Today we have Oskar Paldanius, Finland with us who have won three titles this year! And besides that, of course a lot about Roland Garros!
In this weeks episode we tell you about the semifinal-run of the womens on the ITF-tour, the full Scandinavian finals in Malmö juniors, Rune tells us the stories about his three pics to look out for in Melbourne and most important, we have Malene Helgö with us on link! Ranked 318 in the world she's this year chasing her first Slam appearance. She tells us about her plans for this year, her experience from United Cup in Australia and of course about the Elitserie-week in Sweden.
In this first episode of 2023 we talk you thru the ITF at SALK Open, give you our thoughts of the Davis Cup-selections, the qualification draws of Australian Open, United Cup and of course we want to credit André Göransson for the first title of 2023!
In this episode we have Ludvig Hede as a guest. Hede, born -07, won the J100 in Värnamo in the beginning of the month and have previously won J60 in Oslo in February. And, we follow the last games from the quarterfinal for Cabaj Awad and semifinal for Hietaranta live in the pod.
We have Måns Dahlberg as guest, a fresh NCAA Team Champion with University of Virginia! And, Rune Thomsen tells a interesting story about a player playing 48 tournaments a year!
In this episode we have Oskar Jansson with us as guest. Oskar Jansson had a great success in Kalmar 15K ITF this week getting his first ATP points after winning qualifying and reaching quarterfinals! Besides this we also cover all other results from this week, as always.
Todays guest is Valdemar Pape, born 2003 in Denmark and playing collegetennis for Harvard University. And of course Rune gives us all the insights from having had boots on the ground in Värnamo!
Rune and me are discussing the excuse of not being physically as strong as the international players. And after that, we are happy to have Henrik Heise Korsgaard, born 1996 and former college player as a guest, just home coming after two successful UTR tournaments in Japan. He explain how he looks at his own playing career at the moment.
Ulrikke Eikkeri, the big fighter from Norway ranked 52 in doubles in the world and former 206 in singles. Ulrikke have the last couple of years played a big role in the Norwegian Billie Jean King Cup, which we also talk with her about. Besides this: August Holmgren, Dragos Madaras, Sebastian Eriksson and college!
We talk you thru the Billie Jean King Cup action. And more, of course!
A wrap up over the first three months action of this season. The upcoming Billie Jean King Cup. The national championships for juniors.
We are super happy to have the Swedish number 1 junior Kevin Edengren as a guest in this weeks episode! Kevin made his Grand Slam debut this year and are now ranked 25 in the world on the juniorranking. We talk with him about his set up, his year so far and his plan for the future.
This week we focus a little extra on the great runs by Mirjam Björklund, Max Dahlin and Sander Juuhl Sivertsen!
We talk about the danish league matches, Bella Bergqvist Larssons and RIG Båstads big success and of course a little bit about Runes love for tennis.
This week we are joined by the dane Adam Blicher, the national coach for Faroe Island but also sport psychologist in Denmark. Blicher have a great experience from coaching in clubs, academies and for the federation but also from the podcast "The Adam Blicher Show" that was the first podcast focusing on coaches and coaching tennis.
Bella Bergkvist Larsson, Helsingborgs TK and studying at RIG Båstad joins us today after her two straight titles on the ITF Junior tour. She tells us the keys behind the results, her hard work on practice court, what she have done to help her control her nerves, what she have learned from Johanna Larsson and how easy it is to compare herself with others. And, as always, a wrap up of the Scandinavian results from the last couple of days on all the tours around the world!
This is maybe the best episode in this podcast so far! And that's because Rune have a new sidekick this week - when Linus is out of business Eric Vanshelboim, ATP singles 513 and doubles 308, joins Eric to discuss this weeks happenings in Scandinavian tennis!
Today its a lot of talk about UTR and most interesting, what would Rune do and prioritize if he were the president of ITF? Next week Linus is out and will not take part of the show. Would you like to take Linus place? Text him at linus.se.eriksson@gmail.com or thru Instagram linus_se_eriksson and maybe you will be the one chatting with Rune next week!
This week we have Andreja Petrovic, Norway as a guest! Petrovic is now playing for Florida State University in USA, playing for Hönefoss TK in Norway and represented Norway in Davis Cup in their last tie. And, of course, as always a wrap up of the results from this weeks action around the globe!
In this week we wrap up Davis Cup for the Scandinavian countries and gives a lot of credit to Dragos Madaras for his insane run with four straight titles! And, first and most, we have Lucas Renard as a guest! We ask Lucas, currently ranked 995 in the world, about his run in Edmond, OK to the final, the reason why he likes to compete in the states, his goal setting and tell him to elaborate a bit about about the reasons to his decision to give professional tennis another try!