AO Day 11 - Fierce final guaranteed; Pro Russia demonstrations dominate headlines
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Get ready for power in the women's final on Saturday after Elena Rybakina and Aryna Sabalenka set up what promises to be a fearsome showdown on Saturday.
How did Rybakina win the first set against Victoria Azarenka despite her first serve going missing? Just how impressive was Sabalenka to overcome her Grand Slam semi-final scar tissue? And how will they match up against each other in the final?
Elsewhere, with tennis crossing over into geopolitics in the last 24 hours, after Novak Djokovic's father was filmed posing for photos with Vladimir Putin supporters, Simon Briggs joins Catherine, David and Matt to talk about what Djokovic's response might be and whether players have a responsibility to denounce those scenes.
Finally, there's good news for the Australian sensations in doubles, we look ahead to Friday's men's semi-finals, and we celebrate the Original 9 after they were honoured on Thursday.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt Vellander. This is Mary Carillo. |
| 0:05.3 | This is Pam Shriver. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.5 | Well it's day 11 of the Australian Open and our women's final lineup is set. It will be Wembley |
| 0:27.7 | in Champion Elena Rabackiner against first time major finalist, Arena Sabilenker. It is one minute |
| 0:34.7 | past midnight and you find us in the media cafe, myself, Matt David and for the first time this |
| 0:42.7 | tournament the Daily Telegraph Simon Briggs, hello Simon. Hello, I think I only come on when I'm |
| 0:49.8 | previewing a Ribakina final. It's certainly the second one she's been in. I think last time I was |
| 0:58.7 | accused of being a bit mean about it because I think I said that everyone's going to be pulling |
| 1:01.3 | for on the Sabile. But today I did really want Rebecca Nutter Wembley because I thought that the two |
| 1:09.0 | players, well the two players today who I thought had a potential to be like massive stars going |
| 1:15.3 | forward for a while and she's one of them. So I was hoping she was going to come through. |
| 1:20.7 | It's an interesting final in a lot of different ways. We've got a lot to talk about today. |
| 1:26.5 | Haven't we Simon? I know you've been listening throughout the course of the fortnight. You've heard |
| 1:31.2 | your mentions. Oh I've been well served with mentions. It'd be very delighted by that thank you. |
| 1:38.1 | I've got a hard time for Matt Futterman today for not liking Blake Shelton. To be clear, |
| 1:43.2 | I have no particular feelings about Blake Shelton in his music. I do. |
| 1:48.8 | I mean yeah, on first glance or first listen it doesn't sound very good but you know I've not |
| 1:54.6 | I've not deep dive but anyway Matt Futterman informs me that he's big fan. He's you know he's |
| 2:02.0 | he's at least okay. Yes, Matt likes him because he quote used to live in the south. |
| 2:07.9 | And apparently there's a sort of prerequisite of living in the south. Yeah exactly. It's a |
| 2:11.9 | prerequisite of being a country singer. Indeed. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, anyway. I know you've been |
| 2:17.4 | listening over the course of the fortnight, Simon. So you'll know that we are sponsored this |
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