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The Tennis Podcast

Ask Catherine & David 5 – How long will Lendl keep coaching Zverev? Should let serves be abolished? What goes into player appearance fee negotiations?

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports & Recreation, Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Before they left Melbourne to return home following the Australian Open, David Law and Catherine Whitaker recorded another Q&A special edition of The Tennis Podcast, featuring discussion on numerous topical issues within the sport. This one is guest edited by Jim Boyle.

- How long will Ivan Lendl maintain patience with Alexander Zverev? (01:25)

- Where does Milos Raonic rank in the list of favourites for Wimbledon? (06:45)

- Who has more potential – Katie Swan or Katie Boulter? (10:58)

- Will La Caja Mágica in Madrid make a good venue for the Davis Cup Finals? (14:28)

- Who is best-placed to succeed Serena Williams as the next serial winner of Grand Slams? (17:13)

- What goes into negotiations for appearance fees? (22:44)

- Should the Let serve be abolished? (26:24)

- Why do some players want to remove Chris Kermode from his position as ATP president? (31:42)

- Has women’s tennis ever been in a better place? (36:20)

The Tennis Podcast will be uploaded weekly throughout 2019 and daily at the Grand Slam tournaments, courtesy of our Kickstarter backers. It is produced in associated with The Telegraph. 


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0:00.0

Hi, I'm John McEnore. I'm Bjorn Borg. This is Martina Navratlova. I'm Matt Vylander. I'm

0:05.1

Sten Roenka. I'm Lighten Youet. I'm Andy Murray and you're listening to the tennis podcast.

0:20.0

The Australian Open has come and gone, but the tennis podcast continues. We are into our weekly

0:26.9

shows now. Building up to the French Open, Wimbledon, where we'll be daily again. I'm David

0:32.0

Law. Catherine Whittaker is here. How are you, Catherine? Bright is a button. Bright is a button,

0:39.0

as we record, just at the end of the Australian Open campaign. We're here with our weekly shows.

0:44.9

Matt's here. Hello, Matt. Hello. Formerly known as Grad Matt. We are with you for one of our

0:51.2

listener questions specials here on the tennis podcast, which is kick-started by you guys.

0:58.4

And specifically in this particular edition, by Jim Boyle, who is one of our guest editors.

1:03.4

So what he's done is he's sent in some of his questions. He's chosen some of the very best

1:08.6

of yours that you've posted at tennis podcast on Twitter and at the tennis podcast on Instagram.

1:15.5

We're on Facebook as well. He's basically picked out the best ones you've sent in. And we're

1:19.4

going to answer him now. All right. So Matt's got the questions. Fire away, Matt.

1:24.5

Okay, so the first one is, after two disappointing slams under his charge for Zverev,

1:31.9

at what point does Ivan Lendel throw the towel in? And will he see out 2019? Will he throw the

1:38.7

towel in? Matt's like Dimbo B. Yeah. Do you think he'll throw the towel in? Or would you think?

1:43.8

I think he probably threw the towel at him in Australia.

1:49.5

Well, we sat and watched that fourth round defeat to Milos Rownitch together,

1:57.6

my arm sent him most of it together. We watched the most horrifying parts of it together from

2:02.8

his very perspective. And I asked you exactly that because I think it,

2:14.4

it's so, I know coaches and players talk a lot about, you know,

2:20.3

wafty stuff about it's not about results. It's about the process and process and progress and

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