We’re celebrating the completion of our 11th season as a podcast! We owe our longevity in large part to our listeners’ support, either through crowdfunding, community, or plain old engagement. You’ve been with us through the second Serena Slam, Rafa’s unlikely Australian Open, the retirement of all of our childhood faves, various doping scandals, and a thousand mini-controversies.

Your generosity has helped us to expand the show, travel to tournaments, and remain independent. You’ve challenged us to be honest, own our mistakes, and speak truth on uncomfortable subjects. We’re proud that we’ve stayed fully independent after all these years -- accountable only to our listeners and no one else.

Thanks to you, we traveled to Wimbledon for the first time this year. Plus, we got to the US Open for the fourth year in a row. Next year, we hope to travel to some old favorites and hopefully somewhere new.

So who are we and what do we do? We’re a millennial gay couple living in Toronto, recording our podcast from our house (now on our third apartment/recording space since starting the show in 2015). We prefer a forest-for-the-trees look at tennis rather than technical analysis. We study tennis’ place in culture, its business and governance issues, and how tennis interacts with gender, race, sexuality, money, power, and labour.

That said, we both love mess and spend lots of airtime having fun with player foibles and the sport’s overall eccentricity. What makes tennis weird and unique and sometimes infuriating? What does fandom mean? Come for an analysis of the PTPA lawsuit, stay for a kiki on Aryna’s latest crashout or Carlos’ haircut. We are fierce advocates of the WTA and women’s sport in general, and we are OG Williams and Nadal fans, but we try to approach every topic with a reckoning of our biases.

Here are some samples of the kind of work we do:

Vibes Cartel - analyzing the PTPA’s lawsuit against the tennis governing bodies, aka “the cartel”

TBS x Courtney Part I - the first part of our interview with former WTA Insider Courtney Nguyen

Receipts! Proof! Timeline! Screenshots! - my favorite topic: anti-doping

Gatekeeping Tennis - one of our longform historical episodes, this one about the various barriers of entry to tennis, both structural and cultural

If you like what we do and want to show your appreciation or help us do more of it, this GoFundMe is the way to do that. Only donate if you can and want to! We’re so grateful to our listeners not only for your financial support but also for the unique community you’ve helped us to create.