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A LOT is covered in this bumper episode of Murray Musings, as our hosts sit down to chat with Courtney Nguyen, the WTA Insider! Courtney covers a lot of ground in this extended conversation, opening up about her past and how she found her feet within the complex world of tennis media. She also admits to being a rather obsessive fan of Andy Murray back in the day and unpacks the reasons why she was rather fascinated by him. The French Open and Andy's upcoming match with Benoit Paire at Queen's Club this week is also discussed in detail!

WTA Insider and Senior Writer Courtney Nguyen joins Host Alex Gruskin for our Cracked Racquets 2020 WTA Award Show.  They each make the case for their respective Most Improved, Newcomer, and Player of the Year award winners. They also run through a few of Gruskin’s personal award recipients, discussing the sustained excellence of Simona Halep (this year’s Ben Stiller Award for Consistent Underrated Excellence recipient), the brilliance of Naomi Osaka (Winner of the No You Shut Up And Listen Award) both on and off the court in 2020, and so much more!! Don’t forget to give a 5 star review with your twitter/instagram handle for a chance to win some FREE CR gear!! This episode brought to you by: DraftKings

On the week of a massive milestone anniversary in women's tennis history, Ben and Courtney set the table for a discussion of the Original 9, the group of women who broke away from the tennis establishment and risked their careers in order to make women's professional tennis into a viable sport on September 23, 1970. An interview with Kristy Pigeon, one of the nine, will be here on NCR soon, so Ben and Courtney wanted to set the stage a bit and explain what the Original 9 was, why they matter, and why their stories still resonate. Courtney has been doing lots of great stuff about the Original 9 over at WTA Insider, so go listen to Gladys Heldman, listen to Judy Dalton, or (re)visit NCR's chat with Julie Heldman. Thank you again for the incredible support for NCR we've received over the course of the 2020 U.S. Open on the NCR Patreon! If you'd like to join in, check out our five tiers and see which might be right for you! And thank you to the many listeners who have already given their support! (And thank you to G.O.A.T. backers J O'D, Mike, and Charles Cyna!) As always, thanks for following us on Twitter and subscribing/reviewing on iTunes on iTunes or whatever your podcasting app/platform of choice may be.

Timea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic picked up right where they left off in 2019. Having capped off the season by winning the Shiseido WTA Finals Shenzhen, the duo became the first team since 2004 to win the Australian Open title without dropping a set, extending their win streak to 11 matches.  The pair catch up with WTA Insider after their title run in Melbourne, to go deep on how their true friendship was formed and why, without it, Team Babos/Mladenovic would not exist. 

Simona Halep played the match of her life to defeat Serena Williams 6-2, 6-2 to win 2019 Wimbledon. The World No.7, who will rise to No.4 on Monday, dropped just one set over the fortnight to become the first Romanian to win the Wimbledon singles title, her second major title in the last two years.  Hear Halep address reporters after her big win and then sit down with WTA Insider for a candid chat about what triggered her renewed mindset at Wimbledon and what it portends for the future. 

WTA Insider catches up with reigning US Open champion Naomi Osaka at the Brisbane International after her off-season recharge. The 21-year-old discusses how things have changed at home after her breakout 2018 season, her New Year's resolutions, and how fame has impacted her biracial identity. 

With Naomi Osaka reaching the U.S. Open final, Ben and Courtney revisit the first time we discussed her, back on Episode 83 in August 2014. We had never heard of her before that week, but we were immediately intrigued and excited. We get a lot of things wrong on NCR, as anyone who listens knows, but we think we got this one right. We also mention Courtney's interview with her on WTA Insider. We'll be back after the finals to wrap up this whole very steamy tournament. As always, thanks for liking us on Facebook (leave comments on the episode thread! Engage with other listeners!), following us on Twitter (discuss this episode with hashtag #NCR213!), and subscribing/reviewing on iTunes on iTunes or whatever your podcasting app/platform of choice may be!

Laura Siegemund was on a clay-court roll last spring before she went down in a heap ahead of the French Open, blowing out her ACL during a match at the Nuremberg Open. Sidelined for 10 months, Siegemund used her time to further her psychology studies and dip her toe in public speaking.  Siegemund returns to her hometown tournament at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix this week as the defending champion. WTA Insider caught up with the German two weeks ago at the Volvo Car Open, where she made her tour-level return. Subscribe to the WTA Insider Podcast and be sure to leave us a review if you like what you've heard. 

Monica Niculescu has the most unique game on tour and a cult following to show for it. The 20-year-old Romanian relies heavily on a forehand slice that can drive her opponents batty, as evidenced by her gritty three-set win over Maria Sharapova in February.  WTA Insider caught up with Niculescu at the BNP Paribas Open to get a better sense of how she's been able to build a successful career with a game built on the forehand slice. Subscribe to the WTA Insider Podcast to ensure you never miss an episode when they go live. 

After an ill-timed hand injury derailed her 2017 season, Sam Stosur is healthy and ready to get back in the mix. WTA Insider caught up with the Aussie ahead of her home tournament at the Brisbane International to talk about her injury disappointment, how she spent her time off the tour, and why she's already got her eye on the Parisian clay.  Subscribe to the WTA Insider Podcast on iTunes, Soundcloud, or any podcast app of your choice to ensure you never miss an episode when they go live. 

WTA CEO Steve Simon and President Micky Lawler sit down with the media at the BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore presented by SC Global to look back on the WTA season, both on the court and off the court.  Simon discusses the "new era" of stars ushered in by the 2017, discusses the tour's decision to diversify its digital offerings for fans, and looks ahead to the 2018 season. Will the WTA Finals stay in Singapore or move to a new city in 2019? Simon breaks down the bid process.  Subscribe to the WTA Insider podcast on iTunes or any podcast app of your choice to ensure you never miss an episode when they go live. 

Martina Navratilova joins the podcast to discuss the different challenges of winning a Slam vs. finishing a year No.1, and gives us on a history lesson on why the majors were not the top priority for players in the 70s and 80s.   Navratilova also breaks down the surprising field at the BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore presented by SC Global and reflects on a 2017 season that saw four different Slam winners and over 40 different title winners.  Subscribe to the WTA Insider podcast on iTunes or any podcast app of your choice and follow WTA Insider on Twitter @WTA_insider. 

World No.1 Simona Halep reflects on her dramatic finish to win the inaugural Porsche Race to Singapore, beating out Garbiñe Muguruza by just 40 points to end the regular season atop the Porsche Race to Singapore leaderboard. In a season that saw the Romanian stumble out of the gate due to injury before finding her form at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, Germany. From there, Halep steadily climbed the Leaderboard in a season that saw adversity turn to triumph by season's end.  Subscribe to the WTA Insider Podcast on iTunes or any podcast app of your choice and follow WTA Insider on Twitter @WTA_insider. 

World No.3 Karolina Pliskova sits down for a casual and free-wheeling chat about her stellar 2017 season, which saw her rule the hard courts, make a surprise run to the French Open semifinals, and get comfortable in the role as one of the tour's marquee players. Subscribe to the WTA Insider Podcast on iTunes or any podcast app of your choice and follow WTA Insider on Twitter @WTA_insider. 

On this week's episode, host Jon Wertheim talks with WTA Insider senior writer Courtney Nguyen from the China Open in Beijing about the fall season in Asia and tennis' move into this market. The pair discusses globalization, what tennis is like in Asia, how it compares and contrasts to tennis tournaments in Europe and the United States, how players adapt and adjust to the culture and way of life in Asian countries, what the fall swing is like for players who represent Asian countries, Asia's influence on tennis and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Once called "the Liza Minelli of women's tennis", Rosie Casals was built to be a revolutionary, and as one of the WTA's "Original 9", revolutionize she did. Casals joins the WTA Insider podcast to reflect on the history of the tour, discuss the upcoming Battle of the Sexes movie (spoiler alert: she was not a fan of Howard Cosell), and issue a rallying cry for current players to reconnect with the past. Subscribe to the WTA Insider Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn or any podcast app of your choice. Like what you hear? Be sure to leave us a review on iTunes.  Follow WTA Insider on Twitter @WTA_insider and follow all our work at www.wtatennis.com.

In Episode 11 of Burn It All Down, WTA Insider senior writer Courtney Nguyen joins Lindsay Gibbs, Brenda Elsey, and Jessica Luther. They ruminate about sexism in tennis, the U.S. Women’s Open being played at Trump National Golf Course, and where Title IX is headed under the new secretary of education. Then they burn some stuff and praise some bad ass women before capping it off with the games they’re excited to watch this week. Intro (1:26) Wimbledon re-cap (4:23) How tennis media treats male and female players differently and how they get stuff wrong about women (10:36) Different child care accommodations in men’s and women’s tennis (13:38) Wimbledon champion Muguruza, her coach, Conchita Martinez, and Spanish media (18:00) when a national tennis press corp isn’t used to a top-ranked female player (21:36) back-to-back female grand slam winners with female coaches (22:18) court scheduling issues on Manic Monday at Wimbledon (29:30) U.S. Women’s Open was played at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, over the weekend and the literal intersection of politics and sports (45:50) Title IX under the new secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, and what that means for the issues of equity in sport and gendered violence on campuses (57:27) Burn Pile - Courtney burns British media (1:01:55) Jessica burns the Mayweather v. McGregor press tour (1:03:25) Lindsay burns the IOC (1:05:18) Brenda burns FIFA (1:07:33) Bad Ass Woman Of The Week: Venus Williams (1:09:01) Honorable Mentions: Wimbledon Champion Garbiñe Muguruza (1:11:49) Judy Murray (1:14:54) Girls Travel Baseball (1:16:22) Sporting events we are looking forward to this week (1:20:58) Links: No Challenges Remaining podcast: https://nochallengesremaining.podbean.com/ Azarenka on family-friendly tour policies: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/tennis/wimb/2017/07/05/victoria-azarenka-speaks-out-wta-tour-family-friendly/452239001/ Conchita on Muguruza: https://elpais.com/deportes/2017/07/12/actualidad/1499855244_626939.html Court scheduling: http://www.tennis.com/pro-game/2017/07/williams-vs-ostapenko-at-wimbledon-as-court-questions-arise/67523/ How Donald Trump is ruining the U.S. Women’s Open: https://thinkprogress.org/us-womens-open-trump-eb7375c2cd94?gi=6f7522cc1ce2 Why LPGA stars wouldn’t criticize Trump: https://www.sbnation.com/golf/2017/7/13/15956260/donald-trump-us-womens-open-2017-lpga-bedminster Brennan on the USGA and sexual assault: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/brennan/2017/07/11/usga-denounce-sexual-assault-u-s-womens-open-donald-trump/469245001/ Fears about Title IX: https://thinkprogress.org/how-the-trump-administration-is-systematically-attacking-title-ix-21bde2f73fc6 and https://thinkprogress.org/betsy-devos-could-be-bad-news-for-womens-sports-5f82bccd678b Title IX and the courts: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/15/opinion/fighting-college-sexual-assault-in-the-trump-era.html?_r=1 Burn Pile: Mayweather vs. McGregor’s hellish press tour: http://deadspin.com/mayweather-drops-the-word-faggot-on-mcgregor-in-the-p-1796935588#_ga=2.34530785.1704286046.1500341497-1825753096.1466477751 IOC and Rio debt: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2017/07/09/ioc-balks-at-helping-rio-with-35-40-million-olympic-debt/103560604/ Women in Iranian soccer stadiums: https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/vva9am/stadiums-are-still-closed-to-women-in-iran and https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-soccer-karimi-shojaei-women-stadium-ban/28606648.html BAWOTW: Venus v. Muguruza in the final: http://www.wtatennis.com/news/wta-insider-live-blog-wimbledon-2017-day-12-final-venus-williams-vs-garbine-muguruza Judy Murray: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2017/07/06/judy-murray-exclusive-interview-sport-good-roots-need-invest/ and https://miss-hits.co.uk/ Girls Travel Baseball: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2721039-girls-travel-baseball-team-mlb-youth

With the WTA season wrapping up in Singapore this week, there's no better time to check in with women's tennis boss Steve Simon, who is finishing up his first full year as the tour's chief executive. It's been a turbulent year in tennis, at times, but Simon also made waves of his own this fall by expressing interest in revamping the tennis scoring system to shorten singles matches, including eliminating third sets in lieu of super tiebreaks. Speaking to Ben by phone from Singapore on semifinal Saturday, Simon discusses that as well as other various tour quandaries, including what, if anything, the WTA has planned to cover for its exodus from the ATP Media controled streaming platform, TennisTV, starting in 2017. Speaking of streaming, we then shift to an issue that more affects the journalistic side of the equation: the live streaming of press conferences. After a snippet of the Steve Simon's State of the WTA address via the WTA Insider podcast, We bat around the topic in a roundtable with two NCR favorite guests, Reem Abulleil and Simon Cambers. And as always, thanks for liking us on Facebook  (leave comments on the episode thread!), following us on Twitter (discuss this episode with hashtag #NCR169!), and subscribing/reviewing on iTunes or whatever your podcasting app/platform of choice may be. (This episode title is not a band name...yet.)

With the WTA Finals underway, Ben chats up our Singapore correspondant, Courtney, to talk about how the tournament is shaping up. How very impressive is Sharapova's ability to make successful comebacks time and time again? Is this a glimpse at a post-Serena world? And what of the bigger emphasis on doubles, including the new fan favorite Chan sisters? Speaking of doubles siblings, what does it mean for the Bryans to lose the top ranking? And in men's singles, why was Nadal-Rosol's resumption of unniceties the perfect reminder of why we care about tennis? Lastly, we introduce you to Courtney's new WTA Insider podcast, Ben talks about architectural karma, and these pretzels are making Courtney homesick. As always, thanks for liking us on Facebook, following us on Twitter, and subscribing/reviewing on iTunes or whatever your podcasting platform of choice may be!