Perfect Match? — a tennis podcast hosted by Bryan Keller & Michele Drohan
A tennis podcast about the game — and what it reveals about the culture (and sometimes our relationship).
Hosted by Bryan Keller & Michele Drohan
The show
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.
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Bryan Keller @bwk
Co-host, occasional line-judge in his own living room. Bryan brings the numbers, the takes, and a stubborn belief that every rivalry is really a relationship in disguise.
Michele Drohan @shellsteak
Co-host, keeper of the receipts. Michele calls out the double standards tennis loves to ignore — and makes sure the match never ends without a verdict.
Latest episodes
New episodes every week. Play right here, or follow on your listening app of choice.
Latest EpisodeThe Monfils/Svitolina Breakup 💔 😢
The breakup of Gael Monfils and Elina Svitolina shocked the tennis world when the story broke on Instagram last week. Our heart goes out to both of them, and it got us thinking about tennis couples, breakups in general and breakups in our past. It's the breakup episode!Also:Musetti violates the Bro Code by banging Berretinni's ex (and cheating on his current partner/baby mama for good measure)Ther
Butt Seriously: Which Are the Best Asses in Men's Tennis?
Apparently lots of men are "glutemaxxxing" these days, so we thought we'd survey the tuchus landscape over at the ATP. Michele lays out her scoring system for the top male players' tushies, while Bryan awkwardly engages. Also, tennis needs a timeout: bad vibes at the end of the tennis season.Send us your hot takes at perfectmatchpodcast@gmail.comAs always tell your friends, rate this podcast in yo
How to Explain Tennis Scoring
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 a
Happy Bisexual Awareness Week!
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.comAs always tell your friends, rate this podcast in your app, and send us feedback at https://www.perfectmatchpodcast.co
Bro Hard or Bro Home: The 5 Types of Bros in Men's Tennis
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
The Open Era: Your Gay Sports Romance Novel Companion to the US Open
In this extended episode we talk about the emerging Gay Sports Romance genre and nerd out on behind-the-scenes library stuff with New York Public Library Senior Librarian and Cataloger Julia Lubey! How do books get tagged as Queer Fiction vs. Bisexual vs. Young Adult? What about The Open Era, which is perhaps all of the above?Also:Alcaraz' nipple slip shirt 👀Djokovic's mysterious long-COVID-like
Postcard from the US Open Fan Week
The US Open Fan Week: loud, crowded, disorganized, chaotic! But we got a chance to see Serena and Carlos play doubles as well as the return of the one and only Roger Federer. Michele refrained from putting them on the glass for Roger, and Bryan remained relatively sober despite spending ~$200 on booze. Only at the Open!Also,The Arthur Ashe stadium renovation that reflects the disappearing middle c
What the Hair?
No sooner did we record an episode about Carlos' cornrows than he took them out (and pulled out of Cincy 😞). Regardless, there's a history of white people adopting/appropriating(?) black style with mixed results. We were initially becringed by the cornrows, but a new generation of social media users has put the whole topic into grey area.Also:Jessie Pegula is hard to root forThe ticket scalpers b
Are Gen Z Players "Quiet Quitting"?
Jannik Sinner made headlines last week because he passed on a potentially unprecedented and historic opportunity: win all Masters 1000s tournaments in a single year. Nobody has ever done it. With all the talk about how maladapted, weird and lazy Gen Z is purported to be, we wondered if there's a generational theme here (spoiler: they said the exact same things about Gen X, but no one remembers any
The WTA: Prove You're a Woman
The Women's Tennis Association, arguably the most progressive sports association in history, has decided to require every female professional tennis player to prove that they are a woman. What certification will be acceptable to pass this new test? Oh, it's something called an SRY test, which checks for the presence of Y chromosomes. Funny story, the man who discovered the SRY marker thinks that t
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