37 min

Chris "Mad Dog" Russo talks tennis Beyond The Baseline: SI's Tennis Podcast with Jon Wertheim

    • Tennis

On this week's episode, host Jon Wertheim talks with sports radio personality and huge tennis fan Chris "Mad Dog" Russo on recent results and the upcoming French Open and lead-up clay tournaments. Russo also explains how he became so interested in the sport and his personal playing career. He also talks about why, in his opinion, tennis loses out against more popular sports in the U.S., the struggles local radio stations and newspapers have when trying to cover top tennis players and tournaments, how tennis can become more relevant to the mainstream sports media and more.
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On this week's episode, host Jon Wertheim talks with sports radio personality and huge tennis fan Chris "Mad Dog" Russo on recent results and the upcoming French Open and lead-up clay tournaments. Russo also explains how he became so interested in the sport and his personal playing career. He also talks about why, in his opinion, tennis loses out against more popular sports in the U.S., the struggles local radio stations and newspapers have when trying to cover top tennis players and tournaments, how tennis can become more relevant to the mainstream sports media and more.
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37 min

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