ATP Tennis Radio

It's been known as the Masters, the ATP World Tour Championships, the ATP World Tour Finals and now the Nitto ATP Finals, but while the title may have changed over the years, one thing that's remained constant is that it's provided the stage for the very best players in the world to battle each other for the ultimate in bragging rights and on the eve of the final staging of the event in London, in it's 50th Anniversary year, Chris Bowers spoke with the man who won the very first year-end...

Seb Lauzier introduces a special interview with American player, Tennys Sandgren who describes what it's like to be living in the US Open bubble as well as talks about what it's like to face Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer in big match-ups.

Madrid 2018 and ATP Tennis Radio reporter decided to challenge the Bryan Brothers to an interview in an unusual surrounding!

In the build up to the US Open and before that, the Western & Southern Open, also being played in New York, we spoke with world number Matteo Berrettini. Matteo was battling an injury and only played 2 matches this year before lockdown, but he’s back, fit and raring to go.

Vasek Pospisil joins us to talk about the tour getting back underway, his new job during lockdown co-presenting the ATP/WTA Tennis United show alongside Bethanie Mattek-Sands, his other role on the ATP Player Council and a new revolutionary business venture he’s also been getting off the ground.

Hailing from South Africa, sometimes to be found in South Korea, Neville Godwin joined us to talk about coaching one of the most promising players on tour, Hyeon Chung. In this wide ranging chat we touched on his coaching philosophy, his time previously with fellow South African Kevin Anderson, Chung’s biggest achievements so far, including a Grand Slam semi-final and his time out through injury.

We're joined by former World Number 2 and French Open finalist, Magnus Norman. Magnus is also now the coach of Stan Wawrinka and we spoke all about Stan and the Grand Slam successes he’s had while they’ve been together, their relationship on and off the court and the Magnus Norman coaching philosophy, but we started with round 2 of the ATP Coaches Programme, basically an incredible auction of promises raising funds for fellow coaches struggling during the pandemic, and one of the lots up for...

We're joined by a man with 6 ATP tour titles to his name and two tantalising Grand Slam finals. He’s reached a career-high world number 5, from South Africa now at home in the United States, this is of course, Kevin Anderson. Kevin joined us on the line and we touched on all of that and more, including an injury-plagued 18 months or so and to start with, whether lock down had at least given him a little more time to recover.

Milos Raonic speak to ATP Tennis Radio presenter Seb Lauzier about a number of topics including returning to competitive play in August, getting the balance between fitness and tennis practice right during lockdown, his early life and moving to Canada, his breakthrough year in 2011, his Wimbledon final in 2016, reaching a career-high number 3 in the rankings and his future goals.

Former US Open Champion Marin Cilic joins Seb Lauzier to look back over his career highs and lows as well as discussing the work he's been doing with his foundation during lockdown. They speak about getting into tennis at an early age, memories of his first tour win and title, winning the US Open and reaching the finals of Wimbledon and the US Open, plus his other career highs including two Queens titles, his first Masters 1000 victory in Cincinnati, reaching the Tour Finals on multiple...

The current coach of Stan Wawrinka and Karolina Pliskova talks about a number of subjects, including working with his current charges, coaching the likes of Andy Murray and Grigor Dimitrov and what's he's learnt from fellow coaches Magnus Norman and Ivan Lendl. He also talks about the best and worst advice he's ever given a player, growing up with Andy Murray at the Sanchez-Casal Academy, life away from tennis and his hopes for the future of the game.

World Number 3 Dominic Thiem on his biggest achievements, the best tennis he’s ever played, who he considers his biggest rivals, growing up in Austria, developing his game and the player he’s become today under the guidance of Nicolas Massu.

Juan Carlos Ferrero is a modern day great, a World Number 1 since the turn of the millennium who these days can be found mostly at his own academy and guiding the fortunes of Spanish youngster Carlos Alcaraz. In a wide-ranging chat we spoke about Alcaraz, the youngsters comparisons with Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer plus we also discuss Ferrero's own career, his memories, rivals and even regrets.

We get the lowdown on a top 10 player, from one of the top coaches on tour Liam Smith. Liam joined us to talk about many things including developing a top 10 player, setting goals, working with men and women and with his new online coaching platform recently launched, we also talked confidence, focus, technique and tactics.

Two-time Arthur Ashe Humanitarian of the Year winner Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi will not allow Pakistan's daily workers to be forgotten during this pandemic. Through his foundation Stop War Start Tennis, Qureshi committed to financially supporting ration bags for thousands of families that have been unable to work and earn their daily sustenance. Each ration bag consists of flour, rice, oil, grains, tea, milk and sanitary products, and can feed a family of five. As we her in this interview,...