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The Gay Tennis Podcast
"Tomas Berdych Made Me Gay": Laver Cup, Coco's Coaching Change & More Tennis News
Season 2, Ep. 37
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Welcome back! We're joined by our friend Brennan Marshall for a fun recap of this week's tennis (and some non-tennis) news. First, we talk about how we fell in love with the WTA as kids and then dive into these topics:
- Billie Jean King's three proposed changes to tennis
- Laver Cup (mostly off-court news bc who cares who wins?)
- Bye Brad! Coco's latest coaching news (!)
- BOSS fashion show with Fritz and Berrettini
- New conversion therapy law in Kentucky
- GLTA tournaments: Why they're fun and stressful
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