Hosted by Ian Rapport · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 32 episodes
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Racket Sports Weekly is your inside track on the business of tennis, pickleball, padel and beyond. Each episode delivers the latest industry news and analysis, in addition to conversations with entrepreneurs, executives and leaders who are changing the game. Whether you’re building a brand, working in the industry, or simply passionate about sports, join us and dive into the business of racket sports.
Ian Rapport hosts Racket Sports Weekly, a sports show with 32 episodes published.
On this episode of the Racket Sports Weekly podcast, Ian sits down with Jaime Sullivan and Alli Barnes of Tennis IQ to discuss how their platform is combining technology and mental performance training to reshape tennis
AI is rapidly changing the future of racket sports coaching, player development, and performance analysis. This week on the Racket Sports Weekly podcast, Ian Rapport is joined by Lauren Pedersen, co-founder and CEO of Sp
Ryan Redondo has become one of the most influential operators helping shape the future of racket sports in America. The CEO of Barnes Tennis Center and Youth Tennis San Diego sat down with Racket Sports Weekly host Ian R
On this episode of Racket Sports Weekly , Ian sits down with Tennis Social founder and CEO Tyler Kelly to discuss how simulator technology could reshape the future of tennis and racket sports. Tyler shares the story behi
In this episode of Racket Sports Weekly, Ian sits down with Steve Shpilsky, CEO and founder of Los Angeles Padel Club , to discuss what it takes to build LA’s first premier padel club. Steve shares how his background in
POP Tennis has been around for more than a century, but it’s now starting to find real momentum. In this episode of Racket Sports Weekly , Ian sits down with Mitch Kutner, President of the International POP Tennis Associ
This week, I sat down with Claude Okin (CEO and founder) and Joe Siegel (SVP and SMD) from SPORTIME , one of the largest racket sports club operators in the country. We go deep into what it actually takes to run a succes
In this episode of Racket Sports Weekly , I sat down with Emiliano Abramzon , co-founder and CEO of Racquet 360 , live from RacquetX . We talked about how Racquet 360 is taking a full-ecosystem approach to growing padel
In this episode of Racket Sports Weekly, Ian Rapport sits down with tennis journalist Tim Newcomb to discuss the changing world of tennis gear, footwear, apparel, and media. Tim shares how he built his niche covering ten
In this episode of Racket Sports Weekly , host Ian Rapport sits down with Callum Beale, Head of Game Expansion at Tennis Australia , to discuss how one of the sport’s leading governing bodies is embracing the rise of pic
In this week’s episode of Racket Sports Weekly , host Ian Rapport sits down with Tennis Channel founder and TYPTI creator Steve Bellamy to break down one of the most talked-about new sports in the racket sports industry.
Pickleball’s rapid growth has reshaped the racket sports landscape with the Association of Pickleball Players (APP) at the center of that expansion. In this episode of Racket Sports Weekly , host Ian Rapport talks with A
Pickleball’s global expansion is accelerating and TOPSERIES Pickleball wants to play a major role in shaping what comes next. In this episode of Racket Sports Weekly , I sit down with Adel Aref, CEO of TOPSERIES Pick
On this episode of Racket Sports Weekly , we sit down with Santiago Gomez, Founder & CEO of Padel Haus , to talk about how he’s built the leading premium padel club. We discuss: • Why New York was the perfect launch city
Leading up to the MGM Slam, we caught up with some of the top names in the game for a series of quick conversations. In this episode, hear directly from Tommy Paul, Casper Ruud, João Fonseca, and Lorenzo Musetti as they
In this episode of Racket Sports Weekly, we sit down with former World No. 8 Diego Schwartzman to discuss his move into the business side of tennis as a partner in INTENNSE , a new team-based league rethinking how the sp
In this episode of Racket Sports Weekly, we sit down with Ben Nichols, Founder & CEO of Padel 22 , to break down how padel is being built, branded, and taken mainstream in the U.S. and around the world. Ben shares his jo
In this episode of Racket Sports Weekly , we sit down with U.S. Blind Tennis Association President Murray Elbourn to explore how blind and low vision tennis is being built in the United States. A must-listen for anyone i
This week on Racket Sports Weekly , we’re joined by Daniel Quinones and Jeff Contreras, co-founders of Pickleball Power Play to break down their new approach to pickleball tournaments that is catching on across the cou
This week on Racket Sports Weekly , we share our biggest news yet with the official launch of racketsportsweekly.com. We’re also joined by Alessandro Bennett, co-founder and CEO of Pura Padel , for an in-depth conversati
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