The Rennae Stubbs Tennis Podcast

Listeners of The Rennae Stubbs Tennis Podcast, check out this episode of Courtside with Laura Correnti, live from the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2026, where Women's Sports had its own main stage.

Laura talks to mega-star athletes and entrepreneurs like Allyson Felix and Sue Bird; massive brands like Catalyst, Athlos, and Sequel; and teams like Man City and the New York Liberty. Everyone came together to offer proof points of the Courtside Thesis: "that women's sports are a massive opportunity for any brand, the fandom is the bomb, and no one needs to be convinced that we matter anymore."

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We’ve arrived at the business end of the US Open, and there’s so much to say! From the epics—looking at you, Alex Eala and Iva Jovic—to the curiosities like Anisimova, Medvedev, and Auger-Aliassime, to the downright ugly like Kalinskaya and Jodar, this tournament has it all! And so do we.

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Live from the Seaport Racquet Clubhouse, Rennae and Caitlin discuss the seismic events that have already taken place at this year’s open. We traffic in some MILD speculation about what’s going on with Novak Djokovic, wildcard controversies and the mixed men lifted up by their female partners! 

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Rennae & Caitlin check in from the Seaport, where they can't help but suggest some tweaks from the cheap seats! Recapping Cincinnati ALSO means previewing the US Open—who's looking good, bad, and ugly. Plus: Listener questions!

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Iga is back, baby! The men have stepped up and given us something to cheer for in this hardcort season, starting with Ben Shelton’s impressive win over Brandon Nakashima in Toronto.

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Rennae and Caitlin on Sinner and Alcaraz’s absence and the battle for the 3rd man, as well as the best stop on tour (to at least one of us): Canada!

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Rennae recaps her week in Washington, where Taylor Fritz returned to the winner’s circle, Alexandra Eala broke through with the biggest title of her career, and the next generation of stars continued to make their mark ahead of the US Open. Plus Reader Qs. 

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Rennae’s on the ground in Washington DC and she and Caitlin celebrate the return of hard court season. It’s Lili Tagger’s backhand’s world, we’re just living in it. Plus: reader questions.

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What’s this new WTA new sex testing policy? Who’s in our dream Wimbledon semi? How good does it feel to see Rublev, Badosa, Krejcikova and Sakkari at the business end of a tournament? We answer all these and more!

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Rennae and Caitlin have a comprehensive Wimbledon Report—from Sinner’s step above in the men’s singles draw, Oda’s WC title defense, Kiki Mladenovic back on a podium and junior stars to watch to Noskova’s premiere slam. Plus: the highs and lows of the TV broadcast.

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Rennae and Caitlin discuss a momentous week one at Wimbledon, with no remaining champions in the women’s draw and some scintillating matchups looming on both sides. Who do we got? You’ll have to listen.

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9 x Wimbledon doubles champ Todd Woodbridge and fellow Aussie joins the pod this week to discuss Wimbledon 2026 and the return of the goat. 

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After Tiafoe’s career-defining week and Serena’s surprise Wimbledon entry, the road to SW19 is anything but predictable. Rennae gets into all of this and Reader Q's. 

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Rennae is live and direct from Berlin, where she’s steering the comeback efforts of one Serena Williams ahead of the Williams Sisters reunion at Wimbledon. Plus: grass recaps and reader questions.

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Rennae joins us from the SERENA WILLIAMS TRAINING CAMP to discuss the tail end of the French Open. We talk women’s tournament results (the good, bad, and of course, ugly) and touch on… the other stuff. Also: getting into the secrets we’ve been keeping from each other and Serena’s return to grass courts and her return to pro tennis!

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If chaos is a ladder, this calamitous Roland Garros offers all the men the opportunity of a lifetime to climb. Rennae and Caitlin break down the massive results, the on-court (litigation provoking) obstacles and tackle reader questions. France, if you don’t behave we are taking away your Slam.

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Early exits, shocking losses, and nonstop unpredictability at the French Open, and what’s behind all the outrage over a dinner party? Rennae holds nothing back, delivering candid takes on it all. Plus, lots of reader Qs. 

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After we recover from the highs and lows (and sure, why not—whoas) from Rome, we're already on the precipice of the next Slam of the year. We're gonna call it the French Open, not Roland-Garros, and you can't make us. 

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The illustrious comedian (and D1 college athlete) joins Rennae for  the second time to talk all things Rome, thirst traps, journeymen and everything in between.

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While that describes the absolute carnage in Madrid on the WTA side of things, the men's tournament fizzled out... hard. We run back the highs, lows & whoas of Spain's Master's 1000 and look ahead to who is gonna be backflipping into Rome (and beyond). 

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Yes, we're talking about the court position taken by doubles team Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini. Also ugly is the preventive (we hope?) withdrawal of Carlitos from the rest of clay court season. Plus: BTS from the new (superlative) Rafael Nadal doc that's about to drop on Netflix, and update to the roiling NCAA controversy as the University of Arkansas axes it's entire tennis program, and, of course, reader Qs. 

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Caitlin's back in the chat, fam. We talk about the incredible tennis being played on the red clay from Linz to Stuttgart, Barcelona and Munich—and why Benny Shell's secured the first US male tournament win since Agassi in '02. PLUS: a look at the dwindling Americans in US college tennis and we upgrade our reader Q's to regular segment. Keep 'em coming!

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Clay season is fully underway and the red clay of Europe is where it's all going down. Rennae talks Monte Carlo & Linz and takes reader questions. Helmets on!

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Miami is over, and the Sunshine Doubles singles players (and Taylor Townsend and Katerina Siniakova in women's doubles) repeated—hats off to Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka for doing the extremely difficult. Rennae expounds on what happened and why—as well as where we go from here as clay season looms...

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We gotta get them there, no matter the cost—ok tournaments? A breakdown of Indian Wells, the return of accursed traveler Daniil Medvedev, what's up with Iga? and a little preview of a new and improved Miami.

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Rennae and Caitlin discuss bad behavior online and oncourt—from neckbeard gamblers harassing players to commentator tete a tetes. 

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Of course Rennae and Caitlin beam in from a Racquet Retreat in the desert to get into the first great tournament on US soil, Indian Wells! But first, we touch base on what's up for the future of the USTA: Tennis Australia CEO Craig Tiley's appointment as CEO of the US governing body and how it needs to change. Plus: Serena's comeback seems realer by the minute.

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Live from Melbourne, Rennae and Petko break down the men's and women's draw ahead of the Australian Open—from who's in form to who's in trouble, the Happy Slam promises to have it all.

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e do our damndest not to talk ONLY about Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, who were so clearly ahead of the rest of the pack that it's hard not to give them all the awards. Plus: what do players like Taylor Fritz, Ben Shelton and Alex Zverev need to do to be competitive with the elite pack? 

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From the podiums to the pork chops, we review the year's highs, lows and whoas. Plus: Coco Gauff is the new face of the Mercedes Benz's WTA title sponsorship, and is Serena actually really coming back despite what she says on social media? We think the answer is... yes

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Spain and Italy can't keep their hands off each other, and Rennae ever so slightly relents on the weekly topic of Justine Henin's majestic backhand! As always, we're here to solve all of tennis' problems—from the NCAAs to PTPAs, Tour Finals (just join em, already!) and of course, team competition. As ever, we're thankful for all of you!

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We recap the (predictably, but satisfying) ATP Tour Finals, discuss the Gazprom Open, bid farewell to Chris Eubanks and debate the justifiable entry into the International Tennis Hall of Fame of the GOAT (in our house, her name is Mary Carillo) as well as some guy named Roger Federer. Plus: who got snubbed and why?

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Yes, we recap the WTA Finals on-court results and off-court statements (looking at you on both counts, Elena Rybakina!) and preview what we hope is an exciting ATP Finals. In the spirit of constructive criticism, any billionaire who wants to pay for the year-end tournament to be in front of a rowdy crowd gets a free tennis lesson from Rennae among other prizes!

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We love the new Battle of the Sexes! Just kidding, we hate it and its cynical, gross and insultingly crude existence. We talk all things WTA Finals—matchups, blowouts, blowups and more, as well as go in depth about the brilliant critique of the failure of tennis' establishment to offer good digital content. Sorry, but watching players create meme content is an insult to our intelligence. Plus: shoutout to a Mandarin speaking Anna Blinkova. Hen hao!

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After an action-packed week, Rennae and Caitlin are back, and the end of the year is staring us down the barrel! We talk Saudi Masters 1000, Mira Andreeva's visa snafu and lessons for everyone to learn. If you're gonna wake up in the morning and play pro tennis, come to WIN. Otherwise, call it a day and head to the Maldives. 

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Well how about those cousins—what the triumphant showing in Shanghai between Valentin Vacherot and Arthur Rinderknech (and let's not forget their lady cousin Chloe Pacquet) means for Novak Djokovic's final act as well as Meddy and the lost generation. Plus: A stubborn Coco prevails in Wuhan, JPeg's exhausting run to the finals and a Nick Kyrgios in his feelings about getting a podcast snub from Andy Murray. 

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At this point, who is going to be able to make it through this meat grinder of a season? Do the the tour finals still matter no matter how many friends they lose, or people they leave dead and bloodied and dying along the way? Plus: No matter who REALLY started the conspiracy theories about courts getting slower (looking at you, Roger), you can count on Alex Zverev to whine about it. 

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The tennis establishment is facing yet another complaint from players, and this one's got the top players signed on and is repped by the big guns—Larry Scott. Let's see if they can make progress on meaningful profit sharing, player organizing and schedule changes. They'd better before the Asia swing completely collapses from retirements! We talk Coco vs. Belinda, Meddy vs. Zverev and the encouraging addition to Lerner Tien's entourage in the form of Michael Chang. Takes a champ to know a champ, after all.

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Rennae and Caitlin talk about how now, MORE THAN EVER, tennis needs a compelling third act to its season, not a bunch of under-attended team competitions, exos that nobody cares about and a slew of tournaments in great places like Seoul that are rife with withdrawals. Plus: We touch on the Taylor Townsend controversy, a Czech doubles rekindling and some interesting signs for next year.

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No, that wasn't just for a very disruptive US Open men's final guest that nobody wanted who made everyone wait, it was for pretty much everything else, from the scintillating second half of the singles tournament to the nail-biting wheelchair finals that gave Tokito Oda a career golden slam. We break down the resurgent FAA and Naomi Osaka campaigns, the finals that weren't for Sinner and Anisimova, and of course discuss the Carlitos haircut that started it all as well as an undeniable Sabalenka. We're toasting THREE WEEKS of US Open coverage with a hearty Ranch Water. Thanks for joining!

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Rennae and Caitlin jam on a post-Naomi Osaka/Coco Gauff recap minutes after the one-sided match, weigh in—whether you like it or not—on the Taylor Townsend/Jelena Ostapenko fracas and set up a showdown between our men's faves (and respective countrymen) Felix Auger Aliassime and Alex DeMinaur. 

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Our favorite New Yorkers (who don't sound like it) break down the men's and women's draws and discuss the perils of natural deodorant live from the Seaport Racquet Club.

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Rennae and Caitlin are reunited—with working mics—to discuss the mayhem on the business end of the Canadian Open tournaments, plus the beginning frenzy of Cincy. Meddy's spiritual crisis, Osaka's low moment, Shelton's upswing and Sinner's dominance. It's all here!

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Rennae sits down with one half of the Giggly Squad, former D1 tennis player, comedian and cat trafficker Hannah Berner to talk about everything from Netflix specials to Coco Gauff’s (relatable) serve woes and off-court serves. Bonus appearance from Boots the cat.t

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Rennae and Andrea are all over Washington DC, the kickoff to the US hardcourt swing. Starting with the inimitable Venus Williams—say that five times fast if you're German—who came out swinging against Peyton Stearns and notched her first tour-level win in two years, as well as check ins on Emma Radacanu, Taylor Fritz and Perennial dark horse Ben Shelton. Plus: in a bonus mini-episode,  Rennae is live and direct with Canadian sensation Gabriel Diallo behind the scenes of the Citi Open.

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No we will NOT be talking about any foolishness (male) that happened during the culmination of grass court season (looking at you Ackman, Bill and Kyrgios, Nicholas) and instead we will celebrate what needs celebrating: 2025 Singles Champions Iga Swiatek and Jannik Sinner, whose feet were fleet, shoulders relaxed and strike zones aided by sun-hardened courts. A look back at some glorious also rans from both draws with special shout outs to the spectacular tournament for Amanda Anisimova and the Sliding Doors tragedy of Grigor Dmitrov. 

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Rennae and Andrea snag a few moments between hits to discuss some of the shocking (and not-so-shocking) first round exits, including Coco Gauff's loss to Yastremska, Zverev's five-setter (and mentality issues) as well as Fabio Fognini Fabio Fognining everywhere, like Lord of the Rings. Are Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz the Tik Tok versions of Federer & Nadal? Plus, we dedicate this episode to Rennae's mum, whose favorite tournament was Wimbledon.

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Our very special pre-Wimbledon episode features a chat about the Chad of tennis, Carlos Alcaraz and the controlled chaos of Alexander Bublik on grass. Then UK No. 1 and World No. 4 Jack Draper joins us Live & Direct from our Racquet in Residence at the Fanatics London Flagship (where a free Racquet mag awaits visitors with an in-store purchase). 

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Into the middle of grass season—the uber specific, tiny portion of the calendar—the USTA has dropped the event of the year, the all-star Mixed Doubles extravaganza featuring heroes, villains, the inept and the cuties. We break out of our regularly scheduled week off to bring you this important power ranking of PPM (pegs per match), face cards, and sub/dom dynamics that will leave you agog.

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Rennae and Caitlin swap positions on clay—the latter is done with it and Rennae wants to savor these last moments of the season on terre battue. And what a series of moments it was—two epic and drama-filled finals of this year's Roland Garros—both possessing of incredible narratives on (and off) court. We both give a full chapeau to Coco Gauff's unreal self belief and self possession in weathering the storm of Aryna Sabalenka, who played one of the most brilliant matches of the tournament to take out Iga Swiatek in the semis. On the men's side, an instant classic.

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Rennae and Caitlin join Grounds Pass podcast's Anastasia Folorunso for a live show from McCarren Parkhouse to discuss week one of the French Open. Come for the discussion of Americans on the way up, Roland Garros tournament director in the hot seat over scheduling of women's matches, and a forthright assessment of TNT/HBO's first year of coverage, stay for the live breakdown of the Alcaraz-Shelton match's most scintillating moments by Rennae. 

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Upsets, triumphs, sartorial hits and misses—and a bonus little coaches corner. What ELSE can you possibly ask for from this, our first show grappling with Roland Garros (as Charles Barkley refuses to call it). Buckle up, helmets on, let's get into it.

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No, Casper Ruud did NOT almost have Jannik Sinner—but he might still be a favorite for Roland Garros, along with four women and Carlos Alcaraz. We recap the Italian Open—from the exquisite (Paolini's movement, Alcaraz's toolkit on natural surfaces) to the atrocious (Errani's serve, Zverev's rants).

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The matches in Rome are scintillating, and our faves are sliding here there and everywhere. We review Sinner's return, watch as young American Peyton Stearns picks up another win over a grand slam champ, and go deep on why tactics and strategy matter so much on natural surfaces.

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No, it's not the name of the Kentucky Derby winning horse—it's the problematic background colour of the Madrid stadium! We celebrate the Oatmeal Stallion, Casper Ruud, and his victory on the Spanish clay, toast Coco's excellent comeback week despite falling a bit short in the final against Aryna Sabalenka and revel in the best camera angle in tennis history? 

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Electronic line calls gone wrong! Claylor Fritz! Chipotle Stadium! Coco love disguised as harsh coaching! All the clay season drama coming out of Madrid is fair game—but conspiracy theories about rigged draws is where we draw the line. Plus: Coaches corner with some interesting staff changes and updates from across the spectrum, from Dinara Safina to Patrick Mouratoglou.

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What do Iga Swiatek, Novak Djokovic and Coco Gauff have in common (besides some Grad Slam titles)? They're all officially on our Worry Index for players who need to turn things around to reset their season. We talk about the chaos agent that is Jelena Ostapenko, the rebound of Holger Rune and some scattered pot shots from deodorant to shower drug tests.

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Despite frigid temps in New York, Rennae and Caitlin celebrate the full-throated return of Clay SZN, featuring some great early runs on the slidey stuff from Jess Pegula, Americans Tommy Paul, Frances Tiafoe and Jensen Brooksby as well as celebrate the newest Australian: Daria Kasatkina. Plus: Should tennis boyfriends star in brand deals? And Rennae's Coaches Corner dissects the Marat Safin / Andrey Rublev partnership.

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Petko joins Rennae on the pod to recap an eventful Sunshine Double, where Aryna Sabalenka and the women are more than making up for the existential dilemma facing men's tennis as the stars continue to fade and the new faces falter. Plus: A daring new t-shirt design inspired by the legend herself, Serena.

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Rennae and Caitlin attempt to break down the well-intentioned? Ill-intentioned? obvious yet nonsensical? PTPA lawsuit filed against both tours as well as clear up the rules about acute injuries, discuss the Raducanussaince and give some deserved guff to the tournament organizers.

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Who saw Jack Draper and Mirra Andreeva coming as Indian Wells champs? Not us—but look out, Rennae is calling it now: Wimbledon 2025 champs. We break down the intriguing matches in California and look forward to the second half of the Sunshine Double: Miami. Rennae is on the scene and reports back from who's looking good and who needs a win.

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Rennae and Caitlin are together at the BNP Paribas Open, where we spent International Women's Day with Meghan Robson, the Head of US Credit Strategy for BNP Paribas and a lifelong athlete. Meghan joined us to talk about how sport can be credited with helping women in all walks of life, including business, and how her journey as a youth hockey player left her with a mean slapshot and a good head for assessing risk.

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Rennae talks to the woman behind everyone's favorite Grand Slam success story about learning to love the process in tennis, her decades-long journey on the tour and how a little therapy and playing brave pays off. 

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We give deserved standing ovations to the players who've gotten their inner games of tennis together—looking at you Mirra Andreeva, Andrey Rublev and of course, Madison Keys! Also a slightly inappropriate discussion of the hottest tennis match ever, a brief detour through South America and we'll see you in Indian Wells! 

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Cooler heads have prevailed—thanks largely to the unrelentingly detail-oriented guest host Andrea Petkovic—and we painstakingly dissect the two big controversies currently embroiling the pro tours: Jannik Sinner’s doping ban and Elana Rybakina’s coaching imbroglio.

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Are the new rules governing mixed doubles at the US Open akin to tiddleywinks? Did the WTA do right by all players by banning Vukov? Should the hosts of this podcast be Chancellor (and vice chancellor) of tennis? All this and more answered by your favorite duo of intrepid tennis conversationalists.

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The podcasts favorite guest and sometime co-host Sam Stosur joins Rennae to talk about everything from toilet break rule changes to post-match trauma and going to therapy!

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Rennae and Andrea break down the business end of the Australian Open, featuring a recap of the glorious matchups between Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz, Sinner's dominant Slam performance (and what it will take for Zverev to win one) as well as the story of the tournament: Madison Keys romp to victory.

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Rennae brings fellow ESPN commentator Caroline Wozniaki to the pod for the first time to catch up with her comeback, a recap of the Coco Gauff/Paula Badosa match and her predictions for the rest of the tournament. Then Joan Rivers/Andrea Petkovic recaps Aryna Sabalenka’s slugfest against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, chides the Australian tv pundit Tony Jones over his Novak Djokovic taunts and asks the most important question: Should we all go to broadcasting school?

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Rennae and Petko are back in effect down under, coming through live from the Australian Open with behind-the-scenes takes on the first two rounds of play, including Coco Gauff's massive improvement.

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Rennae and Caitlin talk DOs and DON’Ts for 2025, shout out Coco Gauff for carrying the US to victory in the United Cup, applaud the WTA for taking a firm stand in the Elena Rybakina coaching conflagration, and scratch our heads at Nick Kyrgios latest foolishness.  Plus: a sit-down with e.l.f. CMO Kory Marchisotto on putting money where it matters in women’s sports.

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Rennae and Caitlin sit down with Nick Pachelli, author of the tennis world's most coveted coffee-table travel book The Tennis Court, to discuss his favorite travel destinations, which locations might appear in a hypothetical sequel book, and which tennis personalities we all think would make for the best travel companions. Let us know your picks in the comments/reviews!

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Will 2024 be Iga's year of purging demons so 2025 can come back stronger? What was with Paula Badosa's strange US Open ender? Yes, Rennae and Petko finally discuss some of the men and what they might get up to next year (including Rybakina's new coach, Goran)! 

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Hello, Puzzlers! Puzzling with us today: former tennis player and host of "The Rennae Stubbs Tennis Podcast," Rennae Stubbs!

Join host A.J. Jacobs and his guests as they puzzle–and laugh–their way through new spins on old favorites, like anagrams and palindromes, as well as quirky originals such as “Ask Chat GPT” and audio rebuses.

Subscribe to The Puzzler podcast wherever you get your podcasts! 

"The Puzzler with A.J. Jacobs" is distributed by iHeartPodcasts and is a co-production with Neuhaus Ideas. 

Our executive producers are Neely Lohmann and Adam Neuhaus of Neuhaus Ideas, and Lindsay Hoffman of iHeart Podcasts.

The show is produced by Jody Avirgan and Brittani Brown of Roulette Productions. 

Our Chief Puzzle Officer is Greg Pliska. Our associate producer is Andrea Schoenberg.

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Hello, Puzzlers! Puzzling with us today: former tennis player and host of "The Rennae Stubbs Tennis Podcast," Rennae Stubbs!

Join host A.J. Jacobs and his guests as they puzzle–and laugh–their way through new spins on old favorites, like anagrams and palindromes, as well as quirky originals such as “Ask Chat GPT” and audio rebuses.

Subscribe to The Puzzler podcast wherever you get your podcasts! 

"The Puzzler with A.J. Jacobs" is distributed by iHeartPodcasts and is a co-production with Neuhaus Ideas. 

Our executive producers are Neely Lohmann and Adam Neuhaus of Neuhaus Ideas, and Lindsay Hoffman of iHeart Podcasts.

The show is produced by Jody Avirgan and Brittani Brown of Roulette Productions. 

Our Chief Puzzle Officer is Greg Pliska. Our associate producer is Andrea Schoenberg.

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Rennae and Andrea discuss which WTA Players are (or should be) putting in the hard yards in the offseason, and whom we've had to block for making us feel bad for training too hard! Will this year be the comeback for Maria Sakkari we'd all love to see? Can Coco build on her end of year momentum? Is Qinwen Zheng the best clay rival for Iga? All this and more in the WTA edition of the 2025 predictions year end spectacular (sans Caitlin, who went to eat cookies).

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What is the purpose of exhibitions? How is an off season best used? Should NFL players wear helmets? We tackle all of these burning questions and more with our very own Angela Merkel, Andrea Petkovic, who has been elected against her will to serve as global tennis commissioner.

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Any podcast can discuss the latest headlines about Iga Swiatek and Jannik Sinner's positive tests for banned substances, but can they come up with alternative universes of tennis, where ALL drugs or NO drugs are allowed? We discuss wild hypotheticals, sympathize with players forced to run their own businesses (and pharmacies) and call for a little more star power in 2025 player boxes. 

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That's right, Petko is back with sizzling hot takes (and grammatical innovations) about the smattering of finals (ATP & WTA, BJK and Davis Cup) to the retirements and coaching unretirments that have everyone talking. Is tennis like a drug? Was Bob Bryan right to bench his doubles specialists? Does Jannik Sinner deserve to be considered for the Sportsmanship award? All this and more in this tour de force episode.

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Rennae sits down with business leader Ilana Kloss and the woman the team competition is named after at the namesake event—the Billie Jean King Cup—live from Malaga, Spain, to talk about the explosive growth in women's sports and highlights from the most important team competition in tennis.

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A rollicking romp through both the WTA Finals and early rounds of the ATP Finals, with necessary fashion and photo portrait critiques, with side quests into movie recommendations and bonus advice for wannabe commentators. We'll see you on Threads to discuss!

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After holding ourselves to a minimal amount of external processing about the election—we discuss the beginnings of the WTA Finals, the Paris Masters showdown between Karen Khachanov and Ugo Humbert as well as some things tennis can learn from baseball.

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Ben Shelton! Frances Tiafoe! Please learn how to volley—Rennae will be hosting an ATP clinic on the matter. In the meantime, we discuss the rise of French giant Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard and how some players are using the Asia to springboard back into form—looking at you, Sofia Kenin. Plus foodpix and reader questions, of course.

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Yes, Rennae talks about the New York Liberty again, but it's the last week (for the next year, anyway, let's hope). We shout out the great Ningbo final moments, the weird Six Kings event, as well as tackle... you guessed it, reader questions. 

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Rennae and Caitlin break down two GREAT finals between Sinner and Djokovic, and Sabalenka vs. the (slightly prickly?) Qinwen Zheng in China, plus: how not to hit 19 double faults in a match, we say goodbye to Rafa and feeling like you got in the wrong line at security.

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Eliza Wastcoat joins Rennae to talk about the notable results stemming from Asia—including some controversial umpiring and surprising results seeing Coco Gauff prevail over Karolina Muchova in Beijing. 

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Rennae and Caitlin have a solution for the Jannik Sinner steroid saga: Involve us. What could possibly go wrong? Plus: We cover all the latest from Asia, talk about our aging bodies and take reader question.

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We didn't watch you, but we DO have a lot of opinions about how to pull off the perfect exhibition! Plus: reader questions, Racquet's story of transformation after tumult in the New York Times, and Rennae loves the WNBA.

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Rennae and Caitlin can't resist hopping on the coaching carousel for a minute to speculate about how and why partnerships come together and resolve—in particular the news of Naomi Osaka and Wim Fissette's parting and the rumors of her new pairing with Patrick Mouratoglou. Plus, we talk about being the main character on Twitter, or what's left of it, and the insanity of the pro schedule.

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Petko, Rennae and Caitlin wrap up the US Open and get into the meat of the on and off court storylines: the winners, most improved and... least improved. Also, Nick Kyrgios commentator vs. Nick Kyrgios the Tweeter, Brad Gilbert coaching panel and the secret Honey Deuce hack only two of us knew about.

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Rennae is joined by fellow legendary player, broadcaster and coach of Donna Vekic Pam Shriver to recap week one of the US Open, including some big upsets and late nights. Plus: A look ahead to week two, and some coaching BTS you won't want to miss!

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The gang is back together in studio to preview the US Open—Caitlin predicts the Dobel twins, Aryna and Taylor, Rennae's got Carlitos, but don't count Sinner out, despite recent controversy. And Andrea (of Substack) breaks down the actual Sinner details as objectively as possible.

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Rennae and Caitlin are reunited, and it feels fine—as we do our first official podcast as part of the iHeart & Deep Blue Women's Podcast Network live from Fanatics Fest. We recap our respective Summers, discuss Carlitos' eviction from his own brain, and welcome storied writer Foster Kamer, author of the Issue No. 25 cover piece about Andre Agassi's return to tennis, to talk... you guessed it, Andre Agassi. 

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Rennae Stubbs & Sam Querrey recap the 2024 Olympic Games and break down the hard court season, from Novak's redemption to what it will take for Naomi Osaka to right the ship. 

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This year tennis is going from Paris to Paris between the French Open and the Olympics both taking place at the legendary Roland Garros. Co-hosts Rennae Stubbs and Sam Querrey talk to tennis legends and legendary voices—and on this episode they analyze the Semifinals at Wimbledon and recap the Quarterfinals. From Novak Djokovic's fiery win against Holger Rune and subsequent walkover over Alex de Minaur, to Emma Raducanu's tournament, which included withdrawing from the mixed doubles draw after pairing with Andy Murray and everything in between.

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Rennae and Petko are live from the player's area wrapping up a wild (and week) week one at Wimbledon.

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This year tennis is going from Paris to Paris between the French Open and the Olympics both taking place at the legendary Roland Garros. Co-hosts Rennae Stubbs and Sam Querrey talk to tennis legends and legendary voices—and on this episode they break down the Wimbledon draw & preview the tournament. Plus conversation around the US Olympic tennis team & Rafa playing doubles in Paris.

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At long last, Caitlin joins the show to educate Rennae on the difference between a fact and an opinion, plus we love the Olympics, Carlos Alcaraz and maybe the new French Open broadcasters?

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