2025 Season Review

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Wimbledon, Sports, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Catherine, David and Matt, with the help of voice notes from an esteemed list of colleagues and Friends, look back on the 2025 tennis season.

Part one (00:00 - 40:24) - A very special discussion between Pam Shriver and Mary Carillo on Amanda Anisimova’s resilience, a year of two halves for Coco Gauff, and the way Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz separated themselves from the field.

Part two (40:25 - 1:03:53)- Charlie Eccleshare talks about the Roland Garros men’s final, while Simon Briggs discusses men’s tennis’ hunt for its third man.

Part three (1:03:54 - 1:44:33) - Hannah Wilks shares her perspective on how the sport’s politics got in the way of the actual tennis in 2025 and Matt Futterman helps to close the show with reflections on how a player’s narrative can change over the course of a long season.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast and our review of 2025, our opportunity to look back and relive the highs and lows of the year that was
0:23.1	with the help of some of our favourite, most beloved, most esteemed contributors
0:29.7	and some very familiar voices to regular listeners of the tennis podcast.
0:35.3	There is none more familiar, though, than that of David Law. David,
0:39.7	how are you feeling about reliving 2025?
0:43.7	I feel pretty good about it. Yeah, I'm familiar because you can't get rid of me and I'm old.
0:49.1	But yes, I'm quite looking forward to reliving 2025 because I've mostly enjoyed it.
0:56.6	My kids have this word that they use to describe things that they don't think of that great but aren't terrible, which is mid.
1:04.0	Well, I don't think this was a mid-year.
1:06.6	I think it was better than that, but it wasn't perfect.
1:09.6	So could do better.
1:11.7	When was the last mid-year?
1:15.3	Matt.
1:16.5	Hello.
1:17.3	I wasn't intending for that to be my Matt introduction.
1:22.1	But it just came to me.
1:23.4	We're going with the flow, Matt.
1:24.5	When was the last mid-year in tennis?
1:27.6	Bloody hell, what a tough opening question.
1:30.9	Well, let's think about this as logically as we can.
1:34.5	2020 was bad.
1:36.8	That was worse than mid.
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