Steve Smith and Richard Hernandez welcome former NHL player Dominic Moore to episode 322 of the GreatBase Tennis Podcast for a deep conversation about family, resilience, and the path that took three brothers from a Toronto cul-de-sac to Harvard. Dominic traces his hockey and tennis upbringing alongside brothers Mark and Steve, the adversity his family has weathered, and the role his parents’ sacrifice and structure played in shaping all three into elite athletes and students.

The conversation ranges from Dave Fish and the Harvard tennis team’s role in helping Dominic through his first wife’s cancer battle, to stories about Martin St. Louis and Robert Steckley, before closing with reflections on what team sports teach that tennis often doesn’t, namely loyalty and being a good teammate.

Steve Smith, Dave Anderson, and Pol O'Callaghan welcome content creator and teaching pro Jeff Lewis to the latest episode of the GreatBase Tennis Podcast for a deep dive into grips and stroke production across the history of pro tennis. The group works through the evolution of forehand grips from Eastern to extreme Western, naming benchmark players for each style, from Don Budge and Welby Van Horn's "championship grip" to modern players like Del Potro, Alcaraz, and Swiatek.

The conversation moves through backhands, volleys, overheads, serves, and returns, with the group naming benchmark pros for each shot along the way. They also tackle the inverted racket face trend and why so many juniors are copying it without the fundamentals to back it up. Throughout, the group returns to the same theme: the pros who succeed are the ones who honor the physics and keep things simple, while juniors today are often chasing flashy nuances instead of building a complete, fundamentally sound game.

Steve Smith, Dave Anderson, and Pol O'Callaghan welcome longtime listener Simon Schlesinger, a teaching pro from Toronto who caught up on nearly 300 episodes of the podcast, to hear his story of falling in and out of love with tennis before finding his way back into coaching. Simon traces his path from childhood tennis in Ottawa, through a detour into arts and creative writing in Montreal, to eventually landing in Toronto and discovering GreatBase through fellow coach Will Resnick.

The conversation covers how Will's clear, repeatable routines helped Simon understand stroke production rather than reverse engineering it from ball control, along with the challenges of building a coaching career in Canada's limited club system, and shoutouts for other influences like Al Millar and content creator Connor Casey. It closes with reflections on gratitude, mentorship, and Simon's hopes of one day leading a group of coaches himself.