2026 - Who’s started well, and who hasn’t?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
The new tennis season is underway! David, Matt and Catherine in Perth discuss everything that’s happened so far.
Part one (00:00 - 42:43) All the talking points from the United Cup in Perth, including some concerns and controversy for Taylor Fritz and Coco Gauff, good vibes in Team Greece, and Stan Wawrinka rolling back the years. But will he receive an Australian Open wildcard?
Part two (42:44 - 1:09:07) We cover the rest of the United Cup action in Sydney, headlined by Poland’s win over Germany, with Iga Swiatek surviving a brilliant performance from Eva Lys and Hubert Hurkacz returning from injury and beating Alexander Zverev.
Part three (1:09:08 - 1:33:01) We finish with some news including Novak Djokovic publicly stepping away from the PTPA which he helped to create.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Tommy Hayes in Oakland, California, and you're listening to The Tennis Podcast. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, hello, welcome to the tennis podcast, and a huge thank you to Tommy Hayes there for introducing this first edition of |
| 0:22.9 | 26 and if you'd like to introduce a show you can as one of the friends of the tennis podcast |
| 0:29.4 | subscription tiers just go to tennis dot supporting cast.fm to see what we have to offer including |
| 0:36.4 | and this is time sensitive, so you better listen |
| 0:39.1 | closely, your pet could be the mascot for our entire Australian Open coverage. Your pet will |
| 0:46.6 | be mentioned in every show and appear in the newsletter during our coverage of the year's |
| 0:50.6 | first Grand Slam, the Australian Open. Wilburden, the US Open, they've already gone. |
| 0:55.6 | So you've only got the Australian Open and running garros if you want your pet to be a Grand Slam mascot. |
| 1:00.3 | So for that or for all of our other tiers, or just to get access to the many friends of the tennis podcast benefits, |
| 1:06.0 | go to tennis.com.com. |
| 1:10.3 | We will announce our presenter mascots at the end of this show. |
| 1:15.7 | Big news, Catherine Whitaker. |
| 1:17.6 | We're announcing presenter mascots. |
| 1:20.1 | The big news that everybody wants to know, though, is why am I presenting this podcast? |
| 1:25.2 | It's because you are not in Putney. |
| 1:29.2 | No, it's because it's 226 in the morning and I'm in Perth and tennis finished at 128 in the morning. |
| 1:38.0 | We are so back, folks. |
| 1:43.9 | We are. Matt's already had a rant. In ways that you might not want to. back folks in ways |
| 1:45.3 | Matt's already had a rant |
| 1:47.1 | in ways that you might not want us to be |
| 1:49.2 | but we are definitely |
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