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A Tennis Podcast where winning is only half the story. 🎙️🎾 By @afolorunso.bsky.social & @nickcartertennis.bsky.social 📧: [email protected] https://linktr.ee/GroundPass
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Never Change Sasha 🤣

Sasha Bublik seems to have learnt a lot from his match against Jannik Sinner in Roland Garros. He leads the world number 1 in Halle 👀

3 hours and 23 minutes! Give them both the win 👏🏾🎾 Carlos Alcaraz def. Jaume Munar to make it to the quarterfinals at Queen’s. #HSBCChampionships

The second set between Jaume Munar and Carlos Alcaraz was an hour and 41 minutes long! Just the 2nd set alone! 🤯 We are sat for the 3rd 🍿🍿🍿 #HSBCChampionships

Well that was a short lived kit. 😔 Qualifier Xinyu Wang defeats Coco Gauff in straights. Big win for Wang. Next up for Coco… Wimbledon. 📸: Tennis Channel

Forget the match—the real main event is Coco Gauff in Miu Miu x New Balance 😍 Serve look. Serve ace. 🎾✨ (Don’t forget the match, obviously 😅)

Two Brits are into the quarterfinals at Queen’s! Jacob Fearnley kept his cool through a full-on Moutet meltdown and played some solid stuff to reach the last 8. Moutet was doing the most—but Fearnley handled it. 🎾

Sabadabadoo makes the quarters in Berlin—on a Thursday! This was Sabalenka’s first match of the tournament. She got a bye as a top seed, which always feels a little wild at these smaller WTA 500s. Love a late-week debut 🎾

Jiri Lehecka is back in a quarterfinal, and we love to see it. He’s someone we thought would climb fast, but injuries have made his career a bit stop/start. When he’s healthy and playing well, he’s a force. Let’s hope he keeps this run going at the #HSBCChampionships 🎾

Ranking isn’t everything—when you have specific skills on a specific surface, you can beat anyone. And that’s exactly what Tatjana Maria did. We talk about her historic win and more on the latest episode of the podcast. Links in bio and reply. 🎾

🎾 Just realised we have the wrong YouTube link here. This is the one to the latest episode of the podcast - youtu.be/y6hzue8WIHQ?...

Ranking isn’t everything—when you have specific skills on a specific surface, you can beat anyone. And that’s exactly what Tatjana Maria did. We talk about her historic win and more on the latest episode of the podcast. Links in bio and reply. 🎾

Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner played the greatest tennis match of all time. Let me tell you why in the latest Match Stories. 🎾 Watch now → Link in bio and reply #RolandGarros #MatchStories

That was a tough one for Drapes. Popyrin was really good and his 1st serve wasn’t working. Needed a 3rd set tiebreaker, where he was down a mini break in at one point, to come through. Jack’s a fighter 🎾 #HSBCChampionships

🎾 Citi Open has a STACKED draw this year! Raducanu, Medvedev, Osaka just a few of the names committed to the tournament 😮‍💨 US Summer Swing loading 👀

Love this exercise. Wimbledon used to assign the seedings on the men’s tour based on “grass court expertise”. On the women’s side they mostly used the tour rankings but had the option of making changes if they saw fit. What would be your top 8 seeds at Wimbledon if you had the choice? #TennisLessons

One of our favourite tennis genres is players playing each other who had the same coach at some point. Alexi Popyrin leads Jack Draper by a set and is coached by Wayne Ferreira who coached Jack for a bit last year. 🍿🎾

Vamos! Living for the renaissance of Roberto Bautista Agut. Has had such great wins this season and doing it as part of the old man club at 37 years old. 🎾 (Never gonna make us believe 37 is old! 🥴)

This is now our Roman Empire! Give their agents a raise 👏🏾🎾

Have we told you how much we love Berlin lately 😅 In all seriousness it’s the surface change. Surface changes during the season tend to produce unexpected results in the early tournaments. And some players just do better on specific surfaces. Ons Jabeur def. Jasmine Paolini in straights. 🎾

Alright Bautista Agut! 😮‍💨 What a shot! Good Morning groundpassers, what are we watching today? I also have Ons Jabeur on another screen. 🎾

Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner played the greatest tennis match of all time. Let me tell you why in the latest Match Stories. 🎾 Watch now → Link in bio and reply #RolandGarros #MatchStories

When I started Ground Pass, I was scared of being an imposter. Then I realized—that was the point. I wanted a space where you could learn, follow the sport, and just enjoy tennis. Over 2 years and 100+ episodes later… we’re doing exactly that. Thanks for being here following along 💚 🎾

Tennis is alive and well in New York city and I am so proud that Ground Pass is a part of that. Thank you Emmy for highlighting the pod. Link to the full article - nowfrolic.com/p/tennis-cul...

Love Berlin so much! What a chaos tournament 😅. Former Wimbledon Champion Marketa Vondrousova takes out Madison Keys. 🎾

Sure we talked about the tennis in the latest episode of of the pod but did we spend 5 mins on Sloane Stephens looks from Roland Garros… YES, yes we did. Links in bio and below to the episode 👇🏾 🎾

If there is one thing about New York we put the SHOW in show business! Yerr What is this FIELD!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Tsitsidosa! Fritz/Rybakina - already won at Indian Wells Keys/Tiafoe 🇺🇸 ALCARAZ/RADUCANU 👀 🎾 US Open we see you 😏

We like to keep it informative yet light and fun 🤩 You can find our short series “This Week in Tennis”, “Coffee Catch Up” and “Tennis Lessons” on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube shorts. 🎾

It’s the year of the super coach and we have one back on tour. Stefanos Tsitsipas gets through a hard fought battle against Luciano Darderi in his first match with coach Goran Ivanisevic. First time he is unseeded at a tournament in a while. Has a long way to go to get back to the top of the game. 🎾

We are only half way through Day one and the Berlin Open is already bringing the chaos. Ons Jabeur comes in as a lucky Loser and wins her first match Navarro def. Kostyuk and now Frech takes out Andreeva. Wowee! #BerlinOpen 🎾

Quiet start to the grass szn, so we kept things chill too. Mini pod is live: – Tatjana Maria sliced her way to a title – Fritz is officially Zverev’s daddy – Voice notes from @kvittycat.bsky.social (Queen’s) + @nickcartertennis.bsky.social (Ilkley) Perfect with a cup of coffee… or tea 😉 🎾 Listen now

EVO! 🎾 So great to see him playing so well again, taking out 7th seed Tiafoe in straight sets. Dropped in the rankings last year after choosing to play doubles with Andy Murray at the Olympics and not defending his title at the Citi Open. It’s been tough going since so this is awesome. Happy Monday.