70 episodes

Former college tennis players Chris Neary and Caitlin Thompson celebrate tennis' sartorial splendor, speculate wildly on the ins and outs of the pro tour, and suggests improvements to the game through bold and untested hypotheticals.
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The Main Draw The Main Draw

    • Sports
    • 4.8 • 31 Ratings

Former college tennis players Chris Neary and Caitlin Thompson celebrate tennis' sartorial splendor, speculate wildly on the ins and outs of the pro tour, and suggests improvements to the game through bold and untested hypotheticals.
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    The Lone Wolf

    The Lone Wolf

    The Main Draw is back with some bold predictions for the Australian Open—will only children have an advantage? We also conduct a proper breakdown of vanity racquets, and satisfy our fan by doing what we do best, evaluating tennis fashion.
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    • 21 min
    Bubble in a Bubble

    Bubble in a Bubble

    Chris joins a courtside Caitlin to talk about the Paire 11, bubble drama, and embracing your inner villain.
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    • 21 min
    Oy

    Oy

    Come for the obligatory talk about Novak Djokovic's disastrous Adria Tour, stay for the detours into Scientology, GOOP and Tr*mpism.
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    • 23 min
    Five Minute Increments

    Five Minute Increments

    Chris and his son discover a strangely fulfilling way to watch tennis during the pandemic, and we revisit the greatness of Mal Washington, Stan the Man and Goran Ivaneisevic.
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    • 19 min
    Pretty Like a Woman

    Pretty Like a Woman

    Chris and Caitlin introduce the self-growing lawn tennis solution, long for the days of surface specialists and talk about which men on tour are pretty, like women.
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    • 26 min
    Hypebeasts

    Hypebeasts

    Sure we love tennis here at The Main Draw, but we mainly like tennis style—and today we go deep on sneaker culture and why so few sneakers that look good with jeans work well on court (and vice versa).
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    • 19 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
31 Ratings

31 Ratings

GhostOfElectricity ,

The comfy chair of tennis podcasts

A tennis podcast for fans who keep the sport in perspective. Far more theoretical than analytical; conversational and irreverent. At times, inspired. Also, sporadic. These two won’t be held to the pro tour's relentless schedule. Do yourself a big favor and subscribe, but realize the hosts aren't about to spend an hour each week gassing on about tournament recaps and the latest rankings.

Michael DeSimone ,

Best tennis podcast I've heard

Sports talk for people who hate sports talk. Super knowledgeable hosts with interesting insights and they're even funny.

ndesplat ,

Love this but so much wrong information!

I enjoy this podcast, but feel like the hosts are simply casual tennis fans as each episode I feel like there is at least one significantly wrong facts! (Most recently stating that Victoria Azarenka won 2 Wimbledons!)

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