Ask Catherine & David - Who are the most ‘difficult’ players? What are the best tournaments to cover? How should players handle social media?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
We have thrown the next two editions of The Tennis Podcast over to our listeners to fire their questions at hosts Catherine Whitaker and David Law.
This week, with Guest Editor Jim Boyle in the chair to choose the questions and throw in a couple of his own, Catherine and David are put on the spot to reveal the players that are the most challenging to interview, which tournaments are the best to cover and why, and what they would give as advice to players about how best to handle social media.
Should there be an ATP-1000 tournament on grass? Is it time to reassess the late-night scheduling of matches at Grand Slams, and if so, in what way? And who is C.Burel?
All of those questions and more are addressed on the latest show.
David also takes us through what has happened over the course of the last week in tennis, and what is to come.
The Tennis Podcast is produced weekly throughout the year and daily during the Grand Slam tournaments, in association with Telegraph Sport.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McEnore. I'm Bjorn Bory. |
| 0:02.2 | This is Martina Navratlova. I'm Matt Svillander. |
| 0:04.9 | I'm Stan Ravinka. I'm Lighten Ewitt. |
| 0:06.8 | I'm Andy Murray. I'm Jim Boyle. |
| 0:08.5 | And you're listening to The Tenest Podcast. |
| 0:21.2 | Well, hello and welcome to The Tenest Podcast brought to you in association with the |
| 0:25.0 | Tenest Podcast. My name is David Law, a commentator for BBC Radio 5 Live. |
| 0:30.1 | Katherine Whitaker from Euro Sport is here this week, not in person right now, because she's in |
| 0:35.8 | Pion Chang in Korea, freezing herself silly in temperatures of minus 25, which explains why |
| 0:43.5 | she put a water bottle down today. And it froze into a block of ice in about 20 minutes time. |
| 0:48.9 | So I'm glad that I'm not there to be quite honest. She's glad she is there |
| 0:53.3 | presenting for Euro Sport, all those bizarre, weird and wonderful sports during the Winter |
| 0:59.0 | Olympics. So you can see her on Euro Sport if you'd like to do so. |
| 1:02.0 | But we do have a show with both Katherine and myself here with you today answering your questions |
| 1:08.4 | as proposed by Jim Boyle, our guest editor. They're your questions. He's just chosen the very best |
| 1:14.7 | ones. He's added a few of his own and he was the man who gave his lovely intro to the show. |
| 1:20.1 | So thank you very much, Jim, for your kickstarter backing, as always hugely appreciated. And that's |
| 1:25.6 | why we're able to bring this Tenest Podcast to you. Now, before we get on with our Q&A, |
| 1:30.7 | we have had a lot of tennis over the last week, a lot of it to do with the Fed Cup. Of course, |
| 1:36.6 | it was Davis Cup last week. We've had the Fed Cup this week and we've had the return sort of the |
| 1:43.2 | return of Sirina Williams. She is on a tennis court in a professional match for the first time |
| 1:49.9 | in over a year. She played that exhibition in your Mayor Embrin Abu Dhabi just last month before |
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