Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe: Recent Episodes
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Welcome to the hardest hitting podcast in tennis! Patrick McEnroe’s podcast series is perfect for tennis enthusiasts of all ages, as he interviews other legendary tennis players, actors, athletes, broadcasters and musicians about their illustrious careers and passionate love of tennis.
Patrick talks politics with tennis fan and former Communications Director for the RNC Doug Heye. How does Doug size up the current political climate, and does he see another Biden/Trump matchup in the next Presidential Election?
A veteran of politics since 1990, Doug has served in leading communications positions in the House of Representatives and United States Senate, the Republican National Committee, as well as serving in the George W. Bush Administration.
Heye most recently served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, where he garnered on the record bi-partisan praise for his team-building, communications and strategic planning abilities. Upon Heye’s arrival in the Capitol in 2012, Roll Call quickly named Heye one of their “Fabulous 50,” noting Heye’s ability to “set the tone and frame the debate” as someone “in the room when decisions are made.”
In 2010, Heye served as communications director of the Republican National Committee. During these historic elections, Heye excelled in his handling of multiple large-scale public relations crises and pursuing an aggressive media strategy. Upon announcing his departure from the committee, Heye won unanimous, bi-partisan praise for his performance, being called a “pro’s pro” in POLITICO by his counterpart at the Democratic National Committee for his handling of what CNN labeled “one of the most demanding jobs in Washington.”
Heye is a sought-after commenter on political events and public policy, making more than two hundred appearances on national and international television networks, leading POLITICO to write in 2011, “when the red camera light turns on, Heye doesn’t disappoint.” He has written for many publications, including U.S. News & World Report, POLITICO, The Hill and Capitol File magazine.
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Patrick is back with a brand new Tennis Tuesday! Patrick's thoughts on an amazing Wimbledon, and what's coming up at the US Open.
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Patrick checks in before heading over the pond with ESPN for Wimbledon 2023!
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Legendary tennis coach Rick Macci joins Holding Court. Since being portrayed in the film King Richard (about the father and coach of famed tennis players Venus and Serena Williams; Will Smith won Best Actor), Rick has been a hot podcast commodity! The list of players he's coached is amazing, besides Venus and Serena, also Roddick, Capriati, Sharapova and more.
Rick talks about his background and how he became such a successful coach. He shares tips, mental and physical, for juniors and their parents.
Rick loves coaching and still does it 7 days a week, 50 hours per week. What makes Rick tick? Find out on this special Holding Court.
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Patrick is back from Paris and gives his full re-cap of all the Roland Garros action. He checks the current men's and women's rankings with Wimbledon looming.
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Patrick talks with Dr. Todd Mekles from the NYC Psychiatric Institute about his unique story. Dr. Mekles almost jeopardized his residency because he let his stress and anxietysurface in his work. Todd explains how tennis literally saved his career, and then showed him how to not only start his own practice but to thrive.
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Patrick sets the stage for the Thurs/Fri semi-finals at Roland Garros. Ruud v Zverev, Joker v Alcaraz, Swiatek v Haddad Maia, and Muchova v Sabalenka all coming up!
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The dream matchup of Djokovic vs Alcaraz is set for the men's semifinal at The French Open Friday! Who does Patrick like and why? The second of two pods from Patrick today from Paris after an epic day of play.
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Patrick weighs in live from Paris, part 1 of 2 big Holding Court pods today! Women's quarterfinals set, Djokovic match underway, Alcaraz/Tsitsipas coming up.
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Patrick updates the Monday action from the French Open live from Paris. Ruud advances, Rune plays strong, a marathon women's match between Sorribes Tormo and Maia, and Coco Gauff is the only American singles player left standing. Big matches with Djokovic and Alcaraz/Tsitsipas highlight the Tuesday slate.
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Patrick is live from his hotel room in Paris reporting on all things Roland Garros as it happens Saturday! Djokovic advances, Alcaraz dominates, Coco comes back strong, Rybakina withdraws and Nadal has surgery (is he done for 2023?). Does Patrick still like Rune to the French Open Men's Final? Find out all the details on this special edition of Holding Court.
In April of 1983, Barry Buss was 22-0, playing for the defending NCAA champs UCLA mens' tennis team, and set to break a record set by the one and only Jimmy Connors. A year later he was living in his van, no longer playing tennis, and had completely dropped out of UCLA.
Barry shares his amazing comeback story with Patrick, as they discuss his book "You Can Get There From Here" which was released on the 10th anniversary of his sobriety. Barry also has great tips for parents raising junior players and ideas how tournaments of all sizes can be structured better with mental health in mind. A great wrap to Mental Health Month.
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Patrick checks in live from his hotel room in Paris to deliver his thoughts on the first amazing week of The French Open. Round two is almost complete, what were his favorite matches and what's coming up this weekend and beyond? As always some controversy is covered as well. The first of TWO big Holding Court episodes out today (Barry Buss interview at 5p EST).
College student and former teen tennis player Anatasia Vlasova talks about her podcast "Our Turn To Talk", which gives teens the opportunity to take control of their mental health narratives, and empower others along the healing journey.
She talks about how increased vulnerability all over the world can lead to a greater sense of empathy everywhere. And hear how Patrick thinks she has an excellent forehand too!
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Patrick's colleague at ESPN Sam Gore joins Holding Court to recap the NCAA tournament where Virginia men's tennis made it back to back championships, including the first ever all-ACC final set.
How will Alcaraz and The Joker fare at the French? Patrick and Sam talk in depth about the possibilities at the French Open as well.
Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman isn't just a tennis partner of Patrick's, he's also an American psychiatrist who specializes in schizophrenia and related psychoses and their associated neuroscience and pharmacological treatment. He speaks in depth with Patrick about why mental health is so important not only in sports but in the game of life, and why getting help today is much easier than in the past.
His new book is Malady of the Mind: Schizophrenia and the Path to Prevention.
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Sports writer and author Pete Bodo joins Patrick for "Tennis Tuesday", focusing on small US tournaments like Cincinnati possibly moving, and what that means for the future of small tournaments in the US and abroad. They also talk WTA vs ATP, upsets in Rome, and how Rafa might do at The French Open.
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Psychologist, author, and mind coach Alexis Castorri shares her secrets on creating the perfect mindset for competing in tennis, sports, and life. She coached Ivan Lendl to great success, and continues to guide and coach players of all ages on the benefits of strong mental health both on, and more importantly, off the court.
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Patrick breaks down the drama in Madrid, and looks ahead to both Rome and The French Open with his longtime friend and broadcaster/coach/player Jason Goodall.
Jason also shares the amazing story of his early life first foray into broadcasting.
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Tennis Hall of Famer Pam Shriver talks openly with Patrick about the sexual abuse of power she suffered as a young player, and the steps the WTA and tennis as whole has made to remedy these situations for future players.
She also talks about the importance of mental health in tennis, using Novak Djokovic's run at the Australian Open as an example of perseverance.
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Patrick responds to tweets on this Tennis Tuesday pod focusing on the Madrid tournament, the ATP going to replay in 2025, Coco Gauff's problematic forehand, and looking ahead to Rome, will Rafa play?
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Dr. Jim Loehr has been a leading voice for ‘Mental Toughness’ in sports for years, having recently released his 18th book “Wise Decisions: A Science-Based Approach to Making Better Choices”. He and Patrick cover a number of topics all related to stress and pressure and how to best deal with them not only on the tennis court but in life.
Learn more about Dr. Jim Loehr: https://www.jim-loehr.com/
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Patrick is joined by husband, father, tennis director, and former ATP coach Allan Van Nostrand talk about the WTA's first big tournament on clay at Stuttgart, the Miami open, and can Carlos Alcaraz be stopped? Also a complete report on pickleball as well!
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Holding Court is back for a 4th season! Patrick looks ahead to the new season, and also breaks down the current men's and women's tennis rankings on this TENNIS TUESDAY episode.
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US/China relations expert Chris Fenton weighs in on the Peng Shuai saga and China's continuing political effects on the WTA, NBA, and ATP. Chris talks in depth about the problems with China forcing their political agenda on the outside world, as well as the financial repercussions of sports leagues/associations NOT playing in China.
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Patrick's broadcast partner at ESPN and former pro/coach Mary Joe Fernandez breaks down the women's 2023 AO and looks ahead to the 2023 tennis season. How's her husband's client Roger Federer feeling? Find that out too on this episode of Holding Court.
Brad Gilbert, Patrick's colleague in tennis commentary at the Australian open and beyond, joins Holding Court. Brad breaks down the 2023 AO, and looks ahead to the upcoming season. Also, he coached Aggasi, Murray, and Roddick, would BG consider coming back to coach? Find out, on this episode of Holding Court.
Patrick recaps the big stories of '22, and looks ahead to Season 4 of Holding Court. The new season will focus on his usual in depth tennis coverage but also Sports and Politics, and Mental Health in Sports.
Get ready for all new episodes of Holding Court in 2023!
Author and tennis insider Pete Bodo joins Patrick to discuss all things tennis...Novak, Naomi, Holger, and twitter topics too.
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Andréa Worden - The ongoing Peng Shuai situation on Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe.
Andréa Worden (@tingdc) is a lawyer, human rights advocate, and educator whose current work focuses on China and the UN human rights system. She previously served as General Counsel of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) and Advocacy Director for the International Campaign for Tibet. Earlier in her career, she practiced law at O’Melveny & Myers, LLP and the Department of Justice. She’s written extensively on China and human rights, and has taught courses on the Chinese legal system, and, since 2018, has been the William S. Reinsch Practitioner-Instructor in East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts & Sciences.
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Patrick McEnroe with Richard Kent on NIL in college sports
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Patrick McEnroe recaps a BIG tennis weekend on Holding Court.
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Patrick talks about Simona Halep's positive drug test.
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Tennis Twitter Topics Part- 2
Patrick, once again responds to some of your Tennis Twitter Topics on Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe
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Patrick Tackles Tennis Twitter Topics on this episode of Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe.
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Patrick discusses Brittney Griner…on her birthday and still
in a Russian jail.
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We are BACK!! Patrick talks Roger Federer.
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Dr. Jonathan Reiner says let Novak play
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Dr. Reiner specializes in interventional cardiology, cardiac catheterization, and heart attack treatment. He has participated in numerous cardiovascular research studies evaluating new therapies for unstable coronary syndromes and acute myocardial infarction. He currently serves as the principal investigator for a number of clinical studies.
Based on his research, Dr. Reiner has contributed articles to many journals, including Circulation and the Journal of American College of Cardiology. In addition, he has presented his research at many national medical conferences, including those sponsored by the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology.
A graduate of Georgetown University, Dr. Reiner performed his chief residency in Medicine at Cornell University Medical College in New York. He began a fellowship in Cardiology at The George Washington University Medical Center in 1990. Dr. Reiner has garnered much recognition for his research initiatives. In 1993, he was the recipient of the Squibb/Society for Cardiac Angiography and Intervention Fellowship for Research in Cardiac Imaging and completed a fellowship in Interventional Cardiology, which remains his focus today.
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Patrick talks with Buck Sexton on Novak Djokovic and where the world went wrong battling Covid
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Wimbledon 2022 Wrap Up!
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Patrick and Chris Mad Dog Russo discuss Nadal’s Wimbledon withdrawal.
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Justin Quill- Prominent legal scholar from Australia discusses charge against Nick Kyrgios & will Novak Djokovic be able to play in Australia next year
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Wimbledon Quarter Final day on Holding Court
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Patrick breaks it all down. Wimbledon, Day 1 Preview.
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Patrick McEnroe on Holding Court and headed to Wimbledon- 2022
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Patrick on Holding Court and talking about Wimbledon 2022- Let's Go!
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Patrick on Rafa, Novak, Serena, Roger...and greatest lost iPhone story.
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Patrick talks Peng Shuai, No ranking points at Wimbledon & more with Steve Simon, CEO of the WTA.
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Patrick McEnroe on Holding Court with an early French Open update
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Mark Dreyer is the author of Sporting Superpower: An Insider’s View on China’s Quest to Be the Best (Jan 2022). He hosts the China Sports Insider Podcast and runs the China Sports Insider website. He has worked for Sky Sports, Fox Sports, AP Sports and many others, and has covered major sporting events on five continents, including three Olympic Games. He has been based in China since 2007. Follow him @DreyerChina
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The tables are turned as Pete Bodo, American sportswriter and author interviews Patrick on this Tennis Tuesday edition of Holding Court.
Peter Bodo is an Austrian born American sportswriter and author, and Senior Editor/Blogger at Tennis Magazine. He is also an occasional columnist for the "Outdoor" section of The New York Times and for the Atlantic Salmon Journal. He won the WTA Tour Award for "Best Writer of the Year" twice, in 1979 and 1981.
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Adam Zagoria discusses French Open favorites on this Sunday Special with Patrick McEnroe
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On this Tennis Tuesday, Patrick discusses Djokovic Swiatek, Rublev, Alcaraz, the Wimbledon situation
The decision to ban Russian players. Journalist Mike Dickson of the Daily Mail in London joins Patrick McEnroe on Holding Court
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Jonathan Scheiman, PHD CEO & Co-Founder FitBiomics
Dr. Jonathan Scheiman grew up in Greenwich Village, NY. After attending Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, he was awarded a partial academic scholarship to attend St. John’s University in pursuit of a major in biology and secured a roster spot as a four-year student-athlete on the men’s basketball team. His team won a BIG EAST Championship his freshman year, and a National Invitational Tournament (NIT) title in his senior year.
Dr. Scheiman, is now CEO and co-founder of Fitbiomics, a microbiome and biotechnology company based in New York that is utilizing next-generation sequencing to understand what makes elite athletes unique and translates that information into nutrition to benefit the masses. His company is launching the world’s first athlete derived probiotic in the first quarter of 2021.
He credits his trajectory from athlete to scientist to CEO to his education from St. John’s University for giving him a roadmap to forge his passion and research, in the pursuit of expanding the “Intersection of Sports and Science.”
Chris Mullin - NBA Hall of Fame Player
is a former professional basketball player, executive and coach. He is a two-time Olympic Gold medalist and a two-time Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee (in 2010 as a member of the 1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team—"The Dream Team"—and in 2011 for his individual career).
Mullin played shooting guard and small forward in the NBA from 1985 to 2001. During his college basketball career for the St. John's Redmen, he was named Big East Player of the Year three times and was a member of the 1984 U.S. Men's Olympic Basketball team, Mullin was chosen as the seventh pick by the Golden State Warriors in the first round of the 1985 NBA draft. He returned to the Olympics in 1992 as a member of the "Dream Team", which was the first American Olympic basketball team to include professional players.
He played with the Warriors from the 1985–86 until the 1996–97 season. Thereafter, Mullin played with the Indiana Pacers from 1997 until the 1999–2000 season. He retired after the 2000–01 season, playing for his original team, the Warriors. He later served as special advisor for the Sacramento Kings and general manager of the Golden State Warriors.
March Madness and Tennis with Michelle Kaufman on Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe
Michelle Kaufman is an American sportswriter and columnist for the Miami Herald. She writes a column every Sunday on sports, focusing on soccer in particular. She also covers tennis, Olympic sports and college and professional sports. She previously worked at the Detroit Free Press and St. Petersburg Times.
Patrick dives into the Oscars....yes the Oscars...and of course, some tennis from Miami
ESPN colleague Brad Gilbert joins Patrick to discuss Ash Barty's shocking retirement, young American men on the rise, & Carlos Alcaraz, Rafael Nadal, & Novak Djokovic
Peter Bodo is an Austrian born American sportswriter and author, and Senior Editor/Blogger at Tennis Magazine. He is also an occasional columnist for the "Outdoor" section of The New York Times and for the Atlantic Salmon Journal. He won the WTA Tour Award for "Best Writer of the Year" twice, in 1979 and 1981.
Reilly Opelka is the #1 ranked American male professional tennis player. At 6 feet 11 inches tall, he is tied (with Ivo Karlović) for the tallest-ever ATP-ranked player, and can serve in the low-140 mph range. He has been ranked as high as World No. 17 in singles by the ATP, which he achieved on February 28, 2022, and in doubles of world No. 89 on August 2, 2021. He has won three ATP singles titles and one doubles title. He is a junior Wimbledon champion.
Sports agent in Women's Basketball Mike Cound on getting players out of Russia.
Mike has been representing professional basketball players around the world since 1994. A graduate of Hendrix College in 1987 with a BA in Spanish, Mike received a Masters Degree in Hispanic Studies from Auburn University in 1994. His background includes playing basketball at Hendrix College and then in mid-level leagues and tours in Brazil, Spain and Tunisia (North Africa). He has also coached on professional club teams in North Africa; prior to that he was the youngest high school head coach in the state of Arkansas in 1988-89.
Mike was a college Spanish professor at Auburn University and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga for six years before becoming a sports agent full time in 1997. As an agent for female basketball players, Mike has negotiated over 800 contracts in the WNBA for players from more than 45 U.S. universities and 15 countries; he has negotiated more than 2500 contracts in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and South America.
https://www.coundgroupglobal.com
On this episode of Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe, Sports and Politics don't mix!!! Think again. The Russia, Brittney Griner Situation.
José Higueras- Part 2, José discusses his time with the USTA...and has plenty to say on Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe.
José Higueras is a tennis coach and former professional tennis player from Spain. Between 1976 and 1984, Higueras won 16 top-level singles titles. A semi-finalist at the French Open in 1982 and 1983, he reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 6 in 1983.
Legendary Coach Jose Higueras discusses his time coaching Sampras, Courier, Federer, plus his thoughts on Nadal and del Potro- Part 1
José Higueras is a tennis coach and former professional tennis player from Spain. Between 1976 and 1984, Higueras won 16 top-level singles titles. A semi-finalist at the French Open in 1982 and 1983, he reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 6 in 1983.
Author Shaleen Makhijani-Shivdasani’s “Stepping Inside: Building Spiritual Muscle” is an interactive journal for daily inspiration and meditation.
Holding Court Valentine's Day special- Shaleen Makhijani-Shivdasani- Author of "Stepping Inside: Building Spiritual Muscle."
Tennis will miss this “Gentle Giant”, one of the best ball strikers ever. Patrick McEnroe on Juan Martín del Potro.
Dr. Jim Loehr is a world-renowned performance psychologist and author of 16 books including his most recent, The Only Way to Win. He also co-authored the national bestseller The Power of Full Engagement.
Dr. Loehr’s ground-breaking, science-based energy management training system has achieved world-wide recognition and has been chronicled in leading national publications, including the Harvard Business Review, Business Week, Fortune, Newsweek, Time, US News and World Report, Success, Fast Company and Omni. He has appeared on NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s Nightline with Ted Koppel, the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and CBS Morning News, and the Oprah Winfrey Show.
From his more than 30 years of experience and applied research, Dr. Loehr believes the single most important factor in successful achievement, personal fulfilment and life satisfaction is the strength of one’s character. He strongly contends that character strength can be built in the same way that muscle strength is built through energy investment.
Dr. Loehr has worked with hundreds of world-class performers from the arenas of sport, business, medicine and law enforcement, including Fortune 100 executives, FBI Hostage Rescue Teams, and military Special Forces. Corporate clients of the Institute represent hundreds of Fortune 500 companies, including Procter & Gamble, The Estée Lauder Companies, FBI, GlaxoSmithKline, PepsiCo, and Citigroup Smith Barney. A sampling of his elite clients from the world of sport include golfers Mark O’Meara and Justin Rose; tennis players Jim Courier, Monica Seles, and Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario; boxer Ray Mancini; hockey players Eric Lindros and Mike Richter; and Olympic gold medal speed skater Dan Jansen.
Dr. Loehr possesses a masters and doctorate in psychology, serves on several prestigious scientific boards and is a full member of the American Psychological Association, the American College of Sports Medicine, the National Strength and Conditioning Association, and the Association for Applied Sport Psychology.
Aaron Rupar joins Patrick to discuss politics, media, a little tennis and misinformation?
Aaron Rupar is an Independent journalist covering US politics and media and author of Public Notice
Twitter: @atrupar
Billie Jean King is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. King won 39 Grand Slam titles: 12 in singles, 16 in women's doubles, and 11 in mixed doubles. She often represented the United States in the Federation Cup and the Wightman Cup. She was a member of the victorious United States team in seven Federation Cups and nine Wightman Cups. For three years, she was the United States' captain in the Federation Cup.
King is an advocate for gender equality and has long been a pioneer for equality and social justice. In 1973, at age 29, she won the "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match against the 55-year-old Bobby Riggs. She was also the founder of the Women's Tennis Association and the Women's Sports Foundation.
Regarded by many in the sport as one of the greatest women's tennis players of all time, King was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987. The Fed Cup Award of Excellence was bestowed on her in 2010. In 1972, she was the joint winner, with John Wooden, of the Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year award and was one of the Time Persons of the Year in 1975. She has also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year lifetime achievement award. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1990, and in 2006, the USTA National Tennis Center in New York City was renamed the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. In 2018, she won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award.
Human Rights activist Andréa Worden joins Patrick McEnroe to discuss Peng Shuai and the upcoming Olympic Games.
Andréa Worden, J.D., M.A., is an avid winter sports fan and former professional ski instructor. She is also a human rights advocate, translator and writer, whose work focuses primarily on the PRC party-state’s interactions with the UN human rights mechanisms. She’ll return to Johns Hopkins University Krieger School of Arts & Sciences as a visiting lecturer in the East Asia Studies program this fall (2021). Follow her on Twitter @tingdc
Wrapping up the Novak Djokovic situation with media law practitioner Justin Quill on Holding Court
Justin Quill is one of Australia’s most experienced media law practitioners, practising exclusively in the area for 24 years.
Justin is highly sought after by high profile media entities for urgent advice on significant matters. He is also extremely well regarded as a litigator and a strategic thinker. Justin is a regular columnist for Australia’s largest newspaper, the Herald Sun and is called on for appearance work as an expert commentator.
Justin specialises in defamation, contempt of court, suppression orders, urgent injunctions, confidential information claims, freedom of information requests, journalists’ sources, prepublication advice, defending breach of legislation claims and racial vilification claims.
He provides advice to most of Australia’s largest media organisations – helping them to mitigate risk when publishing and fighting court actions like defamation or contempt of court claims. He is available 24/7 for prepublication advice on a full range of mediums (print, online, television and radio) and gives advice across the country meaning he is familiar with laws in other jurisdictions.
Justin’s clients include both Australian newspaper publishers – News Corporation and Fairfax, all three commercial television networks in Australia (Channels Seven, Nine and Ten), national radio stations, AFL Media and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
His passion for free speech motivates him to work hard for his clients and his love of the subject means he has developed a deep understanding of the importance of his clients’ right to publish. This makes him the choice of high profile clients and organisations when these principles and livelihoods are at stake.
Justin has been recognised by his peers in Best Lawyers in Australia as a leading lawyer in the area of Defamation and Media Law (2017 – 2022) and Alternative Dispute Resolution (2022). He has also been recognised in Doyle’s Guide as a leading (2013, 2015 – 2017, 2019 – 2021) and recommended (2018) lawyer in Technology, Media and Telecommunications and a recommended lawyer (2016) in Copyright & Soft IP in Victoria.
**NEW EXCLUSIVE INFO from veteran Australian media & sports broadcaster Eddie McGuire on the evolving Novak Djokovic situation down under.
Mike Lupica Joins Patrick McEnroe to talk about Novak Djokovic and the Australian Open
Mike Lupica is one of the most prominent sports writers in America. His longevity at the top of his field is based on his experience and insider's knowledge, coupled with a provocative presentation that takes an uncompromising look at the tumultuous world of professional sports. Today he is a syndicated columnist for the New York Daily News, which includes his popular "Shooting from the Lip" column, which appears every Sunday.
We have the latest on the Novak Djokovic situation Down Under with ABC Presenter, Tracey Holmes, on Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe.
Tracey Holmes, an Australian journalist and a presenter on ABC NewsRadio, with an extensive career in television and radio, specializing predominantly in sports. She currently presents The Ticket at 11:00am every Sunday on ABC News on radio.
Holmes began her work in 1989 as a journalist at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and was Australia's first female host of a national sports programme, Grandstand. From 1996 to 1998, she worked as a media spokesperson for the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. In 1998, she co-hosted SBS' presentation of the FIFA World Cup. She appeared on the nightly World Cup Show during the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany.
From 1998 to 2000, she worked as a sports presenter for television station Channel Seven. Her contract was terminated amid some controversy in mid-2000. Holmes then moved overseas with her husband, journalist Stan Grant, and worked as a sports broadcaster in Hong Kong and Beijing.
In 2006, Holmes returned to Sydney. She acted as fill-in presenter for Richard Glover's radio drive program on 702 ABC Sydney during the 2006/2007 summer break. In February 2007, Holmes was re-appointed as the ABC Radio Grandstand announcer, taking over from Simone Thurtell who moved to 1233 ABC Newcastle as Drive presenter. However, in 2009 Holmes left Grandstand to again follow her husband who was working for CNN as a reporter in Abu Dhabi. Holmes also worked for CNN in the middle East covering social issues, business and sport. In 2011, Holmes re-joined China's English-language news channel CCTV News as an anchor, a position she also held in 2005 and 2006.
Holmes returned to the ABC in 2014, as a news anchor on ABC NewsRadio.
In 2021, Holmes was at the 2020 Summer Olympics, and filing stories for ABC News Online and interviews on ABC Radio in Australia.
Veteran sports journalist Matt Futterman of the NYT joins Holding Court on the Novak Djokovic, Australian Open, Covid controversy.
Matthew Futterman is a veteran sports journalist and the author of two books, “Running to the Edge: A Band of Misfits and the Guru Who Unlocked the Secrets of Speed” and “Players: How Sports Became a Business.”
Before coming The Times in 2017, he worked at The Wall Street Journal, The Star-Ledger of New Jersey and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Reporter Nick McCallum, from 7 News Melbourne joins Patrick to discuss reaction to Novak Djokovic being given a medical exemption to compete in the Australian Open....suffice to say....Australians are not happy.
Award winning broadcaster, journalist and host of the "Coronacast" Podcast, Dr. Norman Swan talks Covid & the Australian Open
Dr Norman Swan is a multi-award winning broadcaster, journalist and commentator. He is the host and creator of the Health Report, on ABC Radio National, which is the longest running health programme in the English-speaking world. He is a guest reporter on Four Corners, a regular panelist on ABC Television’s The Drum and was medical host of Channel 10’s Biggest Loser for six seasons. He also co-created and hosted Tonic, a health show on the ABC’s News Channel. In addition, Norman edits his own newsletter, The Choice Health Reader, and is co-founder of Tonic Health Media, a set of health channels with an audience of 15 million people per month. With this background, Norman is in high demand as a keynote speaker, facilitator and MC.
One of the first medically qualified journalists in Australia, Norman was born in Scotland, graduated in medicine from the University of Aberdeen, later obtaining postgraduate qualifications in Paediatrics.
He has won numerous awards for his journalism and broadcasting. Norman was named Australian Radio Producer of the Year and was awarded a Gold Citation in the United Nations Media Peace Prizes for his radio work. He has won three Walkley National Awards for Australian journalism, including the prestigious Gold. Norman has also snared Australia’s top prize for Science Journalism – the Michael Daly Award – twice.
He was awarded the Medal of the Australian Academy of Science, an honour that had only been given three times and was given a Doctorate of Medicine Hon Causa by the University of Sydney, during its medical school’s 150th anniversary.
On television, Dr Swan has hosted ABC Television’s science program, Quantum, and been a guest reporter on Catalyst and Four Corners. He hosted Health Dimensions on ABC Television, and created, wrote and narrated a four part series on disease and civilisation, Invisible Enemies, made for Channel 4(UK) and SBS Television. The series has been shown in twenty seven countries. He also co-wrote and narrated The Opposite Sex, a four part series for ABC Television.
Norman was co host of the social affairs programme, Life Matters on ABC Radio National for five years. He is also an occasional guest host on Late Night Live and Radio National’s news and current affairs Breakfast programme.
Norman Swan is also known outside Australia. He has been the Australian correspondent for the Journal of the American Medical Association and the British Medical Journal. He consulted for the World Health Organisation in Geneva on global priorities in health research, putting evidence into health policy and clinical trial registration. Norman co-facilitated, with Richard Horton (editor in chief of The Lancet) a global ministerial forum in Bamako, West Africa which aimed to advance the global health research agenda.
Yaxue Cao from ChinaChange.org joins Patrick with another bizarre twist in the Peng Shuai story.
Yaxue Cao is the founder and editor of ChinaChange.org, an English-language website devoted to news and commentary related to civil society, rule of law, and human rights activities in China. The site works to help the rest of the world understand what people are thinking and doing to effect change in China. Reports and translations on China Change have been cited by the New York Times, Time magazine, the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Washington Post, the New Republic magazine (to name a few) and Congressional reports. Ms. Cao grew up in northern China during the Cultural Revolution and studied literature in the US. She lives in Washington, DC.
Andréa Worden, J.D., M.A., is an avid winter sports fan and former professional ski instructor. She is also a human rights advocate, translator and writer, whose work focuses primarily on the PRC party-state’s interactions with the UN human rights mechanisms. She’ll return to Johns Hopkins University Krieger School of Arts & Sciences as a visiting lecturer in the East Asia Studies program this fall (2021). Follow her on Twitter @tingdc
Peter Dahlin, Director of Safeguard Defenders and was a co-founder and the Director of ‘China Action’, based out of Beijing, from 2009 to 2016. Prior to moving to China in 2007, Peter worked for the Swedish government. Peter holds an M.A. in Political Science from Umeå University. Peter is the editor of 'Trial By Media' and a contributor to 'The People’s Republic of the Disappeared' and is a contributor to various international media.
@Peterinexile https://safeguarddefenders.com/en/about-us#who-we-are
New York Times reporter Kurt Streeter joins Patrick McEnroe on the Peng Shuai situation
Kurt Streeter- New York Times
Kurt Streeter writes the Sports of The Times column. He has a particular interest in the connection between sports and broader society, especially regarding issues of race, gender and social justice. Before coming to The Times in 2017, he was a senior writer for ESPN. He was also a general assignment reporter at The Baltimore Sun and spent 15 years at The Los Angeles Times, where he wrote about everything from crime to transportation to religion, and was a columnist. A former athlete, in younger days Streeter played tennis at U.C. Berkeley and was world-ranked by the ATP Tour for three years. He lives on the West Coast.
Captain Corey Ray from the National War College Joins Patrick with an analysis and some strategic logic through the lens of sports on the Peng Shuai situation.
Captain Corey W. Ray joined the National War College faculty in 2016. He is a 1991 graduate of Walla Walla College where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering. He was commissioned through Aviation Officer Candidate School, designated a Naval Flight Officer in 1992, and qualified as a Tactical Coordinator (TACCO) in the P-3C Orion. Following initial P-3 training at VP-31, CAPT Ray was assigned to VP-47. Follow on sea tours include DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, VPU-2 and VP-47. Command tours include VPU-2 supporting sustained combat operations from forward operating bases in Afghanistan and Horn of Africa and Patrol and reconnaissance Wing 57/CTF-57 in Bahrain supporting OPERATION INHERENT RESOLVE.
CAPT Ray’s shore and staff assignments include instructor duty at VP-30, Weapons and Tactics Instructor at the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center, Action Officer at OPNAV N3 directorate, N3 at Task Force 72 in Japan, and CENTCOM Desk Officer at the National Reconnaissance Office. He also served on The Joint Staff in Washington, D.C. in the Directorate for C4 and Cyber (J-6).
He attended the Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy where he earned a Master’s Degree in National Resource Strategy. His awards include the Legion of Merit, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Air Medal (one individual action with combat distinguishing device and 4 strike/flight), Navy Commendation Medals (2 with combat distinguishing device), and various campaign and unit awards. He is married to Cheryl Ray of Hayward, California. They have one son, Cameron.
Special Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe- Yaxue Cao from ChinaChange.org on the Peng Shuai situation
Yaxue Cao is the founder and editor of ChinaChange.org, an English-language website devoted to news and commentary related to civil society, rule of law, and human rights activities in China. The site works to help the rest of the world understand what people are thinking and doing to effect change in China. Reports and translations on China Change have been cited by the New York Times, Time magazine, the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Washington Post, the New Republic magazine (to name a few) and Congressional reports. Ms. Cao grew up in northern China during the Cultural Revolution and studied literature in the US. She lives in Washington, DC.
On this special episode of Holding Court, Patrick updates us on the Australian Open vaccine mandate, the Davis Cup, and the Peng Shuai situation
Holding Court Special Report: Author Chris Fenton joins Patrick with an update on the ongoing Peng Shuai story.
Developing news in the Peng Shuai story and the Australian Open announcing mandatory vaccination….. What’s this mean for top ranked unvaccinated players ?
Christopher Clarey has covered global sports for The New York Times for more than 25 years from bases in France, Spain and the United States. He is one of the world’s leading authorities on tennis and has reported from more than 90 Grand Slam tournaments, chronicling the major figures and issues of the Open era and interviewing everyone from Bjorn Borg to Serena Williams. His other areas of expertise include the Olympics, soccer and sailing. He has covered seven Summer Olympics, seven Winter Olympics, six World Cups, five America’s Cups and nine world track and field championships. But he also has reported on nearly every major international sport, including 10 Ryder Cups and the Super Bowl, and has written about everything from bullfighting to sepak takraw to the Inuit sport known as the knuckle hop.
His book “The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer” was published in 2021.
Special Holding Court Episode- Patrick McEnroe offers a genuine response to China's missing tennis star, Peng Shuai.
The 2021 Laver Cup Redux! This was the fourth edition of the Laver Cup, a men's tennis tournament between teams from Europe and the rest of the world. It was held on indoor hard courts at the TD Garden in Boston, United States from 24 until 26 September.
Team Europe captain Björn Borg, vice captain Thomas Enqvist and Team World captain John McEnroe, vice captain Patrick McEnroe.
Team Europe won the title for a fourth consecutive edition.
Christopher Clarey is an American journalist who is a global sports columnist and tennis writer for The New York Times. He is also a regular contributor to ESPN.
He has written two books: Davis Cup by NEC: The Year in Tennis 1997 and Davis Cup Yearbook 1999: The Year in Tennis.
Liz Clarke is an American sportswriter. Currently a sportswriter for The Washington Post, she has covered the sport of NASCAR for The Charlotte Observer, Dallas Morning News, USA Today and The Post. She currently covers the Georgetown Hoyas men's college basketball team for the Washington Post.
Roger Federer to undergo another knee surgery, will miss the U.S. Open
Roger Federer said the surgery would put him “on crutches for many weeks and out of the game for many months.”
- Aug 15, 2021
David Duchovny – Gestureland
Gestureland is a melancholy, occasionally noisy but ultimately beautiful affair, and another creative triumph for its architect: Musician-actor-author David Duchovny.
While fans may know him best for his screen work (The X-Files, Californication), Duchovny has carved out a larger creative role over the years, authoring four books and releasing three albums while earning raves (and a dedicated fanbase) for his live shows.
While the feelings on Gestureland are intimate, the music is expansive: It evokes 70s California pop, alternative rock, folk and country. “Nights Are Harder Than Days'' serves as a rollickin’ album opener (shades of Neil Young here), while “Holding Patterns” is softer and orchestral. And ballads such as “Pacific Coast Highway,” “Tessera” and “Sea of Tranquility” find the singer in a more plaintive realm.
In its own right, it’s timeless music. “I wouldn’t go about imitating anyone,” says Duchovny. “But for me it’s about classic rock, the British Invasion, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Aimee Mann — you fall in love with certain sounds.”
Most of the album written during a fraught time in our country, reflected most directly on the early single “Layin’ on the Tracks,” an urgent rocker the singer released just before the presidential election. Here, lines like “This civil war we’ve been fighting in/Since before the flood/Yeah, there’s part of us that’s always been/At home in the blood” feel damn prophetic.
“I’d never written a song like that,” he admits. “Politics is not my style, but I leaned into it this time. But it’s also personal at the same time — it’s both what I need to change myself and where the country is at. And I do believe the personal is political — there’s no ‘theme’ to the album but I’m always the same animal riding through the songs.”
With his two earlier releases (2015’s Hell or High Water and 2017’s Every Third Thought) Duchovny earned critical acclaim; Allmusic called his music “eloquent, alt-rock-kissed country-folk in the vein of Wilco and the Wallflowers,” while the Boston Globe praised Duchovny’s voice, noting “he sings with a parched resonance and just a hint of rasp. He is rather heartfelt.”
Duchovny — a songwriter on record with a healthy sense of humor in real life — nods at the compliments but follows his own modest methodology: “I’ll finish a record, then I’ll sit and listen, and go, yeah! That’s really nice melodic stuff. What else do you want?”
Helping achieve all these sounds: Colin Lee, Mitch Stewart and Pat McCusker, three former college friends from the Berklee College of Music and longtime studio musicians who have worked with Duchovny on all of his records. “David is so joyful about making music, and his lyrical approach and his way of looking at songs is like poetry,” says Lee. “He creates stuff that excites us as musicians.”
“The more we’ve all worked together, the more we’re all taking risks and tapping into new influences,” adds McCusker, pointing to the unique arrangements on the new track (and album standout) “Tessera.”
During the pause before the new album’s arrival, Duchovny released a new novel, Truly Like Lightning, now in development at Showtime. But like all good musicians, he’s anxious to get back on the road and perform these new songs live. “David has so much energy and charisma, it’s easy for him to carry the show,” says his bandmate Stewart.
“I always get such a kick playing live,” adds the singer. “We make our show into a whole evening, and take people on a journey. I can’t wait to do a version of this album for a tour.”
One of his generation’s extraordinary talents, Dan Tepfer has earned an international reputation as a pianist-composer of wide-ranging ambition, individuality, and drive—one “who refuses to set himself limits” (France’s Télérama). The New York City-based Tepfer, born in 1982 in Paris to American parents, has performed around the world with some of the leading lights in jazz and classical music, and released ten albums of his own.
Tepfer earned global acclaim for his 2011 release Goldberg Variations / Variations, a disc that sees him performing J.S. Bach’s masterpiece as well as improvising upon it—to “elegant, thoughtful and thrilling” effect (New York magazine). Tepfer’s newest album, Natural Machines, stands as one of his most ingeniously forward-minded yet, finding him exploring in real time the intersection between science and art, coding and improvisation, digital algorithms and the rhythms of the heart. The New York Times has called him “a deeply rational improviser drawn to the unknown.”
Tepfer’s honors include first prizes at the 2006 Montreux Jazz Festival Solo Piano Competition, the 2006 East Coast Jazz Festival Competition, and the 2007 American Pianists Association Jazz Piano Competition, as well as fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2014), the MacDowell Colony (2016), and the Fondation BNP-Paribas (2018).
James Blake is an American retired professional tennis player. Blake was known for his speed and powerful, flat forehand. During his career, Blake amassed 24 singles finals appearances (10–14 record), while his career-high singles ranking was World No. 4. Career highlights included reaching the final of the 2006 Tennis Masters Cup, the semifinals of the Beijing Olympics (upsetting Roger Federer along the way), the quarterfinals of the Australian Open (2008) and US Open (2005, 2006), as well as two titles at the Hopman Cup (2003, 2004) and being the No. 1 ranked American singles player. Blake was a key performer for the United States 2007 Davis Cup championship team, going 2–0 in the championship tie vs. Russia at second singles.
Named by TIME magazine as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World,” Dean Karnazes has pushed his body and mind to inconceivable limits. Among his many accomplishments, he has run 50 marathons, in all 50 US states, in 50 consecutive days. He’s run across Death Valley in the middle of summer, and he’s run a marathon to the South Pole.
On ten separate occasions he’s run a 200-mile relay race solo, racing alongside teams of twelve. His list of competitive achievements include winning the World’s Toughest Footrace, the Badwater Ultramarathon, and winning the 4 Deserts Challenge, racing in the hottest, driest, windiest and coldest places on earth.
A NY Times bestselling author, Dean is a frequent speaker and panelist at many running and sporting events worldwide.
https://ultramarathonman.com
John Feinstein is an American sportswriter, author and sports commentator. He spent years on the staff at the Washington Post, as well as writing for Sports Illustrated and the National Sports Daily. He is a commentator on NPRs "Morning Edition," a regular on ESPNs "The Sports Reporters" and a visiting professor of journalism at Duke University.His first book, A Season on the Brink, is the bestselling sports book of all time. His first book for younger readers, Last Shot, was a bestseller.
Feinstein has written 42 books. His most famous sports book A Season on the Brink chronicles a year in the life of the Indiana University basketball team and its coach, Bob Knight. In 1995, he authored a best seller, A Good Walk Spoiled, about a year on the PGA Tour as told through the stories of 17 players.
Feinstein has also written a sports-mystery series for young adults in which main characters Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson are reporting on major sporting events including the Final Four, US Open (tennis), Super Bowl, World Series, the Army–Navy Game, and the Summer Olympics.
Norm Lewis is an American actor and singer. He has appeared in Europe, on Broadway, in film, television, recordings and regional theatre. Productions that he has been involved in include Dessa Rose, Miss Saigon, The Wild Party, and several others.
Lewis is the first African-American actor to perform in the title role in Broadway's long-running production of Phantom of the Opera.
Peter Bjorn and John are a Swedish indie pop/rock band, formed in Stockholm in 1999 and named after the first names of the band's members: Peter Morén (vocals, guitar and harmonica), Björn Yttling (bass guitar, keyboards and vocals) and John Eriksson, known in his solo work as Hortlax Cobra (drums, percussion and vocals). Yttling also worked as producer for the band's first four albums.
They are best known for the 2006 single "Young Folks", which featured Victoria Bergsman, formerly of The Concretes, and was a top 20 hit in the UK Singles Chart, as well as being featured in football video game FIFA 08, MLB 2k13, the singing game Lips, as the school project in the film Bandslam, as part of the soundtrack of hit sitcom How I Met Your Mother, as the opening track in the pilot episode of Gossip Girl and the theme tune to British Television adverts for Homebase store and Air New Zealand "Safety Safari" surfing video. It was also named NME's second-best track of 2006, beaten by "Over and Over" by Hot Chip.In Australia it was voted number 16 in the annual Triple J Hottest 100 for 2006. In recent years, Lars Skoglund of the band Laakso has filled in for Eriksson on drums and played bongos during some live shows since the latter developed tinnitus, and a shoulder injury on the tour for 2011's Gimme Some.
https://www.peterbjornandjohn.com
Patrick McEnroe, behind the scenes at Wimbledon after 2 years on this episode of Holding Court. What can we expect?
Patrick McEnroe giving us a special Wimbledon preview, Friday, June 25, 2021 on Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe.
As an acclaimed trombonist, composer, and producer, Delfeayo Marsalis has also dedicated his prolific career to music theatre and education. Along with the Marsalis family of musicians including his father Ellis, the artist was destined to a life in music.
Marsalis has toured internationally with jazz legends such as Ray Charles, Art Blakey, Max Roach, Elvin Jones and Slide Hampton, as well as leading his own groups.
At the age of 17, Marsalis began his career as a producer and has to date produced over 120 recordings garnering one Grammy award and several nominations.
In 2008, he formed the Uptown Jazz Orchestra, a highly entertaining ensemble that focuses on maintaining important jazz traditions such as riff playing, New Orleans polyphony and spontaneous arrangements.
Delfeayo also formed the Uptown Music Theatre in 2000. A non-profit organization that empowers youth through musical theatre training. He has written sixteen musicals to date based on historical and/or uniting the community. In addition, he has composed over 90 songs that help introduce kids to jazz through musical theatre and has reached over 5,000 students nationally with his Swinging with the Cool School soft introduction to jazz workshops.
Marsalis has a dual Bachelor’s degree in Music performance and Production from Berklee College of Music, and a Masters in Jazz Performance from the University of Louisville. A Doctorate has also been conferred from the New England College.
https://www.dmarsalis.com
Gavin Rossdale is a British musician, singer, songwriter and actor, best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Bush. He helped form Bush in 1992; on the band's separation in 2002, he became the lead singer and guitarist for Institute and later began a solo career. He resumed his role in Bush when the band reunited in 2010. In 2013, he received the British Academy's Ivor Novello Award for International Achievement.
Also a huge tennis fan and player.
Patrick McEnroe talks about Novak Djokovic, being the most complete male tennis player of all time on this episode of Holding Court.
Andrea Jaeger is a former World No. 2 professional tennis player from the United States whose brief but highly successful tennis career ended prematurely due to major shoulder injuries. Jaeger reached the singles final of Wimbledon in 1983 and the French Open in 1982. She reached the singles semifinals of the Australian Open in 1982 and of the U.S. Open in 1980 and 1982. She also won 10 singles titles. In mixed doubles, Jaeger won the French Open with Jimmy Arias in 1981. During her career, Jaeger won U.S. $1.4 million in prize money and millions more in endorsements. After retirement in 1987, she has prominently dedicated her life to public service, charities, and philanthropy.
Pico Iyer is a British-born essayist and novelist known for his travel writing. He is the author of numerous books on crossing cultures including Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk and The Global Soul. He has been a contributor to Time, Harper's, The New York Review of Books, and The New York Times.
On this edition of Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe, it's back to "Mc 2 Mc!" Patrick & John McEnroe dig deep into this multi faceted issue around Naomi Osaka. By the end of this riveting conversation John says Naomi is courageous and he’d like to give her a hug”
SPECIAL Naomi Osaka issue on this weekend edition of Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe. Joining Patrick is Psychiatrist-in-Chief at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University Medical Center, Dr. Jeffrey A. Lieberman,
Jeffrey A. Lieberman, M.D.
Lawrence C. Kolb Professor and Chairman of Psychiatry,
Columbia University, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons,
Director, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Psychiatrist-in-Chief, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University Medical Center
Michael Imperioli is an American actor, writer and director, best known for his role as Christopher Moltisanti in the HBO crime drama The Sopranos (1999–2007), which earned him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2004. He gained recognition in the early part of his career for his role as Spider in Martin Scorsese's 1990 film Goodfellas. Imperioli's other television work includes roles as Nick Falco in the drama series Law & Order, Ray Carling in the U.S. version of Life on Mars, and Louis Fitch in the ABC police drama Detroit 1-8-7. He has also had supporting roles in films such as Shark Tale (2004) and The Lovely Bones (2009).
Imperioli wrote and directed his first feature film, The Hungry Ghosts, in 2008. In 2015, he starred in Mad Dogs, a dark-comic thriller television series released on Amazon Prime Video.
Katrina Adams is an American tennis executive and former professional tennis player from Chicago. She was president and CEO of the United States Tennis Association and chair of the US Open, as well as the chair of the International Tennis Federation Fed Cup and Gender Equality in Tennis committees. As a player, Adams was a doubles specialist, reaching the quarterfinal stage or better at all four Grand Slams as well as achieving a career-high doubles ranking of no. 8 (August 1989). Her book, Own the Arena: Getting Ahead, Making a Difference, and Succeeding as the Only One was published in 2021.
Seal, is a British singer-songwriter. He has sold over 20 million records worldwide, with hit songs "Crazy" and "Killer", the latter of which went to number one in the UK, and his most celebrated song, "Kiss from a Rose", was released in 1994.
Seal has won multiple awards throughout his career, including three Brit Awards; he won Best British Male in 1992, as well as four Grammy Awards and an MTV Video Music Award. As a songwriter, he received two Ivor Novello Awards for Best Song Musically and Lyrically from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors for "Killer" (1990) and "Crazy" (1991).
Seal is also an avid tennis player and fan of the game.
Former American Professional Tennis Player & Current ESPN Analyst Mary Joe Fernández on this Episode of Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe. Fernández reached a career-high ranking of world No. 4 in both singles and doubles. In singles, Fernández was the runner-up at the 1990 and 1992 Australian Opens, and the 1993 French Open, as well as winning a bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics. In doubles, she won the 1991 Australian Open with Patty Fendick and 1996 French Open with Lindsay Davenport, plus two Olympic gold medals.
Andy Roddick is an American retired world No. 1 tennis player.
Roddick gained the world No. 1 ranking shortly after winning the 2003 US Open title, defeating French Open champion Juan Carlos Ferrero in the final. Despite spending several more years as one of the world's best players, the 2003 US Open title would remain his only Grand Slam triumph. As of May 2021, he is the most recent North American male player to win a Grand Slam singles event, the most recent to reach the top ranking, and the most recent to claim the year-end world No. 1 ranking (which he achieved in 2003). Roddick reached four other Grand Slam finals (Wimbledon in 2004, 2005, and 2009, and the US Open in 2006), losing to rival Roger Federer each time. Roddick was ranked in the year-end top 10 for nine consecutive years (2002–2010) and won five Masters Series titles in that period.
Pam Shriver is a former professional tennis player from the U.S. She currently is a tennis broadcaster for ESPN and a pundit for BBC tennis coverage. During the 1980s and 1990s, she won 133 titles, including 21 women's singles titles, 111 women's doubles titles and many others.
Brad Gilbert is a former professional tennis player and tennis coach and podcaster (Winning Uglier). Throughout his career, he won 20 singles titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 4 in 1990, and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 18 four years prior. He won a bronze medal at the 1988 Olympics, and both a gold medal and a silver medal at the 1981 Maccabiah Games.
Since retiring from the tour, he has coached several top players, most notably Andre Agassi who won six of his eight Grand Slam titles under Gilbert's tutelage.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is an American lawyer and politician serving as the junior United States Senator from New York since 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, she served as member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2007 to 2009.
Gillibrand graduated from Dartmouth College and from the UCLA School of Law. After holding positions in government and private practice and working on Hillary Clinton's 2000 U.S. Senate campaign, Gillibrand was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2006. She represented New York's 20th congressional district and was reelected in 2008. During her House tenure, Gillibrand was a Blue Dog Democrat noted for voting against the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.
Senator Gillibrand's top priorities in the United States Senate include creating more well-paying jobs to rebuild the middle class, increasing access to good, affordable healthcare and improving educational opportunities from pre-k to college or vocational training.
An early May 2021 tennis state of the union on this episode of Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe
Kristin Chenoweth is an American actress and singer, with credits in musical theatre, film and television. In 1999, she won a Tony Award for her performance as Sally Brown in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown on Broadway. In 2003, Chenoweth received wide notice for originating the role of Glinda in the musical Wicked, including a nomination for another Tony. Her television roles have included Annabeth Schott in NBC's The West Wing and Olive Snook on the ABC comedy-drama Pushing Daisies, for which she won a 2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She also starred in the ABC TV series GCB in 2012.
"Mc 2 Mc" Patrick & John McEnroe Kick Off Season 2 on Holding Court
The two brothers John McEnroe and Patrick McEnroe wax poetically about all things tennis on the season 2 kick-off of Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe.
Jon Patricof is CEO and Co-Founder of Athletes Unlimited, a network of new pro sports leagues. Athletes Unlimited is a new model of pro sports where athletes are decision-makers and individual players are champions of team sports. Patricof served as President of NYCFC from January 2016 to December 2018.
Patricof joined Tribeca Enterprises in 2005 as Chief Operating Officer. He oversaw the development of the Tribeca Film Festival, which was established in 2002, into one of the most prestigious festivals in the world. In 2014, Tribeca Enterprises sold a 50% stake in the Tribeca Film Festival to Madison Square Garden.
Andrea Jaeger is a former World No. 2 professional tennis player from the United States whose brief but highly successful tennis career ended prematurely due to major shoulder injuries. Jaeger reached the singles final of Wimbledon in 1983 and the French Open in 1982. She reached the singles semifinals of the Australian Open in 1982 and of the U.S. Open in 1980 and 1982. She also won 10 singles titles. In mixed doubles, Jaeger won the French Open with Jimmy Arias in 1981.
James Blake is an American retired professional tennis player. Blake was known for his speed and powerful, flat forehand. During his career, Blake amassed 24 singles finals appearances (10–14 record), while his career-high singles ranking was World No. 4. Career highlights included reaching the final of the 2006 Tennis Masters Cup, the semifinals of the Beijing Olympics (upsetting Roger Federer along the way), the quarterfinals of the Australian Open (2008) and US Open (2005, 2006), as well as two titles at the Hopman Cup (2003, 2004) and being the No. 1 ranked American singles player. Blake was a key performer for the United States 2007 Davis Cup championship team, going 2–0 in the championship tie vs. Russia at second singles.
Special Update Positive Covid test turns Tennis upside down on Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe
Special Update on the Australian Open on this edition of Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe
Anne Worcester became the first woman to be named the CEO of the WTA in 1994, making her the first female CEO of any major sports organization at the time. She then became the tournament director of the WTA Premier in New Haven in 1998, and remained the lead of the much-loved August event until it was sold to China earlier this year. She was named the president of UTR (Universal Tennis Rating).
Rob Sitch is an Australian director, producer, screenwriter, actor and comedian.
Sitch is currently a member of the Working Dog production company which have produced the television shows Frontline, A River Somewhere, The Panel, Thank God You're Here and Utopia and the feature films The Castle, The Dish and Any Questions for Ben?. Sitch co-wrote and directed each of these films.
In 2006, to mark 50 years of television in Australia, the Nine Network special 50 Years 50 Stars listed Sitch at the 39th greatest living television star in Australia. Several of his programs, including The D-Generation and Frontline, were included in the earlier special, 50 Years 50 Shows, coming in at 50 and 22 respectively.
Sitch is also a co-author of the satirical Jetlag travel guides to Molvanîa, Phaic Tăn and San Sombrèro.
Tennis Coach Marc Lucero sets the stage on what is actually going on at the Australian Open on Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe
Coaching Career Highlights:
• NCAA Singles Champion – Nicole Gibbs
• 50k Denver ITF Champion – Nicole Gibbs
• Helped Shelby Rogers reached a career-high ranking of No.48 in the World in January 2017
• 2016 Roland Garros Quarterfinalist – Shelby Rogers
• 2016 Rio de Janeiro Runner-Up – Shelby Rogers
• 2015 Bogota Doubles Runner-Up – Shelby Rogers
• Voted 2017 Professional Tennis Registry (PTR) Touring Coach of the Year
Marc earned his Bachelor of Science Degree as a part of the CSOM Honors Program in Economics from Boston College in 2002. Serves as the founder of RAMP Tennis, a tennis training program for junior players. Co-founder of First 1 Break, a 501 c3 non-profit tennis academy for all levels and age groups in Los Angeles. Hobbies include surfing, yoga and reading books. Attended one year of law school before coming to his senses.
Alessandro Nivola is an American actor and producer. He has been nominated for many awards including a Tony Award and an Independent Spirit Awardand has won a Screen Actors Guild Award, a British Independent Film Award (BIFA), and the Best Actor Award at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival among others.
He has starred in Hollywood blockbusters such as Face/Off, Jurassic Park III and the upcoming The Sopranos feature film prequel The Many Saints of Newark, as well as in critically acclaimed independent films, among them Disobedience, A Most Violent Year, Junebug and Laurel Canyon. He has also starred three times on Broadway, most recently opposite Bradley Cooper in the 2014 revival of The Elephant Man which earned him a Tony Award nomination.
Rennae Stubbs is an Australian retired tennis player, coach and commentator. She worked at the Seven Network between 2011 and 2018 as an analyst for women's matches and is now a full time commentator for ESPN tennis and the host of her own podcast, www.racquetmag.com The Racquet Magazine podcast. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. She has won four Grand Slam doubles titles and two Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. She was ranked world No.1 in doubles in 2000. She represented Australia at four successive Summer Olympic Games: Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, and Beijing 2008.
Rennae Stubbs at the 2010 US Open
Stubbs has recorded more doubles triumphs than any other Australian woman—60 from 1992 to the conclusion of the 2010 WTA Tour—enjoying success with eleven different partners. In 2001, Stubbs won the season-ending WTA Championships with regular partner Lisa Raymond and the pair were named ITF World Champions.
Rick Santorum was an American politician, attorney and political commentator. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a US Senator from Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2007 and was the Senate's third-ranking Republican from 2001 to 2007. Santorum ran for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, finishing second to Mitt Romney. In January 2017, he became a CNN senior political commentator.
Tim Siegel is a former professional tennis player and collegiate tennis coach. Siegel is currently the head coach of the Lubbock-Cooper Independent School District High School tennis team and previously served as head coach of the SMU Mustangs women's tennis team, Texas Tech Red Raiders men's tennis team and Texas Tech Red Raiders women's tennis team.
Following his time playing for the Razorbacks, Siegel went on to play professionally. With teammate Jimmy Arias, he reached a top 100 world ranking in doubles, the quarterfinals at the U.S. Clay Court Championships, and semifinals in Brisbane, Bologna and Florence. Siegel also reached the third round of doubles at the US Open, Australian Open and the second round of Wimbledon.
Donald Dell is an American sports attorney, writer, commentator, and former tennis player. Dell was the first sports agent in professional tennis, and represented Arthur Ashe, Stan Smith, Jimmy Connors, and Ivan Lendl during the golden age of pro tennis (1975 to 1985). He was also the founder of Professional Services (ProServ), one of the nation's first sports marketing firms established in 1970.
Dell is considered one of the fathers of sports marketing and the sports agent business along with IMG's Mark McCormack. Dell co-founded the Association of Tennis Professionals(ATP) in 1972 with Jack Kramer and Cliff Drysdale.
He played on the United States Davis Cup team in 1961 and 1963 and was the captain of the winning Cup teams of 1968 and 1969, both undefeated.
2020 Favorite Podcast Moments on this Special Episode of Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe
Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe - State of the Union of tennis, a look back at 2020 and what's to come in 2021
Savannah Guthrie is an American broadcast journalist and attorney. She is a main co-anchor of the NBC News morning show Today, a position she has held since July 2012.
Guthrie joined NBC News in September 2007 as a legal analyst and correspondent, regularly reporting on trials throughout the country. After serving as a White House correspondent between 2008 and 2011 and as co-anchor of the MSNBC program The Daily Rundown in 2010 and 2011, Guthrie was announced as the co-host of Today's third hour alongside Natalie Morales and Al Roker. In that role, she substituted as news anchor and main co-host and appeared as the chief legal analyst across all NBC platforms.
David Gregory is an American television journalist and the former moderator of NBC News' Sunday morning talk show Meet the Press. Gregory has served as a CNN political analyst since 2016.
Adam Zagoria is a Basketball Insider who covers basketball at all levels.
He is an award-winning journalist whose articles have appeared in The New York Times, Forbes.com, SLAM, Basketball Times and newspapers nationwide. A documentary filmmaker, Adam also owns an Emmy award.
Adam is the author of two books, including She’s Got Handle, called “The Hoop Dreams of the 21st Century” by The New York Times.
His second book, ULTIMATE – The First Four Decades, documents the colorful history of Ultimate Frisbee and was featured on ESPN’s Cold Pizza.
https://www.zagsblog.com
Patrick McEnroe with Another State of the Union on All Things Tennis on this Episode of Holding Court.
Ilana Kloss is a former professional tennis player, tennis coach, and commissioner of World Team Tennis, since 2001. She was the World's No. 1 ranked doubles player in 1976, World No. 19 in singles in 1979. She won the Wimbledon juniors singles title in 1972, the US Open juniors singles title in 1974, and the US Open Doubles and French Open Mixed Doubles titles in 1976.
Dick Gould is an American tennis coach. He was the Men's Tennis Coach at Stanford University for 38 years from 1966–2004. His Stanford men's tennis teams won 17 NCAA Men's Tennis Championships, and 50 of his players won All-American honors. He was named the ITA-Wilson "Coach of the Decade" both for the 1980s and the 1990s.
Patrick Gives us a State of the Union on All Things Tennis on the Episode of Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe
Jon Heyman is an insider for MLB Network and regularly contributes to WFAN and Entercom Radio. He writes primarily about baseball. Heyman is also a baseball insider for WFAN Radio in New York.
Henrik Lundqvist is a Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for the Washington Capitals in the NHL. He previously played 15 seasons with the New York Rangers. Before winning the Vezina Trophy in 2012, he was nominated in each of his first three seasons, and is the only goaltender in NHL history to record 11 30-win seasons in his first 12 seasons. He holds the record for most wins by a European-born goaltender in the NHL. His dominating play during his rookie season resulted in the New York media and Rangers fans giving him the nickname "King Henrik". During the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, he led the Swedish men's team to their second Olympic gold medal.
Brett Dennen is an American folk/pop singer and songwriter from Central California. His sixth studio album, Por Favor, was released in May 2016. In 2014, he appeared on Live From Daryl's House.Dennen counts "great songwriters" like Paul Simon, Cat Stevens, and Van Morrison among his biggest influences.
Howard "Howie" Bryant is an author, sports journalist, and radio and television personality. He writes weekly columns for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine, ESPN, and appears regularly on ESPN Radio. He is a frequent panelist on The Sports Reporters and since 2006 has been the sports correspondent for Weekend Edition with Scott Simon on National Public Radio.
Hendrickson High School has a new tennis coach. Teri Saunders, a former assistant coach for powerhouse programs Georgetown and Lake Travis, has taken over the tennis program.
Norah O'Donnell is an American television journalist, the anchor of the CBS Evening News and a correspondent for 60 Minutes. She is the former co-anchor of CBS This Morning, Chief White House Correspondent for CBS News, and a substitute host for CBS's Sunday morning show Face the Nation.
Ivan Lendl is a retired Czech-American professional tennis player. He was world No. 1 for 270 weeks and won 94 singles titles. At the majors he won eight titles and was runner-up a record 11 times. He also won seven year-end championships.
After retirement, he became a tennis coach for multiple players. He has helped Andy Murray win three major titles and reach the No. 1 ranking.
Former American Professional Tennis Player & Current ESPN Analyst Mary Joe Fernández on this Episode of Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe. Fernández reached a career-high ranking of world No. 4 in both singles and doubles. In singles, Fernández was the runner-up at the 1990 and 1992 Australian Opens, and the 1993 French Open, as well as winning a bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics. In doubles, she won the 1991 Australian Open with Patty Fendick and 1996 French Open with Lindsay Davenport, plus two Olympic gold medals.
A French Open Day 10 Update on Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe. Get it from the source of all things tennis.
Growing up in Boston and Los Angeles, Barry Buss become a national ranked junior player at the age of 12, and a member of the elite USTA Junior Davis Cup Team. As a college player he tied the legendary Jimmy Connors 22 match win streak at UCLA. Barry is an independent teaching pro working in the greater Los Angeles. areas.
First In A Field Of Two: A Junior Tennis Memoir
https://www.amazon.com/First-Field-Two-Junior-Tennis-ebook/dp/B00H06OA6C
State of the Union of Tennis & the French Open on This Episode of Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe
Cliff Drysdale- Retired tennis player and Hall of Fame legend from South Africa. The former highly ranked professional player of the 1960s and early 1970s became a well-known tennis announcer.
Drysdale reached the singles final of the U. S. Championships in 1965 (beating Dennis Ralston and Rafael Osuna before losing to Manuel Santana). He was one of the Handsome Eight, a group of players signed by Lamar Hunt in 1968 for the newly formed professional World Championship Tennis (WCT) group. He became president of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) when it was formed by Jack Kramer, Donald Dell, and himself in 1972. Drysdale was ranked world No. 4 in 1965 by Lance Tingay of The Daily Telegraph.
He won the singles title at the Dutch Open in Hilversum in 1963 and 1964. In 1965, he won the singles title at the German Championships by defeating Boro Jovanović in the final. During his Open era career, Drysdale captured five singles titles and six doubles titles including winning the 1972 US Open doubles crown with Roger Taylor.
Drysdale has served as a tennis commentator on ESPN since the network's founding in 1979.
In 1998, Drysdale won the William M. Johnston award for contribution to men’s tennis, given by the USTA. In 2013, Drysdale was elected into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
Martina Navratilova is a former professional tennis player and coach. In 2005, Tennis magazine selected her as the greatest female tennis player for the years 1975 through 2005 and she is considered one of the best female tennis players of all time.
Navratilova was world No. 1 for a total of 332 weeks in singles, and a record 237 weeks in doubles, making her the only player in history to have held the top spot in both singles and doubles for over 200 weeks. She was year-end singles No. 1 seven times, including a record of five consecutive years, as well as year-end doubles No. 1 five times, including three consecutive years during which she held the ranking for the entire year.
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Patrick McEnroe With a Special Day 10 Report From the US Open on this Episode of Holding Court
Holding Court at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. SOTU of Tennis with Patrick McEnroe
Brad Gilbert is a former professional tennis player and tennis coach and podcaster (Winning Uglier). Throughout his career, he won 20 singles titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 4 in 1990, and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 18 four years prior. He won a bronze medal at the 1988 Olympics, and both a gold medal and a silver medal at the 1981 Maccabiah Games.
Since retiring from the tour, he has coached several top players, most notably Andre Agassi who won six of his eight Grand Slam titles under Gilbert's tutelage.
Hall of Famer Steve Flink Visits Holding Court With Patrick McEnroe This Week on All Things Tennis.
Steve Flink is an American sports journalist and historian. Flink, who has been a columnist & editor with World Tennis Magazine, Tennis Week and Tennis Channel. He has published two monographs on the history of tennis, in 2017 was elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in the Contributor category.
Former Tennis Pro and ESPN Broadcaster, Pam Shriver Joins Patrick on Holding Court This Week.
Pam Shriveris a former professional tennis player from the U.S. She currently is a tennis broadcaster for ESPN and a pundit for BBC tennis coverage. During the 1980s and 1990s, she won 133 titles, including 21 women's singles titles, 111 women's doubles titles and many others.
CEO of BNP Paribas, Jean-Yves Fillion, a great friend of the game of tennis joins Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe.
Jean-Yves Fillion is Chief Executive Officer of BNP Paribas USA, overseeing the bank’s wholesale and retail activities in the United States, and Chairman of Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) for the Americas.
Mr. Fillion has been with BNP Paribas for 33 years. He serves on the Board of Directors of BNP Paribas USA and on the Boards of its subsidiaries: Bank of the West Corporation, BancWest Holdings and BNP Paribas US Wholesale Holdings, Corp. In line with the Bank’s worldwide commitment to tennis, Mr. Fillion is a member of the Board of Governors for the International Tennis Hall of Fame. A former member of the French National Sailing Team, he is also an active member of the New York Yacht Club and American Yacht Club.
State of the Union of Tennis on Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe. The US Open is still on but where are we in 2020 in the world of Tennis, and where are we headed? Patrick's SOTU on this episode of Holding Court.
ESPN Journalist Chris McKendry joins Patrick McEnroe on this Episode of Holding Court.
Chris McKendry focuses on the sport she grew up loving and playing, tennis. She hosts ESPN’s coverage of the Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open. She previously also worked the French Open.
McKendry joined ESPN in 1996 as a SportsCenter anchor, shifting to ESPNEWS for the 1997 launch of the 24-hour sports news network. She returned to SportsCenter later that year, co-hosting the weekend morning and weekday 6 p.m. editions. From its debut in August 2008, Chris McKendry co-hosted the mid-day SportsCenter on ESPN.
Former New York State Chief Deputy Attorney General & Manhattan District Attorney Candidate, Alvin Bragg on Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe
Australian TV & Film Actress Magda Szubanski, Joins Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe.
Szubanski's career started as a writer and performer of sketch comedy and has since progressed to production of TV, film acting, and musical theatre. She starred in Fast Forward, Kath & Kim where she played Sharon Strzelecki, and in the films Babe (1995) and Babe: Pig in the City (1998) as Esme Hoggett. She then teamed up again with director/producer George Miller to voice the role of Miss Viola in the animated films Happy Feet and Happy Feet Two.
Part 2 of the State of the Union of Tennis with Special Guest, Jane McManus on Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe.
Jane McManus
Director of the Center for Sports Communication; Professional Lecturer of Communication
McManus has been the Center’s director since 2018, where she engages with students, brings in industry experts and is setting the agenda to help Marist prepare students to be leaders in sports journalism and communications.
McManus is also a sports columnist for the New York Daily News. Before that, she spend nearly 10 years at ESPN, covering the NFL and as a columnist for espnW. She hosted two radio shows, including The Trifecta with Kate Fagan and Sarah Spain, and was a frequent analyst for SportsCenter, The Sports Reporters, and Outside the Lines among other ESPN shows. Prior to that, McManus covered everything from high schools to the US Open for The Journal News in Westchester, NY, and her work has appeared in Newsday, The New York Times, USA Today and other outlets. She has appeared as a guest on Good Morning America, CNN and NPR’s Morning Edition.
McManus grew up in southern Virginia until she was 11 and then moved to Lincoln, Nebraska where she graduated from Lincoln High School. She received a BA in the Liberal Arts from St. John’s College in Annapolis Md. and a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she taught sports journalism for over a decade.
While she was covering the New York Jets for ESPN, McManus played roller derby for seven years as Lesley E. Visserate.
After a two-year sojourn in London, which included an episode of House Hunters International, McManus, her husband and two daughters will resettle back in Westchester County.
Monte Russo joins Patrick McEnroe on Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe. Monte Russo is a work out expert and a former weightlifter. He picked up tennis at the age of 43 and on this episode talks about the mechanics of proper work outs and of course, all things tennis.
The State of the Union of Tennis on Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe, The US Open, and all things Tennis in 2020. Don't miss Patrick's take as an ESPN broadcaster, and former American former professional tennis player. Get it from the source!
Patrick McEnroe with Brandon Steiner on Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe.
Brandon Steiner is a sports marketer who turned his paper route into a certifiable business, then changed the face of sports memorabilia. He is the founder and former CEO of Steiner Sports now owned by Fanatics.
https://brandonsteiner.com
Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe - Part 2 of a 2 Part Special with Former Iranian Professional Tennis Player, Mansour Bahrami
Mansour Bahrami is a former professional tennis player. He is Iranian with dual French nationality since 1989. His showmanship has made him a long-standing and popular figure in invitational tournaments. When the Iranian team was short of players, Bahrami was permitted to play the game on a tennis court. His talent was obvious and he reached the Davis Cup team (and helped the team to victory at the age of just 16) but in the late 1970s the Islamic Revolution within Iran led to tennis being viewed as a capitalist and elitist sport. He spent the next three years playing backgammon as all tennis courts were closed down. In desperation, he fled to France with his life savings.
Mansour Bahrami is a former professional tennis player. He is Iranian with dual French nationality since 1989. His showmanship has made him a long-standing and popular figure in invitational tournaments. When the Iranian team was short of players, Bahrami was permitted to play the game on a tennis court. His talent was obvious and he reached the Davis Cup team (and helped the team to victory at the age of just 16) but in the late 1970s the Islamic Revolution within Iran led to tennis being viewed as a capitalist and elitist sport. He spent the next three years playing backgammon as all tennis courts were closed down. In desperation, he fled to France with his life savings.
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Former US Senator from Louisiana, John Breaux makes his debut on Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe.
Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe. Patrick is joined by 2 NBA greats, Steve Nash & Dirk Nowitzki
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Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe - 2017 Masters Tournament Champion Sergio García
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Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe. Patrick talks tennis and more with American actor and producer Timothy Olyphant.
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Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe - American Actor, Kyle MacLachlan
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Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe with ESPN's Chris Fowler
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Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe with Sandy Montag.
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Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe- Special Guest, Alec Baldwin
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Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe- Special Guest Mike Lupica
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Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe - Special Guest, The Legendary Sports Broadcaster, Dick "Dickie V" Vitale
Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe- Marci Klein, Former American Television Producer of SNL & 30 Rock
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Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe with Brian Koppelman, Creator of Showtime's Billions.