Hi, my name is Gregor Dimitra, and you're listening to Tennis Podcasts.

With the year's first Grand Slam tournament just around the corner,

we have an even lendl special for you. What goes on behind that stony expression?

We'll hear from his longtime agent, Jerry Solomon, the man who introduced lendl to Andy Murray,

that's Darren Cahill, his great rival Matt Spelander and lendl himself right here on The Tennis Podcast.

Well hello and welcome to the second edition of The Tennis Podcast in 2013,

but would you believe our 25th episode overall? A quarter of a century of podcasts,

who'd have thought it? And the back catalog is available to download on iTunes and on our

RSS feed if you would like to hear them. I'm David Law, Catherine Whitaker is with me, or

well sort of with me, she's sunning herself in Australia, albeit in Melbourne now, not Brisbane.

I'm in cold damp England for a couple of days anyway, until I go out there myself for BBC

Radio 5 Live, so I really shouldn't complain too much. Well as mentioned in our intro,

this podcast is all about Ivan Lendl, a former world number one and now Andy Murray's coach,

but before we get to Lendl, and indeed before we talk about our predictions and your predictions

for the new year that you've been sending into us on Twitter, we'd just like to send our very

best wishes and I'm sure you will want to join us in doing so to the British doubles player,

Ross Hutchins. Ross revealed today on Twitter that he's been diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma,

a form of cancer. Ross said on Twitter that he's doing well, he's very positive with excellent

medical support and his friends and family around him and he's looking forward to being back on

court very soon. Well Ross is a great guy, a very good tennis player and I have to say a fantastic

co-commentator, we've had the pleasure of his company on 5 Live a few times and I'm sure everybody

in tennis feels the same, players, media and fans, we just want to see him back out on court as soon

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