ATP Finals Day 3 - Does Federer Get Preferential Treatment? Discussed, With Federer's Response; He Wins, Anderson Cruises
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2018
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Catherine is back! And there’s plenty to talk about…
Does Roger Federer receive preferential treatment from tournament directors? That was the allegation made by Julien Benneteau on French radio last week.
On today’s podcast, Catherine Whitaker, David Law and Simon Briggs discuss the ins and outs of the story, including Federer’s relationship with CEO of Tennis Australia Craig Tiley, the conflicts of interest within the sport, and the importance of market forces in all this.
Later in the podcast, hear from Federer himself as he answered Benneteau's reported allegations. David and Grad Matt, who were both there, describe the atmosphere in the room. David says it was one of the steeliest looks he’s ever seen Federer give.
On court, Federer was a comfortable winner against Dominic Thiem. How much better did he play than on Sunday night? And how bad was Dominic Thiem? Less bad than Kei Nishikori, who was thumped 0-6, 1-6 by Kevin Anderson. What are the qualification scenarios for that group? And why have there been so many one-sided matches?
There’s also a look ahead to tomorrow’s play. How can Alexander Zverev possibly trouble Novak Djokovic? And what makes John Isner the slight favourite against Marin Cilic?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Andy Murray and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | Six love, six one is the scoreline we've just had in the afternoon session on day three here at the ATP World Tour finals. |
| 0:21.0 | And who's been on the end of that? |
| 0:23.0 | Kanisha Corey. |
| 0:24.0 | Who's won it? Kevin Anderson. |
| 0:26.0 | My goodness. What an earth is going on. |
| 0:28.0 | It means we've all stopped play about four hours a day in a schedule and yeah, it gives us chance to record the first part of the tennis podcast here. |
| 0:37.0 | In the company of Mr Simon Briggs, hello Simon. |
| 0:39.0 | We've got GradMath and by special demand back here on the tennis podcast we've only got Katherine Whitaker. |
| 0:48.0 | Hello Katherine. |
| 0:49.0 | Hello special demand from the Whitaker family. |
| 0:51.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.0 | And everybody else, they've been... |
| 0:54.0 | Actually not special demand from the Whitaker family because all they've been doing is texting me about how good the various telegraph reps are and how good GradMath is. |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.0 | So no special demand whatsoever. |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, they had a lovely time. |
| 1:07.0 | It's been lovely, yeah. |
| 1:08.0 | Quite like watching tennis on the tally. |
| 1:10.0 | It's good, it's good. |
| 1:11.0 | It's good. |
| 1:12.0 | What has happened this afternoon? |
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