ATP Finals Day 5 - Sue Barker guests! ATP Cup launch reaction
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
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🗓️ 15 November 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The 1976 French Open champion Sue Barker is our special guest as we digest the launch of the ATP Cup and what it means for the Davis Cup finals in the future.
What did the power-brokers say in response to Novak Djokovic’s assertion that it could lead to two ‘average’ events? What does Sue, Catherine Whitaker, Simon Briggs and David Law make of it all? And should Davis Cup have changed in the first place? Sue isn’t so sure.
The BBC’s long-time tennis presenter also talks about the matches at The O2, gives her predictions for the next few days, her thoughts on whether Andy Murray will make it back to the top of the game, and whether Johanna Konta can return to her peak.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Andy Murray and you're listening to the tennis podcast |
| 0:14.6 | It's day five of the 80p finals by that laugh you can hear that Catherine Whittaker is back hello Catherine |
| 0:19.6 | Hello, hello, we are someone sounding in a long. Yes, somebody was sounding a long and yeah |
| 0:24.9 | That tends to have went Catherine walks into the media restaurant where we now sit amongst our assembled media colleagues and we have |
| 0:31.8 | The best guest we've ever had well certainly since Mary Carrillo was on it's super |
| 0:39.9 | Hey, why haven't we got any good tennis matches here, so |
| 0:44.0 | It's not weird. I don't understand it |
| 0:46.2 | You know you when you look at what's just been played or not throughout Europe and everything |
| 0:50.4 | The seasons too long I mean chocolate made a very good point that this is sport has the longest season of any sport |
| 0:56.2 | And I think they're dragging their weary bodies you know waiting you know to finish and have their off season for they start again |
| 1:03.5 | Possibly too many too many events in the calendar too many weeks. They're being asked to to play it is a shame because crowds |
| 1:11.1 | Sell out for almost every |
| 1:13.3 | Session and they're not really getting the great matches that we've seen so open in the past |
| 1:17.4 | And he said that the last couple of years haven't been so good either you just watch the latest and done Catherine. Oh |
| 1:24.8 | That is one of the worst tennis matches I've ever sat through life Nishikori team |
| 1:29.4 | I've got to say that was reasonable compared |
| 1:33.6 | And the team was okay wasn't it was difficult for him to be anything more than okay because there was so little rhythm for him to play with his Nishikori |
| 1:41.7 | But how can a top player be that bad? |
| 1:44.7 | Yeah, I don't I don't know how that happens if he'd have just got a few of those early games |
| 1:50.2 | I think you would have been a bit of a head when you're down so |
| 1:53.6 | So you want are you still on teams there then about what did you make of his comments yesterday about season being too long? |
| 2:01.5 | Do you do you think you know? |
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