ATP Finals - Group stages over, bring on the semis! Wimbledon changes all-white rule for women at last
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
With the semi-final line-up set at the ATP Finals, we hear from Catherine in Turin, discuss the biggest storylines so far, and look ahead to the weekend's action.
What's impressed us most about Andrey Rublev at this tournament? In what way has Novak Djokovic looked a level above the rest of the field? Will his 3+ hours on court on Friday cost him against Taylor Fritz? Why did we expect more from Felix Auger-Aliassime? And how do we reflect on Daniil Medvedev's season?
All that plus reaction to Stefanos Tsitsipas' salty press conference, David dares to question Rafael Nadal on Twitter, and we discuss the news that Wimbledon have announced a change to their white clothing rule, meaning that female tennis players will be permitted to wear dark coloured undershorts.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mayan Bartorri. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary Carillo. This is Pam Shriver. |
| 0:06.4 | This is Yannick Noah. |
| 0:07.6 | Hello, this is Steven from Adelaide in Australia. You're listening to the Fantastic Tennis Podcast. |
| 0:24.4 | Well, thank you very much, Steven, for introducing this edition of the Tennis Podcast. |
| 0:29.7 | Steven in Adelaide, Matt Adelaide, whenever I think of that particular city, I always think of |
| 0:37.2 | late in here it, winning his first ATP title in 1998 as a 16-year-old beating Andre Agassi in the |
| 0:45.9 | semi-finals in Jason Stoltenberg, who would one day become his coach in the final. |
| 0:52.2 | And Steven just has that kind of very relaxed kind of delivery that makes me think Australia. |
| 1:00.3 | And that's where we're going to be in a couple of months' time. Thank you, Steven. |
| 1:03.7 | A lot of lovely intro. |
| 1:05.2 | Yes, very soothing voice that Steven has. I wish I had a similar tennis anecdote to associate with |
| 1:12.9 | Adelaide. I think of Alistair Cook in the ashes having a great innings there for England once. |
| 1:19.8 | But yeah, Australia always makes me think of tennis. |
| 1:23.5 | Yeah, well, and we can't wait to go. I've actually been looking at our |
| 1:28.9 | Airbnb accommodation today online just to sort of draw about going. |
| 1:35.5 | So yes, we've successfully been wetting our appetite for that. But at the moment, we're watching |
| 1:41.2 | indoor tennis because this week has been the ATP finals in Chewin in Italy and they are through |
| 1:49.0 | the group stages. It's finally got there, Matt. And we haven't done a podcast in quite a few days |
| 1:54.1 | now since you got back from Glasgow. But it feels like a really long time. The group stages and |
| 2:03.5 | in this particular tournament, they do go on for a bit and they pack it in. |
| 2:08.6 | Am I right in saying that they used to have singles only at the ATP finals and the doubles was, |
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