The GreatBase Tennis Podcast

By Steve Smith and Associates

What's The GreatBase Tennis Podcast about?

The GreatBase Tennis Podcast is a weekly audio show presented by Steve Smith and associates. Information, ideas, and insights are provided to help those connected to the game of tennis.

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The GreatBase Tennis Podcast episodes:

05.29.2024
Tennis Around the Block
On the 198th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith and Ivan Ozerets have a tennis conversation with Jackson Bowen. Their guest has been instrumental in the development of TennisBloc, a company that has over 100 instructors who...
05.22.2024
Madagascar Longhorn
On the 197th episode of the GreatBase podcast, Steve Smith speaks with Nomena Raharinosy. To make an understatement, her tennis story is well worth listening to. Her journey with our sport covers three continents. (Africa, Europe, North America)She started in...
05.15.2024
Greg Moran Interview
On the 196th episode of the GreatBase Tennis, Steve Smith and Ivan Ozerets talk tennis with Greg Moran. Their guest is a veteran tennis teaching professional, an award-winning writer, and a longtime club owner.Greg's third book, "The Truth About Tennis",...
05.08.2024
From Parenting to Improving Tennis
On the 195th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith has a tennis discussion with Ainsley Catalano. His guest makes his living as an analyst in commercial real estate. Ainsley also has tennis experience as a player, teacher, and...
05.01.2024
Do's and Don'ts for Administrators
On the 194th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith and Ivan Ozerets talk tennis with Dave Anderson. Dave, a frequent guest, is a veteran coach with an outstanding track record. He has worked at the Brookhaven Country...
04.24.2024
US Tennis & Beyond
On the 193rd episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith and Ivan Ozerets interview Javier Palenque. Their guest has an unstoppable passion for the improvement of tennis. He is totally committed to researching how tennis is governed around the...
04.17.2024
USTA Player Development
On the 192nd episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith, Ivan Ozerets and Dave Anderson address the USTA Player Development (USTA PD) program. The following are attached:1) A letter written by Jose Higueras on American tennishttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1m8rnoacjivjOMt3sc5lRDo9Nccub9wgQ/view?usp=sharing2) A letter written...
04.10.2024
Not Just Another Intern
On the 191st episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith has a conversation with Lawrence Hyde. The Englishman recently spent 350-plus hours studying with Steve. The primary topics covered were: tennis, tennis teaching, coaching, character development, player development, and...
04.03.2024
32 Tennis Thoughts
On the 190th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith has a conversation with Ilja Semjonovs. The theme of the session was based on the title of a hockey podcast called 32 Thoughts with Elliotte Friedman and Jeff Marek.Ilja,...
03.27.2024
Andy Durham Interview
On the 189th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith and Ilja Semjonovs interview Andy Durham.Andy has a lifetime of diversified experiences in tennis. The veteran tennis educator has a deep connection with match analysis. He was mentored by...
03.20.2024
Mark Bey Interview
On the 188th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith and Lawrence Hyde talk tennis and life with Mark Bey. The discussion starts with Mark's beginning days in junior tennis. He also shares his experience playing college tennis under...
03.13.2024
Do's and Don'ts for Tennis Players
On the 187th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Dave Anderson shares Do's and Don'ts for Players. Dave previously shared a similar list for parents and coaches. His next list will be for tennis administrators.Dave joined Steve in 1985 as...
03.06.2024
Tribute to Andy Brandi
Tribute to Andy Brandi1952-2024Our condolences to Andy's wife, Nancy, and their son, Chris. Our thoughts also go out to their family members and their close friends.On the 186th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith discusses his connection to...
02.28.2024
Lisa Pugliese Lacroix Interview
On the 185th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith and Ivan Ozerets have a conversation with Lisa Pugliese LaCroix. To make an understatement, she has a story to tell. From hitting a backboard in her family's garage that...
02.21.2024
Luis Perez Interview
On the 184th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith and Ivan Ozerets have a conversation with Luis Perez. Their guest is a tennis teaching professional who is based in London, England.Luis stumbled upon the free educational tennis content...
02.14.2024
Random Rap
On the 183rd episode, a young Ivan Ozerets, an old Andres Barbosa, and a real old Steve Smith are a dollar late and a day short. The threesome randomly chat three weeks after the 2024 Australian Open. New listeners may...
02.07.2024
Sophia Patel Interview
University of North Carolina2023 NCAA Women's Tennis ChampionshipThe Power SuggestionOn the 182nd episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith reconnects with Sophia Patel. She shares many golden nuggets for one to add to their tennis treasure chest. To make...
01.31.2024
The New Kid - Alex Michelsen
On the 181st episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith and Ivan Ozerets talk tennis. Their topic centers around Alex Michelsen, the young player from southern California. They discuss and speculate as to why and how Alex reached a...
01.24.2024
Rachel Rohrabacher's Story
Great person, great family, great competitor. On the 180th episode of the GreatBase Tennis, Steve Smith's guest is Rachel Rohrabacher. She talks about her background in junior tennis and college tennis as well as her current life as a pickleball...
01.17.2024
John Valenti's Story
On the 179th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith has a conversation with John Valenti.To make an understatement, John Valenti has a story to tell. He claims to be the only person to have always made money from...
01.10.2024
Cristobal Valverde Interview
On the 178th episode, Steve Smith has a tennis conversation with Cris Valverde. Steve's guest is a veteran tennis teaching professional who resides with his wife and their two boys in Portland, Oregon. He has worked at the Irvington Club...
01.03.2024
Czech Tennis
On the 177th episode of the GreatBase Tennis (GBTE) podcast, Steve Smith has a conversation with Tomas Placatka. Steve's guest was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (1972), and grew up in nearby Kladno. Tomas's primary sport was ice hockey. He played...
12.27.2023
Domantas Sadauskas Interview
On the 176th episode of GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith has a tennis conversation with Domantas Sadauskas. Domi recently joined Steve to be trained to teach and coach a couple of young tennis hopefuls that Steve and his associates have...
12.20.2023
Do's & Don'ts For Tennis Coaches
On the 175th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Dave Anderson presents the Do's and Don'ts for Tennis Coaches. Anderson, who literally has developed hundreds of college tennis players, previously shared a similar list for tennis parents. In the future,...
12.13.2023
Our Mission
On the 174th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith, Ivan Ozerets, and Dave Anderson review a document pertaining to GBTE (GreatBase Tennis Education). Their discussion should help listeners obtain a more in-depth understanding of the comprehensive curriculum that...
12.06.2023
A Conversation w/ Sujay Lama
On the 173rd episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith has a conversation with Sujay Lama. Steve's guest was formally educated in his native Nepal, India, and the US. His education in tennis is also very diverse and complete.By...
11.29.2023
A Conversation w/ Mark Hamlin
On the 172nd episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith has a conversation with Mark Hamlin. The two are just a few months shy of having known each other for sixty years. They initially talk sports and life but...
11.22.2023
Joel Drucker Interview
On the 171st episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith talks tennis with Joel Drucker. To make an understatement, Steve's guest knows tennis backwards, forwards, and upside down. Joel is a walking tennis encyclopedia. Joel is an author, telecaster,...
11.15.2023
Field Trip
On the 170th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith and Alex Terzic talk tennis. Along with a few others, Steve and Alex recently spent a day at a Challenger event.Like always, we hope our listeners will find at...
11.08.2023
The Big Three
On the 169th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith and Ivan Ozerets talk tennis with Nick Nemerof. He is the Director of Operations for Court 16, Inc. His organization offers all-encompassing instructional programs at multiple sites in New...
11.01.2023
Do's & Don'ts For Tennis Parents
On the 168th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith and Alex Terzic assist Dave Anderson. Anderson, a frequent guest on our podcast, presents a list of 10 do's and 10 don'ts for tennis parents.David, a longtime associate of...
10.25.2023
Alex Terzic Interview
On the 167th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith interviews Alex Terzic. The native of Belgrade, Serbia talks about the conditions in his homeland during the Bosnian war; the place where his passion for tennis began. He and...
10.18.2023
Raven Klaasen Returns
Raven Klaasen returns as a guest on the 166th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast. Steve Smith congratulates the 40-year-old on his career and discusses the options he can explore now that he has retired from the tour.By listening to...
10.11.2023
Two Old Coaches
On the 165th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast two senior citizens, Steve Smith and Mark Costello, have a conversation. They have known each other since 1964, so theoretically, they should have some wisdom.When asked, the old tennis coach and...
10.04.2023
Vince Lombardi
On the 164th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith and fellow teaching pro, Ethan Matthews, discuss one of the most revered coaches in all of sport. Ethan is a diehard Green Packer fan and Steve grew up in...
09.27.2023
Paul Wardlaw Interview
On the 163rd episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith interviews Paul Wardlaw. Paul is a veteran college coach with over 35 years of diversified experience. His teams have won three national titles and produced numerous All-Americans.The author (Tennis...
09.20.2023
Anderson's Answers
On the 162nd episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith has a conversation with Dave Anderson. Coach Anderson has been associated with Steve since 1985. He is the director of player development and pro-education at the Brookhaven facility in...
09.13.2023
The Trophy is Enough
On the 161st episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith & Ivan Ozerets cover fundraising, their recent broadcasting of the US Open singles finals, simple stats pertaining to the singles finals, and a general review of ten chapters of...
09.06.2023
College Coach Advises College Freshman
On the 160th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith chats with Dave Secker and Spencer Johnson.Dave is the associate head women’s tennis coach at North Carolina State and Spencer is a UCLA-bound tennis player.A highlight of the podcast...
08.30.2023
Jensen Rideout Interview
On the 159th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith has a conversation with Jensen Rideout. Jensen is a twenty-one-year-old tennis teacher from Salt Lake, Utah. Steve stated that posting Jensen's podcast during the US Open is appropriate and...
08.23.2023
A Conversation w/ Dave Watts
On the 158th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Dave Watts and Steve Smith exchange questions.Dave and his family live in San Antonio. He is the head men's and women's tennis coach at Our Lady of the Lake University. He...
08.16.2023
A Conversation w/ Andy Fitzell
On the 157th episode of the GreatBase Tennis Education (GBTE) podcast, Steve Smith has a long, long conversation with Andy Fitzell. The two have worked on a wide variety of tennis projects for the last twenty years. Andy initially set...
08.09.2023
Asking For Your Support
The 156th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast is a milestone. We have presented a weekly podcast for three years.We aim to help tennis, and on this podcast, Steve Smith and Ivan Ozerets ask for financial help.GreatBase Tennis will continue...
08.02.2023
Constantinos Alevizopoulos Interview
On the 155th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith interviews Constantinos Alevizopoulos. The two have never met in person. The young tennis coach from Greece first met Steve by studying a technical training tape and then thoroughly studying...
07.26.2023
Gregg Patton Interview
On the 154th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith interviews Greg Patton. Coach Patton is 70 years young and has 50-plus years of experience to share. In a perfect world, Greg's passion and love for tennis is placed...
07.19.2023
Running the Gamut w/ Dave Anderson & Andres Barbosa
On the 153rd episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Dave Anderson and Andre Barbosa join Steve Smith. Collectively, the three have over a hundred years of tennis teaching and coaching experience. Their conversation covers the gamut; touching upon a wide...
07.12.2023
Jim Rogers Interview
On the 152nd episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith has a conversation with Jim Rogers. The Canadian from Winnipeg, Manitoba has expertise in three sports: hockey, tennis, and golf.Their discussion covers the benefits of learning on red clay,...
07.05.2023
Nicole Erickson Interview Pt. 2
On the 151st episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith interviews Nicole Erickson. She is a Mental Performance Coach and is based at the FM Performance Center in Boynton Beach, Florida. She has worked with numerous players and coaches...
06.28.2023
Dave Secker Interview
On the 150th episode of the GreatBase Tennis podcast, Steve Smith has a conversation with Dave Secker.The Englishman gives us an update on his team. To make an understatement, the Wolfpack have gained a tremendous amount of respect based...
06.21.2023
Reviewing Basics w/ Dave Anderson
On the 149th episode of the GreatBase Tennis Education (GBTE) podcast, Steve Smith has a conversation with Dave Anderson, a long-time associate, and highly accomplished coach. Steve asks David questions with the purpose of reviewing technical and tactical information. Other...

What's The GreatBase Tennis Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The GreatBase Tennis Podcast episodes:

Tennis Around the Block

Madagascar Longhorn

Greg Moran Interview

From Parenting to Improving Tennis

Do's and Don'ts for Administrators

US Tennis & Beyond

USTA Player Development

Not Just Another Intern

32 Tennis Thoughts

Andy Durham Interview

Mark Bey Interview

Do's and Don'ts for Tennis Players

Tribute to Andy Brandi

Lisa Pugliese Lacroix Interview

Luis Perez Interview

Random Rap

Sophia Patel Interview

The New Kid - Alex Michelsen

Rachel Rohrabacher's Story

John Valenti's Story

Cristobal Valverde Interview

Czech Tennis

Domantas Sadauskas Interview

Do's & Don'ts For Tennis Coaches

Our Mission

A Conversation w/ Sujay Lama

A Conversation w/ Mark Hamlin

Joel Drucker Interview

Field Trip

The Big Three

Do's & Don'ts For Tennis Parents

Alex Terzic Interview

Raven Klaasen Returns

Two Old Coaches

Vince Lombardi

Paul Wardlaw Interview

Anderson's Answers

The Trophy is Enough

College Coach Advises College Freshman

Jensen Rideout Interview

A Conversation w/ Dave Watts

A Conversation w/ Andy Fitzell

Asking For Your Support

Constantinos Alevizopoulos Interview

Gregg Patton Interview

Running the Gamut w/ Dave Anderson & Andres Barbosa

Jim Rogers Interview

Nicole Erickson Interview Pt. 2

Dave Secker Interview

Reviewing Basics w/ Dave Anderson