Marina Erakovic: What it's really like to be a tennis pro in NZ
We talk to Marina Erakovic about moving to NZ as a six year old from war-torn Yugoslavia, the special treatment she got at high school as a 'minor celebrity', behind the scenes stories about what life is really like for a touring tennis pro, why the media never got the best out of her, her creative Instagram account and why her Wikipedia page is so intense.
Show notes | Marina Erakovic
- 51 Has Marina picked up a racquet to play a game of tennis since retirement?
- 35 What is Marina up to now? The post-tennis journey: further education, medical school, or working in the real world at PwC!
- 24 How Seamus and Steve know Marina and a summary from Will Ward
- 58 The Mad Era: the musical journey of Marina Erakovic
- 25 Instagram v reality and one of the most detailed Wikipedia page’s ever
- 24 A stint as a field reporter on the Crowd Goes Wild and making Andrew Mulligan eat his own words
- 05 Moving to New Zealand as a six-year-old who didn’t speak English
- 04 The rise to no1 tennis player in New Zealand by the age of 15
- 01 Who were Marina’s contemporaries on the world junior tour and the process to becoming a pro?
- 01 Painting a picture of the cost of a professional career: financial and personal
- 41 Marina takes us behind the scenes of life on the tour: meditation, problem solving, and concerts
- 03.11 Mixing with the big names on tour and becoming a player representative on the WTA
- 07.33 Tennis in New Zealand: The Williams sisters come to Auckland, the battle with High Performance Sport NZ, and Marina’s Olympic experience
- 17.19 Advice for upcoming tennis players and Tennis NZ
- 20.24 The physical toll a career on the tennis circuit has taken on Marina
- 26.21 What triggered the return to tennis?
- 28.48 Serving up some topical tennis questions: Novak Djokovic, Peng Shuai, Naomi Osaka
- 35.58 Doubles chat
- 38.28 The transition to normal life from the tennis tour
- 42.18 Last words from Steven, Seamus and Marina
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