Forty Forty Radio

The fashion of tennis with Eliza Wastcoat

Tennis is a beautiful game, but are looks always served? Eliza Wastcoat is an LA-based tennis content creator who speaks the truth on the style and fashion of our sporting culture. In this episode, we dive deep to look back at where tennis fashion is coming from, where it's going, and why it might be struggling to get there.
What trends are here to stay? How did the Yeezy crisis impact Adidas’ tennis lines? Is the tennis fandom too critical? If mesh tops are in, are ankle socks out? Pay attention because Eliza Wastcoat is about to make the calls.
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Our guide to picking up tennis and staying with it in 2024

Tennis is everyone and we know you want in. But how can you give yourself the best chance of loving the sport and keeping with it in 2024?
This week Nick and Andy each bring three tips to the table. From how to be as cost efficient as possible, which racquet to buy (or steal from your parents) and the formats that will get you hooked without frustrating you.
And coming to tennis means wearing the culture on your sleeve, our hoodie presale has been extended into February! Get 20% a warm up hoodie and free art print  with code 'FIRSTSERVE' available at: www.fortyforty.club
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Aus Open impressions and our first product release (!!!)

Blood, sweat and tears and we are here. We are very proud to bring you Forty Forty's first product release: the Warm Up Hoodie made with one thing in mind: pure enjoyment for you. 
This week we are just giving this a quick shoutout, but you can't get Andy and Nick on the blower together without some tennis analysis.
So get all that good stuff, then get a hoodie and an art print during our presale offer. Until January 30th, get 20% off and a free print with code 'FIRSTSERVE' available at: www.fortyforty.club
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Sam Morrison on finding tennis later in life, representation, and going viral

We found Sam Morrison's Baseline Conversation on Instagram in late December 2023. We saw a guy telling stories about learning to play tennis while he rallied balls against a wall. A week later, Sam had amassed thousands of followers who have connected with his earnest story-telling and his developing game. Now he is championing a message of persistence and inclusion that we love to see in the culture.
Sam dialled into Forty Forty Radio from his hometown of Phoenix Arizona to talk through his frankly unbelievable family sporting heritage, what drew him to tennis in his 20s, representation in the sport, and his plans to carve out a space for more people to enjoy the game.
Follow @baselineconversation on Instagram and watch Sam grow. Or, give him some unsolicited coaching tips if that's who you are. While you're on Instagram, visit us to go into the draw for a free limited edition art print.
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The collision of tennis and lino printing

It is a new year and you are a new you. So this year, let the new you learn something new. Depart on a sonic journey right into the artistic mind of Andy Barker as he and your host Nick Andrews talk you through a live session creating our limited Let’s Play Lino prints, soon to be launched as part of our first product drop. How does an artist create? What is a lino print? What is that green stuff all over Andy’s living room floor? Listen in to this literal fireside chat for a look behind the curtains AND keep an eye on our socials for an upcoming competition where you can win print 1/100.
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The year ahead for Forty Forty with Andy Barker

Nick and Andy are off the court and feeling warm and fuzzy as they wrap up 2023 and postulate on the future of Forty Forty. What are we proud of? What do we want to achieve? Where are the good vibes going to be? Listen in and hear all.
And on behalf of Forty Forty, thank you for joining us this year, we hope you will stick around. Expect great tennis pleasures if you do.
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Two sets with Andy Barker, the designer behind Forty Forty

Andy Barker is a dynamo. He is the design brain behind Forty Forty and he plays elegant tennis to make you drool. In this episode of Forty Forty Radio, your regular host starts to unravel the Andy mystery with a post-hit debrief covering the future of Forty Forty, the mental difficulties of the game, and more.
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What London’s tennis clubs are missing

The Forty Forty Hitting Club knocked it around at Highbury Fields on a frozen December Saturday. Listen for your host's reflections on the day including some raw feelings about London tennis clubs, social formats of choice, post-tennis coffee preferences, and more. Finally, a sneak peak at Forty Forty's upcoming off-court drop.
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A tennis gifting guide without any tennis equipment

The holiday season is fast approaching and now is the time to procure the gifts for the ones we love. Tennis culture invites a wide spectrum of potential gifts, however, we think that much of the gear itself is too expensive and too personal for gifting. And so, herein we enclose our guide to gifting for the tennis lover in your life (or for yourself).
Our list is a range of items that we either already love, or covet, all from an accessible price-point befitting the times (except for one big splurge item courtesy of D.S & Durga). We hope that you enjoy and that you will give us the gift of rating and subscribing to the pod.
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Good luck as you head into the holiday period!

Meet your host Nick Andrews

Your host dives deep to pull out the four tennis memories that define him. Along the way we get insight into the lives of ball kids, stories from the social tennis rage front lines, Adidas club kit analysis, and a story of how fishing with engineers lead to the best day of tennis Lake Eildon has ever seen.
We hope you enjoy this and please come back for more next week. If your ears are made happier by this regular tennis experience please rate and subscribe. Don't forget to find us on Instagram @fortyfortyhittingclub for more tennis culture.