AO Day 1 - WTA Avengers ascend; Nadal needs more; Crushed Kyrgios out
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Day 1 of the 2023 Grand Slam season is in the books at the Australian Open - Catherine, David and Matt talk it all through.
- Raducanu vs Gauff in round two….YES PLEASE
- Andreescu is happening and Catherine is excited
- Injury scare for Collins…and lots of drama
- Draper learns the hard way about facing Nadal
- Kyrgios calls a press conference and withdraws
- Catherine rants about faff…again
- Auger-Aliassime overcomes a terrible start to beat Pospisil
- Swiatek passes tricky Neimeier test
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt's Belanda. This is Mary Carillo. |
| 0:05.3 | This is Pam Shriver. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:18.7 | Hello folks and welcome to your day one Australian Open 2023 tennis podcast, which is of course |
| 0:30.8 | being recorded on day two of the Australian Open 2023. It is 40 minutes past midnight on Monday |
| 0:40.5 | night slash Tuesday morning, which I think actually might end up being quite an early recording time. |
| 0:48.0 | So, is that what we got away with it? The Neil Mervative brackets also, Marcus Girone, did us a little |
| 0:54.4 | bit of a favor this evening and we'll be talking about that in due course. There is, as you might |
| 1:01.7 | imagine on day one of a Grand Slam, a fair bit to get through. Before I get onto that, I'm going to |
| 1:08.1 | remind you of the excellent, excellent news that we had yesterday, which is that we have a sponsor |
| 1:14.8 | for this Australian Open coverage and that sponsor is on location, the premium hospitality and experience |
| 1:22.0 | provider on location owns the company, the brand that many of you may already be familiar with. |
| 1:30.0 | International tennis tours, they've been associated with tennis for so, so long and they will be |
| 1:36.1 | sending us to Indian Wells in just a few short weeks time. It's the first time the three of us |
| 1:43.1 | will have been there as a team and it means that my sort of segue between periods in winter sun |
| 1:54.5 | will be very, very smooth, which given how lovely a day it was in Melbourne today is excellent news. |
| 2:01.7 | So that's what's next on the travel agenda for the tennis podcast after the Australian Open |
| 2:07.1 | and we are blown excited about it. Now, the Australian Open, it got underway in earnest at 1114 |
| 2:18.1 | P, no, 1114 AM. It was fast, not that much. It was fast but not that much, |
| 2:24.0 | I'm just going to have, I'm serious. I'm going to start this with just a little bit of a rant. |
| 2:28.8 | Most of the podcast will be upbeat positivity but I would just like to take this moment to have |
| 2:35.2 | a wee rant because we were in, we were in bright and early this morning. We were like kids on the |
| 2:42.4 | first day of school that had brought their teacher and apple. We all sat down at our desks, |
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