ATP Finals Day 5 - Rafa remains, bubble struggle and what’s that hair?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Rafael Nadal has never won the ATP Finals. Not yet, anyway. After a three-set tussle with Stefanos Tsitsipas, we assessed his performance, considered the way in which he causes Tsitsipas problems, and then reported on the Greek’s press conference in which he described the mental challenges posed by ‘bubble life’.
The drudgery of dead rubbers gets the treatment, the chopping and changing of doubles teams is discussed, Joe Salisbury is lauded, and Catherine gives David and Matt a mid-pod shock.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Mayan Bartori. I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary Carillo. I'm Sunroenka. I'm like Newt. I'm Andy Murray. This is Yanik Noah. |
| 0:08.0 | This is Nancy Daw from St. John's Newfoundland and you're listening to my absolute favorite, the tennis podcast. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, I'm Nancy. Thank you so much for those lovely words. How about this? Every day we get told |
| 0:30.0 | we're somebody's favorite tennis podcast. And who do you think is almost as if we've just encouraged this? And frankly, that's exactly what I'm doing. |
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| 0:46.0 | Is it? What's good about them? They are big and cuddly and fluffy. Do you remember Caesar? May he rest in peace? |
| 0:58.0 | Yes. Yes. Yes. Lovely dog. He was in Newfoundland. Oh, well, actually, okay. Yes. Now that was a splendid dog. |
| 1:08.0 | The one, Martin Del Potro of the dog world. So Nancy, congratulations for being from there. Yes. So Nancy, back to us in our Kickstarter. |
| 1:18.0 | Thank you so much and to all the others that have introduced the show this week. We really appreciate it. And yeah, that's why we're here. |
| 1:25.0 | I'm able to do this every single day of the ATP finals. And we've got a few more to go today was a funny whole day. We kind of previewed it. |
| 1:34.0 | Didn't we last night in as much as the afternoon looked like a... |
| 1:38.0 | It wasn't much meaning to it. There was just no meaning that there were dead rubbers after all. |
| 1:44.0 | The both the doubles and the singles and then the evening session we always knew is going to be a knife edge type scenario. |
| 1:51.0 | You win. You go through. You lose. You go home like like a normal tournament. |
| 1:56.0 | Let's start there, shall we? Because Raffa and the Dow has beaten Stefan a Citsapas in three sets. |
| 2:03.0 | It wasn't like last year's win though. I didn't feel. I thought it was a... |
| 2:10.0 | I mean, I thought Nidale played really well overall. But I mean, obviously there's no crowd. But last year they played a three-setter and it was just epic. |
| 2:21.0 | Wasn't it every point felt like a saga? This didn't feel like that to me. What did it feel like to you, Catherine? |
| 2:29.0 | No, I felt like Stefan or Citsapas could have been prepared to die out there tonight. And it still wouldn't have been enough. |
| 2:39.0 | He cannot get close to the Nidale serve. I know there's the anomaly of the fact that he is beating him once on clay in Madrid in 2019. |
| 2:51.0 | But let's just take that out of the equation and it's possible. It's possible that Citsapas has a bit of an adult problem. |
| 3:00.0 | And one that he's not getting any closer to solving. |
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