Episode 7: Why do professional players play?

05/22/22 • 35 min

The Scandinavian Tennis Pod

· The Scandinavians in Algeria!

· Roland Garros! Holger Rune in doubles and the importance of being seeded!

· Why do professional players play?

· Is the summer really a good time to go on practice block?

· The Scandinavians in Algeria!

· Roland Garros! Holger Rune in doubles and the importance of being seeded!

· Why do professional players play?

· Is the summer really a good time to go on practice block?

Previous Episode

Episode 6 with guest Sofia Samavati: "Are you gonna use the points or no?"

This week we're happy to be joined by Sofia Samavati, Denmark, the winner of the Varberg 25K-tournament the last week! We talk about her weeks in Sweden, why the mental training have helped her a lot, what she told herself in the bathroom after the first set in the final and how her set up looks like.

In this weeks episode we also bring up:

why the Swedes don't compete more

what the reason is to hype a players first WTA point when they're not gonna use it to build a ranking

Lilly Håseth in Spain 100K

how big gap it is between juniors and seniors

the weak field in Kalmar but how good that the swedes grabbed the opportunity it gave them

the question over the choice of tournaments for this upcoming week

and of course the 11 byes in Algeria

Next Episode

Episode 8 with guest Filip Bergevi: "Team matches vs. college vs. ITF"

This week we are joined by Filip Bergevi, ATP 778 singles and 343 doubles and we talk about league matches, compared to college tennis compared to ITF future tennis.

Except this we also of course cover the Scandinavian players competing at Roland Garros!

Holger Rune into the fourth round without losing a set

Casper Ruud with his clever decision with competing the week before RG

Sebastian Eriksson is ready for the main site!

The NCAA finals in USA with Lisa Zaar and August Holmgren in action

J5 in Jönköping that was dominated by the Swedes

Three questions from coach Thomas Alm!