AO Day 14 - Rafael Nadal completes ultimate comeback to lead Grand Slam race
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2022
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Catherine, David and Matt react to the news that Rafael Nadal leads the Grand Slam race for the first time. Catherine and Matt were courtside throughout, in the interview room straight after and you will hear:
- Where the match was won and lost
- What it looked, felt and sounded like in the stadium throughout
- What Nadal said to Catherine afterwards
- How upset Medvedev was in his post-match press conference, and why
- Were the crowd out of order?
- Why Nadal's win was so utterly extraordinary
- Whether an asterisk should accompany his win given what happened with Djokovic
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Matt Belander. This is Mary Carillo. This is Pam Shriver. |
| 0:06.4 | This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.6 | Well, if the men's grand slam title race were to end today, |
| 0:27.7 | which it's not, but if it were, then it would be one by 35-year-old Rafael Nadal, who |
| 0:36.3 | earlier on this morning won his 21st grand slam singles title, coming back from two sets to |
| 0:44.5 | love down to beat Danielle Medvedev, 75 in the fifth set. And more than that, he came back from |
| 0:53.6 | a quite possibly career-ending foot condition that saw him on crutches as recently as a couple |
| 1:01.0 | of months ago. He was staring retirement in the face and weeks later. Here he is holding |
| 1:09.7 | grand slam title number 21. I'm Catherine Mitica, alongside me in Melbourne, |
| 1:16.1 | is Matt Roberts in sunny, sunny hole is David Law. And it is somehow our responsibility to try |
| 1:25.3 | and summarise and make sense for you of a quite extraordinary night of sport. And we have to do |
| 1:37.2 | all this, some of us anyway, at 5am. Because that's what time it is, folks. For David, it's a lovely 6pm. |
| 1:49.6 | How does that feel, David? The only problem being that I've been up since 4.30am, |
| 1:53.8 | because I've still on that body clock a bit. But no, you win 5am is the latest in our 952 episode |
| 2:01.9 | history, covering the Australian Open for the last 10 years. It's quite extraordinary. Catherine, |
| 2:06.7 | that was an amazing intro. And even though I've just watched every single minute of the match, |
| 2:12.6 | I found myself shaking my head and laughing as you read that out, as you described what we've |
| 2:19.2 | just witnessed and what it means in the context of the sport. I can't really believe it. I don't, |
| 2:26.9 | I mean, I'll try my best to give you something useful on this podcast, but I just can't really believe |
| 2:33.9 | what I've seen today. I wasn't expecting this, and I would have thought at so many different points |
| 2:42.0 | of it, from not believing you would make the quarterfinals, to not thinking he had a chance if it |
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