Thoughts on Athens

About this episode

Jack LeGwin provides a detailed recap of his experience covering a tennis event in Athens, highlighting the media perspective and interactions with players.

What a week it was. If you were following on the Instagram page, you caught a lot of it, but I thought it would be best to upload a full recap of the event from my perspective as a media member. I give my best Alex Gruskin/John Parsons/Chris Halioris impression and give a recap of all the matches, but also try to give some insight of what it's like covering the event from a media perspective. I speak about the venue, the atmosphere in the crowd, the scheduling of media day, the layout of the facility and the new relationships that are made through tennis. Also, MASSIVE shoutout to the SID's that helped me set up as many interviews as I was able to get done throughout the week. Special shoutout to Cadee Pierce, the Georgia SID that helped everything run as smoothly as it did throughout the week as she was in charge of everything on the media side. But to all the SID's, you're the best. My specific kind of media is speaking with the players and you made my job much easier to do so. Two more days of Athens content, then that'll be it until the Fall!

People in this episode

Host: Jack LeGwin

Topics covered

• Athens recap
• media perspective
• tennis events
• interviews
• sports atmosphere

Keywords

• Athens
• tennis
• media coverage
• interviews
• sports events
• atmosphere
• SID

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Georgia SID

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