ATP Finals Day 6 - No.1 Nadal Departs With Head Held High
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Rafael Nadal played his best tennis of the ATP Finals, celebrated ending the year as World No.1, but still failed to reach the semifinals.
Afterwards, Catherine Whitaker, David Law and Matt Roberts discussed his extraordinary year, and his reaction afterwards.
They also covered Alexander Zverev's win over Daniil Medvedev and previewed the semifinals.
The Tennis Podcast is produced weekly throughout the year, daily during the Grand Slam tournaments, the WTA and ATP Finals, and the Fed Cup and Davis Cup finals.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McEnore, I'm Bjorn Borg. |
| 0:02.3 | This is Martina Navratlova, I'm Matt Svillander, this is Mary Carrillo, I'm Stan Roenka, I'm |
| 0:07.2 | Lighten Ewitt, I'm Andy Marieth. |
| 0:08.8 | This is Joseph R in Estana Kazakhstan and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:24.7 | Rough Hanadal played his best tennis to the tournament. |
| 0:26.9 | Today, he won his match, he's finished the year at World No. 1 and he's going home. |
| 0:31.6 | Or at least he's going to the Davis Cup finals in Madrid because he has failed to qualify. |
| 0:37.1 | That's because Alexander has got the job done a moment to go against Daniel Medvedev. |
| 0:42.8 | It's a funny old day today, isn't it? |
| 0:44.8 | Yeah, it feels really weird, especially for a day when we've had a wonderful match, a wonderful |
| 0:51.8 | moment, Nadal collecting the year at No. 1 trophy exceeded my expectations in terms of a moment, |
| 1:00.6 | Nadal's post press conference, quote, quote, quote, exceeded my expectations in terms of how |
| 1:08.4 | expansive they were, it was all great and yet I feel a bit weird about today. |
| 1:12.8 | Yeah, we feel a bit weird, I should say, that was Joseph Har, by the way, we introduced |
| 1:16.8 | the show today, one of our kickstarter backers who helped us along in order to produce all these |
| 1:21.9 | shows this year, by backing us last year, we'll be doing the same on the second of December this |
| 1:26.2 | year. So thank you very much, Joseph, who will have been watching No. 1 today, |
| 1:30.6 | avidly, as Ralfanadal got the job done against Stefano Sitsabas in a really, really good match, |
| 1:35.9 | wasn't it? It was and Sitsabas credit to himself, wasn't it? The way he just went about it. |
| 1:43.8 | Yeah, because there wasn't a huge amount on the line really for Sitsabas, he could have done |
| 1:49.7 | what team did yesterday and team was, I don't think anyone's criticizing team for playing the way |
| 1:56.2 | he did, which wasn't with his usual intensity. Sitsabas could have done that, but he absolutely did |
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