2021 Review part 2: Raducanu Re-Lived; Djokovic, Barty, Medvedev memories
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2021
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
In part two of our review of 2021, we re-live the journey we all went on with Emma Raducanu this year, from watching her breakthrough at Wimbledon to seeing her lift the US Open trophy in September.
Elsewhere, there’s chat about Ash Barty’s dream coming true, what made the US Open so special, and the lasting significance of that US Open final on Novak Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev.
David also shares a very personal story about his year.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt Vellander. This is Mary Carillo. |
| 0:05.2 | This is Pam Shriver. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.4 | Well we're back folks with the second half of our review of 2021. The Anna's not quite as |
| 0:26.5 | horrendous as 2020. We're still working on a title. Catchy Catherine. Yeah you're welcome. You're |
| 0:36.2 | welcome for that. At the end of part one we got up to the end of the Clay Court season with |
| 0:43.2 | French Open titles for Novak Djokovic and Bob Borak Khruchikovas. So we're going to start today's |
| 0:49.5 | episode with the grass court season and a win for Matteo Beratini at Queens for Ones |
| 0:55.7 | Djokovic and Wimbledon. Not Wimbledon for Ones Djokovic and Birmingham. That was her first title |
| 1:02.6 | wasn't it? That was a wonderful moment for Ones Djokovic. Yannick on to one what turned out to be |
| 1:08.8 | her last career title in Nottingham and most notably in terms of pre Wimbledon action. Bianca |
| 1:16.8 | Rendrescu was sung Happy Birthday by a live band on court in Berlin following her loss to a |
| 1:25.3 | Lise Courner. I can't get through that without cringing just even listening to you say it. |
| 1:32.1 | No it's it's completely hideous poor Bianca Rendrescu. We move on to Wimbledon. |
| 1:40.5 | Where wow I mean we're all back together weren't we David was working at Wimbledon. Matt was staying |
| 1:45.6 | with me. We created tennis podcast towers David you came around every evening and we got |
| 1:51.3 | delivered to you and it was it was when you met Billy Jean and that was beautiful and it was all just |
| 1:57.9 | I have nothing but happy memories of that fortnight from a very selfish point of view. This isn't |
| 2:05.2 | talking about the tennis at all is it but yeah if you allow me a moment of self-adulgence it was |
| 2:11.1 | it was a lovely time for the podcast I think. Yeah that I've got a real fuzzy feeling just hearing |
| 2:16.8 | that and I had not occurred to me that that was the first time I'd met Billy Jean I felt like |
| 2:22.0 | I've known a years. She feels the same could we actually just have an interlude here because she |
| 2:26.8 | is doing something naughty and I need to stop having to do that Billy Jean stop stop stop come here |
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