There’s an exciting trend emerging in tennis media where active players are launching their own YouTube channels. Gone are the days of press conferences and journalists being the middle men. Now, fans can access in-depth, personal content directly. If you’re eager to get to know some of your favorite players on a deeper level, here are some of the best follows on YouTube in 2026 ( apart from the Tennisnerd channel of course! :) ).
Ben Shelton
Shelton launched his channel in December 2025 with a docuseries called ‘The Long Game’, produced with WME and content studio Portal A. The first episode covered his US Open and the ATP Finals, and he’s since dropped behind-the-scenes vlogs from the 2026 Australian Open as well.
I watched the AO one and it hits different seeing a top-10 player packing his bags and talking about nerves in the car. While Shelton’s content is high-quality, it’s definitely not polished and filtered: this is raw stuff.
Djokovic himself gave him props, saying this is just how athletes need to communicate now. It’s working so far, with several of Shelton’s videos cracking half a million views already. More on Ben Sheltons racquet and gear.
Casper Ruud
Ruud’s YouTube channel is great: three videos about Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, a 12-year break, and now four high-quality vlogs in the last fortnight.
The three-time Grand Slam finalist is one of the latest to jump on the Youtube bandwagon, coinciding with the birth of his first child in January. Similar to Shelton, his channel is all about unfiltered, behind-the-scenes footage – a ‘Day In My Life’ video, as well as some before match content.
For a guy who’s pretty quiet and reserved in pressers, it’s great to see Ruud’s sense of humor and get to know him more as a person. He’s not committed to releasing videos at any particular cadence, saying he’ll just do so “when something interesting happens”. Hopefully that’s not in another 12 years.
Arthur Fils
Arthur Fils has also only entered YouTube this year, but his channel is a fascinating one. The Frenchman had been out of action for almost nine months when he posted his first video, which was to announce he’d be delaying his return to the tour.
He’s just posted the one video so far, but has framed it as part of a series called ‘Renaissance’, promising to deliver more content. In this one, he documented his rehab in 2025, including his 15-pound weight loss, and the mental side of sitting out for nine months. He doesn’t sugarcoat it.
Note: the channel is in Fils’ native tongue, French, but has English subtitles. Read more about Arthur Fils racquet.
Alex de Minaur
De Minaur is another 2026 newcomer to the platform. His early content is a mix of behind-the-scenes Australian Open footage and honest reflections on his game.
In one video, he breaks down what he noticed watching Novak Djokovic go toe-to-toe with Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner in Melbourne, specifically the ball speed, and what he needs to take from it. In another, he talks openly about changing his approach to practice after years of being too hard on himself in training.
Personally, watching these made me like De Minaur even more. You can tell he’s already a cool guy by his on-court interviews and pressers, but here he endeared himself even more. Got to love a hard worker that punches above his weight, which is exactly what De Minaur is.
Stefanos Tsitsipas
Tsitsipas was the OG tennis YouTuber. He’s been on the platform since 2012 and famously plugged his channel at the 2019 Australian Open after beating Federer, telling Rod Laver Arena: “If you haven’t subscribed, please subscribe” (it worked: his subs jumped from 23,000 to 60,000 overnight).
The channel now sits just under half a million subscribers with about 30 videos. Surprisingly, they aren’t actually that focused on tennis. Tsitsipas loves his travel and photography, so there’s a lot of that.
His uploading is pretty intermittent these days. One video from his time in Namibia dropped a month ago, but before that it was a year.
Daria Kasatkina and Natalia Zabiiako
I’m counting these two as one because you can’t separate them. Kasatkina and her fiancee Zabiiako (an Olympic silver medalist figure skater) run ‘What The Vlog’, which launched in October 2022 and now has almost 70,000 subscribers and well over 300 videos. That volume is something else.
It’s hard to describe what this channel is about, to be honest. One day it’s classic vlogs about tennis, typically on-site at a tournament. The next it’s a Q&A with one of their nieces, a deep dive into sexuality in figure skating, or a cooking tutorial. It’s whacky, but that’s what these channels are about.
What’s cool is the amount of big ticket guests they’ve had on from the women’s game – Aryna Sabalenka, Coco Gauff, Elena Rybakina, Mirra Andreeva, to name a few.
Jannik Sinner
Sinner caught the tennis world off guard when he dropped his first vlog in late January 2025 after winning the Australian Open for the second time. It was a sleek nine-minute video following his run through the tournament, from dealing with illness mid-draw to celebrating with the trophy in his hotel room. One small thing I loved: he keeps fist-bumping the camera operator throughout.
He’s since posted Wimbledon vlogs where he’s cooking pasta for his team at the end of the day, prompting fans to demand more cooking content. The Italian’s posting pace is slow – only about four or five videos total, most of which are just a few minutes long – but the quality’s there and it shows a side of him that pressers don’t.
Aryna Sabalenka
Sabalenka launched ‘Aryna’s Arena’ in July 2025 right after her Wimbledon semi-final loss to Amanda Anisimova. The debut covers that full fortnight, and what stands out is just how much fun she has. From Nerf gun wars with her team, to a target challenge with Djokovic where the loser made acai bowls and TikTok dances between matches.
It’s produced by Naomi Osaka’s production company Hana Kuma, so the production value’s a notch above most channels. The promise is “the good, the bad, all of it”, and it’s living up to that claim so far. Expect a few videos each month.
Gael Monfils
Monfils launched his channel a few years back and has been a pretty consistent poster, though his content has varied over the years.
Recently, you’d be forgiven for thinking he’s trying to be the French-tennis-Mr Beast, with some pretty gimmicky game-show-like videos. It’s classic YouTube stuff with shiny thumbnails and clickbaity titles – but it’s not all like this.
Some of his content is still the typical behind-the-scenes tennis vlog stuff. He speaks in French, as do many of his guests, but in some of his videos there’s English dubbing.
Big picture, Monfils’ channel is pretty hit-and-miss, but it does give an outlet for his personality, which is as wild as you’d expect.
Karue Sell
Last but not least, no tennis players YouTube list would be complete without a mention of Karue Sell. Most casual fans won’t have heard of Sell, but on tennis YouTube he’s a big deal. He’s a Brazilian-American ranked around the top 300 who came back to pro tennis after a five-year break at age 30, and his channel (formerly MyTennisHQ) has more than 500 videos.
The reason’s simple: he shows what pro tennis actually looks like for the 99% of players who aren’t in the top 50. The Challenger grind, the financial reality, all of it. If you want the unglamorous truth about professional tennis, this is the channel.
Also, don’t miss the Tennisnerd podcasts with Karue Sell!
