Special edition of The Tennis Talker Podcast focusing on who my choices would be for Wimbledon Womens main and qualifying draw wildcards

Who will join Katie Boulter and Harriet Dart in July in the Wimbledon main draw and who could get a chance to come through qualifying. Will Emma Raducanu make the main draw?

Listen to my choices and let me know if you agree.

A special edition of The Tennis Talker Podcast focusing on my Wimbledon Wildcard nominations for the Mens Main and Qualifying draws.

Who will join Murray, Draper, Norrie & Evans in the Wimbledon main draw in July and who will get a chance in the Qualifying draw?

Plenty of names but who would be my choices?

Let me know your thoughts

Episode 8 of the Tennis Talker Podcast starts with a round-up of the WTA Madrid 1000 and Madrid Masters Events.

Andrey Rublev returns to form taking the mens title while Iga Swiatek wins the womens event with a brilliant battle with defending champion Aryna Sabalenka

UK Tennis updates includes news on Luke Johnson, David Stevenson, Charles Broom, Arthur Fery and Paul Jubb. In the UK ladies news we discuss Sonay Kartal and Mika Stojsavljevic victories in Nottingham as well as ranking updates for the likes Sam Murray-Sharan, Heather Watson, Emma Raducanu, Lily Miyazaki and Katie Boulter

Junior Tennis News includes updates on Hannah Klugman, Mimi Xu, Ben Gusic Wan, Max Carrier and Jay Johnson-Hauldren.

Other tennis news focuses on the retirement news of Diego Schwartzman and Alize Cornet as well as who attended this weeks Met Gala!

Enjoy the WTA Rome and Rome Masters events everyone

Episode 7 is jammed packed with tennis! Title winners, WTA & ATP ranking updates and British tennis news from ITFs and juniors

Casper Ruud wins his biggest title of his career in Barcelona. Struff maiden title in Munich and Fucsovics wins in Bucharest

Rybakina upsets Swiatek in Stuttgart and goes on to win the title. Raducanu reaches Quarter Finals and looks confident again on clay this week. Sloane Stephens wins WTA Rouen Title

British tennis news includes career high rankings for Arthur Fery & Felix Gill. Ranking rises for Norrie, Draper and Raducanu. Doubles finals for Lumsden, Bains and Patten + much more.........

Have a listen now!

We start Episode 6 by looking at how Emma Raducanu was instrumental in GB's triumph over France in Billie Jean King Cup to qualify for the finals in Seville

Mimi Xu & Oliver Bonding with junior national titles

Success for Henry Patten, Oliver Crawford & Ben Jones in ATP Challenger & ITF doubles tournaments

Stefanos Tsitsipas wins his 3rd Monte Carlo Masters title

ITF success for Bouzas Maneiro, Valentova and Boisson

+ much more!

As well as the usual look at the new ATP & WTA tennis rankings we look at the tournament winners on the first week of the clay court season

Matteo Berrettini wins his 8th ATP title Marrakech, Hubert Hurkacz takes his first clay court title in Estoril and Ben Shelton wins on home soil in Houston

Danielle Collins wins 6 more matches to lift the Charleston Trophy just days after winning her biggest title in WTA Miami. Camila Osorio delights home fans in Bogota by taking the title

There's a British round up including Fran Jones, Giles Hussey and junior hope Tara Lawal.

Finally we discuss the news that Riyadh in Saudi Arabia will host the WTA finals for the next 3 years

Chris Goldsmith aka The Tennis Talker introduces his brand new weekly podcast which gives tennis fans the chance to see what is happening on the ATP, WTA and ITF tennis circuits, looking at the weekly new rankings and other tennis news.

In Episode 4 there is chat about Danielle Collins and Jannik Sinner winning the titles in Miami + the return of Simona Halep and the injury to Andy Murray

There are ATP Ranking updates with chat on Grigor Dimitrov, Fabian Marozsan and Tomas Machac.

WTA Ranking rises for Collins, Azarenka and Podoroska are discussed

The Tennis Talker then talks about the week in British Tennis including big ranking rises for Fran Jones, Lily Miyazaki and another consistent week for Katie Boulter.

British junior success takes the form of Luke Hooper and Brooke Black in Finland

Also getting a mention is the doubles success for Eden Silva and the growing partnership of Heather Watson and Olivia Nicholls

Enjoy!

Coming up in Episode 3.......

A look back at the Indian Wells fortnight.

Alcaraz and Swiatek winning the titles again

Djokovic and Sabalenka losing early

Wozniacki & Kerber comebacks gathering pace.

The Bees!

WTA rankings updates including Navarro, Kostyuk, Yuan and Valentova

ATP ranking updates including Lehecka, Monfils, Nardi & Berrettini.

British tennis news with chat on Emma Raducanu, Mimi Xu, Giles Hussey, Cam Norrie, Luke Hooper & Max Carrier

This Weeks Podcast Poll: Where will Emma Raducanu end up in the 2024 Year end rankings?

Enjoy listening, give me feedback, leave a message and give the podcast a rating if you like!

Cheers, The Tennis Talker