Ash Barty's former coach Craig Tyzzer speaks to Candy Reid about the duo's successful career together and how they are both looking to help the next generation of stars.

American Tommy Paul's coach Brad Stine speaks to Jill Craybas about the young player's development, his injury struggles and hopes for the future.

This week presenter Chris Bowers is joined by former WTA player Jill Craybas and AO Radio commentator Peter Marcato as they look back on the first week of action at the Australian Open and ahead to week two. Headlines are...PETER MARCATO ON PLAYING TENNIS INTO THE EARLY HOURS- ‘Tennis takes longer to play these days, there’s no doubt that matches are getting longer, but also, do they arrive out onto court on time, the time in-between matches, the bathroom breaks, injury timeouts, it seems to be

Steve Baldas, CEO of W Sports and Media talent agency and advisory firm speaks to Candy Reid about how they manage the careers of high profile sports stars, including tennis players Lleyton Hewitt, Dan Evans, Jason Kubler and Storm Hunter, as well as media professionals and music performers. Website - https://www.wsportsandmedia.com.au/

JILL CRAYBAS ON BREAK POINT HELPING FANS TO GET TO KNOW THE PLAYERS BETTER- ‘Netflix did a great job with 'Drive to Survive', and I think you get a better insight into the players when you understand where that emotion is coming from more often. When I watch the Olympics, I don’t know a lot of the athletes from curling or biathlon but you get a five minute snippet of a background story and all of a sudden your immersed in how they are doing in curling or biathlon or whatever sport it is that I don’t

Coach Phil Farmer discusses what he's working on with doubles player Austin Krajicek as he aims to take the American and his partner, Ivan Dodig to the top of the sport as well as what he learnt working alongside the Bryan Brothers as they won Grand Slam titles and reached number one in the world.

JOHN NEWCOMBE ON LEARNING FROM THE BEST- ‘I was someone who would observe people who had reached the very, very top and just watch what they did and I figured out that that’s how hard they trained, that’s how they do it, so I’ve got to do it at least as hard’.JOHN NEWCOMBE ON LEARNING FROM FAILURE- ‘I was told when I was twelve years of age that you learn more from every match you lose, than every match you win, so rather then sulk after I lost a match, I had a practice that within an hour I would

Jill Craybas speaks about the workings of the mind with Lorenzo Betrame from the Italian Tennis Federation. Before taking up a role with the Italian Federation, Beltrame was Director of the legendary LGE Performance System / Human Performance Institute and has also personally trained dozens of professional athletes including 9 players who reached the #1 ranking in the world.

LORENZO BELTRAME ON CHARACTER- ‘Every person has to decide what person they want to become and build into that space. To me character is the automatic version of attitude. Attitude is what we can drive everyday with effort, so today I can choose my attitude and the more I choose the attitude I want to have, the more I build character and eventually it becomes part of my normal behaviours’.JULIA GÖRGES ON LEARNING TO RELAX- ‘From being scheduled 24/7 to not being schedule 24/7, that’s already a huge

LARS CHRISTENSEN ON THE IMPORTANCE OF STATISTICS- ‘I’ve been doing it from the very beginning, even when he was ten and in the beginning it was about how many unforced errors, how many forced and winners he would do in a match and specifically looking at forehands and backhands and now getting older it’s more about serve and return and serve plus one and return plus one, so it’s getting more specific but I’ve kept the statistics always and I always compare during the year’.ROB MORGAN ON

WESLEY KOOLHOF ON PROMOTING THE DOUBLES GAME- ‘A bit more Centre Court time would be great if that’s possible. Some tournaments do it actually and it’s always nice for us to play in big arenas, in big stadiums. Scheduling-wise I understand that the singles guys are playing on the big stages, but it would be nice for us to play the first, second or even the quarter-final on the bigger court’.JOE SALISBURY ON WINNING WHEN NOT PLAYING WELL- ’That’s always one of the things we’ve always said we’ve

Coach James Trotman sits down with Jill Craybas at the NextGen ATP Finals to discuss Jack Draper's development and what they will be working on going into 2023.

STEFANOS TSITSIPAS ON HOW HE EVALUATES HIS DEVELOPMENT-‘I look at things such as finals, how many I was able to play this year, how consistent I am as far as going deep into tournaments and if I’m able to go deep in those tournaments, If I’m able to constantly, week-after-week, being able to be there, this is a good sign for me’.KAREN KHACHANOV ON HIS IMPROVED FORM IN 2022-‘I would say that I’m on the rise. I was playing more and more consistently in the second part of the year and I had the big run

GREG RUSEDSKI ON HOW THE SPORT IS DEVELOPING- ‘It seems like players are getting a lot quicker and right now you have to be an all-rounder. You have to play defence and offence and if you want to get to the very top, you have to do all of the above’.CARLOS MOYA ON RAFAEL NADAL’S YEAR- ’The last part of the year has not been that good but he’s won two slams this year and when you win two slams, it has to be a good year. It’s true that the first half of the year was unbelievable and we did not expect

GORAN IVANIŠEVIĆ ON NOVAK DJOKOVIC- ‘He’s practising even harder than when he was at the age of 22 and that’s why he’s still so good and that’s why he’s going to be even better. The will to practice, the will to improve, the will to be better is amazing you know and he’s taking care of his body. Novak is a genius and he’s a guy who always wants to improve’.VEDRAN MARTIC SPEAKS ABOUT ON-COURT COACHING- ‘It’s ok if you need to say something to a player, but still I believe a lot in concentration in

NOVAK DJOKOVIC ON A NITTO ATP FINALS TITLE THAT’S BEEN WORTH THE WAIT- ‘I definitely felt nerves, but I felt grateful to be able to serve the match out. Seven years, it’s been a long time but at the same time, the fact I waited seven years makes this victory even bigger and even sweeter.CASPER RUUD ON HIS MENTALITY- ‘I think out of twenty-four hours that we have everyday I think that you should be able to perform two of them at least and have a good focus and put all your effort into it and that’s

At the NextGen ATP Finals in Milan, Jill Craybas sits down with Mosé Navarra from the Italian Tennis Federation to discover how the country is producing so many top players.

Coach to Brandon Nakashima and also working with the Italian Tennis Federation, Eduardo Infantino speaks to Jill Craybas about working with the young player and his coaching philosophy in general.

RAFAEL NADAL ON ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL YEAR- ‘Overall it has been an amazing year, achieving important tournaments, being in a privileged position of the ranking, I have been a father a few weeks ago, so overall an amazing year, but at the same time it has been a tough year with a lot of issues with the body, but overall, I take it’.NOVAK DJOKOVIC ON PLAYING THE NITTO ATP FINALS AS A LOWER SEED- ’This is going to be the first time that I’m going to play the number one or number two seeds in the Tour

BRANDON NAKASHIMA ON WINNING THE NEXTGEN ATP FINALS- ‘I’m super-happy right now, it was a great feeling all week, it feels amazing, being an American, being able to play here in Milan it’s the best feeling in the world and I’m happy to be able to take it back to the US’.EDUARDO INFANTINO ON COACHING BRANDON NAKASHIMA- ‘We’re going step-by-step at this moment and he will start to be ready, maybe in the second part of next year. He’s still 21 so for sure his best moments will be in two years time. His