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The Tennis Podcast

AO Day 12 - The incredible Rafael Nadal; Medvedev blocks path to 21, again

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports, Wimbledon, Sports & Recreation, Tennis

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Two crackling men's semifinals to look back at for Catherine, David and Matt, and two sensational singles finals to look forward to.

  • How good was Rafael Nadal?
  • How concerning is it that he faded?
  • Will Matteo Berrettini have regrets?
  • Where was Medvedev vs. Tsitsipas won and lost?
  • Aggro analysed, deeply
  • Ash Barty vs. Danielle - Predictions

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli.

0:03.1

I'm Matt Vellander. This is Mary Carillo. This is Pam Shriver.

0:06.4

This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast.

0:20.4

So folks, there are two days remaining of the Australian Open and we now know our final

0:27.6

line-ups because along with the Women's singles final tomorrow night of Ash Bati against Daniel

0:33.1

Collins, we also now have a men's singles final to look forward to a Rafael Nadal against

0:41.3

Daniel Medvedeva repeat of the 2019 US Open final that I think it's fair to say we all quite

0:48.8

enjoyed. Today's two semi-finals weren't quite the thrillers and epics that David Law promised

0:56.8

yesterday but they were good. They were good, David. I don't think you're going to be asked for

1:02.5

refunds but there might be the odd grumble here and there. Yeah, I mean I thought Baratini would

1:10.9

make more of a fight of the first match early on. I didn't expect him to come up against

1:17.2

an Adal quite like that and I didn't expect Baratini to just look so ordinary for the first two sets.

1:23.8

So I expected a five set of there and I was surprised that since the pass faded the way he did.

1:30.1

But actually I also think that Medvedeve forced him to fade because he was absolutely

1:33.6

incredible at the end but there were two really good semi-finals that I enjoyed immensely and they

1:40.4

do set up the most wonderful prospects for a final because I do have very happy memories of

1:46.5

2019 US Open Final. I remember you and I after that having a what was that thing, the honey juice

1:55.3

while we recorded it? The great juice, honey juice. Oh, I mean that was that's a memory I'm

2:00.0

looking forward to getting back to if we go there again but that was an incredibly draining

2:05.3

but exhilarating final and I have really you know the only downer of that particular podcast was

2:11.0

that Matt wasn't with us but I do remember it very fondly so if we get anything like that on

2:17.1

Sunday I think we're in for a treat and I think that that is definitely possible. Yeah and look we

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