AO Preview - Media Day, and a Big Announcement

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Wimbledon, Sports, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Catherine, David and Matt react to the best lines to come out of media day at the Australian Open. In what way did Rafael Nadal make us feel more confident about his prospects? How did Novak Djokovic seem on his return to Melbourne? What's on Ons Jabeur's lock screen this time? What does Iga Swiatek consider to be her biggest strengths? And lots more.

We also cover the results from qualifying, Adelaide 2 and Auckland before discussing the pretty seismic news that the ITF has ended its Davis Cup partnership with Kosmos.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mayan Batolli.
0:03.1	I'm Matt Belander. This is Mary Carrillo. 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 welcome to your official Australian open preview tennis podcast.
0:28.4	It's kind of our second Australian open preview tennis podcast. They proliferate with every
0:33.8	Grand Slam that we do because our pumpedness proliferates with every Grand Slam that we come to.
0:40.0	You find us at tennis podcast hours Melbourne take two. We're out here for so long. We couldn't find
0:48.0	accommodations that could accommodate us for the full three weeks. So we've had to split it into
0:53.5	two stages and this morning we performed the big move as it shall ever more be known.
1:01.4	And we're here. Yeah. It's the most important thing. We made it. We made it. We needed two cars. We
1:08.0	needed a sort of tank team effort and I think we remembered most things. Yes, I actually left a
1:17.0	bag of crisps. It's two bags of crisps in the cupboard. It's been an oil day anyway.
1:22.7	And we're now in Richmond in Melbourne and it's become clear why why Richmond's a favourite of
1:30.3	Catherine's because the amount of dogs in Richmond is pretty extraordinary. David and I went for
1:36.0	brunch today and I basically to David to a sort of dog cray. Genuinely by accident but it was
1:43.6	so great. Not completely convinced by your argument because I mean it was it was it was
1:50.0	absolutely lovely to be honest to be surrounded by so many dogs so Richmond so far you hath my thumbs up.
1:55.6	Was it the Daniel Collins recommended by you? It was. I actually knew about it just anyway. Yeah.
2:02.8	It was known about the four Daniel Collins got there. But I mean it was dog central and there was
2:09.7	a moment which David captured on camera head to our Instagram if you'd like to see it folks where
2:16.0	two Bernese mountain dogs paraded past me and it was. Heaven. It was like Elton John had walked past.
2:25.5	It was it was extraordinary. Now before we get into previewing the Australian Open which is what
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