Unseeded

Post US Open Ramble

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:22:12 GMT

'That's what happens when you listen to your daddy all the time' - Fer

This is a largely inconsequential episode, recorded a few days after the US Open and released even later (Rob left his laptop charger at work). We debate some things, and ramble about others. Briefly we do talk about the US Open finals, but if you want proper analysis maybe give this one a miss.

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Sincaraz, Raducaraz, and A Post-Summer Catch-Up

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 02:40:29 GMT

This week we catch-up after the summer, having a brief discussion about the finals at Wimbledon where Jannik Sinner made up for the difficult loss in Roland Garros to Carlos Alcaraz. Then we move onto some of the tournaments in the US swing, particularly noting Naomi Osaka's run to the final in Canada. In true Unseeded style we do get lost on some random tangents, and of course there is a customary discussion about some of the kits for this years US Open.

Hosted by Rob and Fer.

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French Open Round-Up, and getting lost in tangents

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 16:02:12 GMT

In this episode we talk about the latter stages of this year's championships at Roland Garros, covering both the Men's and Women's singles events. We do also admittedly go of on some random tangents throughout as when we recorded this we hadn't actually spoken since our last episode. I could've cut a lot of that out but that would have complicated the edit lol...

Hosted by Rob and Fer.

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Flowers for Paolini, and is Draper hot?

Thu, 22 May 2025 00:32:07 GMT

The podcast is back...

We discuss the the form of the latest players and their fashion. Listen pls...

Presented by Fer and Rob.

Edited by Rob.

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The one all about tennis fashion

Tue, 14 May 2024 14:31:31 GMT

This is the first episode that we have recorded from two separate continents, in this episode we have the hosts Fer and Rob talk about their favourite tennis outfits through the years and what they believe makes the best outfits. We also look at which is the best manufacturer right now.

DISCLAIMER: This episode was recorded a couple of months back and was delayed to to difficulties fitting the edit around work, I've tried to remove any out-of-date tennis news as the episode is mostly about tennis fashion. Apologies if any references to the season just prior to Indian Wells remains.

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Sinner and Sabalenka Champions! AO wrap-up pod

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 16:36:03 GMT

Rob and Fer are back to wrap-up the 2024 edition of the Australian Open, where we saw Aryna Sabalenka successfully defend her title in flawless fashion and Jannik Sinner become the first Italian to lift the AO title. We discuss some other significant matches of the tournament, and the performance of a few other players. And in usual Unseeded fashion, there are a number of tangents that we go down.

Hosted by Rob and Fer. Edited By Rob.

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AO preview, predictions, and some Break Point chat

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 16:30:01 GMT

In our first ever episode containing all three of us hosts, we are previewing the AO singles events whilst looking ahead to our own predictions. We also have a chat about the latest series of Break Point. As a warning we go off on various tangents throughout but they had some entertainment value we hope.

Hosted by Deniz, Fer and Rob.

Edited by Rob.

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Return of the Pod, 2023 wrap-up and some bold predictions

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 13:24:13 GMT

And we are back...

We return with Deniz and Rob taking a brief look back at the 2023 tennis season, noting some of their personal highs and lows. We then move forward by making some pretty bold predictions for the 2024 season. No surprise that Rob is once again backing Zheng Qinwen for greatness. We'll be back for a more substantive preview of the 2024 season, hopefully with all three of us on the pod.

The hosts of this episode were Deniz and Robert (also the editor). We have another host, Fer, but she is still on holiday.

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A solo Wimbledon preview

Sat, 01 Jul 2023 11:44:06 GMT

In this episode I (Rob) record an episode by myself. In this lonely episode I preview Wimbledon by detailing the top seeds, and a few other bit of relevant info. I then give my thoughts on who I think could go an and win. I then also cover some recent tennis stories, including one retirement and one unretirement.

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The end of a slam and an era

Tue, 13 Jun 2023 15:05:01 GMT

This week we obviously look back at the finals weekend of Roland Garros, we also have some discussion of the semi-finals that took place prior. There is also discussion of some of the differences between Roland-Garros and Wimbledon. This episode also marks a sad end to an era of this podcast as this is Fer's last week as a regular host, she will be back in the future but is sadly unable to commit enough time to the podcast and tennis in general. I'm sure we're all sad about this, and will all be delighted when she returns for guest appearances.

And yes, I am aware of the out of sync audio at times. I tried my best to fix this. But alas, it would not be a podcast hosted by Rob and Fer if there weren't some issues due to poor internet connection.

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Roland-Garros Day 9: Our last daily epsiode

Tue, 06 Jun 2023 14:42:01 GMT

This is the last one of our daily episodes from Roland Garros, this is down to us sadly having to go back to our real lives. This episode we cover the last matches of the fourth round on Chatrier and briefly discuss the dramatic events that unfolded on Lenglen on the same day. We also have a returning host, with Fer being back on the pod.

We also briefly look ahead at the quarter finals. We will be back next week in our regular slot, where we will draw a conclusion to the French Open.

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Roland-Garros day 8: A near miraculous comeback

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 06:41:54 GMT

This episode one of us had only been to one match, Rob had gone to the night session match between Sloane Stephens and Aryna Sabalenka. We review that match and then go on to highlight what else had happened on Roland-Garros on day 8 of the tournament, We briefly looked ahead the action on day 9, and had a brief discussion of the default of Miyu Kato and Aldila Sutjiadi in the women's doubles.

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Roland-Garros Day 7: feat. a lengthy discussion on Gauff's forehand

Sun, 04 Jun 2023 15:46:44 GMT

We discuss the action on day day 7, with lengthy discussions on Gauff's forehand and also a conversation about the Roland-Garros night session.

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Roland-Garros Day 6: A Lovely day on Court Simone-Matthieu

Sat, 03 Jun 2023 05:59:31 GMT

This episode was slightly less challenging than the last. On day 6 of Roland-Garros we were situated on Court Simone-Matthieu, the third court of the French Open, it was a rather long day on that court with the last match finishing gone 10pm French time. We watched two very competitive matches, Kokkinakis v. Khachanov and Blinkova v. Svitolina, and two not so competitive matches, Norrie v. Musetti and Muchova v. Begu.

As well as Rob discovering that after finally seeing Muchova in person, that she is now his favourite player, we also preview the day 7 action where Rob is gonna be based on Court Suzanne-Lenglen.

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Roland-Garros Day 4 and 5: The Most Challenging Episode

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 23:15:22 GMT

If you're reading this it means that somehow this episode has been published. This episode is in two parts where we have a normal episode covering day 4 (which is delayed because the original edited episode deleted itself) and a Rob monologue, very briefly, covering day 5 of Roland Garros (this was the second recording as the original recording of Rob and Deniz would not export).

We cover a variety of topics over this episode, notably how terrible our predictions have been and Rob's newfound support for Camila Osorio. Rob also briefly discusses the success Mirra Andreeva. Next episode we'll be talking about Friday's action on Court Simone Matthieu, where we'll see the like of Norrie, Khachanov, Svitolina, and Muchova.

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Roland-Garros Day 3: A WILD time on Chatrier

Wed, 31 May 2023 06:55:52 GMT

We had re-record this episode, as the first attempt was not actually recorded. Rob forgot to turn the mic on ffs. Anyway, we covered what we had seen at Roland Garros on the first Tuesday when both of us had tickets on Chatrier, plus we discuss Mirra Andreeva and the Andreescu/Azarenka clash.

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Roland Garros Day 2: Osorio, Novak, and a few one-handers

Tue, 30 May 2023 06:43:36 GMT

This is our first episode reporting from Roland Garros, Rob was covering the outside courts on this first Monday of the tournament whist Deniz was located on Court Philippe Chatrier. We discuss the matches of Camila Osorio, Djokovic, Stan the man, and Caroline Garcia (among others).

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Bold predictions, and a Roland Garros preview

Mon, 29 May 2023 06:34:57 GMT

This week we have a return of our guest host, Deniz, as both him and Rob are in Paris for the first week of Roland Garros. In this episode, we debate our predictions plus preview the tournament to come, Deniz at one point becomes very smug about an expensive night session ticket he bought whilst waiting for the Eurostar and predicts big things for Sebastian Baez.

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Outdated Inequality

Thu, 18 May 2023 13:40:31 GMT

So this week's episode is once again delayed by a few days, for which I would like to apologise again. As a result some of our discussion about the tennis in Rome is slightly outdated, which in its own way is slightly topical for this weeks episode. We discuss the various inequalities in the sport, highlighting the different treatment and pay that is afforded to both the men's and women's players on the professional tour.

As stated, there is some discussion about what happened early on in Rome but we thought it best to have the main focus of this episode about what is an important topic. And a topic which we, unfortunately, expect to come up again and again.

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Alcaraz has a big cake

Thu, 11 May 2023 11:53:09 GMT

This week's episode was delayed for a number of reasons, and for that we do apologise. It was still recorded on the Monday night so some of it may be a little outdated. In this episode, we discuss the two singles finals in Madrid, plus Andy Murray's first title since 2019. We also look ahead to Rome, and make a couple of predictions for that.

As a heads up, we may not be posting an episode next week. This is because Fer is potentially moving house next Monday, and we would not be able to find another time to record. Thank you for understanding, this is after all just a hobby of ours that we can only dedicate a certain amount of time towards.

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The Famous Carlos Alcaraz, and the Infamous Holger Rune

Tue, 02 May 2023 13:48:29 GMT

In potentially our worst episode to date we discuss some of what has happened so far at the Mutua Madrid Open, this is without Fer having seen any of it due to being away and Rob not having time to prepare any notes due to work. Whilst the majority of this episode is waffle, we hope that you find some enjoyment in it. If all goes well, we should be back to normal next week.

Judging by the title you will see that we were both able to discuss some of the delicious drama that took place in the clash between Holger Rune and Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, and how our predictions for the Madrid Open are doing. If you listened last week, you'll defo know by now that Fer's predictions have turned out to be dreadful.

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Unequal 500s, and a look ahead to Madrid

Tue, 25 Apr 2023 16:10:02 GMT

In this week's episode, we round up the winners from the last week of tennis. We discuss the finals of the WTA 500 in Stuttgart, the ATP 500 in Barcelona and the two ATP 250s in Munich and Banja Luka. We discuss the lack of clay court tournaments, especially ones that better prepare for the French Open, on the WTA tour. After discussing some of what has happened in the last week, we look ahead to Madrid and of course make a couple of predictions.

There is also an anecdote from Rob at the start about a tennis match that did not end too well for him.

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Rublev, ranting, and hot takes

Tue, 18 Apr 2023 18:03:52 GMT

On this week's podcast we welcome back Fer from her holiday, and then discuss Rublev winning the Monte Carlo masters, whilst also touching upon some of the shenanigans that went on. Rob and Fer both rant about various topics, and we decide to end the show by sharing a few on the spot hot takes for the rest of the season. There is also mention of the recent BJK cup ties, and a brief look ahead to Stuttgart and Barcelona.

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The one where we probably hadn't watched enough tennis

Tue, 11 Apr 2023 13:55:51 GMT

This week we catch-up with the Miami finals a couple of weeks back, we briefly look over the events of the last week (i.e. Estoril, Bogota, Charleston and Houston). We then briefly look ahead to the upcoming Monte-Carlo Masters. There is also discussion about some of the recent suggestions by Tiafoe, Gauff, and Pegula and changing the atmosphere and adding a bit of trash talk to the game. This was an admittedly a loosely formatted episode, but one where we introduced a new guest host to take the place of Fer whilst she is enjoying her holiday.

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Another out of date tennis news episode

Tue, 28 Mar 2023 16:13:20 GMT

This week we discuss the prospect of a double sunshine double from Alcaraz and Rybakina. We discuss a frankly rather poor week for the Brits, and the hope that Andreescu showed before she picked up a devastating injury in the fourth round. Rob and Fer make predictions for who they think will win both singles events, and spoiler Rob is already wrong on one!

Plus, just to note there'll likely not be an episode out next week but we should hopefully return the week after. If not we will defo be back to normal after that, refreshed and ready for the clay court swing.

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BREAKING: Alcaraz and Rybakina are good at tennis.

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 14:29:27 GMT

In this week's show we discuss the semi-finals and finals from the latest edition of Indian Wells. There is a rather protracted discussion about the outfit choices of some of the competitors, plus we attempt to look at the the upcoming 1000 event in Miami.

Despite the technical issues we had recording, there is much less immediately out-of-date tennis news than we had last week. So fingers-crossed this episode ages a bit better.

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Indian Wells pt. 1

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 15:33:48 GMT

In this episode we discuss the action so far at Indian Wells. We discuss the excitement of Andy Murray winning a match in straight sets, which was then quickly dashed by a promising young Brit in Jack Draper. Other notable topics being Pegula, Medvedev, and Rob trying not to be too distracted watching Raducanu's match against Haddad-Maia whilst still trying to record.

Also to note, we reached a milestone of having 100 all-time listeners in the last week. We would like to thank everyone who has listened so far and shared this with friends, we love making this podcast but we are still a little bit amazed that there are some you that continue to listen each week.

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Daniil, The Demon, and an annoying Guitar

Tue, 07 Mar 2023 14:23:17 GMT

This week we talk about the action in Dubai, Acapulco, Austin, and Monterrey. We look ahead as far as we could at Indian Wells, bearing in mind this was recorded about half an hour before the main draw was released ffs. All of this done to the faint sound of a guitar in the background, and us having to deal with a number of annoying connection issues.

Thank you for listening.

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Finals Clash, Norrie, and a bit of Acapulco

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 18:49:11 GMT

We're a bit later than usual this week as Rob had to go to the pub on Monday night. In this pod, we talk the two clashing finals in Dubai and Doha, and Norrie's win against Alcaraz in Rio. Then Rob ends up defending Djokovic's status as potential GOAT again. And finally, Fer expresses her excitement for the Tennis being in Acapulco this week.

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Pet peeves, a Sakkari semi-final loss, and racquet trauma

Tue, 21 Feb 2023 20:04:42 GMT

This week we talk our on court pet peeves, Fer tells us her superstitions. We then go on the talk about the tennis we may or may not have watched from the previous week, followed by a discussion in Rob's recent racquet based trauma.

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Nostalgia, waffle, and a dodgy H2H

Tue, 14 Feb 2023 16:08:14 GMT

This week it is Rob's turn to face a pop quiz, where he does considerably better. We then talk about the recent results over the weekend, followed by a dive into our own Tennis nostalgia. It then admittedly descends into what can only be described as vaguely related tennis waffle, and we all get reminded about the rather lopsided H2H between the two hosts.

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Pop Quiz, Break Point, and a chaotic ending

Tue, 07 Feb 2023 15:30:43 GMT

We start this week's episode with a surprise pop quiz round for Fer (which may or may not undermine the authority we have to talk about tennis), followed up by a pretty unstructured chat about the recent Netflix series 'Break Point'. We then end by briefly mentioning some of the more recent stories in Tennis and demonstrating that we're still pretty poor at signing off a podcast.

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Australian Open, Seb Korda and Djokovic's Jacket

Tue, 31 Jan 2023 19:00:24 GMT

In our first ever episode we talk first about how our different predictions for the Australian Open fared, Rob talks about his new found love for Sebastian Korda, and we discuss the fortunes of probably the two most prominent Brits Andy Murray and Emma Raducanu. To finish off the pod we discuss Saturday's Women's singles final between Elena Rybakina and Aryna Sabalenka, and after some technical difficulties we discuss the Men's final that was between Stefanos Tsitsipas and Novak Djokovic.

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