Tennisnerd - Talking tennis with industry pros and enthusiasts

Karue Sell, My Tennis HQ

Karue is a former #33 best junior player in the world, #371 ATP professional, and former UCLA college tennis standout. He co-founded My Tennis HQ and regularly shares his tennis knowledge and experience on his YouTube channel. He is also currently on the team of ATP pro Marcos Giron. In this episode, we talk about his career as a player, coach, and YouTuber. We also get into "tennisnerdy" topics like racquets, strings, and how your equipment can mold your game.

Nikola Aracic from Intuitive Tennis

Nikola Aracic is a former top 40 NCAA D1 college player and tennis coach with 25 years of experience. He is one of the leading coaches on YouTube and has built a devoted following thanks to his straightforward approach and coaching methods. In this podcast, we talk about everything from how he got started, to racquets and strings, if it's too late to become a pro and much more.

Coach Evan wrote a book

Evan Gaudreau is a former D1 college player and coach who has developed a quite unique way of looking at tennis. We have talked about his box system and patterns of play in several podcasts before this one, but now he has put his thoughts down into a book called Shell Game. Check it out on Amazon.

Michelle Heidbrink, Tennis Warehouse

Michelle is familiar with most people who follow the world of tennis gear. She is a play-tester, content creator, and podcaster for Tennis Warehouse. Make sure to check out her podcast, Talk Tennis! This conversation goes from racquets to shoes to wine and many other topics. We hope you like it, please subscribe if you do!

Troy Lara, Playtester Tennis Warehouse

I sit down with Troy Lara, one of the long-timers at Tennis Warehouse and an integral part of their play-testing and content team. We talk about how he started at TW, his racquet history and compare our thoughts on recent releases.

Racquet talk with Henrik - Artengo, the Blade 100 and the best tennis balls

Gear tester Henrik Wallensten joins me again on the podcast to discuss his latest batch of test racquets, balls, shoes, and strings. Henrik has contributed reviews to Tennisnerd, the Swedish Tennis Magazine, and strings for the Swedish Davis Cup team. He also likes pizza.

Rick Macci, legendary coach of Williams sisters, Roddick, Sharapova...

Rick Macci is a legendary coach from the US. He has won the USPTA national coach of the year seven times and trained five number-one-ranked players:

Andy Roddick, Jennifer Capriati, Maria Sharapova, Serena Williams, and Venus Williams. We talk about his coaching career, the King Richard movie, his latest passion project, and much more!

Will Hamilton from Fuzzy Yellow Balls

For this episode, I am joined by Will Hamilton, one of the co-founders of Fuzzy Yellow Balls. He was one of the first tennis content creators on YouTube and has since created and sold loads of instructional tennis content with stars like the Bryan Brothers and Martina Navratilova. This podcast went all over the place, from YouTube CPM levels to why Alcaraz's drop shot strategy should be copied (according to data). 

Chris Edwards, Director of content at Tennis Warehouse

If you watch tennis gear reviews, I am sure you are familiar with Chris Edwards and his team. He has worked on content for Tennis Warehouse products for over 20 years. We met in Kennelbach, but didn't have time to sit down for a recorded interview. But we managed to do a longer one over Zoom. I hope you like it!

We cover the review process, racquet history, play-testing and many other topics!

 

Tennisnerd interviewed by Tweener Head

This episode is a little different. Phil interviews me from Tweener Head, a tennis youtuber who you should check out. This is the video version of this interview on his channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36XxBOITCEQ

I hope you enjoy this podcast episode! And don't forget to play some tennis...