Ask Catherine & David 6 – Can players become over reliant on their coaches? Is dominance good for tennis? Which new rule changes should be trialled?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
For the next two weeks our listeners will be setting the agenda on The Tennis Podcast as Catherine Whitaker and David Law take part in a couple of Q&A episodes. This week’s questions have been chosen by guest editor Keturah Anderssen-Chivers:
· Are players damaging their chances of progressing in Grand Slams by regularly requesting on-court coaching on the WTA Tour? (01:09)
· Is it better for the sport to have four outstanding players who dominate, or have a range of players competing more evenly? (14:25)
· Is it unfair for a top player to enter 250 events - where they are likely to dominate - just so they can hit milestones? (20:31)
· Which new rule changes should be trialled at this year’s Next Gen Finals? (24:30)
· What are the pros and cons of working at tennis tournaments as journalists rather than attending as fans? (30:05)
· Who are the best players aged 25 and above not to have won a Grand Slam title? And will they win one? (35:55)
· Which players have had the most disappointing start to 2019? (39:45)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McEnore. I'm Bjorn Borg. |
| 0:02.2 | This is Martina Navratlova. |
| 0:03.8 | I'm Matt Vylander. |
| 0:04.9 | I'm San Roenca. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Lainey Nguet. I'm Andy Moray. |
| 0:07.7 | Greetings. This is Kay and St. Jimmers. |
| 0:10.0 | And you're listening to The Tennis Podcast. |
| 0:22.8 | So thank you Kay for introducing this special edition of The Tennis Podcast. |
| 0:27.0 | Kay is one of our guest editors in our Kickstarter campaign |
| 0:30.8 | who helped to keep The Tennis Podcast going throughout the year. |
| 0:34.0 | We've had 937 Macs in 2019 who have pitched in to help us fund the show |
| 0:40.1 | and to hire Grand Matt and to keep it going and to make it |
| 0:43.8 | so that we can produce it every single week and daily at the Grand Slamz. |
| 0:47.4 | And Kay, you may remember, is Charlie the Ferret's Mom, |
| 0:50.2 | Charlie our mascot of last year. |
| 0:52.2 | He hasn't been very well of late. |
| 0:53.9 | So get well, Charlie. |
| 0:55.1 | But we have a lot of questions here from our listeners to answer |
| 0:58.7 | and a few special ones from Kay as well. |
| 1:00.6 | Catherine, are you ready? |
| 1:02.8 | Ready. |
| 1:03.7 | Blimey. She really does sound ready. |
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