The latest ATP Podcast with Chris Bowers and Jill Craybas. The duo look back on the first week of the US Open and ahead to week 2. As well as the studio discussion, there are also interviews and features with some of the home players hoping for a good second week, including...FRANCES TIAFOE ON HIS CAREER GOALS- ’There’s only two things that I’ve really wanted to do in this game and you know that’s to win a Grand Slam and to be top ten in the world and to be halfway done is incredible and now I’ve

Presenter Chris Bowers is joined by former WTA player Jill Craybas to look ahead to the US Open and to discuss how the draw will impact certain players progression and whether it’s Djokovic and Alcaraz against the field. As well as the studio discussion, the team also introduce interviews and features with the following...CARLOS ALCARAZ ON WHY HE’S ALWAYS SMILING- ‘I try to enjoy every moment and not only on court. Doing all this kind of stuff is part of your job as well and I try to enjoy and it’s

NOVAK DJOKOVIC ON ADAPTING TO HOT CONDITIONS- ‘When it’s really warm on the hard court the heat is absorbed in the surface, so the subjective feeling on the court is 10-20 degrees higher then it is on the outside of the court, so you have to deal with all these different things, but you train for that’.TODD MARTIN ON NOVAK DJOKOVIC’S RELENTLESSNESS- 'Novak has had a couple of long stretches where I don’t think anybody has been more difficult to beat. He defends better than anyone else and he has a

JANNIK SINNER ON HIS INSPIRATIONS- ‘I was a skier and I know Lindsey Vonn a little bit and her career showed a lot of hard work, passion and comebacks and I also read the book of Zlatan Ibrahimovic which is also a very good story, but there are so many, LeBron James, I’m not following so much basketball, but it’s so nice’.ALEX DE MINAUR NOTES TO HIS YOUNGER SELF- ‘Take it easy, don’t put a lot of pressure on yourself and enjoy the moment. If you’re playing these tournaments it means you have the

Canadian Milos Raonic speak to Chris Bowers about the injuries that kept him away from the game for two years.

TAYLOR FRITZ ON THE REASON FOR HIS CHARGE UP THE RANKINGS- ’My average level has gone up a lot. Before I had to be playing really good for things to come together for me to have a big week or have big wins. Now if I’m mentally turned on, I can beat a lot of players when I’m maybe not even playing my best’.GRIGOR DIMITROV ON HIS RENEWED VIGOUR-‘I’m enjoying the sport and I’m enjoying what I’m doing and still to be up there among the top players is a great achievement, but I believe the best is still

In the second of our two-back-to-back specials focussing on various aspects of the game, this week Chris Bowers and Jill Craybas are joined by Australian doubles player Matt Ebden and Argentine, Francisco Cerundolo to talk about the logistics of being a player from the Southern Hemisphere having to ply their trade all over the world. Headlines are…MATT EBDEN ON LEAVINGAUSTRALIA TO PLAY TENNIS- ‘When I was breaking through I was very quickly into the four month trips to the US and the six month trips

This week in a slightly different change to the format, Candy Reid and Chris Bowers sat down with World Number One doubles pair, Wesley Koolhof and Neal Skupski to discuss the health of the doubles game and how it might grow and develop in the future. The team also speak to legendary coach and doubles master tactician, Louis Cayer and this year’s Roland Garros doubles champion, Austin Krajicek.WESLEY KOOLHOF ON HOW TO PROMOTE THE DOUBLES GAME- ’The biggest thing is marketing. Obviously the singles

Candy Reid is joined by coach Justin Sherring who works with Joe Salisbury on the ATP Tour, having previously worked with Jack Draper at a young age. Justin talks Candy through what he's learnt from working at the top level.

Former WTA players Jill Craybas and Lucie Ahl, as well as commentator Peter Marcato join presenter Chris Bowers to talk about Carlos Alcaraz dethroning Novak Djokovic in an epic Wimbledon final, as well as to look back over all the other various talking points from a dramatic two weeks of action

TIM HENMAN ON FALLING IN LOVE WITH WIMBLEDON- ‘When I reflect on the whole journey of my mum taking me to Wimbledon when I was six for the first time, I saw Bjorn Borg play in 1981 and that was when I made my one-and-only career decision, so then fifteen years later to play on Centre Court for the first time and to be a British player and have that support, It was always going to be special’.TIM HENMAN ON PLAYING WITHOUT PRESSURE- ‘I always joked that when I was getting blamed for the weather at

CARLOS ALCARAZ ON PLAYING ON GRASS- 'You know for me it’s great because I just have to focus on the movement and not on my style. If I move well I think it’s going to be great. I used to watch Federer on grass, I watched videos because you want to be like Federer, but it’s impossible, but he is my role model on grass. The elegance that he hits the shots that he plays, he moved really well and made the tennis on grass easy’.HOLGER RUNE ON DREAMING ABOUT PLAYING AT WIMBLEDON-‘I have always dreamt

CARLOS ALCARAZ ON RETURNING TO WORLD NUMBER ONE BY WINNING QUEENS- ‘Right now I’m feeling better then at the beginning of the week and of course recovering the number one spot give you extra motivation going into Wimbledon. It gives you extra confidence, but it doesn’t change too much if I play Wimbledon as number two or number one’.ALEXANDER BULIK ON WINNING THE TITLE IN HALLE- ‘Well it means the world to me. I’ve been struggling for health and now having this for a reward, I don’t take it for

RICHARD KRAJICEK ON THE CHANGE TO HIS GAME THAT IGNITED HIS CAREER-‘I changed to a one-handed backhand and it wasn’t that great a shot, It didn’t make a big improvement in my game, but what it did do is that it was so vulnerable that people were attacking my backhand, so the only way to avoid someone coming into the net on my backhand is if I beat them to it and that’s when I became a serve and volley player’.DUTCH JOURNALIST DAVID AVAKIAN ON TENNIS IN HOLLAND-’Tennis is the second sport, Football

MARK WOODFORDE ON NOVAK DJOKOVIC'S PLACE IN HISTORY- ‘For me that’s the tie-break between the trio, Federer, Nadal and Djokovic, the amount of Grand Slams and they all deserve to have that title, the greatest of all-time, but he has elevated himself alone finally. He was the third person in this group, so it has been a tremendous journey until now where he’s in the clear’.MARK WOODFORDE ON CASPER RUUD- ‘He’s the one that’s won the most clay court matches recently, the most clay court tournaments and

CHRISTOPHER CLAREY ON RAFAEL NADAL’S EXPLORATORY SURGERY- ‘I’m assuming one of Nadal’s specialists could only do it on that day because no one in their right mind would chose to do exploratory surgery the night before their birthday. It sounded like it was more an investigative thing, but it’s very rare to do it, so I think Rafa’s grasping for answers a little bit right now’.LUCIE AHL ON THE POTENTIAL OF ALCARAZ PLAYING DJOKOVIC IN THE SEMI-FINALS- ‘We’ve only had one match where they’ve played each

One of the game's great entertainers speaks to reporter Jill Craybas about how he forst got into tennis and his continuing love affair with the game.

STEFANOS TSITSIPAS ON COMPARING CARLOS ALCARAZ TO RAFAEL NADAL -‘He gets to every ball on the court, he covers pretty much half of the planet when he plays, so they have a lot of similarities and I think he can be the next Rafael Nadal of our tennis’.HOLGER RUNE ON WHETHER HE’S A PERFECTIONIST- ‘I am, especially on the practice court, match court not as much, which is good, because I feel like on the match it’s not about how it looks and how you hit the ball, it’s more about finding solutions to

DANIILMEDVEDEVON HIS GROWING APPRECIATION OF CLAY COURTS-‘Friendship, I don’t think I love it, I love hard courts, my only love, in tennis of course, but I definitely like clay courts much more now’.HOLGER RUNE ON HIS DESIRE TO BE THE BEST-‘If you try to see always the big picture, rather than the small picture, you will understand why I have to do this. Without tennis I’m sure I wouldn’t have the same mentality as I have today, so it’s kind of built who I am and I fell in love with it from the

NICOLA PIETRANGELI ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HIS PLAYING DAYS AND TODAY- ‘It’s a different game. Before you had to know how to play tennis, this is a physical game. Before you had talent and then you became an athlete, today you’re an athlete and if you have talent it’s better’.NOVAK DJOKOVIC ON HIS BIGGEST RIVAL- ‘I can’t take anybody else but Nadal as my biggest rival, as long as Nadal is playing, as long as I’m playing, Nadal is always my biggest rival regardless of the ranking or what’s going on