Federer in the Hall of Fame, PTPA lawsuit news and ANOTHER Davis Cup win for Italy

George Bellshaw for part 1, Calvin Betton for part 2, and the dulcet tones of James Gray back on the airwaves for the whole blooming thing. What more could anyone want?

Here are the stories they discussed:

- Roger Federer has been voted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, but Juan Martin de Potro and Svetlana Kuznetsova did not make it

- The PTPA and Tennis Australia are engaged in "substantive and productive bilateral settlement discussions" to settle their lawsuit in New York, but cases against other tennis bodies including the other three grand slam organisers continue

- Katie Boulter says she is choosing between her ranking and her body ahead of the Australian Open because she is in danger of missing out on direct entry

- Emma Raducanu has withdrawn from a couple of pre-season exhibitions in January with some light bone bruise in her foot, and has also hired a new physio Emma Stewart, who has previously worked with the successful British Olympic Rowing team

- Joe Salisbury is taking six months out of tennis to deal with anxiety-related stress

- Italy have won a third consecutive Davis Cup, the first country to do so since the USA in the 1970s

Plus so much more!

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