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Candy Reid speaks to Cecilia Fillol, mother of Chilean player Nicolas Jarry

TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR ADAM HOGG ON THE NEXTGEN ATP FINALS IN JEDDAH - ’The event has build a head of steam over the past five, six years and we’re really excited now to take the sport to a new marketplace in Saudi and to be the first professional tennis event in the Kingdom. It’s a huge opportunity’.

DOUBLES STAR EDOUARD ROGER-VASSELIN ON THE FRENCH PLAYERS - ‘In France we were so lucky to have Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Gael Monfils, Gilles Simon and Richard Gasquet who were top ten, top twenty for so many years and that makes all the young guys think that if they want to be part of the french tennis history, they have to be that good’.

JOURNALIST LORENZO ERCOLI ON THE ITALIAN PLAYERS - ‘We have right now a lot of players, not only in the top hundred, but also in the top two hundred and I think the big change was first of all in the preparation with players, they started to help private teams and that was very helpful’.

JOURNALIST NEBOJSA VISKOVIC ON HAMAD MADJEDOVIC - ‘He’s a talented guy, a good junior but not top, but now he’s improving with small and steady steps and his work ethic is phenomenal'

ABDULLAH SHELBAYH ON REPRESENTING TENNIS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA - ‘I try to not put too much pressure on myself but having Ons Jabeur and Mailk Jaziri is something very inspiring for me and I also had the same coach as her before and that pushes me forward. Watching more Arabic players come to the tour is something very special’.

- Podcast presented by Seb Lauzier

- Interviews by Jill Craybas and Seb Lauzier

Former tennis player Bryan Shelton speaks to Chris Bowers about his son Ben's progression through the ranks.

Indian tennis player Rohan Bopanna speaks to Chris Bowers about the secret of his longevity

Candy Reid catches up with Mexican star Santiago Gonzalez to find out more about the 40-year-old Nitto ATP Finals player.

Candy Reid catches up with young Austrian, Jurij Rodionov

Jill Craybas meets upcoming Chinese star Zhizhen Zhang.

Chinese Juncheng 'Jerry' Shang speaks to Jill Craybas about what it's like trying to break through onto the main tour.

This week’s show focusses on the Laver Cup. Chris Bowers is joined by tennis commentator and former WTA player Sam Smith to look back over the event and discuss its place in the tennis calendar. They also introduce a number or interviews and features. Headlines are...

TEAM WORLD CAPTAIN JOHN MCENROE  â€™This is something that I’ve believed in from the beginning and to me it was like a no-brainer and I worry that our sport doesn’t understand what It has sometimes and I believe the name Rod Laver is a name we should always use to our advantage and Roger Federer and why this thing isn’t at the top of the chain for all players to play, I don’t know’.

TEAM EUROPE CAPTAIN BJORN BORG - ’This is the most important week for me every year and to pick the right players for the competition is very important and the important thing it that we need different players, different styles, different personalities to get into the Laver Cup’.

FELIX AUGER-ALIASSIME ON TENNIS IN CANADA - ‘My dad owns a tennis academy in Quebec City and the interest and number of kids just keeps on growing. I was last week in the National Tennis Centre in Montreal and the gym was full of kids and the courts were full of kids everywhere’.

CASPER RUUD ON HOW LAVER CUP HAS A SPECIAL PLACE IN HIS HEART - ‘You know when I played Laver up the first time I had just reached the top ten for the first time, so I was very excited about that and I’ve been able to stay there now for two years and it has just given me more belief that I belong at this stage, that I belong among the top players in the world and play tennis on the biggest stages and Laver Cup is definitely one of the biggest stages we play throughout the year’.

GAEL MONFILS ON THE ENTERTAINMENT SIDE OF THE GAME - ’Some haters say that trick shots disrespect the opponent but first, it’s not disrespect because to hit a trick shot you have to be super-focussed so you don’t hurt yourself and when you try something different, it’s harder than something simple, but the main thing I’d say to the haters is focus on yourself’.

MIKE RUSSELL ON MANAGING A PLAYING SCHEDULE - ‘We all discuss what’s better what we think is best for his body and tennis, but the difficult thing with scheduling is that as your ranking increases, you get more opportunities and so the off season, where you could have an eight week off season, you then have a whole bunch of exhibition tournaments and events that you can play in and which makes a good financial incentive, so it’s hard to say no to those, so factoring those in and still have proper training weeks physically and focussing on your tennis is hard for everyone’.

PLUS IN AN EXCLUSIVE FEATURE, ATP UNCOVERED LOOK AT THE RETURN OF TENNIS TO CHINA

- Podcast presenter, Chris Bowers

- Podcast guest, Sam Smith

- Interviews by Chris Bowers, Candy Reid and Ursin Caderas

- Feature by ATP Uncovered

Japanese Shintaro Mochizuki speaks to our reporter Jill Craybas about his time as a young child who first picked up the raquet at the age of three, to his time now trying to break through onto he main tour.

This week Candy Reid interviews legendary tennis coach Rick Macci in a podcast special. Headlines are...

RICK MACCI ON COACHING KIDS - ‘It’s all the other things that stick with the kids that help them become a better doctor or lawyer, or treat their kids better or you know, I help kids get better grades or get off drugs or treat people better. To me I don’t just change strokes, I change lives and that’s the best feeling in the world’.

RICK MACCI ON WORKING WITH PARENTS - ‘It’s not only about teaching kids, I teach the parents and that’s the art of coaching. Think about it, they eventually start telling me what to do, how crazy is that? But I tell people I should be in the Hall of Fame just for dealing with Richard Williams for four years! You have to have a certain personality just dealing with the cast of characters, Jim Pierce, Stefano Capriati, Richard Williams, keeping your hands around that, that’s the tough thing’.

RICK MACCI ON SERENA WILLIAMS - ‘When she was ten, Serena wasn’t that good. I had ten thousand parents look at that video and say that their kid was better then that, but they didn’t see what was under the hood. There were arms, legs and head all over the place, but when I said to play competitive points, the whole landscape changed, there was a rage. You don’t judge the book by the cover. It’s what I saw under the hood which was the wildcard and that’s why she’s going to be the greatest of all time’.

RICK MACCI ON ANDY RODDICK - ‘His thirst for competition was like no other. The guy was so competitive, the wiring to compete, which is the wildcard really to handle the pressure, his competitive thirst, he was a mosquito, he just wouldn’t leave you alone. He was never going to be a Sampras or a Chang, but I think he over-achieved and people didn’t appreciate him as much until we haven’t really had another male American Grand Slam Champion since’.

RICK MACCI ON HIS COACHING PHILOSOPHY - ‘I tell people I’ve been wrong a lot and that’s why I’m right more than most people. There’s motivational signs all over the Rick Macci tennis centre like 'Winners find a way, losers find excuses’ and that’s the power of one word, one sentence or one moment in time, that maybe can influence a child’s life. It’s not where you start, it’s where you finish and if you love what you do and you have passion, that will keep pushing you forward’.

JILL CRAYBAS ON MORE HISTORY FOR NOVAK DJOKOVIC - ‘It’s amazing when you start talking about all those numbers because you almost can’t wrap your brain around what he’s achieved. I just feel like every time he steps on the court he’s breaking records and I just don’t know how he finds something consistently deep in himself to do it over and over again, it’s just incredible’.

JILL CRAYBAS ON DANIIL MEDVEDEV - ‘He’s had a great tournament. He said on the court that if Djokovic, Nadal and Federer weren’t there he’d have more titles and Djokovic said that he’ll get more and I agree with him, I think Medvedev will get at least a couple more, if not more than that’.

JILL CRAYBAS ON BEN SHELTON - ‘He’s so electric on the court, he’s got a big game, huge serve, huge forehand, but to be able to tie it all together and have that consistency throughout the two weeks is a great sign for him’.

JILL CRAYBAS ON CARLOS ALCARAZ’S MATURITY - ‘He’s not afraid to show his vulnerability, which I think is huge because that for me is how he has been able to get over some of the losses that he has had and be able to back it up very quickly. Roland Garros was a great example admitting that the pressure and stress got to him, cramping against Djokovic and then what does he go and do, beat Djokovic in five sets at Wimbledon’.

RAJEEV RAM ON BEING THE FIRST THREE-TIME SUCCESSIVE CHAMPIONS SINCE 1912 - ‘I was told in press that that was the last time that that happened. I just knew that it hadn’t happened in the Open era, someone said that, but yes, 1912 is a long time ago’.

JILL CRAYBAS ON COCO GAUFF WINNING THE WOMEN’S SINGLES TITLE - ‘It was amazing to watch, Coco did a great job of digging in, relying on her speed and really defending but hitting shots to make Sabalenka go for more and by the end of the match she was just playing with confidence. She’s such a great role model, she just gets it and she thanked Billie Jean King on the court when she received the cheque she said that that was because of her and I thought that was a great moment’.

- Podcast presented by Chris Bowers

- Podcast guest Jill Craybas

- Ram and Salisbury interview by Chris Bowers

Former World Number 4 Todd Martin speaks to Jill Craybas about his new role as Tournament Director of the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati and Head of Tennis for Beemok Sports and Entertainment. Martin also opens up about what it was like to coach a young 22-year-old Novak Djokovic.

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

Kyle Edmund speaks to Jill Craybas about recovering from wrist Injury, getting into TV commentary and the future.

Matt Ebden speaks to Richard Connelly about his run to the Wimbledon doubles title last year alongside fellow Australian, Max Purcell.

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 he’s learnt from losing to Nadal last year and if Novak wasn’t here this year, along with Nadal’s absence, the Norwegian could have been lifting the trophy’.

LUCIE AHL ON THE DJOKOVIC v ALCARAZ MATCH - ‘It was an unbelievable two sets and I think Djokovic would have admitted that physically he was struggling after two sets and I didn’t expect that to happen to Alcaraz, so I think we’re going to remember that Alcaraz cramped and forget what happened in the first two sets and also perhaps forget that we should never write off Djokovic’.

ALEX CORRETJA ON CARLOS ALCARAZ’S PARENTS - ’They educated him in a way that he feels like he’s not more important than anyone else and they also let the coaches do their job and I think this is very important and of course, I think this is very important, they tell him everyday how important it is to be grateful to people and to be well educated’.

ROLAND GARROS DOUBLES CHAMPION AUSTIN KRAJICEK ON PARIS - ‘Paris is now officially my favourite city and continues to deliver, so I would absolutely say it’s my favourite place to play at the moment and it’s just an amazing venue. I really have a good feeling here in Paris and we like to play on clay and it suits our game well and I think we’ve been playing some good stuff’.

- Podcast presented by Chris Bowers

- Podcast guests Mark Woodforde and Lucie Ahl

- Interviews by Chris Bowers

Jill Craybas sits down with Ruth Anderson, the ATP'S new Director of Well Being and Mental Health to dicsuss every aspect of a player's mindset.

Taken from the MindHQ.com website:

Ruth has developed her expertise working as a psychologist and manager within welfare services, the mental health sector, and elite sport. With unique experience in both mental health and high performance sport, Ruth understands what is required to make change, and achieve maximum potential in all areas of life.

Ruth’s career began leading teams in the welfare sector, providing services to disadvantaged young people and families, and delivering a range of psychological services and programs on mental health units for children, adolescents, and young adults. Transitioning her skills into the high performance sport environment, Ruth has worked within the elite sport industries in both Australia and the United Kingdom, and at all levels of international competition. For 8 years Ruth worked at the Australian Institute of Sport as a Senior Sport Psychologist, and established and managed the national athlete counselling service. Working across a variety of sports, and teams, including the Great Britain and Australian Cycling Teams, Tennis Australia, Paddle Australia and Diving Australia Ruth gained extensive expertise in elite sport performance. Holding roles at the last four Olympic Games, Ruth was the Head of Psychology Services for the Australian Olympic Team at the Olympic Games in Beijing, 2008 and London, 2012; the Lead Psychologist for the British Cycling Team for the Olympic Games in Rio, 2016; and Director of Psychology for the Australian Olympic Team for the Tokyo Olympic Games, 2021. Now based in London, Ruth is the Director Player Wellbeing for the ATP Tour.

Ruth’s PhD investigated automaticity as the optimal psychological state for peak performance, and her research with elite athletes has been published internationally. Ruth’s research portfolio includes projects and publications across a range of areas related to sport performance and well-being including peak performance, automaticity, psychological recovery, athlete homesickness, and pain assessment and coping. Applied publications have been the areas of critical incident management and grief and loss. Ruth’s book, The Cycling Mind, has been published by Bloomsbury Publications, London.

ANDREY RUBLEV ON WINNING HIS FIRST MASTERS 1000 TITLE - â€˜I have tears man, I don’t know what to say to be honest, I’m just happy finally, struggling so much to win these Masters 1000 tournaments. Losing 4-1 and love 30, sitting with break points and thinking there is no chance to win and then…I don’t know man’. Today it was, if you’re going to lose, at least believe until the end and in the end I was able to do it’.

HOLGER RUNE ON DEALING WITH EXPECTATIONS - ‘People are starting to expect more and more, but most of all I have high ambitions within myself and that’s the most important thing, but for sure, you’ve just got to improve as much as you can every day and if you think about winning and losing too much, that can just distract your mindset’.

JANNIK SINNER ON HIS PHYSICALITY  - ‘We have worked so much in the off season, in the gym and in the physical part which give me a lot of confidence now. Also tennis-wise I think it gives me something new, so let’s see how it goes on the clay season’.

LORENZO MUSETTI ON BEATING NOVAK DJOKOVIC - â€˜I’m struggling not to cry because it’s really an emotional win because it was a really long match, not easy conditions, so I’m really, really proud of myself and I’m struggling not to cry because it’s still a dream for me’.

NOVAK DJOKOVIC ON THE MASTERS 1000 CATEGORY - ’Those are the biggest events we have on the ATP Tour and you want to play your best at the Masters 1000 events. Of course I pride myself with the amount of tournaments at the 1000 category that I’ve won and I always try to go further’.

MATT EBDEN ON THE EXCITEMENT OF PLAYING ON TOUR - ‘It’s so exciting to see all of our Masters tournaments grow and grow and grow. Obviously a number of them going to two weeks now and becoming like huge features on the calendar that all the fans can follow, so I suppose the ATP are trying to grow them in line with the Slams so that we have the Slams, the Masters and all our big tournaments all year round and not just the Slams’.

CASPER RUUD ON HIS INCONSISTENT FORM - ‘It’s frustrating but at the same time, I’m not going to say I predicted it was going to happen, but your whole career is not going to be a joyful ride, there will be some down and hopefully more ups then downs, but the last month hasn’t been what I wanted, but hopefully we’re on a new surface and I can shake things off’.

PLUS IN AN EXCLUSIVE FEATURE, ATP MEDIA TAKE A LOOK AT HOW THE TOP 10 HAS A VERY DIFFERENT FEEL TO IT IN 2023

AND…SPORTS STARS USAIN BOLT AND GEORGE RUSSELL SAMPLE THE ATMOSPHERE AT THE MONTE-CARLO COUNTRY CLUB

- Podcast presented by Seb Lauzier

- Interviews by Paul King and Richard Connelly

- Features by ATP Media

Fitness coach Sebastiaan Van Bentum speaks to Richard Connelly about working with top 40 player, Tallon Griekspoor.