We are excited to announce that The Tennis Podcast is joining The Athletic Podcast Network. The Athletic and the New York Times will help to promote the show, particularly during the Grand Slams, when hosts Catherine Whitaker, David Law and Matt Roberts are covering the events on-site in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York, respectively.

The Tennis Podcast will return to stream its popular live YouTube shows from Wimbledon each night, with a total of 20 podcasts planned across The Championships. After the success of 2023, Catherine Whitaker, David Law and Matt Roberts will be back, overlooking Court 18 at the All England Club, from the Friday before The Championships. As last year, in collaboration with the All England Club, The Tennis Podcast will cover the full breadth of The Championships, including on and off-court talking points with the usual mixture of fun and robust debate.

We are thrilled to announce the launch of The Barge, a new community forum just for Friends of The Tennis Podcast. Over the past couple of years, we have frequently received emails from listeners who told us they love tennis but don’t have many, if any friends who like to talk about the sport. It will sit on our Friends of The Tennis Podcast platform, alongside the excellent new monthly tennis column written by Hannah Wilks, and Hannah will spend plenty of time on The Barge, along with Catherine, David, Matt and hopefully many of you.

Catherine, David and Matt are at Indian Wells for the first time as a trio, as The Tennis Podcast, but it is a tournament that evokes lots of memories for them from attending, working at and watching from afar for the last couple of decades (and more in David’s case). Here, they write about some of their favourite Indian Wells memories.

In 1997, David Law's dream of a job in tennis came true, working as a link between tennis players and the media at The Queen's Club. What he didn't know was what it would involve. How do you convince a player who has just lost 7-6 in the third set to come to a press conference to talk about it when it’s the last thing he feels like doing? What do you say when you are the first person to speak to him? This is the story of how David learned the job, on the job.

The first new podcast for listeners who subscribe to Friends of The Tennis Podcast is called ‘My First Wimbledon’. In it, David Law, Catherine Whitaker and Matt Roberts detail memories of the first time they watched, visited and worked at Wimbledon. For David, a student in the mid-90’s, his first visit led to a bylined piece in the Daily Telegraph. It isn’t available online any more. But he found it in the depths of his hard drive.