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Ryan Trickey & Andy Aitken

Just two tennis coaches talking all things tennis!

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19:59

Is Tennis Coaching Good Value for Money? Or is it...

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2025/11/04

We discuss the impact of tennis coaching to everyone, whether we really are good value for money compared to other coaching industries or do we charge too much or too little?

27:29

How Do You Know Which Team You Should Play In?

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2025/10/29

Discussing how teams are sorted out where we work, do Team Captains have a big say in it or is it too political and committees sort it out. Never an easy thing to do to say to someone they should play for another team within the club but it's apart of evolution of people getting better and wanting more of a challenge, but finding the right challenge is key and never easy to sort!

18:35

Am I Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced? How do you...

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2025/10/23

We discuss how people in general rate themselves, do you compare against other people at your club or pro's? Is it following fundamental things such as being able to rally and serve and who is correct?

19:56

Enticing You to Become a Tennis Coach? We Breakdown...

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2025/10/17

We sit down and discuss the LTA Coach Development's video trying to get more people into coaching, or are they upsetting people in other industries and portraying them in a bad light? We discuss it all!

29:07

Talking about Club Committee's - What Roles are...

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2025/09/22

As we both work in club environments we thought it best on episode 20 to delve into committee's and how important are they, which roles you MUST have but also which ones could you do without?

24:05

Representing Your Country - How Important is it in...

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2025/09/17

We discuss how important in this era to play for your country in the Davis Cup / Billie Jean Cup with players deciding to prioritise training blocks and competition over playing for your national team - or is there more to the story?!

36:23

Quitting Never Wins & Winners Never Quit

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2025/09/12

A good debate on does competition keep players in sport or does it push them away? What involvement and responsibilities do the player, coach & parent have and is it possible to build resilience in players with it being okay to fail sometimes?

17:06

Tennis Elbow - Is it really avoidable and How can you...

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2025/09/07

It's a niggly and painful injury we have all had once upon a time in our lives, but does 'Tennis Elbow' get a bad rep? Is it actually caused from tennis and is it avoidable from the start of your tennis journey? We discuss!

19:43

US Open - How have the Brits done, The Mixed Doubles...

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2025/09/02

The US Open has now hit Quarter Final stage in the singles so time to review it so far and give our predictions for the rest of the draw. We also discuss the controversial Mixed Doubles tournament that took place and did the winners send a message to the tournament on who should have entered? Plus we discuss how our Brits faired in the tournament.

24:57

Private Lessons vs Group Coaching - What's better?

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2025/08/13

Is going for a 1 - 2 - 1 lesson better for you to improve or should you put yourself in a group environment? We explain the pro's and con's of each to help you make your own decision whilst also letting you know what we prefer teaching.

22:31

Strings - How Important is the Science of It? Let us...

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2025/08/08

We go into the world of stringing, how important is it to regularly change your strings or should you just let them break, does weather and court surface make a difference and what are we using? Let us unpack it!

35:07

Equality - Prize Money, Formats, is it fair for Men's...

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2025/08/03

We discuss the ongoing discussion that keeps coming up in the world of tennis in terms of equal pay. Is it fair that men's and ladies get paid the same but play a different format? Does it need to change? Is it the new norm? If we were put in charge would we try and change it and if so, how?

12:40

Ever wondered where Tennis Game Scoring Originated...

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2025/07/29

A short pod for us for a change! We speak about how tennis scoring came about and some of the myth's of where it began and would we ever change it to something else?! Or is it perfect!

19:45

Wimbledon Round Up - Better late than never!!

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2025/07/24

We speak about the two weeks at SW19 and the champions in each event, notable matches were obviously the men's and ladies singles, but who in terms of the Brits did well.

37:13

Which is the best Grand Slam? From Court Surface, to...

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2025/07/05

In this episode we decide to take a look at all four Grand Slams and compare them, from the unique court surfaces that players play on, to a fans experience around the grounds and what we believe costs are like and how easy is it to access tickets?

35:54

Ryan turns 40! Time to Interview him and find out a...

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2025/07/03

Ryan turns 40! Where has that time gone?! Andy decides to interview Ryan unscripted, to find out more about his tennis in those first 40 years, what his best outfit was, best racket, and whether he thinks at 40 he could be his 20 year old self in a tennis match .. surely not!? Listen to find out!

22:41

Wimbey Round Up - Round 1 Big Shocks!

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2025/07/02

We look back at Day 1 & 2 of the Wimbledon Championships which has produced 10 Brits making it through in singles to the 2nd round for the first time in Wimbledon history. However, lots of big shocks with big names going out, we review all the action so far.

22:33

Talking the Finals of the French Open, and turning to...

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2025/06/26

We review the ladies and men's finals at Roland Garros 2025 with big congrats to Gauff and Alcaraz. We begin to look at the grass court season, the first couple of weeks have been completed with Wimbledon on the horizon, who do we think are the strong favourites and are there any dark horses to look out for?!

31:06

Masterful McIlroy - How did he deal with the...

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2025/04/30

More of a light hearted pod for Ryan & Andy on this one, they go discuss the recent victory of Rory McIlroy claiming the career slam and what had been the elusive green jacket to his already glistening collection of titles. We discuss how did he do it and our life pressure whether it be on the court, or generally just being competitive in everyday life.

35:51

3 Years Old to National Champion! How we would do it!...

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2025/04/28

We follow on from the previous pod and talk more about what we believe is required from 11 years onwards. What needs to be the focus for the player, but also factoring life also, family, friends, what sacrifices need to be made to become a National Champion and hopefully m make tennis your future job

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