More and more famous athletes decide to create their own podcast, including Jessica Pegula, a recognizable face of the world of tennis. Pegula, along with Jennifer Brady, Desirae Krawczyk and Madison Keyes, started a podcast called Players Box. The popular tennis player, in addition to her professional duties, is also focused on the podcast, believing that this story will have a positive outcome.
After the first recording, Pegula shared positive emotions with her friends, realizing that such a conversation had a therapeutic effect on all of them. Jessica compared filming an episode to sitting down for a coffee or FaceTime conversation with loved ones, emphasizing that it's important to focus only on the positives in these kinds of stories.
"Once we filmed the first one, we were like, Oh, we can definitely do this…people keep listening to it and feeling like a lot of comments I see, it feels like we're just on a phone call with you guys, or we are sitting and having coffee with you, or having a glass of wine, or we're on FaceTime with you and that is kind of how it feels to us, too…it's very therapeutic for us to talk about things that are happening on the road."- she said, as quoted by Sportskeeda.
Jessica Pegula reacts
The popular tennis player thought about such a project for a long time, realizing that some other famous faces of this sport, such as John Isner, Sam Corey and Jack Sock, also started their own podcast. It is natural that there are dilemmas in the beginning, aware of how much professional obligations can disrupt your plan.
However, Pegula realized that this would really be the right move and seems to be happy with her decision. It didn't take much for them to come to an agreement, to determine in which direction this story will go and, ultimately, to successfully realize this project.
“They were like, ‘You should do it, you should do it,’ and we honestly threw it together,” Pegula continued.
“We had ideas of trying to start it before the US Open or the week before, the first week, just because we get so much coverage here. We thought it would be a great time to launch in New York City. We threw it together within two or three weeks with the team.”
