2021 Review part 1: Serena’s wave, Re-thinking Naomi Osaka, Djokovic domination
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In part one of our review of 2021, Catherine, David and Matt review the first two Grand Slams of the year and some of the major events in between, including:
- The chaos and uncertainty around the Australian Open
- How great it felt to have fans back
- Serena’s wave goodbye and tearful press conference in Melbourne
- Discovering Barbora Krejcikova as a singles player
- The time Vasek Pospisil ranted about Andrea Gaudenzi during a match in Miami
- The way Ash Barty and Aryna Sabalenka formed a rivalry throughout the Spring
- Looking back on Naomi Osaka’s decision not to do press at Roland Garros
- Whether we should have seen Rafael Nadal’s struggles coming
- How Novak Djokovic added to his greatness at the French Open
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Matt Vellander. This is Mary Carillo. This is Yannick Noah. Hi, this is tennis |
| 0:08.0 | nut Carol Ray and you're listening to the one and only tennis podcasts. |
| 0:13.8 | Well hello folks and hello in particular to Carol Ray who provided a lovely |
| 0:29.7 | upbeat intro there to today's show which will be part one of our review of 2021, a |
| 0:38.4 | moderately less horrible year than 2020 I think in general. Last year's review of the year |
| 0:47.2 | was titled Anna-Saharibles. Any ideas yet what we'll be titling this year's review of 2021? David, |
| 0:57.1 | you often do the titles. Although I think I came up with Anna-Saharibles. I just steam in, |
| 1:03.6 | you know, when things are dreadful. Yeah, well for this one I think we'll just go, well that happened. |
| 1:10.7 | Okay, okay, right. Well, whatever we've ended up titling this show, I hope you enjoy it. It is |
| 1:20.1 | going to be our review of the first half of 2021. We'll be back on Thursday with the review of |
| 1:26.6 | the second half of 2021. Many of you will know that since you last heard from us, we have |
| 1:34.6 | launched our new Friends of the tennis podcast platform away for you to support us financially, |
| 1:42.5 | emotionally in all the ways and we are so tremendously overwhelmed with how you have done so over |
| 1:52.0 | the course of the last five days. It's only been five days. It's no longer a kick start, |
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| 2:11.6 | your ongoing support of the tennis podcast and officially become our friend. We've got like a |
| 2:17.2 | thousand more friends than we had a week ago, Matt. This is what it feels like to be popular. |
| 2:25.0 | Yes, it's been very nice being able to call it Friends. People have really liked that and we've |
| 2:31.1 | liked that a lot. So thank you for everyone for officially becoming our friend. |
| 2:36.9 | Yeah, it's been, I know we say this every year and I kind of run out of ways to say it and not sound |
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