AO Day 5 - Seeds wasteland, Korda's coming, cracking matches ahead
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The day began with an Andy Murray induced hangover, but it picked up by the night session leaving Catherine, David and Matt plenty to discuss:
- Women’s fourth round blockbusters set
- Pegula drops two games, Swiatek drops one
- Keys crumbles against Azarenka
- Korda delivers a big statement to beat Medvedev
- Tiafoe and Shapovalov fall short of Murray-esque comebacks
- Did Norrie overplay before the Australian Open?
- What’s different about Tsitsipas this tournament?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartori. 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. |
| 0:20.4 | Well greetings from tennis podcast towers Melbourne where you find myself David and Matt |
| 0:26.2 | on the sofa at a mere 33 minutes past midnight. It's an early night. We've finally done it. |
| 0:34.4 | Of course tennis hasn't finished for the day. Don't be ridiculous. It actually might be quite far |
| 0:40.3 | from finished for the day because as we come to you on the second court at Melbourne Park, |
| 0:45.2 | Maria Sackery, the sixth seed, one of only two Netflix participants still standing. |
| 0:52.9 | Trails by a set to Zhulin, the 28-year-old from China. She is of course coming back. She's |
| 1:00.8 | three-one up in the second set. Of course as soon as she goes behind in the score, she mounts a |
| 1:05.5 | comeback. It looks like it's probably going to a third. Who knows what will happen or keep you posted. |
| 1:11.1 | But if today has been anything to go by, what she might do is come back but not all the way back. |
| 1:18.9 | I feel like that's been a theme. I feel like there have been a lot of people that saw what Andy |
| 1:24.0 | Murray did last night. Sorry this morning and thought I'll have a bit of that. But they're not quite |
| 1:30.4 | Andy Murray. Yeah, I thought this is infectious and he's inspired a few here and they'll all have |
| 1:37.4 | those images of Murray in their minds when the two sets the love down. And I think they may well |
| 1:44.1 | have done. But I think it just shows how hard it is. It's hard enough to do what Dennis |
| 1:50.1 | Schappelvalov did for instance getting back to two sets all. But then you've climbed one of the |
| 1:55.2 | mountains and then you've got to climb another one. And it's different in the fifth. It's so different. |
| 2:02.6 | Yes, we had Dennis Schappelvalov try it, Francis TfO try it. Yenneksinner did manage to come back from |
| 2:09.1 | two sets of love down today. His first time doing that. And then there was an almost a comeback from |
| 2:16.0 | Daniel Collins. Wasn't there? She won a set but couldn't finish it off. So yeah, that very much |
| 2:20.5 | has been a theme. But I felt like I needed those sort of half comebacks in a way. I know that it |
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