Welcome to the Sports Media Podcast. I'm your host, Richard Dyche. My producer is Patrick Antonetti. This is U.S. Open Week, one of my favorite things to cover in my career.

It's been a while since I've done it, but I did 18 in a row for Sports Illustrated,

and it was just absolutely incredible.

And so who better to have on than the tri hosts of the exploding in popularity and publicity,

the tennis podcast, David Law, Catherine Whitaker,

and Matt Roberts are the pilots of that. They've been on the show before. Time magazine just name this podcast on its list of the 100 best podcasts of all time. So that is a massive compliment to them. Now, I'm going to be very honest. That list was all kinds of garbage leadism, to be very blunt. There's things that should have been on that list that were not. Whether you like Joe Rogan or not, there's no more impactful podcast. Ricky Jervase didn't make that list. Part of my take in the sports pantheon didn't make it. So my old employer time, Inc. just sort of confirming all my

priors about too much elitism. That said, these guys deserve it. And I'm really, I was really

psyched because I know how hard all of them have worked to make this podcast incredibly influential in the tennis space. And with that, I bring on David Law, Catherine Whitaker and Matt Roberts. Welcome to the sports media podcast. Thank you for having us. Good to be here. You're welcome. I mean, when you see the number of downloads, you can be incredibly disappointed with this appearance. But I appreciate you slumming regardless. All right.

David, let me start with you.

Don't be one of these self-deprecating Brits here, okay?

How influential now is this podcast, in your opinion, the tennis community?

I think that we are listened to by a lot of people that kind of feel like they matter.

Well, certainly big names, you know, Mary Carillo, Billy Jean King, Pam Shriver,

people you would know.

And I think also just inevitably you find when you go on site to a tennis tournament, people are coming up to us and talking about things that we might have said or subjects that come up.

So we don't always know really how much of an impact we're having until those sort of things happen.

And, you know, it's incremental.

We're in our 14th year.

You know, this started very, very small.

Catherine and me and my parents' dining room

with my parents next door as the listeners.

That was it.

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