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Sliding on hard courts is not the invention of the current generation. Almost 100% of the players slide and tennis is developing in that point.” “You can reach some balls that probably if you don’t slide, you don’t reach. “It’s better for your game,” says Alcaraz.

In the past, when forced out wide and on the defence, players would naturally have to take a series of small, stuttering steps in order to slow down, come to a halt and then push off in order to change direction. It will play a crucial role in determining the US Open champions when the tournament starts on Monday. As the players have become increasingly athletic and many hard courts have become slower, further aiding baseliners, movement has become one of the most drastic vehicles for evolution. With battles consisting of hundreds of rallies and so often decided by one or two points, everyone is searching for marginal gains. Also for the long-term, because you see what it requires for a guy like Novak to be that competitive still.” “That’s why people care so much now about preparation, about flexibility, range of movement. To Become a Friend, click on the link, choose your preferred option, and you will be guided through the process.“It’s crucial in today’s game,” says Félix Auger-Aliassime. We have partnered with Supporting Cast - who provide a similar system for the wonderful team at The Cycling Podcast - and you can listen to Friends of The Tennis Podcast in the same app that you listen to The Tennis Podcast. Signing up to Friends of The Tennis Podcast is very straightforward and you will be up and running in a few clicks and a couple of minutes.

In the weeks and months to come we will add to them. We have also recorded a brand new podcast called My First Wimbledon, in which we remember our first experiences watching, visiting and working at Wimbledon. All of them are freshly edited and ad-free.

Six of them are favourites from our archive - the Roger Federer Story, the Rafael Nadal Story, the Althea Gibson Story, our interviews with Larry Stefanki and Marion Bartoli, and an examination of our Worst Tennis Podcast Predictions Ever from the last decade.

We have pre-loaded seven episodes on to the Friends of The Tennis Podcast feed for you to listen to straight away. What will subscribers get when they sign up? So, the free, public podcast feed will continue to have adverts in them, and the additional shows that appear on the Friends feed will not. We do receive some advertising revenue through our podcast hosting platform, Acast, and have had some sponsorship, but most podcasts find that they need to put together multiple income sources in order to make it work. Why not just fund the podcast via advertising and sponsorship? All of the familiar shout-outs, podcast intros, pet mascot and predictions options will be available to Friends who would like to get more involved, and we will do all we can to make a subscription, at any level, worthwhile. At the same time, those that do become ‘Friends’, will get something more. Plus, we want to offer something additional for those that pay, and so we are moving to a system that will allow us to do that.įriends of The Tennis Podcast will enable us to continue delivering our weekly Tennis Podcast year-round, and the daily podcast during Grand Slams (so more than 100 podcasts in 2022) free-of-charge. We have received astonishing support from our listeners during our five annual Kickstarter campaigns, and could not be more grateful, but we do not feel that it is right to continually increase a target for crowdfunding. With those costs, accountancy, equipment and everything else required, we now need to treat the podcast as a business as well as a labour of love, if it is to work. The three of us work on the podcast every day of the year in one way or another, and we also hire a production manager, a graphic designer, several editors, and of course Hannah during the Grand Slams to work on our social media. Plus, there are a lot of people that contribute to what we do. Much as we love producing the show, and have done for the past decade, it is a huge commitment - we published more than 150 podcasts over each of the past two years, and we know that if we work on the pod, it takes time away from other work we could be doing. Well, we have thought long and hard about the best way to keep the The Tennis Podcast going during these challenging times.

Today we are launching Friends of The Tennis Podcas t, a new subscription service that will sit alongside our free feed of podcasts and deliver new editions of Tennis Re-Lived, Friends-only Q&A podcasts, a bonus show after each of the Grand Slam tournaments and lots of other exclusive content to subscribers.

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