AO Day 14 - Djokovic Feeling 22

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Sports & Recreation, Wimbledon, Sports

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Novak Djokovic is a 10-time Australian Open winner and 22-time Grand Slam champion after beating Stefanos Tsitsipas in straight sets on Sunday. Catherine, David and Matt discuss the match, why we were a bit disappointed by Tsitsipas' performance, the enormously emotional reaction from Djokovic when he won, what this means for the Grand Slam Race, and much more.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt's Belander. 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	Well, the 2023 Australian Open has come to a close and its final act was to see
0:29.9	Novak Djokovic return to world number one to lift the Norman Brooks trophy, bearing a jacket
0:38.2	with the number 22 emblazoned on its chest because of course he is now a 22 time Grand Slam
0:47.6	Champion, equalling the record of Rafael Nadal and he is a 10 time Australian Open Champion
0:56.2	extending his own record in that regard. The match tonight against Stefano Sitzapas won in
1:03.5	straight set 6376, 7676 might not have been particularly remarkable but lots of other things about
1:12.8	this evening, well yesterday evening, were quite remarkable. You find us at 158 AM in tennis
1:22.3	podcast towers Melbourne. We're all here, we've got beers, pizzas on the way, there might be a
1:29.3	slight interruption in due course but we're here and we're raring to go one last time.
1:38.0	Yes and people are probably thinking why didn't they eat before they recorded the podcast.
1:43.6	Well, I'll tell you why. The media cafe closed before Novak Djokovic
1:50.4	return to press and I think that is unacceptable. Yeah, as I stormed back from the media cafe,
1:58.9	where I attempted to buy that chose, I texted all in caps, I'll I'll edit this a bit, the cafe
2:06.0	closed. We're leading the pod with this. So I thank you Matt for doing my work for me.
2:13.4	I've just had to turn the microphone down, you were so incandescent.
2:19.4	Hey look, we're going to talk about Novak Djokovic and Stefano Sitzapas in detail over the course
2:25.3	of the next hour but first I want to remind you one last time that the tennis podcast throughout
2:32.0	this Australian open has been sponsored by on location, the premium hospitality and experience provider,
2:39.2	they're bringing us to Indian Wells, we can officially just like Stefano Sitzapas now turn our attention
2:45.7	to Indian Wells. We've already forgotten the match to quote Stefano S, we're all about the future,
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