Andy Murray: World No. 1

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Wimbledon, Sports, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In his 12th year as a tennis professional, after winning multiple Grand Slam titles, the Davis Cup and two Olympic gold medals, Andy Murray has finally forced his way past Novak Djokovic to top the world rankings.A few hours after Murray underlined his new status by winning in Paris Bercy, David Law and Catherine Whitaker got together to reflect on a monumental achievement.What turned Murray into serial contender to the No. 1 player in the world? How big an impact did his coaching team of Ivan Lendl and Jamie Delgado have? Is there any asterisk next to Murray given the injuries to Federer and Nadal, and the decline of Djokovic’s form? And what of the future? Are we now at the start of an Andy Murray ‘era’?It’s all discussed, as is the current form and demeanour of Djokovic, heading into the ATP World Tour Finals at the 02 next week.The Tennis Podcast is produced in association with Telegraph Sport.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Andy Murray and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:14.7	Hello, welcome to the tennis podcast brought to you an association with the tenor graph.
0:18.2	My name is David Lawre, a commentator for BT Sport and BBC Radio 5 Live.
0:22.6	I'm joined by Catherine Whittica from Euro Sport, not only tennis these days, but also ice skating.
0:28.7	She's been doing over the last week. We'll hear more about that later.
0:31.7	But Catherine Whittica, we need to get straight to it because there is a new world number one in town.
0:38.6	His name is Andy Murray. How about that?
0:42.3	Well, there will be tomorrow. Yeah.
0:44.5	I mean, technically it's tomorrow, isn't it?
0:47.0	Monday, it's one of those weird technicalities, but it's okay to celebrate before the computer actually
0:54.6	or commiserate for some people, not least know that, Drockovich.
1:00.6	But yeah, I'm going to, I think I'm going to find this podcast quite tough because it's one of those achievements.
1:08.3	It's one of those things that's so, so big and momentous.
1:14.0	And I guess because we have British, we have particular experience of Andy Murray,
1:19.3	who've probably spoken him more, more than any other tennis player,
1:23.1	we have sort of special insight, I think, into what it's taken for him to get there.
1:27.9	I don't, I know it's taken that for every world number one to get there or close to.
1:32.6	But we have particular knowledge of that.
1:35.4	And I think I'm going to struggle a bit.
1:38.6	I probably shouldn't be saying this one minute and 40 seconds in.
1:42.3	People are tuning out in droves, as I speak, but I think I'm going to find it quite difficult, actually,
1:47.9	to really capture in words what this is and what it means, really.
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