Arantxa Sanchez Vicario - Backing Rafa For No.10, Her 4-3 Record vs. Serena, Favourite Career Memories, WTA Finals Ambassador
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2015
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Arantxa Sanchez Vicario won the Roland Garros title three time, including her incredible victory as a 17-year-old in 1989. The Spaniard joins Catherine Whitaker to talk about her new role as a WTA Finals Ambassador, the Legends Classic she will play against Martina Navratilova in Singapore, and to look ahead to week two of the 2015 French Open.
Will Rafa Nadal win a 10th title? Yes, she says. How did she amass a 4-3 career record against Serena Williams? Arantxa explains all. And what were her memories of that incredible first win in Paris?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, this is Martina Navratelova and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:14.3 | Well hello and welcome to the tennis podcast. I'm Catherine Whitaker. |
| 0:18.0 | It's second Monday of Role and Garas 2015. It's been an incredible and intriguing |
| 0:22.8 | first week and joining me to look back and to look ahead at the second week. I'm so delighted to |
| 0:28.2 | that I'm joined by Aranchez Sanchez Vicaria, three time champion here at Role and Garas and |
| 0:32.3 | former World No. 1 Aranchez. Thank you so much for joining me today. |
| 0:35.4 | No thank you very much. I'm not at the bit with you. |
| 0:38.4 | Now I've already spoken to you today because we were together this morning |
| 0:42.8 | announcing that you're going to be an ambassador for the WCA finals in Singapore this year. You're |
| 0:46.8 | going to be playing the Legends event there with Martina Navratelova. Just talk me through that. |
| 0:51.0 | For me the most interesting thing about doing the research for that event and everything |
| 0:56.0 | with the fact that Singapore was one of the first events you ever played on the WCA tour |
| 1:00.8 | and you were 14 years old. How amazing is it going to be that you're going to get to go back |
| 1:06.2 | there, play again and be with some of the players that you were with back in the day? |
| 1:11.2 | Well I'm very happy and I think the RTA that they think that you know as ambassador for this event |
| 1:17.8 | and as I say you know it would be the best tournament at the end of the year because the best |
| 1:22.9 | players would play you know their qualifier and fight to win that and definitely for me is a |
| 1:29.3 | very remind me when I started because I played you know three tournaments in Europe but the first |
| 1:34.1 | trip overseas that I make was in Singapore type in Tokyo was only 14 years old and I just started |
| 1:39.4 | you know my career and after those matches and tournaments that I played there after I get my |
| 1:44.2 | ranking to number 80 in the world and now as I say I wrote to Singapore after you know like |
| 1:49.4 | that this was we're talking about 1986 so imagine how much time it hasn't done now that I'm going |
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