Tennis Radio Network was set up in the late 1990s by the four leading English-language freelance tennis journalists working in radio. The four are still the driving force behind the company and carry out many of the assignments, but the aim was always to establish a network of broadcast and journalism professionals working in tennis, and that is what TRN is today. The four founders, who are also the four directors of Tennis Radio Network Limited, are:

Originally a print journalist, Chris has graduated to doing a mixture of writing, broadcasting and running TRN as its Executive Director. He grew up in north-west England, and his greatest achievement as a player came at 16 when he teamed with three school friends to set a world under-18 marathon doubles record of 44 hours non-stop tennis. As a tennis journalist, he has written for several newspapers, magazines and websites around the world, and among the six books he has written is the first international biography of Roger Federer. For many years he was a regular voice on BBC Radio, and still reports occasionally for the BBC, but these days he is more often heard on Eurosport. For TRN, he has covered numerous Davis and Fed Cup ties, Masters Series and Tier 1 tournaments, and Olympic Games – mostly for radio in the English-speaking world. He also works in other languages, as he speaks German, French and a little Spanish. Outside tennis, he is active in environmental campaigning and local government. He lives with his partner Louise and daughter Tamara near Brighton, England.

Richard has been covering tennis for over forty years as a journalist, author and broadcaster in both radio and television. After leaving Canford School in Dorset, England, he joined Hayter’s Sports Agency, and had covered cricket, football, rugby, show jumping and tennis for every newspaper in Fleet Street before embarking on his military service at 19. After five years working for the Evening Standard as rugby and tennis correspondent, he emigrated to the USA at 26 and became the North American correspondent of the Evening News, for whom he covered two US presidential elections. In 1973, Richard became European Director of the fledgling Association of Tennis Professionals in Paris, leaving three years later to continue a freelance career which included biographies of Ilie Nastase and John McEnroe, and broadcasting for BBC Radio, BBC Television, ESPN and other channels in America and eastern Asia. For 10 years he was tennis correspondent of The Sunday Times and now writes for The Observer, The International Herald Tribune and The Financial Times. He is also Editor-At-Large for Tennis Week magazine. He lives in Richmond, Virginia, with his wife Lynn and young son, Ashley.

An Australian based in Sydney, Craig has been involved in international tennis coverage for over 25 years as a journalist, broadcaster, media manager and administrator. He has reported in print, TV, radio, and on the internet, reported from countless Grand Slams and the every Olympic tennis event since Seoul 1988, and has forged close relationships with some of the greatest names in tennis. In Australia he works with several radio and TV stations and has also provided print coverage to Australia’s Tennis magazine and the Sydney Morning Herald. Internationally he continues to work for some of the world’s most influential media outlets. He also works with the USTA and Tennis Australia. He is the media manager for the tournament in Sydney and the Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai, having previously worked as media manager at the World Doubles in Australia, South Africa and India, and at tournaments in India, Singapore, China and Hong Kong. He has served as a member of the ITF’s Joint Media Commission for the last 14 years, and helped start the ATP’s office in Sydney. He has also acted as Master of Ceremonies for major corporations such as American Express and Merrill Lynch. He was educated in four countries and has lived in Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, India, South Africa, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Another veteran of the tennis circuit, having been a full time broadcaster since 1984. Born and brought up in Swansea, he was a Welsh junior doubles champion in 1968. He qualified as a lawyer in 1973, began umpiring at Wimbledon in the same year, and started to broadcast regularly for BBC Wales in 1979. After taking charge of the Wimbledon final between John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors in 1984, he moved full-time into broadcasting with BBC Radio Sport in London. In 1992 he became a member of BBC Television’s commentary team and began working for Eurosport. Since then he has also worked for a number of broadcasters around the world and covered all the Grand Slams and a number of Olympic Games. He has written occasionally for The Observer and The Guardian newspapers and for a number of magazines. David is probably the only person to have umpired a Wimbledon men’s singles final and commentated on subsequent ones for radio and television. He lives with his wife Sue in Buckinghamshire, England, and they have four grandchildren.

TRN only assigns jobs to professionals who know their tennis and are comfortable in the medium in which the assignment is carried out. It has no staff other than its Executive Director, Chris Bowers. All journalists/broadcasters on a TRN assignment have to carry their own travel and liability insurance.