AO Day 7 - Nadal knows Denis can be a menace; Major Keys is back
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Most people had Alexander Zverev in the men's singles final, not least Alexander Zverev. Denis Shapovalov was not one of them. So how did he do it? Catherine, David and Matt all watched it and have takes, and David spoke to Shapovalov's new coach Jamie Delgado to find out more. Catherine got a fascinating answer from Rafael Nadal in his press conference (you can hear that in this podcast), and are Madison Keys and Gael Monfils playing the finest tennis of their careers?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartorri. I'm Matt Vellander. This is Mary Carillo. |
| 0:05.3 | This is Pam Shriver. This is Yannick Noah. Hello listeners. This is Rebecca Monk from Ealing in |
| 0:10.5 | London and I'm delighted to say that you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:16.8 | Well, thank you very much to Rebecca Monk from Ealing for your lovely intro there. Ealing not far |
| 0:31.5 | from my neck of the woods and Ealing Broadway on the on the Twyford Paddington line, which my |
| 0:39.1 | dad used to commute to work on. So thank you, Rebecca. And welcome to our day seven Australian Open |
| 0:47.5 | podcast. It's been a day of two sessions, I think, today. We've had the day session, which was |
| 0:54.6 | sort of upsets galore, really. No sort of seismic headline grabbing enormous upset, but quite a lot of |
| 1:02.0 | you know, low-key big upsets. And then we've had the evening session, which is well, actually, |
| 1:06.9 | full disclosure. It hasn't quite ended yet. It's 10 past 11 in the evening, Melbourne time, which |
| 1:11.9 | makes it 10 past midday, sunny whole time. And Matteo Baratini, Pablo Carignobusta, are still on court, |
| 1:20.3 | but Baratini has a two-sets still of lead, but it's nip and tuck all the way. You get easily, |
| 1:26.1 | you know, take the scenic route here. So we'll keep you updated so you get that out of date 10 |
| 1:31.0 | is news, but assuming that Baratini does come through that, the evening session has gone according |
| 1:37.4 | to script. If not been slightly disappointing, and I'm referring to Barty against Anisimover |
| 1:44.9 | when I say that, and we will come on to talk about that in a little while, but I think we should |
| 1:50.4 | talk about the day session first, because I wasn't really expecting any of what ended up happening |
| 1:58.4 | in the day session today. Really, a lot of it took me massively by surprise. I think the only |
| 2:04.4 | result that didn't surprise me was Crachika Verbeating as a Renka, but the school line of that |
| 2:10.7 | still massively surprised me. How one sided it was for Crachika Verbe? Was it one of those days, |
| 2:17.9 | when the upsets ended up being infectious, what was going on in Melbourne Park today? |
| 2:22.2 | It was a bit weird, actually, it wasn't it. And I must say those first two matches on the |
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