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The First Serve is your HOME OF TENNIS. Featuring an all year round dedicated weekly one hour 'live' tennis program, the only one of its kind on commercial radio in Australia that is also podcast right here plus commentary from the Grand Slams & Fed Cup/Davis Cup ties, themed podcasts, a strong online/social media presence and print content via our website. The First Serve has one simple aim..
The First Serve
18h ago
Padel Pow Wow is hosted by Matt Levey, Game4Padel in Melbourne and Matt Barrelle, the ‘Godfather’ of Padel in Australia and inaugural President of the Australian Padel Federation.
The guys each month go inside the world of Padel in Australia and globally.
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The First Serve
1w ago
Brett Phillips once again brings you the show from Indian Wells wrapping up another big tournament in Tennis Paradise hearing from singles champions Carlos Alcaraz and Elena Rybakina. Brett also sits down with Aussie Matthew Ebden after winning his first Masters 1000 title in the doubles. Also from Indian Wells, Brett sits down with long time WTA Supervisor Donna Kelso about her life on tour. Also joining the show, Canberra winners on the Australian Pro Tour Priscilla Hon and Marc Polmans and Lachlan Puyol is back with our weekly aussie college segment checking in with Chen Dong, Steffi Webb a ..read more
The First Serve
1w ago
Brett Phillips once again brings you the show from Indian Wells wrapping up another big tournament in Tennis Paradise hearing from singles champions Carlos Alcaraz and Elena Rybakina. Brett also sits down with Aussie Matthew Ebden after winning his first Masters 1000 title in the doubles. Also from Indian Wells, Brett sits down with long time WTA Supervisor Donna Kelso about her life on tour. Also joining the show, Canberra winners on the Australian Pro Tour Priscilla Hon and Marc Polmans and Lachlan Puyol is back with our weekly aussie college segment checking in with Chen Doing, Steffi Webb ..read more
The First Serve
1w ago
Host Darren Parkin is back with another episode of our Aussies Only Podcast catching up with the highly respected Marc Sophoulis. Player, turned coach at a young age, also combining coaching in the AFL and the cross over paralels, and coach educator, Marc shares his tennis journey, his philosophies, his assessment of the Australian tennis pathways and takes you through his Tennis Menu.
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The First Serve
2w ago
Brett Phillips is back with another big episode taking your calls and texts, reflecting on the Davis Cup Qualifiers and a full tour wrap, catching up with Rinky Hijikata and Storm Hunter after lifting the Burnie International trophies. Paul Aiken jumped on the show to talk about the return of State Grade tennis in Victoria, Lachy Puyol in the US wrapping up the Aussies in college this week and we projected forward what the performance benchmark should be for the Aussies on tour in 2023.
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The First Serve
2w ago
Brett Phillips is back with the first episode of The First Serve for 2023 reflecting on the Australian Open, going inside Team Sabalenka with Data Analyst Shane Liyanage, an update on the new Competitive Play Calendar with Tennis Australia's Lawrence Robertson, Head of Game Development and Pathways, First Serve writer Roddy Reynolds on his piece 'Whats the deal with Wildcards' Matt Barelle, President of the Australian Padel Federation on the inaugural Australian Padel Open and host of our Play USA podcast Lachlan Puyol with the latest news about our Aussies in college catching up with Casey Ho ..read more
The First Serve
3w ago
Padel Pow Wow is hosted by Matt Levey, Game4Padel in Melbourne and Matt Barrelle, the ‘Godfather’ of Padel in Australia and inaugural President of the Australian Padel Federation.
The guys each month go inside the world of Padel in Australia and globally.
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The First Serve
1M ago
Brett Phillips is back with another big episode of the show wrapping up the big bunch of Aussie winners over the weekend led by Max Purcell going back to back on the ATP Challenger Tour. Melbourne trio Taylor Briffa and Ella & Maggie Fitcher were in studio fresh off playing the Pat Cash Cup and chatting about their tennis journey. Swan Hill ITF singles champion Tristan Schoolkate chatted to us, our college wrap and we profiled Australian based 135 Tennis Analytics partnership with Tennis Canada.
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The First Serve
1M ago
Brett Phillips is back with another big edition of the show wrapping up a big week on tour with Iga Swiatek and Carlos Alcaraz returning in style and two Australian Challenger wins to Thanasi Kokkinakis and Max Purcell. In studio was Tim Connolly, Manager of Hume Tennis & Community Centre joined by Australia's No 1 ranked quad wheelchair player, current world number three Heath Davidson to reflefct back on a big January and the big picture of wheelchair tennis. Lachlan Puyol also joined the show with his weekly aussie college wrap catching up with Kody Pearson and Connor Di Marco.
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The First Serve
1M ago
Brett Phillips is back with another big edition of the show wrapping up another big week on tour with the highlight being the breakout win of Yibing Wu of China. Kimberly Birrell joined the show from Orlando after her biggest win taking out the ITF 60K. Tennis Victoria Country Week Tournament Director Andy Reynolds joined. Australian tennis player Matthew Dellavedova was our studio guest with a very revealing insight into his tennis life. Rwandan Emmy Mugisha shared his tennis dreams with us and Lachy Puyol with his weekly US College update, focusing on the Aussies.
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