AO Day 8 - "It's never too late to try again"
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Catherine, David and Matt catch up as the quarter-final line-ups are completed at the Australian Open:
- The inaugural AO Pride Day
- Tsitsipas-Fritz epic
- Why Sinner isn’t boring
- Cressy disrupts Medvedev
- Cornet the quarter-finalist at last
- Sabalenka’s lives run out
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mayon Batoide. |
| 0:03.2 | I'm Matt Vellander. This is Mary Carillo. This is Pam Shriver. |
| 0:06.4 | This is Janik Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.4 | Well hello folks and welcome to your day eight Australian Open podcast. |
| 0:26.0 | It's Pride Day at the Australian Open or it was Pride Day until an hour and |
| 0:31.7 | 22 minutes ago because that's when the day ended. It's not when the tennis ended. |
| 0:36.0 | Obviously the tennis went on beyond midnight and that was with the second night session, |
| 0:42.4 | match or the second scheduled night session, match being moved to the second court. |
| 0:48.0 | More on that later, spoiler alert, there will be a rant. |
| 0:51.6 | I shouldn't start with the rant because it's been a great day of tennis, a great evening of tennis. |
| 0:58.4 | We had two absolute thrillers. They happened to be spread across two courts. |
| 1:02.8 | We had Fritz again, sit to pass on the Rod Leyva Arena and on the second court. |
| 1:07.6 | We had Arena Sabilenka and Kaye Kanepi and we had some really good matches in the day session |
| 1:14.5 | as well and we'll be drilling down into all of it with Matt and myself in Melbourne. |
| 1:21.7 | David in Solihull. I wanted to start by covering Pride Day a little bit. |
| 1:27.5 | Matt and I have had our wristbands on. In fact, courtesy of lovely Sedrick, Friend of the Pod |
| 1:33.5 | and listener and giver of gifts. Matt and I have four wristbands and we've been told that |
| 1:40.2 | they are much coveted, David. We were each wearing one today, one rainbow wristband each and |
| 1:47.5 | two of the people on the media reception said, oh, you must have scored yourself a wristband. |
| 1:53.7 | Those are in high demand. Matt goes, oh, yeah, we've got four actually. |
| 1:59.7 | No, I know why, but we're allowed to find. |
| 2:02.4 | We're just hoarding them and we'll pop them all on eBay at the end of the tournament. |
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