The Racquet Will Talk

Looking forward to perhaps the best WTA slam quarterfinal lineup this decade and a seemingly inevitable rerematch of Sincaraz lurking in the distance.

We preview the matches to come in the next two d…

Unnecessary drama and temper tantrums overwhelmed the first week of action from New York. From the ashes of the chaos, some very exciting matchups were born.

We look back on the first week and chat ab…

We discuss which players have good chances in New York this fortnight.

Is it Alex De Minaur's time? Is it giving Pegula maiden slam? Some would say "no, that's ridiculous!" But anything is possible i…

We have returned a month later! A lot of tennis has happened since so before starting our US Open Coverage, here are our (slightly blurry) thoughts on the tennis and controversies of the summer that …

Iga Swiatek, powered by stolen towels and Rosa's Thai, ended her year-long title drought in one of the most surprising slam runs in recent years, finishing the job with an historically dominant victo…

Here we go again: 5 weeks later. We all expected a Roland Garros final rematch between world #1 Jannik Sinner and world #2 Carlos Alcaraz and that is exactly what we got.

The greatest rivalry current…

The Wimbledon Women's Singles Final is here! And so are we, to chat about it.

5-time slam champion Iga Świątek takes on American Amanda Anisimova, who plays in her maiden slam final and faces the for…

In this episode, we power rank our top 8 prospects for Wimbledon and preview the draws.

Includes chat about what actually makes a player good on grass, an almighty struggle to come up with women's fi…

The 2025 edition of Roland Garros concluded with the most electrifying crescendo as Carlos Alcaraz came from 2 sets to love down and saved 3 championship points to defeat the world's best men's playe…

We chat about the first week on the dirt at Stade Roland Garros and look ahead to the enticing matches set up in quarterfinals.

Includes more predictions and hot takes, as ever.

The French Open is here!

We breakdown the men's and women's singles draws and chat about likely matches to look forward to this coming fortnight.

The clay season reaches its crescendo on the Parisian dirt and we predict who will do what and when at the second slam of the season.

We also chat about the recent Masters 1000 in Rome, which saw vict…

Apologies for the absence, but we are finally back. Expect longer, more chaotic, more regular podcasts than ever for the next few months.

We chat about the clay season so far and preview Madrid (don'…

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This episode we chat about all things Tennis Paradise, won by the prodigious talent Mirra Andreeva and tennis' answer to David Beckham - Jack Draper.

Sam also unpacks the PTPA lawsui…

Tomáš Macháč meanders through a decimated Acapulco draw to claim his first career title while Tsitsipas breaks his 500 curse in Dubai, fresh Babolat in hand. In Chile, Laslo Djere takes down the Gold…

This episode we reflect (haha!) on victories by teen phenoms João Fonseca and Mirra Andreeva, Sebastian's South American bias, Amanda Anisimova's moment, and Catar - not a misspelling, there were cat…

Tennis goes throwback as Denis Shapovalov and Belinda Bencic claim titles, Davis Cup stirs up controversy and Elise Mertens does Elise Mertens things.

We discuss the happenings since the Australian O…

Madison Keys and Jannik Sinner are the 2025 Australian Open champions! We discuss how they did it and the range of extraordinary, unforgettable, predictable, and impossible feats that got them there.…