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The Tennis Podcast

AO Day 7 - Swiatek feels weight of World No.1

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Sports & Recreation, Wimbledon, Sports

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Our day began with watching Elena Rybakina beating Iga Swiatek on the Rod Laver, a result which set the tone for a dramatic day as Coco Gauff and Felix Auger-Aliassime were also beaten, while Sebastian Korda and Stefanos Tsitsipas survived five setters. Catherine, David and Matt get stuck into it all on the 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's Belander. This is Mary Carillo. This is Pam Shriver.

0:06.4

This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast.

0:20.4

Well, hello folks and greetings from tennis podcast Towers Melbourne where it's

0:25.2

139 AM and tennis is happening. Of course it is.

0:31.6

That's what we do. Here we are again in the middle of the night.

0:34.2

Oh, hooray for Matt and hooray for the troopers that are Victoria as a Renke and Zhu Lin.

0:42.7

They are, they still have a way to go. As a Renke leading 2-1 in the deciding set,

0:49.6

she lost the first to Zhu. She took the second six one, although it felt like a far closer set.

0:55.0

Then six one and they're locked in battle in the third as a Renke has the break but it feels like

1:01.1

it has a way to go. I predict a post 2 AM finish. Yeah, so then that's a fair bit.

1:07.8

Okay, I think we've made our point about that. I think Sheduling will come up again later in the show.

1:13.7

I just want Asa Renke to be asked about it on court is what I want and I want Erda to tell us

1:18.5

what she really feels about being asked to go on to the court at 11.33pm.

1:25.6

Because she is somebody that's not afraid to say things. Yeah.

1:30.5

And maybe she will, I don't know whether there'll be a press conference after this match.

1:34.4

I don't know how many journalists will have stayed. There aren't any Bella Russian journalists

1:39.0

on site so you're relying on international journalists and I don't know whether anybody would stay

1:45.8

for this but it'll be interesting to see and we'll keep you posted in future pods. We'll let you

1:52.8

know who wins this match even though you'll know by the time you're listening. That is what we do

1:58.8

here on the tennis podcast. What a service we provide. It has been a day at the tennis, hasn't it?

2:08.2

We lost Ege Schviontek from the women's draw today. The World No. 1, the dominant world no. 1,

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