This week, Mike is joined by none apart from Canadian star doubles participant Sharon Fichman who shares that she is nearing her return to the WTA Tour after battling accidents over the previous 18 months. The final event she performed was the WTA Finals in 2021, a 12 months that noticed her rating soar to a career-high No. 21 on this planet.
Fichman particulars her time away from the court docket which included a return to the published sales space the place she just lately coated Team Canada presented by Sobeys’ win over Belgium in Billie Jean King Cup motion. She’s additionally been concerned in some teaching alternatives and positively sees that as a future risk as soon as she hangs up her racquet for good.
Ben and Mike then talk about all the most recent clay court docket motion in Europe together with the return of Bianca Andreescu following the ankle damage she sustained only a month in the past in Miami.
Genie Bouchard can be elevating her stage in simply her third event again for the reason that Aussie Open and obtained her first WTA 1000 win on clay since 2017 this previous week in Madrid.
On the lads’s facet, it was a troublesome occasion for Felix Auger Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov who both went out early, however there’s nonetheless time to fine-tune their video games for Roland-Garros later this month.
The podcast wraps up with a have a look at the hosts’ current Tennis Canada Bracket Challenge picks in addition to the truth that we at the moment are lower than 100 days away from the start of the National Bank Open!
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