The Tennis Hampshire Podcast
Catch up on the latest developments in club tennis across Hampshire, England.
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Episodes
69 episodes
THPod 3.03: Apsley fixtures get the summer cooking
The Apsley fixtures are flowing now! Guest host and Twyford B team captain Rob Ernsberger helps Dave dissect the best of the weekend action to come across all five divisions. Along the way Rob shares his goals for Twyford B this sea...
THPod 3.02: Our top picks mean business
Week Two of the Apsley League brought the first weekend of fixtures with all five divisions involved for the first time this summer.So far Dave and Tom’s top picks for the summer are all off to winning starts - with some very big wins fo...
THPod 3.01: Summer tennis gets going as the Apsley begins
Summer is here. At last!We know because the Apsley tennis season is now underway. A well-endowed Division Four has already started playing its fixtures. With a ponderous ten teams - including three new entrants and two teams relegated fr...
THPod 2.44: Courtside with Portsmouth & District Chair Michael Isaacs
We close our winter coverage with a courtside interview with Michael Isaacs, the chair of the Portsmouth & District LTA.Michael has led a rejuvenation of inter-club tennis in the Portsmouth area for more than 15 years, helping re-est...
THPod 2.43: Warsash, Riverside claim 2026 Solent Cup
The battle for the 2026 Solent Cup left honours split between Southampton and Portsmouth. Gate-crashers Riverside and winter-warriors Warsash took home the top winter prize in south coast inter-club tennis. Dave Ernsberger & Rob...
THPod 2.42: Who will win the 2026 Solent Cup?
Winter is SO over! That leaves us with just one question to be answered for the season: are the very best teams on the South Coast from the Southampton LTA or the Portsmouth & District LTA?Dave Ernsberger & Robin Ellison preview ...
THPod 2.41: QUICK HIT - The five fixtures that still matter this winter
We're back with another Quick Hit, this time looking at the five fixtures that will shape the Southampton LTA's winter leagues. Some of the men's divisions (we're looking at you, five and six!) are in a bit of a shambolic state, so ...
THPod 2.40: Courtside with Portsmouth’s Robin Ellison
Welcome to Episode 2.40, where we revisit the Portsmouth & District LTA — with a proper guide this time!Robin Ellison cut his teeth with Southsea and moved on to take on captaining roles with Court X. Along the way, he started a week...
THPod 2.39: QUICK HIT as Winter Leagues race to the finishing line
It's a Quick Hit with Dave this week as we look at the results from the past two weeks across the Southampton LTA's Mixed Doubles, Ladies Doubles and Men's Doubles divisions. First though we check in on some Hampshire tennis news. T...
THPod 2.38: Kingsgate, Wellow rising to the top in Winter Ladies
Kingsgate and Wellow are clubs on the march across the winter and summer leagues, and it turns out that they are both on the cusp of promotion to Hampshire’s elite first division in the Southampton LTA’s Winter Ladies Doubles league. <...
THPod 2.37: Riverside, Thornden winter men slug it out
Riverside and Thornden are slugging it out in the Winter Mens Doubles leagues, taking half of all the top spots across the Southampton LTA’s seven divisions. Riverside hold the edge on ultimate honours right now, but how will things...
THPod 2.36: Winter Mixed Doubles restart after holidays
This week on the show we take a look at how the Southampton LTA's Winter Mixed Doubles leagues are stacking up as players get ready to restart all the action after the Christmas & New Year break. Rob Ernsberger, captain of Twyfo...
THPod 2.35: Courtside with Mat Johnstone, UK Number One Para-Standing player
This week we welcome to the show Mat Johnstone, Hampshire tennis native and the UK’s Number One PST3 Para-Standing Tennis player.Mat shares his journey from an up-and-coming tennis junior at Warsash to top Para-Standing Tennis player wit...
THPod 2.34: Courtside with Richard Cutler from Hampshire & IOW Tennis
Welcome to the show Richard Cutler, Charity Director and Councillor at Hampshire & Isle of Wight Tennis, the county authority for tennis that brings rhyme and reason to the way tennis functions across the county. Have we had a better opport...
THPod 2.33: Will Thornden claim Ladies Doubles this winter?
We’re back from travels just in time to do our final Southampton LTA winter leagues check in before the end of the year. This time we take a look through ladies doubles where 33 teams representing 21 clubs are midway through the sea...
THPod 2.32: Heated AGM debate yields surprise summer Apsley decision
We recreate the magic (or the tedium, if you’re of that persuasion) of the big end of year league AGMs, not least for Tom’s benefit since family duty called him away. Would things have ended differently if he'd been there? Before th...
THPod 2.31: Tennis AGM season and Mixed Doubles update
We’re back in Hampshire this week, where Annual General Meetings are in full swing at clubs around the county. We’re excited for the Southampton LTA and Apsley AGMs set for December 3rd. Will anyone run against the incumbents for leadership pos...
THPod 2.30: Road Trip to Indiana with Magda Kornijczuk
Join us on the podcast's first ever Road Trip, which takes us to Indiana, deep in the US Midwest, where we find young Hampshire tennis star Magda Kornijczuk at the very beginning of a two-year tennis journey at the University of Indianapolis.&n...
THPod 2.29: Courtside with Twyford’s Dick Moulds
This week on the pod we catch up with Twyford’s Dick Moulds - groundsman, trustee, diplomat, gentle club godfather and sports omnivore. A member for 50 years, Dick is the man behind the scenes for most of what you may know already a...
THPod 2.28: We head to Pompey for our 50th episode
Join us for our 50th episode, with a HUGE thanks to all of you who have supported the show over the past 18 months. Whether you've been a regular listener, an occasional visitor, a correspondent or a guest, your support is the fire in the belly...
THPod 2.27: Everything you need to know about the new winter season
Winter is here! And it's the best part of winter... the very beginning. Everything is still possible, and it isn't even that cold, that dark or even that rainy. Remember this feeling when December arrives.We talk festive calendar dates (...
THPod 2.26: Summer wrap part two - ladies and mens doubles
We ran out of time on summer wrap up last time out, so this week we take the deep dive on how ladies and mens doubles closed out the summer. We review Warsash's remarkable run to win mens doubles overall. Is this the springboard the...
THPod 2.25: The big summer 2025 wrap up
Division One ended in style, so we take a final canter through the Apsley League to celebrate the winners, and commiserate with the losers. No fewer than three teams managed to trip the Apsley League's new points deduction rule, giv...
THPod 2.24: Div One relegations in the balance as summer ends
The sun is dropping that bit earlier, players are dropping out of the pro tour to rest and there are just four fixtures left in the Apsley League - summer is well and truly coming to an end around us. With the final weekend ahead, w...
THPod 2.23: Thornden crowned champions, relegation scrambles continue
Thornden have won the Premier Division for a third successive summer, but Riverside took them all the way in their fixture - so nearly getting the win, and forcing a tie. Wellow are on the up, we debate whether their new courts - su...
