The Body Serve

Year-end #1 Elena Rybakina pulled out of the Finals  / Jess Pegula got caught on a hot mic doing what we all do and the WTA swooped in fast (too late, but still) / You asked us to comment on the WTA Finals looks, and let’s just say everybody’s so creative! / Chanel gave us that same jacket they’ve been sending down the runway past weeks / Carlos’ return from injury has been a smash hit, this week dispatching his old coach’s new student and winning his 9th Masters 1000 title 

00:54 We all deserve privacy when trash talking!

10:56 The WTA Finals fashions: It’s Chanel’s fault

21:19 Rybakina out

26:00 Carlos loves men: getting to the bottom of it 

28:37 Breathing life back into the Paris Masters

35:12 Roasting goats, coaching news and a few et ceteras

Elena Rybakina does exactly enough to lock up the year-end no. 1 ranking and Daniil Medvedev secures his seventh trip to the ATP Finals. The focus of this episode, however, is gossip: the collapse of diplomatic relations between Berrettini and Musetti, the relentless self-promotion of Juan Carlos Ferrero, and the GEMS Life comms mishap. Plus, a quick media literacy lesson and some changes to the WADA Code which impact tennis. Finally, World Team Tennis is back and it’s coming to Toronto!

0:45 The end of GEMS Life

6:15 World Team Tennis is back!

10:00 Stop falling for fake quotes, I beg 

13:55 Camilo Ugo Carabelli defaulted for … leaving 

15:30 Recent results: Rybakina secures year-end #1, Medvedev qualifies for Finals

20:20 La chiacchiera: Matteo contro Lorenzo 

27:35 More results: Holger is back!

33:10 Changes to the doping rules: whereabouts, contamination, and K*lshi  

37:45 I’m taking my talents to … 

43:00 Farewell to Gael, Stanley, David

46:35 #Glitter25!

It’s been a minute! We’re catching up on weeks of tennis during the Asia swing, so rather than run through a list of results, we’ve opted for a sort of word association game. Name a player, talk about them for a while. Some examples: Alejandro’s very good and very vindicating week; Coco Gauff dealing with racist abuse and the WTA’s fecklessness in the face of it; Qinwen tops off her Beijing triumph by running Mirra through a karaoke torture chamber; and Jodar’s penchant for screaming at children. Plus, a slightly shady question about the long WTA season, the state of the Race on both tours, and more!

3:55 Ale-ale-jandro

8:10 Rafa Jodar catches another case (deserved) 

14:30 Novak is not dead yet!

20:25 The gays are coming

22:15 Carlos, stop embarrassing us in front of company

28:00 Coco Gauff beats Chinese teenager Sun Xinran, then things get racist 

35:45 A tale of two tantrums

40:55 Zheng Qinwen: not a singer, but an entertainer

45:55 Chwalinska beats the fluke allegations

51:20 Race to the Finals update

0:50 A self-referential question from James to Jonathan about the show itself

16:40 Best legs in tennis?

22:55 The National Bank Open equal pay ad - some Canadian Content for you

28:05 Do you like musicals? Well, yes …

34:00 Who do we want to the third guy in the Sincaraz rivalry?

42:00 Why did Svetlana Kuznetsova miss the Hall of Fame cut?

46:30 Some thoughts on ATP “weak eras”

53:00 FMK: thicc

It's that time again: you submitted tons of great questions for our mailbag, enough to fill two episodes! In part one, we talk about our happiest ever moments as tennis fans; all-time favorite Bravo shows; and the trickiness of navigating players' missteps while learning which hills are worth dying on. 

3:05 Favorite of the 3 Slams we’ve attended

7:30 Tips on navigating the busy US Open

16:25 Our happiest moments as tennis fans

19:20 Worst kits of all time

26:20 Favorite Bravo shows: all-time and current

36:35 A question about race, identity, and how much it’s fair to expect from players