guarachi. Alexa just last week won the WTA 1000 in Dubai with her partner Darija Jurak.
Craig is 30 and has already worked at all l…
Borna Coric - Ownership
Borna Coric is coming to the peak of his career on the ATP Tour with a current ranking of 24 in the world and a career high of 12. He gives us insights that we rarely get into a player ‘in’ their car…
Nick Bollettieri - The Godfather
The Godfather of tennis comes to help us celebrate our 100th episode of the podcast. The coach to many, namely, Agassi, Seles, Rios, Courier, Arias, Sharapova, Becker..The list goes on. The man who c…
Dom Inglot - Dom the Bomb
Britain´s Dom Inglot has been as high as 18 ATP Doubles, is a Davis Cup Winner, and Grand Slam Semi-Finalist, but he is much more. He is a smart, articulate man who discusses many topics with Dan inc…
John Cavill - Remote School
John Cavill is an inspiration to us all, as he creates opportunities for coaches and clubs across the UK through bringing remote ‘tennis’ classes to thousands and thousands of school kids in the UK. …
Louis Cayer - The Guru
Louis Cayer has coached multiple Top 100 singles players, but has made his global name through coaching multiple Grand Slam Doubles Champions and World Number 1’s including changing the landscape of …
Tom Hill - Return on Investment
Tom Hill aged 25 from the UK is the coach to WTA 22nd in the world Maria Sakarri. How you may ask? We unlock this and so much more with stories from his hitting partner days, his IMG Academy days, hi…
Australian Open 2021 Preview
We have a panel of Anne Keothavong, Naomi Broady, Xavier Malisse and Freddie Nielsen to preview the Australian Open. From current news in Melbourne, to their favourite Aussie Open stories. We then di…
Daria Kasatkina - Tik Tok..It won’t be long till she is back at the top!
Dasha Kasatkina has been talked about as one of the biggest up and coming stars on the WTA Tour with a final in Indian Wells and back to back Quarter Finals at French Open and Wimbledon moving her to…
David Walsh - Pursuit of the truth
David Walsh is the Chief Sports Writer at the Sunday Times. He is famously known for his successful pursuit of justice with cyclist Lance Armstrong and his doping charges. David continued to track th…
Eleanor Preston - Tiara’s to Tennis
Eleanor Preston is the Director of The Emilia Group which is a PR and Media company in sport, but mainly in tennis. She has years of experience which includes Journalism, Broadcasting, Agent to the l…
Skupski Brothers - Together again!
The Skupski brothers are back playing together on the ATP Tour 2021 after a couple of years where Neal player with Jamie Murray. We here all about the split, the realities at the top level of the dou…
Mark Petchey - The man who views tennis through many lenses
Mark Petchey is a former top 100 ATP player, former British Number 1. He went on the be the Head of Men’s Tennis at the LTA before coaching Andy Murray as he transitioned from 350 to top 50 ATP. His …