Alcaraz is back, Shapovalov & Bencic send reminders, and how to remember Simona Halep?

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Wimbledon, Sports, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Catherine, David and Matt discuss a busy week of news, comebacks, thrilling matches, and nasal strips in the tennis world.

Part one - Simona Halep announces her retirement. How will she be remembered in the sport? Plus, David’s takes on Anastasia Potapova who won the title in Cluj-Napoca.

Part two (from 21m42s) - Belinda Bencic wins Abu Dhabi, watched on by daughter Bella. Carlos Alcaraz win his first indoor title, beating Alex de Minaur in Rotterdam. And Denis Shapovalov wins the biggest title of his career, but what does it mean?!

Part three (from 1h01m12s) - A look ahead to this week’s tennis, headlined by the WTA 1000 event in Doha.

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0:28.2	Hi, this is Billy Jean King. This is Marion Bartori. This is Bianca Andrescu. I'm Matt Villander.
0:38.2	This is Mary Carrillo.
0:39.2	This is Pam Schreiber.
0:40.3	This is Janik Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
1:03.1	Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast on yet another drizzly February morning here in southern England.
1:09.8	Don't worry, though, there's been some dazzling tennis over the past week that we're going to talk about over the course of this show.
1:11.5	David is here. Hello, David.
1:16.9	How are things in sunny, sally hole? Well, it's not sunny. It's raining, but that's all right,
1:21.3	because it's a great day. It's been a fantastic tennis week. And it's Catherine, we took us birthday. Happy birthday, Catherine. Hooray. Hey! Thank you, David.
1:29.6	Yes.
1:30.7	Yes, it's spiritually sunny today because it is indeed my birthday
1:35.8	and because Matt has given me the ultimate gift.
1:39.7	I thought I'd received the ultimate gift last night from my friend Felicity
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