AO Day 5 - Epics galore light up Melbourne
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
It was one epic crowd-pleaser after another on Friday at the Australian Open, and Catherine Whitaker and Matt Roberts were courtside for everything on a hot and steamy day in Melbourne. Paul Badosa vs. Marta Kotyuk, Carlos Alcaraz vs. Matteo Berrettini and Naomi Osaka vs. Amanda Anisimova are all covered in our Day 5 podcast.
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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. |
| 0:20.5 | Well it's 1.30 in the morning Melbourne time which makes it 2.30 in the afternoon |
| 0:26.9 | solely whole time. It has been quite a day at the Australian Open quite a day if tennis |
| 0:33.6 | we've got so much to tell you about but I haven't even finished yet. I haven't |
| 0:38.4 | come back to them. And Adria Manorino are currently two sets to one in favour of the |
| 0:45.3 | Frenchman. Those three sets have taken three hours and 35 minutes and you just know it's |
| 0:52.6 | going to five. And this isn't even particularly abnormal for tennis, the fact that it's |
| 0:56.8 | happening at 1.30 in the morning. It's not even a talking point yet. I think that I think |
| 1:02.4 | it has to get past 2am for the whole wide as tennis happened in the middle of the night |
| 1:08.4 | discussion to even get out of the blocks. So keep going, Adria and Aslan. He's in a bit of trouble. |
| 1:17.4 | Aslan, Karate, two sets to one down and he looks absolutely spent. This has been |
| 1:22.3 | grueling stuff. As has Matt Roberts stayed today, as I said, it's 1.30 in the morning. |
| 1:27.6 | You've been up for how many hours Matt? |
| 1:30.2 | Well you've put me on the spot with maths and I don't have the brain power to do it. |
| 1:34.7 | I've been up since about 8am because I decided to play tennis this morning. |
| 1:40.0 | He's got the tennis bug folks. That's a good 17 hours there Matt. |
| 1:45.0 | There we go. And to borrow and adapt and the darlism, I no longer have any energy left in my pocket. |
| 1:57.4 | Yeah, that sort of enthusiastic face from 24 hours ago saying, oh I'm going to be playing tennis |
| 2:03.3 | in seven hours has changed somewhat. It's the circus of life David. How did you get on at tennis? |
| 2:12.6 | Split sets with my good friend Matt who works for the ATP. We always seem to split sets and then |
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