Episodes
March 24, 2021
Dom Inglot - Dom the Bomb
Britain´s Dom Inglot has been as high as 18 ATP Doubles, is a Davis Cup Winner, and Grand Slam Semi-Finalist, but he is much more. He is a smart, articulate man who discusses many topics with Dan including self awareness, US ...
March 24, 2021
Craig Veal - Step by step
Craig Veal is the current coach to WTA Doubles 15 in the world Alexa Guarachi. Alexa just last week won the WTA 1000 in Dubai with her partner Darija Jurak. Craig is 30 and has already worked at all levels of the sport. He te...
March 24, 2021
Marcus Willis - From Zero to Hero!
In 2016, British tennis player Marcus Willis rose to fame with one of the most memorable runs to the 2nd round of Wimbledon in the tournament´s history. In just a few weeks the 25-year-old went from giving up tennis and coach...
March 24, 2021
John Cavill - Remote School
John Cavill is an inspiration to us all, as he creates opportunities for coaches and clubs across the UK through bringing remote ‘tennis’ classes to thousands and thousands of school kids in the UK. This is where it all start...
March 24, 2021
Borna Coric - Ownership
Borna Coric is coming to the peak of his career on the ATP Tour with a current ranking of 24 in the world and a career high of 12. He gives us insights that we rarely get into a player ‘in’ their career. Insights into his dev...
March 24, 2021
Nick Bollettieri - The Godfather
The Godfather of tennis comes to help us celebrate our 100th episode of the podcast. The coach to many, namely, Agassi, Seles, Rios, Courier, Arias, Sharapova, Becker..The list goes on. The man who changed the landscape of Te...
March 24, 2021
Australian Open 2021 Review
We review the Australian Open 2021 with our amazing panellists Anne Keothavong, Naomi Broady, Xavier Malisse and Mark Hilton. A fun, insightful show 😊
March 24, 2021
Louis Cayer - The Guru
Louis Cayer has coached multiple Top 100 singles players, but has made his global name through coaching multiple Grand Slam Doubles Champions and World Number 1’s including changing the landscape of British Doubles over the l...
March 24, 2021
Daria Kasatkina - Tik Tok..It won’t be long till she is back at the top!
Dasha Kasatkina has been talked about as one of the biggest up and coming stars on the WTA Tour with a final in Indian Wells and back to back Quarter Finals at French Open and Wimbledon moving her to top 10 aged 21. Then expe...
March 24, 2021
Skupski Brothers - Together again!
The Skupski brothers are back playing together on the ATP Tour 2021 after a couple of years where Neal player with Jamie Murray. We here all about the split, the realities at the top level of the doubles tour and why the boys...
March 24, 2021
Mark Petchey - The man who views tennis through many lenses
Mark Petchey is a former top 100 ATP player, former British Number 1. He went on the be the Head of Men’s Tennis at the LTA before coaching Andy Murray as he transitioned from 350 to top 50 ATP. His last 15 years have been sp...
March 24, 2021
David Walsh - Pursuit of the truth
David Walsh is the Chief Sports Writer at the Sunday Times. He is famously known for his successful pursuit of justice with cyclist Lance Armstrong and his doping charges. David continued to track the truth down despite Armst...
March 24, 2021
Australian Open 2021 Preview
We have a panel of Anne Keothavong, Naomi Broady, Xavier Malisse and Freddie Nielsen to preview the Australian Open. From current news in Melbourne, to their favourite Aussie Open stories. We then dig into their picks for thi...
March 24, 2021
Tom Hill - Return on Investment
Tom Hill aged 25 from the UK is the coach to WTA 22nd in the world Maria Sakarri. How you may ask? We unlock this and so much more with stories from his hitting partner days, his IMG Academy days, his time coaching Danielle C...
March 24, 2021
Eleanor Preston - Tiara’s to Tennis
Eleanor Preston is the Director of The Emilia Group which is a PR and Media company in sport, but mainly in tennis. She has years of experience which includes Journalism, Broadcasting, Agent to the late Elena Baltacha, and mu...
Jan. 19, 2021
Episode 92: Justin Gimelstob - My Way
Welcome to our first episode of 2021! Justin Gimelstob is a polarising figure in the world of tennis. His career has included winning Grand Slams, coaching John Isner into the Worlds Top 10m, commentating, Media Companies, an...
Dec. 31, 2020
2020 Review
This podcast is a review of Control the Controllables in 2020. We discuss our favourites pods, our learnings and what you can expect for 2021 from the podcast. Can we also take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy ne...
Dec. 30, 2020
Oli Golding - The different ‘stages’ of Tennis Life
Oli Golding is a US Open Junior Singles Champion. He was a childhood star on the stage, including the West End and he now works at Santander Bank. We discuss the challenges of the journey, and his reflections on why he didn’t...
Dec. 27, 2020
Xavier Malisse - The X Man!
Xavier Malisse is a former top 20 ATP player who made the semi-finals of Wimbledon in 2002. He had wins over Roger Federer,Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray in his career. Xavier discusses his journey into tennis, ...
Dec. 23, 2020
John Morris - ‘Show me the money’
John Morris is a sports agent who currently works at the LJ Sports Group with Ivan Ljubicic. He was Nick Kygrios’s agent for 10 years and shares many stories from the tour, as well as valuable insights and dos and donts for y...
Dec. 19, 2020
Jodie Burrage - On the rise
Young British player Jodie Burrage is already 250 WTA. She has been through 3 major surgeries, but has developed a maturity and resilience from this that puts her in a great place. She discusses how that mindset changed and h...
Dec. 16, 2020
Jez Green - Building a body of a champion
Jez Green has been working as a top physical conditioning specialist for more than 20 years on the ATP & WTA Tour. During this time he´s worked with Tomas Berdych, the USTA, and Harvard University, but he´s best known for his...
Dec. 12, 2020
Wayne Ferreira - Iron Man
A former World Number 6 in singles and 9 in doubles. A quite incredible record which includes wins over Bjorn Borg and Roger Federer with so many in between. He discusses it all. The Olympic highs and lows and we get to see i...
Dec. 9, 2020
Lloyd Glasspool - I did it my way!
Lloyd Glasspool is a former NCAA champion and is currently 150 ATP Doubles. He has partnered Dan Evans, Jamie Murray and Andy Murray in recent months. his journey from quiet teen to pro player who is also studying his MBA is ...