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Perfect Match?

Perfect Match?

By: Bryan Keller & Michele Drohan
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Perfect Match? is a tennis podcast where we talk about tennis as it relates to the culture (and sometimes our relationship as it relates to tennis).


Co-hosts, partnered couple and dare we say doubles partners, Bryan and Michele get into it exploring the big game, their own game and anything else that's making tennis fans talk from the sidelines.


Episodes drop weekly. Stay in touch: Bluesky at @perfectmatchpodcast.com or @shellsteak, and Instagram at @perfectmatchpodcast.

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Bryan Keller & Michele Drohan Relationships Social Sciences Tennis
Episodes
  • How to Explain Tennis Scoring

    How to Explain Tennis Scoring
    2 Oct 2026

    Love, 15, 30, 40: Music to tennis fans' ears and seemingly more complicated than A.P. Calculus to non-tennis people. This week, we attempt to explain how to explain tennis scoring. Bryan takes particular joy in this exercise as a man who loves to explain things (they should have a word for that!). Can tennis scoring be explained, or must it be lived?

    Also,

    • Elf and Polymarket are running the latest annoying Tennis Channel ads
    • The history and possible future of the tiebreak in tennis

    Send us your hot takes at perfectmatchpodcast@gmail.com


    As always tell your friends, rate this podcast in your app, and send us feedback at https://www.perfectmatchpodcast.com/


    You can also follow us on Bluesky at @perfectmatchpodcast.com or @shellsteak

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    34 min
  • Happy Bisexual Awareness Week!

    Happy Bisexual Awareness Week!
    23 Sep 2026

    Michele is out of town this week, which happens to also be Bisexual Awareness Week. I kept myself occupied by recording this short, (I believe) thoughtful essay on bisexuality. For all our bisexual listeners, you are awesome 💜

    Send us your hot takes at perfectmatchpodcast@gmail.com


    As always tell your friends, rate this podcast in your app, and send us feedback at https://www.perfectmatchpodcast.com/


    You can also follow us on Bluesky at @perfectmatchpodcast.com or @shellsteak

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    4 min
  • Bro Hard or Bro Home: The 5 Types of Bros in Men's Tennis

    Bro Hard or Bro Home: The 5 Types of Bros in Men's Tennis
    16 Sep 2026

    On Sunday, we had a Brodown: (Total Bro) Ben Shelton battled (Toxic Bro) Alexander Zverev, not for the title of Top Bro but for the adjacent title of 2026 US Open Men's Champion. This week we break down Bros in Tennis: the Total Bro, Partial Bro, Nouveau Bro, Not a Bro and Toxic Bro. We feel that these entirely made up categories of bro-dom are a useful framing device for Men's Tennis in 2026. Or are they?


    Also:

    • Sabalenka is a sore loser at the US Open Final
    • Two out gay male players compete in a final in a Challengers match for the first time 🏳️‍🌈


    And other stuff...

    Send us your hot takes at perfectmatchpodcast@gmail.com


    As always tell your friends, rate this podcast in your app, and send us feedback at https://www.perfectmatchpodcast.com/


    You can also follow us on Bluesky at @perfectmatchpodcast.com or @shellsteak

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    34 min
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