AO Day 1 - Nadal, Badosa, Barty soothe our souls
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Day one was unspectacular, but somewhat soothing. Afterwards, Catherine, David and Matt convened to figure out why it felt flat. How much of it was due to lingering fallout from all of the Novak Djokovic drama? And how much of it was the simple lack of compelling matches? Even so, there were plenty of interesting stories to discuss, including Coco Gauff’s shock defeat to Qiang Wang, mixed fortunes for recent champions Madison Keys, Aslan Karatsev and Thanasi Kokkinakis, winning returns for Rafael Nadal and Naomi Osaka, a physical transformation from Carlos Alcaraz, a fourth straight defeat for Cameron Norrie, ruthless efficiency from Ash Barty, and narrow wins for Amanda Anisimova and Matteo Berrettini.
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| 0:00.0 | Life. Have you ever noticed that just as it's calm along comes a little chaos? |
| 0:05.2 | One minute you're enjoying a quiet cuppa. |
| 0:08.1 | Ah, the next, there's water pouring through the ceiling. |
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| 0:32.4 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mayan Bhattoti. I'm Matt Svillander. This is Mary Carillo. |
| 0:37.7 | This is Pam Shriver. This is Yanik Noah. This is Sid Allen Simpson from Evans, |
| 0:42.4 | in Illinois, and the shores of Lake Michigan, and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:58.4 | Well, hello, and thanks very much to Friend of the Pod, Sid Allen Simpson in our intro there, |
| 1:04.3 | from Illinois, as is our lovely mascot, Charlie, from Chicago. We've got another mascot, |
| 1:11.4 | the recording of this day one Australian Open podcast, was somewhat delayed because I have |
| 1:18.7 | found a new hashtag tennis podcast pet, and folks, it's a cat. I found a local cat to adopt. |
| 1:26.9 | I love her so much. Everyone thinks I've gone mad. David and Matt are looking at me |
| 1:34.1 | with trepidation at the moment. They're like, what's happened to her? But I found a three-legged |
| 1:39.5 | cat with no tail, and I love her, and I want to bring her home. The tennis podcast towers. |
| 1:46.8 | Anyway, it's day one, or it was day one, who's the Australian Open. Do you want me to start again, David? |
| 1:53.6 | Is it too weird? No, no, it's excellent. Well, I'm what you're going to find tomorrow. |
| 1:58.4 | It's only day one. Hopefully the same cat. She's going to wait for us on that pavement every day. I'm telling you, |
| 2:04.6 | she was so delighted to see me and Matt coming her way at Hopper's Midnight on a Monday. |
| 2:12.0 | Day ones of slams are longer fairs, aren't they? You can end up a bit delirious. |
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