ATP Finals Day 8 - Zverev Downs Djokovic To Win Big In London; What Does This Mean For 2019?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Alexander Zverev delivered on his gargantuan talent in London to add a straight sets win over Novak Djokovic to his one against Roger Federer the day before. It landed him the ATP Finals title, and Catherine Whitaker, David Law and Matt Roberts got together to discuss it on The Tennis Podcast.
With The O2 Arena being disassembled around them, the trio talked about where the final was won and lost, what changed since Djokovic’s 6-4, 6-1 win over Zverev in the round-robin stages, and what the result might mean for 2019.
Could Zverev-Tsitsipas be the next compelling rivalry on the ATP circuit? Will it feature some of the aggro that has been in evidence between the two in recent months?
There’s also a look at the doubles final, won by Jack Sock and Mike Bryan.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Andy Murray and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | So we sit in the seats inside the Ota Arena with the place being dismantles. |
| 0:20.0 | There is blue and white ticket tape all over the blue court on which the tennis has been played at the ATP finals over the last week. |
| 0:27.0 | And on which just about an hour ago Alexander Zverov hit a two handed backhand down the line, a clean winner that left no back shock of its despairing hurdling the net to congratulate his victorious opponent who had beaten him in straight-sex. |
| 0:44.0 | Catherine Whittaker is back, hello. |
| 0:47.0 | I am back, any coming to the big matches? |
| 0:50.0 | Yeah, you're a big match player. |
| 0:52.0 | A grand match here. |
| 0:53.0 | Hello. Hello. |
| 0:54.0 | Wow. What have we just witnessed? How big a shock does that feel right now? |
| 1:01.0 | Because I think when we came in, well, we were all predicting a jock of its win, weren't we? |
| 1:07.0 | And yet at the end, he looked a little bit helpless. |
| 1:12.0 | It wasn't the neat little end of season narrative that we'd all prepared. |
| 1:17.0 | I mean, the story of this season is no about jock of its own climb back to the top of the rankings. |
| 1:23.0 | And Zverov reminded us in his speech that he had surgery this year. |
| 1:27.0 | He's ended the year number one, he's won two slams. |
| 1:30.0 | He's done it all in the same year that he's had surgery. |
| 1:32.0 | And that all remains the case. |
| 1:34.0 | He's still the best player of 2018 by some way. |
| 1:38.0 | And yet, we're now going to talk about Sasha Zverov. |
| 1:43.0 | It didn't this week or today, the rest of the week it's only meant to plan for him, |
| 1:48.0 | but it just wasn't what any of us were expecting or planning on. |
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