British Tennis player Marcus Willis is back on the tour to play doubles so him and his mate Dave Earl thought they'd record a podcast. Here's a unique insight into life at the bottom end of being a professional Tennis player as well as lots of off court nonsense as well.
Marcus Willis and his 'mate' Dave Earl are back and their words are falling into your ears. Willis talks about life back on tour as he sits in the top 250! The boys tuck into how you find a perfect partner, look at coaching options and what kind of targets are realistic. Also on the menu are Wimbledon wildcards and why does Tennis shorten so many words? Contact us on hello@boomtennis.co.uk
We've been away doing stuff but our fragile ego's mean we can't live without the love of an audience. Strap in, buckle up and get ready because we're like Elvis in 1968, this is the comeback special.
Barry Cowan shot to fame when he took Pete Sampras to the limit at SW19 but after that he's been a mainstay on our screens as one of the best commentators in the business. Barry discusses his ideas for British Tennis, reflects on his playing career and looks at what we can do to keep improving standards. What should we give Marcus as a nickname? Drop us an email hello@boomtennis.co.uk or get in touch via Twitter, Marcus is @Willbomb90 and Dave is @boom_tennis. Thanks for listening and if you could lie and give us a good review that would help us!
This is a chat with Danny Sapsford who is a hero in British Tennis and we cover everything from his charity work right through to his impressive career and facing Pete Sampras serve. You can see the great work Danny is doing through his Bright Ideas charity by clicking this link www.brightideasfortennis.orgFollow Marcus on Twitter @Willbomb90 , Dave is on @Boom_tennis and you can email us hello@boomtennis.co.uk . Please rate and subscribe to this podcast and if you could lie and say you enjoy it that'd be even better.
Sportch will change the way you compete at your club. This online box league or ladder is easy to understand, easy to use and will get all ages and abilities competing. Todays podcast is an interview with Sportch creator Josh who talks about the way technology will get us all playing more TennisFollow Marcus on Twitter @Willbomb90 and Dave is on @Boom_TennisPlease spread the word and tell others about the pod
What you talking about Willis is now in it's third season and here's some of the back catalogue. Why not get tucked in and start subscribing and rating us?
Part two of our Pat Cash double header looks at the best he's shared a court with and the best he's seen. Pat opens up about tactics and we talk about whether tennis has less technique now than it did years agoFollow Marcus on Twitter @Willbomb90 and Dave is on @Boom_CoachingThanks for listening and please spread the word
1987 Wimbledon champion Pat Cash joins us for the first of a two parter podcast. In this episode Pat looks at how the last 18 months have effected life on tour, gives his views on vaccinated players and discusses what the future could look like. If you want to follow us on Twitter then Marcus is @Willbomb90 and Dave is @Boom_Tennis. Subscribe and rate the podcast.
This is a quick hello from Dave Earl and Marcus Willis who will be returning to your ears for 'What you talking about Willis', season 3. This is the podcast that's never won an award and unlikely to do so in the future but that doesn't stop us gassing about Tennis and other stuff. The podcast aims to bring you the bits of Tennis that aren't being spoken about elsewhere from what we all see at club level to experts within the game and legends such as John Lloyd and Pat Cash. Have a listen to the back catalogue, like the pod, subscribe and remember 5 stars will help our fragile egos. Contact us tennis@boomcoaching.co.uk
What you talking about Willis a Tennis podcast looking at the stories and people working in Tennis around the world. We talk about the physical, mental, tactical and technical sides of the best sport in the world. Your hosts are former ATP 220 and Wimbledon hero Marcus Willis alongside his mate and pro coach Dave Earl In this Podcast we're joined by John Lloyd! A proper legend of Tennis talks about the game we're watching now, how the likes of Murray could come back on tour and he shares some blockbuster stories from his time on tour. We also get Johns Frankenstein opponent made up of the best he ever faced so step forwards McEnroe, Connors, Borg, Edberg to name a few!Give Dave a follow on Twitter or Instagram @Boom_tennis and Marcus is @Willbomb90. Please rate this podcast if possible lie by saying you liked it! Email and get in contact with us at Tennis@boomcoaching.co.uk
What you talking about Willis a Tennis podcast looking at the stories and people working in Tennis around the world. We talk about the physical, mental, tactical and technical sides of the best sport in the world. Your hosts are former ATP 220 and Wimbledon hero Marcus Willis alongside his mate and Level 5 coach Dave Earl Today's guest is Billy Harris (Twitter: @billyharris95) and he's climbing the ATP rankings the hard way from sleeping in a camper van & eating tinned food through to stringing his opponents rackets. Billy and fellow pro Julian Cash run Tennis Technicians for aspiring players and you can find out more information here www.tennistechnicians.com. Billy competed at Wimbledon as a junior, reaching the second round of the main draw. He competed for Great Britain on multiple occasions, one of his highlights as a junior was winning the U16 European Championships captained by Greg Rusedski.Give Dave a follow on Twitter or Instagram @Boom_tennis and Marcus is @Willbomb90. Please rate this podcast if possible lie by saying you liked it! Email and get in contact with us at Tennis@boomcoaching.co.uk
What you talking about Willis a Tennis podcast looking at the stories and people working in Tennis around the world. We talk about the physical, mental, tactical and technical sides of the best sport in the world. Your hosts are former ATP 220 and Wimbledon hero Marcus Willis alongside his mate and Level 5 coach Dave Earl This episode is the follow up to Dave's top ten list of most annoying things in Tennis from a few weeks ago. If you go back into the archive you'll hear lots of waffle, plenty of experts and all of it is obsessed with TENNIS!Give Dave a follow on Twitter or Instagram @Boom_tennis and Marcus is @Willbomb90. Please rate this podcast if possible lie by saying you liked it! Email and get in contact with us at Tennis@boomcoaching.co.uk
What you talking about Willis a Tennis podcast looking at the stories and people working in Tennis around the world. We talk about the physical, mental, tactical and technical sides of the best sport in the world. Your hosts are former ATP 220 and Wimbledon hero Marcus Willis alongside his mate and Level 5 coach Dave Earl The boys are joined by David Martins from The Tennis Business Academy who has a podcast with bite-size nuggets of information, advice and ideas on all things related to running a tennis coaching programme or club. If you're out there working hard to get more people learning, playing and enjoying tennis, then give it a go. Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-tennis-business-academy-podcast/id1537245139Give Dave a follow on Twitter or Instagram @Boom_tennis and Marcus is @Willbomb90. Please rate this podcast if possible lie by saying you liked it! Email and get in contact with us at Tennis@boomcoaching.co.uk
What you talking about Willis a Tennis podcast looking at the stories and people working in Tennis around the world. We talk about the physical, mental, tactical and technical sides of the best sport in the world. Your hosts are former ATP 220 and Wimbledon hero Marcus Willis alongside his mate and Level 5 coach Dave Earl In this Podcast we’re joined by Mike Dickson The Daily Mail Tennis correspondent who talks about his career, life following the tour, thoughts on the comebacks of Murray and Federer plus he looks back at the best he’s ever seen on a Tennis court. Give Dave a follow on Twitter or Instagram @Boom_tennis and Marcus is @Willbomb90. Please rate this podcast if possible lie by saying you liked it! Email and get in contact with us at Tennis@boomcoaching.co.uk
What you talking about Willis a Tennis podcast looking at the stories and people working in Tennis around the world. We talk about the physical, mental, tactical and technical sides of the best sport in the world. Your hosts are former ATP 220 and Wimbledon hero Marcus Willis alongside his mate and Level 5 coach Dave Earl In this Podcast we’re joined by Alistair Higham who is an international expert on matchplay and momentum in sport. His work on momentum includes advising professional tennis players, footballs teams, coaches, players and athletes. Have a look at www.coachingedgeuk.com and get a 20% discount as well as a free taster course – lets get that win!Give Dave a follow on Twitter or Instagram @Boom_tennis and Marcus is @Willbomb90. Please rate this podcast if possible lie and say you liked it! Email the show tennis@boomcoaching.co.uk
What you talking about Willis a Tennis podcast looking at the stories and people working in Tennis around the world. We talk about the physical, mental, tactical and technical sides of the best sport in the world. Your hosts are former ATP 220 and Wimbledon hero Marcus Willis alongside his mate and Level 5 coach Dave Earl In this Podcast we’re joined by Matt Smith our first ever returning guest who answers the question of whether you have to be loaded to be an elite player. Most top players have spent around $20,000 a year on coaching so if you can't afford that can you make it?Give Dave a follow on Twitter or Instagram @Boom_tennis and Marcus is @Willbomb90. Please rate this podcast if possible lie and say you liked it! Give your feedback via email tennis@boomcoaching.co.uk
What are the most annoying things on a Tennis court? The opponent who looks at the wrong ball mark? The doubles partner who tuts when you miss? The player who tries to win a warm up? Marcus Willis brings his tales from the Tour while Dave has a top ten list of irritations from club level. Please send us yours via email tennis@boomcoaching.co.uk and you could even come on the show to share!Give Dave a follow on Twitter or Instagram @Boom_tennis and Marcus is @Willbomb90. Please rate this podcast if possible lie and say you liked it!
What you talking about Willis a Tennis podcast looking at the stories and people working in Tennis around the world. We talk about the physical, mental, tactical and technical sides of the best sport in the world. Your hosts are former ATP 220 and Wimbledon hero Marcus Willis alongside his mate and Level 5 coach Dave EarlAndy is the curator of System:9 which is a tried and tested system to help train, retain and test a youngsters development on a Tennis court. You can find out more about it all here www.system-9.comGive Dave a follow on Twitter or Instagram @Boom_tennis and Marcus is @Willbomb90. Please rate this podcast if possible lie and say you liked it!
What you talking about Willis a Tennis podcast looking at the stories and people working in Tennis around the world. We talk about the physical, mental, tactical and technical sides of the best sport in the world. Your hosts are former ATP 220 and Wimbledon hero Marcus Willis alongside his mate and Level 5 coach Dave Earl In this Podcast Marcus opens up on why he's chosen to retire from professional tennis, what his greatest moments were, his greatest regrets and he looks forward to his future. Give Dave a follow on Twitter or Instagram @Boom_tennis and Marcus is @Willbomb90. Please rate this podcast if possible lie and say you liked it!
What you talking about Willis a Tennis podcast looking at the stories and people working in Tennis around the world. We talk about the physical, mental, tactical and technical sides of the best sport in the world. Your hosts are former ATP 220 and Wimbledon hero Marcus Willis alongside me his mate and Level 5 coach Dave Earl Today we look at how a Tennis Coach can be the driving force behind players, parents and the club. Our guest is Surrey Performance Manager Justin Sherring who is current coach of Doubles star Joe Salisbury but has also coached Jo Konta and Jack Draper in a colourful career that started trying to beat a wall of an off license!Give Dave a follow on Twitter or Instagram @Boom_tennis and Marcus is @Willbomb90. Please rate this podcast if possible lie and say you liked it!
What you talking about Willis a Tennis podcast looking at the stories and people working in Tennis around the world. We talk about the physical, mental, tactical and technical sides of the best sport in the world. Your hosts are Dave Earl a coach of 20 years and Level 5 qualified alongside Wimbledon hero and former pro player Marcus Willis.Jack Heimann is todays guest and he’s a full time Strength and Conditioning coach who works with all levels of player from juniors through to senior club players. Jack talks about how much we should be doing off court, what good juniors should concentrate on, his wishes for club players and much more. You can follow Jack on Twitter and Instagram @ClearerWayCoach Give Dave a follow on Twitter or Instagram @Boom_tennis and Marcus is @Willbomb90. Please rate and subscribe to this pod and tell others in Tennis what we’re doing.
What you talking about Willis a Tennis podcast looking at the stories and people working in Tennis around the world. We talk about the physical, mental, tactical and technical sides of the best sport in the world. Your hosts are Dave Earl a coach of 20 years and Level 5 qualified alongside Wimbledon hero and former pro player Marcus Willis.In this Podcast we’re joined by Keith Carder who is The Lawn Tennis Association Head of Competition and he’s looking at big changes coming our way. We’ll be reviewing the state of competition and the introduction of the new World Tennis Number which will rank all players in Singles and Doubles. You can follow British competitions on Twitter @LTACompetitions or visit the LTA website and go to the competition page.Give Dave a follow on Twitter or Instagram @Boom_tennis and Marcus is @Willbomb90. Please rate and subscribe to this pod and tell others in Tennis what we’re doing.
Ollie Golding was a junior world number 2 and US Open champion but after reaching an ATP ranking of 327 he gave it all up and now works in banking. Ollie joins Marcus and Dave to talk about his story, what we can learn from the junior to senior transition and how sitting in a hotel room after a loss was a step too far! Email the pod tennis@boomcoaching.co.uk or follow the boys on Twitter, Marcus is @Willbomb90 and Dave is @Boom_Tennis. Thanks for listening and tell your mates!
Sarah Borwell is former GB Doubles number one and now runs Tennis Smart recruiting young players to American college Tennis. In this episode Sarah tells Marcus and Dave why the best of the best have to consider US College above a professional career as well as drawing on her own experiences as a student and player. Marcus regrets having not gone down the College route and tells all young players it's the most professional way of becoming a professsional. Contact the pod on email tennis@boomcoaching.co.uk or follow us all on twitter; Marcus is @Willbomb90, Sarah is @sarahborwell and Davis is @boom_tennisThanks for listening and tell your mates!
Mike Cation is THE commentator whose voice you hear at the start of the podcast "is that a candy bar and an R C Cola"....Marcus and Dave cover a wide range of topics with Mike such as how to boost interest in watching Tennis, the quality of US Tennis, what it's like to see an XL Willis in action and we even mention REO Speedwagon! Email the show on tennis@boomcoaching.co.ukFollow Marcus on Twitter @Willbomb90 , Dave is on @Boom_tennis and Mike Cation is @MikeCTennisThanks for listening
Barry Fulcher was 680 ATP and like most players of his level he struggled to make a living and could see flaws in the British competition system. Barry set about creating a Tennis tour that worked for aspiring players, club players and professionals and in our chat today we cover the LTA Ratings system, club tennis in the Uk and find out that Barry's chasing a record of his own! Follow Marcus Willis on twitter @Willbomb90, Dave is on @Boom_tennis and Barry is on @Barry_Fulcher. If you want to contact us then email tennis@boomcoaching.co.uk. Thanks for listening and keep spreading the word!
Dan Travis from The Art of Winning looks at the stats behind matches and we talk about every level from what makes Federer the biggest pusher out there right through to how you can beat the club level hacker! Dan is on Twitter so give him a follow @DanTravis, Dave is on @Boom_Tennis and Marcus @Willbomb90. If you want to contact us then drop Dave an email tennis@boomcoaching.co.ukThanks for listening and tell your mates!
In todays pod we go back over the career of Marcus Willis and create an opponent that could keep him up at night! We're Dr Frankenstein and we're making the monster!Get in touch with the pod via email tennis@boomcoaching.co.uk and follow us on Twitter @Willbomb90 or @Boom_tennis . Thanks for listening and please like & subscribe to the podcast so more people get to know about us because we both love attention.
Marcus Willis and Dave Earl are joined by one of the UK's best coaches Matt Smith. Matt had a prestigious playing career that was cut short by injury but he's stayed on court becoming one of the best performance coaches working today. We cover junior tournaments, problems with social media, where our young players are going wrong and as it's Matt we have to talk briefly about Liverpool FC! Follow Matt on twitter @smithy_red, follow Marcus on @Willbomb90 and Dave @boom_tennis. To contact the pod email tennis@boomcoaching.co.uk and tell your mates about what we're doing. Thanks for listening.
Marcus Willis and Dave Earl are today talking about the reality of life on The International Tennis Federation Futures Tour. The money is bad, players all make a loss, practice courts aren't available and even the Tennis balls aren't up to it. Here's an insider view to life as a low world ranked Tennis player live from a Greek ITF event. Follow Marcus on Twitter @Willbomb90 and Dave is on @Boom_tennisTell your mates about the podcast and if you have anything you want to say then email tennis@boomcoaching.co.uk
Marcus and Dave look into the way we learn Tennis and whether coaches could have done things differently. Marcus reflects on his junior days as well as what he does today while Dave who is a full time coach reflects on the learning process and observations about junior development. Todays guest is Luke Regan who you can follow on Twitter @lwgregan and he's happy to speak in more depth about the Constraints Lead Approach to coachingFollow Marcus on Twitter @Willbomb90 or Dave on @Boom_TennisYou can email the show Tennis@boomcoaching.co.uk
Marcus looks back at his tight loss in the doubles and talks through how painful it is to lose 10-8 in the tie break. He also talks about how long he can hold onto regret after not winning and he still isn't over the first set against Federer! It's not just Tennis today because we answer all the big questions on the news agenda such as what's the best Chocolate, Crisps and Bread - don't say we're not topical.Follow us on Twitter: Marcus is @Willbomb90 and Dave is @Boom_tennisIf you have any questions email tennis@boomcoaching.co.uk
Marcus is back on tour as the UK enter another month of lockdown. Destination is Greece where he's competing in doubles alongside British player Billy Harris. It's not all about the tour because we delve into working with different doubles partners, how to deal with tactics as well as who is the greatest Rafa or Roger?Please like and subscribe the podcast and if you've got any questions please email tennis@boomcoaching.co.uk
This is the pilot recorded over the phone during the coronavirus pandemic so please excuse the quality! Mics have been ordered. In this W.Y.T.B.W we look at the pay for a low level world ranked Tennis player, Marcus re invents Tennis and becomes Heavyweight Champion of the World and there's lots more waffle in between.Follow Marcus on Twitter and Insta @Willbomb90 follow Tennis Coach Dave Earl on twitter @boom_tennisPlease like and subscribe and if you can be arsed give this some five star reviews
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