The Tennis Hampshire Podcast
Catch up on the latest developments in club tennis across Hampshire, England.
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Episodes
60 episodes
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. <...
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Season 2
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Episode 38
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37:38
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 37
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45:41
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 36
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56:20
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 35
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1:18:12
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 34
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1:15:11
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 33
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34:57
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 32
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58:19
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 31
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49:35
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 30
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49:03
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 29
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51:33
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 28
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58:05
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 (...
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Season 2
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Episode 27
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47:30
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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44:54
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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40:13
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 24
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36:38
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 23
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47:29
THPod 2.22: Big weekend ahead for most clubs as summer nears end
Saturday September 13 was originally scheduled to be the end of the summer season when Apsley schedules came out all the way back in April. As it happens, this summer’s rollercoaster of heatwaves and washouts means we will still hav...
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Season 2
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Episode 22
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40:22
THPod 2.21: Quick Hit - Lee, Waterside take Apsley titles
We’re getting to the business end of the season, which is a terrible time for Dave to be stranded in America and Tom to be busy in Southampton. We can’t unite for a dual podcast this week, but we’ve got a Quick Hit update here to ge...
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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23:08
THPod 2.20: Tennis mercenaries and the County Champs with Pete Guerreri
We're reunited in the UK and joined by another special guest! Pete Guerreri, from tennis royalty in Swanmore and currently captain of the National League team from David Lloyd West End, joins this episode.There's certainly pl...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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55:15
THPod 2.19: Winchester play a good Hand, but is it too late?
This week we look back on a high-octane weekend of action that made Thornden champions-elect, brought Winchester A its first win for almost three seasons, and shows us that South Hants B could sweep in on Division Three out of nowhere.Th...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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43:13
THPod 2.18: The Warsash v Thornden showdown that no one predicted
Club summer seasons will be made and broken this weekend in the Apsley League, so how could we possibly leave you hanging without an episode?Dave is in Greece and Tom is working hard on the day job but we found a way to make this episode...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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34:39
THPod 2.17: Courtside with Riverside’s Barry brothers
Mike and Jay Barry join as our sixth and seventh guests on the podcast. We talk about the origins of Riverside Tennis Club, who they consider their biggest rivals, and what the future holds for the club.On a more personal not...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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1:13:50
THPod 2.16: Apsley Champions could emerge this weekend
The summer is flying by, and this weekend could bring the first crown in the Apsley as Compton look to see off resurgent Winchester in Division Four. Elsewhere, Riverside play Destroyers of Dreams as David Lloyd Southampton make the...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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44:14
THPod 2.15: Bassett, Thornden contest Ladies Doubles
Three out of five Summer Ladies Doubles divisions have been won, but the very highest honours are still being disputed by Bassett and Thornden. Could Winchester sneak through and take the top prize? We discuss from around the 18 minutes mark.
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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43:38
THPod 2.14: The Summer’s winners and losers so far
After last week’s grim statistics showing age spreads across the Hampshire inter-club leagues, Venus Williams gives Dave some inspiration this week. Tom has been in deep correspondence with Apsley League chief Geoff Prince on how the league pos...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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49:25
