Episodes
Dec. 5, 2020
Steve Davies & Matt Allen - Into the Dragon’s Den
Steve and Matt are the Directors of Active Away. Both had strong tennis coaching careers at clubs, with the LTA and made the decision to set up their own Business running Tennis Holidays. Business as slow, so they decided to ...
Dec. 2, 2020
Allistair McCaw - Champion Minded
Allistair McCaw has dedicated his life to high performance through working with world class athletes including Xavier Malisse and Kevin Anderson on the fitness side of their game. This has evolved into mindset training and no...
Nov. 28, 2020
Nick Weal - LTA Head of Coach Education and Development
Nick Weal has spent the last 35 years as a Grand Slam Player, Grand Slam Coach and GB Davis Cup Coach and is now in charge of the LTA Coach Education. He shares his experiences, his vision, his opinions and more in an educati...
Nov. 26, 2020
James Auckland - Pro to Parks
James Auckland is a former British Number 1 Doubles Player with a highest ATP Ranking of 57. We discuss his journey and how the key failures led to the passion and fire to drive and ‘prove people wrong’. This led him to playi...
Nov. 21, 2020
Episode 79: Anne Keothavong - A full circle to the Copper Box
Anne Keothavong is the GB Billie Jean King Cup Captain, and former British number 1. She reached a high of 48 in the world WTA during her career. Anne shares her story, from the big impact of her parents and upbringing, to th...
Nov. 18, 2020
Episode 78: Iain Bates - LTA Head Of Women’s Tennis
Iain Bates has gone from promising junior to University lecturer to Team GB Manager in the Olympics and is now LTA Head of Women’s Tennis. A great journey and by his own admission he is a ‘thinker’ and gives us his thoughts o...
Nov. 14, 2020
Episode 77: Dave Sammel - Mindset College
Dave Sammel was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has spent his 30 years as a coach in the UK working with some of the best players in GB. He is currently Liam Broady´s coach. Dave has strong views, and clear ...
Nov. 11, 2020
Episode 76: Fabio Molle - Functional Tennis
Fabio Mole set up Functional Tennis 4.5 years ago and it’s now one of the biggest online tennis platforms out there. Fabio talks through his journey from the Astro courts in Ireland to his fast food business, to Christmas jum...
Nov. 7, 2020
Episode 75: Colin Beecher - ‘Beech’
A special guest for a special 75th episode. Colin Beecher have lived and breathed British Tennis for 40 years as a player and then a coach to pretty much every British Player Men and Women over the years. He is the current co...
Nov. 4, 2020
Episode 74: Stephen Huss - Wimbledon Champ
Stephen Huss partnered Wesley Moodie to win the Men’s Doubles Championship at Wimbledon in 2005. The pair came through qualifying, beating the 1st 2nd and 3rd seeds en route. Stephen reached a career high of 21 in the world i...
Oct. 31, 2020
Episode 73: Katie Swan - Young experience
Katie Swan has been on our screens for many years, as a 15 year old she made the final of the Junior Australian Girls Event. Katie has had her ups and her downs, but has moved into a place where she has a happy, healthy minds...
Oct. 28, 2020
Episode 72: Dominik Koepfer - The Outlier
Dominik Koepfer sits as the current 65th best male tennis player in the world, yet he played 1-2 times a week before he was 16. A story that will blow you away and you think not possible.
Oct. 24, 2020
Episode 71: Sergiy Stahkovsky - No holds barred
Sergiy Stahkovsky is a Ukranian pro tennis player who has been ranked as high as 31 ATP. Sergiy jumped onto our screens in 2013, when he became the lowest ranked player to beat Roger Federer at a Grand Slam. He knocked the de...
Oct. 21, 2020
Episode 70: Simon Jones - British Tennis through many lenses
Simon Jones worked for the LTA in many different capacities for 31 years before turning his hand to other sports over the last couple of years. We explore the similarities and differences between sports and his opinions from ...
Oct. 17, 2020
Episode 69: Nick Lester - The voice behind your screens
Nick Lester is the epitome of what we want from our Tennis Academy. Someone who has truly used his passion for tennis as a vehicle through his life, as a player, as a coach and over the last 15 years as a tennis commentator o...
Oct. 14, 2020
Episode 68 : Kyle Spencer - US College Life
Kyle Spencer is a former GB number 1 doubles player and represented GB at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. He is the current Head Men’s Coach at North Carolina State University and has experienced US College in all positions as a pl...
Oct. 10, 2020
Episode 67: Leon Smith - The History Maker!
What a story! Leon went from decent junior player to coaching one of the best juniors in the world, Sir Andy Murray. He was catapulted to GB Davis Cup Captain over 10 years ago where he´s guided the team to glory on the court...
Oct. 7, 2020
Episode 66: Kris Soutar - Mr.Tennis
Kris has dedicated his life to tennis in one form or another. From coaching International Players to coaching parents how to coach, he has worked across the spectrum, but always to a very high level. Kris was part of the Scot...
Oct. 4, 2020
Episode 65: Simon Dickson - Red Devil to SW19
Simon Dickson was one of the best junior players in the world with wins over Roger Federer and Leyton Hewitt to name a couple as he grew up. He combined this with playing football for Manchester United Juniors when he was you...
Sept. 30, 2020
Episode 64: Steve Hewitt - People..People.. People!
Steve Hewitt is the CEO of Gym Shark, a fitness clothing and accessory brand that is currently one of the fastest growing businesses in the UK. A few weeks ago it was valued at $1.3 billion from the humble beginnings of the f...
Sept. 26, 2020
Episode 63: Heather Watson - WTA Tour Life
Heather Watson has been one of Great Britain’s most successful female tennis players of the last 30 years. She won the Wimbledon Mixed Doubles title in 2016, has won 4 WTA titles and has a career high of 38 in the world. Heat...
Sept. 22, 2020
Episode 62: Valorie Kondos Field - Winning doesn’t always equal success
Valorie Kondos Field was Head Gymnastics Coach at UCLA for 29 years. She led them to 7 National Championships and her background wasn’t even in gymnastics. She dramatically changed her philosophies throughout her coaching car...
Sept. 19, 2020
Episode 61: Emilio Sanchez - Viva España
Emilio Sanchez comes from the famous Sanchez family who have been so influential on Spanish Tennis. A former World number 1 doubles player and number 7 singles player at the same time, he won 5 Grand slam doubles titles and t...
Sept. 16, 2020
Episode 60: Lloyd and Anthony Harris - African Champions
We speak to Anthony Harris who is top 100 ATP Player Lloyd Harris’s coach. Anthony also coached Dudi Sela in his formative years aged 11-19. We discuss his Academy and philosophy in South Africa and the journey to creating an...