Agassi, Sampras, Wilander? Who Does Novak Djokovic Need As His Next Coach?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2017
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
It was midway through recording of the latest Tennis Podcast that presenters Catherine Whitaker and David Law received a message from the Telegraph’s tennis correspondent Simon Briggs which detailed his story about Andre Agassi being a potential coach for Novak Djokovic.
Djokovic had cleared out virtually all of his support team in one go last week, and the podcast’s attentions immediately turned to who might replace him. Could it be Pete Sampras, the 14-time Grand Slam champion that Djokovic idolised as a boy? Maybe Mats Wilander? Or perhaps a non-playing established coach? Or maybe he would just play without a coach for a while.
Then, the Agassi story landed at Tennis Podcast HQ, and the debate intensified still further.
The results of the past week are discussed, there’s a preview of Madrid, the appalling social media abuse of Gael Monfils is detailed, and the team give their impressions of Tie Break Tens, the new short format of the game that...
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| 0:32.4 | Hi there, this is Martina Navratlova. |
| 0:34.7 | Hi, I'm Matt Vylander. |
| 0:36.4 | Hi, I'm Andy Murray and you're listening to The Tennis Podcast. |
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| 0:56.0 | with your sport. I am Catherine Whittaker. I am joined remotely this week from David Law |
| 1:02.4 | who is in sunny solihull aren't you David? |
| 1:05.4 | Yes, briefly. Then I'm going to be on the training about 20 minutes time. |
| 1:08.5 | So let's crack on with The Tennis Podcast. |
| 1:11.6 | Yeah, you've been a very busy man. As avid listeners to The Tennis Podcast will know, |
| 1:17.0 | we were both at Queen's last Tuesday. There's a tennis podcast extra. |
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| 1:26.9 | during which he was very nice and very interesting. So check that out if you haven't already. |
| 1:32.4 | And then David, what did you do? Then you hotted it to Madrid, didn't you? |
| 1:36.5 | Yes, I went over to The Tennis Podcast event over there and I did sit about three chairs |
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