TENNIS.com Podcast

Kamau Murray is an established tennis coach and community leader who takes you inside the game you love. Tune in each week to hear Kamau interview prolific guests and players, and discuss what really goes on behind the scenes of the tennis tour. 

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Ajla Tomljanovic on life inside of the New York...
"I'm never really used to seeing people in the hotel especially not in New York because usually we all kind of do our own thing with where we stay. And now you see all these players and it’s such a big event that it’s just different so it’s kind of like our own little village."
15 min
127
Steve Johnson on there being more to life than ...
“I don’t want to be gone when important things are happening. So hopefully I can play for a few more years, but there’s going to be a side of me that probably will be more at home than he is on the road.”
27 min
128
Tennys Sandgren on rocking and rolling onward
"It was interesting trying to think about what to do after I got inside of 100; that was always my goal to get inside of 100. It took six years to do that for me. It was like what do I do now?"
27 min
129
Genie Bouchard on making the most of her opport...
"If someone calls you and is like, 'Hey, do you want to be in Vogue, yes or no?' What are you going to do, say no? And tennis brought me that opportunity, so it’s like, of course, I'm a tennis player first and foremost, but it opened other doors."
29 min
130
Daria Gavrilova on finding out what makes her h...
"My last year was so bad that actually, I'm not going to lie, it feels like this year is better."
25 min
131
Julia Elbaba on keeping her pro dreams alive
"Right now it’s just deciding between whether you want to play tennis or you want to just end the career, so at this point it's just, yeah I want to continue, so I’ll have to make the sacrifice obviously."
34 min
132
Brandon Nakashima on being mentally tough
"One of my biggest strengths on the court is definitely my mental game and just being in every point, in every match and not getting too down on myself or getting too excited."
26 min
133
Elliot Loney on impersonating tennis stars
"Comedy is in a way is a lot like tennis. You’re by yourself, you’re thinking through a lot of things. If you have a great gig you feel amazing, if you have a terrible gig it’s like taking a hard loss."
42 min
134
Leslie Allen on speaking freely
"In my generation, it's all new, a black woman on the tour; I better be on my best behavior because I don’t want to mess it up for the next generation. So for [Coco] to have that freedom and to take advantage of that platform, it's fabulous."
39 min
135
Sachia Vickery on raising positive awareness
"I’ve experienced a lot of discrimination. I've been kicked off courts before and told like I don’t belong here and I shouldn’t be playing here. That actually happened really recently."
31 min
136
Jason Harnett on coaching wheelchair players
"I think as a wheelchair coach you have to have some comfort of being in the chair and understanding mobility patterns, understanding chair set up. That takes time."
34 min
137
Donald Dell on always pushing for progress
"I think athletes, if they are organized, can be the biggest element of change of anybody because they have a platform. They can stand up and talk everyday and people want to cover them."
40 min
138
Christina McHale on stretching her comfort zone
"Sometimes it’s uncomfortable the changes that you need to make in your game, but you know that if you don’t make them you’re not going to get to that level."
31 min
139
Artist Bruce Sulzberg on painting Rafael Nadal
"He picked the image by the way, and my time that I spent with him is absolutely priceless."
35 min
140
Andy Gerst on developing a coaching philosophy
"When you’re deeply rooted in the principles and the values that are most important to you then navigating rough waters are a little bit easier."
39 min
141
Rajeev Ram on achieving his Grand Slam dreams
"It is somewhat of a life changing moment. I’m not going to sit here and say it’s not because it was. I tried to win one of these for a long time."
36 min
142
Tom Gullikson on coaching the American greats
"Pete and Andre were obviously as different as a mongoose and a cobra."
28 min
143
Dr. Larry Lauer on improving your mental skills
"It’s hard sometimes when things aren’t going well, but realizing it’s a moment and the next one could be much better allows you to move forward."
41 min
144
Ryan Harrison on ignoring the haters
"That period of my life was tough because I had to try and figure out, at 21, 22, 23 years old, how I was going to turn my career back around into a positive direction where the later stages of my career could be more successful than the early stages."
28 min
145
Sally Bradfield on writing Not Quite 30-Love
"All of the scenarios of what players' lives are like on the tour, and what people who work with them lives are like on the tour, I tried to make as real as possible."
33 min
146
Taylor Townsend on resetting her 2020 mindset
"The more time that goes by, and the more that we’re out of our routine, the harder that it is."
30 min
147
Sam Querrey on becoming a stay-at-home dad
"That's the one good part in this, for me, is that I get to be home with my little newborn son."
26 min
148
Kristie Ahn on producing TikTok hits
"I’ve just been trying to help keep people entertained, even if it's for a couple seconds, couple minutes of the day."
40 min
149
Katrina Adams on making tough decisions
"The decisions that have been made in the sports world, as drastic as they may be, it's the best thing that has happened to, at least, protect those athletes and their families."
29 min
150
A special episode on the coronavirus upending l...
With so much uncertainty stretching before us, and news changing daily, we try to make sense of what has happened in the tennis world, and what players are doing to stay busy.
24 min