Love Tennis Podcast
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James Gray is a journalist and broadcaster and George Bellshaw is a tennis writer, Calvin Betton is a respected tennis coach who knows just about everyone worth knowing in British tennis.
Love Tennis Podcast
2d ago
Calvin Betton and James Gray talk through the last seven days of tennis news while George Bellshaw recovers from food poisoning. (Get well soon, George!)
Garbine Muguruza says she didn't miss "the discipline and the difficulty of the life" in her year off tennis and has decided to retire at the age of 30
Novak Djokovic is playing golf, playing with his dogs but not playing tennis after withdrawing from the Madrid Masters for a "non-medical reason"
Emma Raducanu picks up two more wins in Stuttgart before a creditable defeat by Iga Swiatek, and now heads to Madrid after picking up a wildca ..read more
Love Tennis Podcast
6d ago
Calvin Betton calls in from Bucharest to chat with James Gray and George Bellshaw in London about...
Calvin's team win another title!
Stefanos Tsitsipas has now won Monte Carlo three times, more than Novak Djokovic even (although we all acknowledge he is probably more successful at other tournaments...)
... but perhaps Jannik Sinner should have beaten him, except for a blown line-call overrule by the umpire
Sinner was not the only player to suffer from a bad call over the last two weeks: Nuno Borges got an extraordinarily bad call in Estoril against Cristian Garin so we ask...
Is it time to b ..read more
Love Tennis Podcast
2w ago
Calvin Betton, George Bellshaw and James Gray are back behind the microphones to look at all the biggest stories of the week - and celebrate Henry Patten and Harri Heliovaara's victory in Marrakesh.
The WTA has confirmed that its biggest tournament, the WTA Finals, will be held in Riyadh for the next three years in a deal worth around $50m in prize money
Rafael Nadal is out of the Monte Carlo Masters saying his body 'simply won't allow me'
Danielle Collins wins her second title in a row, this time in Charleston, and has only lost two sets in the last three weeks. We talk about her incredible ..read more
Love Tennis Podcast
3w ago
FACTCHECK FROM JAMES: I said I was watching Charleston on red clay. I was of course watching *Houston*, not Charleston. Houston = reddish brown clay, Charleston = still equals mucky grey-green. Apologies...
Calvin Betton joins James Gray (inews.co.uk) and George Bellshaw (man of the people) from the ATP 250 in Marrakesh to discuss a very busy few days in tennis...
Danielle Collins is the surprise Miami champion after beating Elena Rybakina in the final, losing the first set of the tournament and then not another one after that
But Collins also made headlines after clapping back at the suggest ..read more
Love Tennis Podcast
3w ago
George Bellshaw, James Gray and Calvin Betton are back round the microphone to discuss
Andy Murray picks up two valuable wins in Miami - but then tears two ligaments in his ankle while losing to Tomas Machac
Simona Halep loses on return and gets into a fiery spat with Caroline Wozniacki over wildcards and doping bans
There were defeats for Cameron Norrie, Dan Evans and Christopher Eubanks
Holger Rune was thrashed by Fabian Maroszan (and blamed illness for winning just two games
Denis Shapovalov wins the battle of the one-handers with Stefanos Tsitsipas
Naomi Osaka is beaten by Caroline Garcia ..read more
Love Tennis Podcast
1M ago
George Bellshaw, James Gray and Calvin Betton are back to talk about another week of tennis after the final of Indian Wells...
Carlos Alcaraz won first title since June, beating Alexander Zverev, Jannik Sinner and Daniil Medvedev along the way - although he was temporarily halted by a swarm of bees...
Novak Djokovic was stunned by lucky loser Luca Nardi, his third ever Masters loss to someone outside top 100, and has pulled out of Miami too
Iga Swiatek thumped Maria Sakkari in just 69 mins to win Indian Wells for a second time
Emma Raducanu picks up valuable points but is beaten well by Aryna ..read more
Love Tennis Podcast
1M ago
EMERGENCY PODCAST with James Gray (inews.co.uk) and Calvin Betton (ATP tour coach) to talk about the alleged Saudi Arabian takeover of tennis, and the games reaction to it.
We are indebted to Simon Briggs of the Telegraph, friend of the podcast, for breaking this story and writing some brilliantly detailed stories about it. Read his original pieces below..
On the Premium Tour: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2024/03/11/wimbledon-aeltc-equal-prize-money-atp-wta-contender-tour/
On Saudi Arabia's bid: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2024/03/12/saudi-arabia-launches-tennis-takeover-1-billio ..read more
Love Tennis Podcast
1M ago
James Gray, George Bellshaw and Calvin Betton are back together to look back at a dramatic week off the court (and occasionally on it), discussing the following...
Rafael Nadal pulls out of Indian Wells at the last minute, citing an injury issue - although he seemed fine at The Netflix Slam...
Simona Halep gets a successful ruling from the Court of Arbitration for Sport, her doping ban reduced from four years to nine months and a verdict that she had not deliberately ingested a banned substance
Katie Boulter follows up the best result of her career with... a first-round defeat to Camila ..read more
Love Tennis Podcast
1M ago
George Bellshaw returns to join James Gray (inews.co.uk) and Calvin Betton (ATP tennis coach) to discuss a controversial week on and off the court.
Andrey Rublev was DQed for abuse of an official on Friday - but had his points and prize money reinstated on Monday after appealing to the ATP (More on that story here: https://inews.co.uk/sport/tennis/andrey-rublev-line-judge-default-120k-prize-money-2938316)
Carlos Alcaraz "beat" Rafael Nadal to win "The Netflix Slam" in Las Vegas, but was it more circus than spectacle?
Katie Boulter won the biggest title of her career, coming from behind to bea ..read more
Love Tennis Podcast
2M ago
Eleanor Crooks, the Press Association's tennis correspondent, joins James Gray and Calvin Betton (with George temporarily unavailable). They discussed...
Andy Murray's first win of 2024 before losing to Jakub Mensik - and then coming back next week and beating Denis Shapovalov. Is this still the game for him? Has he only got a few months left?
Ivo Karlovic has finally confirmed his retirement after years out of the game. Was he really just an enormous server and nothing else? What other athletes's freakish size has made them a spectacle to watch?
Anna Kalinskaya beat Jelena Ostapenko, Coco Ga ..read more