ATP Finals semis - Is Ruud ready to derail Djokovic? Andrea Gaudenzi chat
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Novak Djokovic and Casper Ruud will face off in the final match of the 2022 ATP season after Djokovic’s narrow victory over Taylor Fritz and Ruud’s thumping of Andrey Rublev.
How well did Djokovic play against Fritz? Could Fritz have done more? What happened to Rublev’s newfound mental resilience? How much has Ruud improved as a player? And does he have the belief to beat Djokovic?
With Catherine joining David and Matt from Turin, we also chat about the doubles semi-finals as well as Catherine’s interview with Andrea Gaudenzi who had an encouraging message about ATP and WTA unity.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartori. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Matt's Vellander. This is Mary Carillo. This is Pam Shriver. |
| 0:06.4 | This is Yannick Noah. This is Peter Dangerfield from beautiful Shelter Island, New York. |
| 0:11.5 | You are listening to my favorite podcast, The Tennis Podcast. |
| 0:15.9 | Well, thank you very much Peter from New York, which is a city that I've already started |
| 0:31.7 | talking to Matt about in the pre-chat on this podcast, because I'm already looking forward |
| 0:37.2 | to booking the accommodation for there in what about 10 months time. |
| 0:42.4 | Because we've already done the Paris accommodation today, because I just can't stop myself now. |
| 0:48.4 | Now that I've started looking at places that we're going to go in 2023, I can't wait. |
| 0:52.5 | So Peter, it's lovely to have you as a friend of the tennis podcast. It's lovely to have you |
| 0:56.7 | introducing this show. If anybody else would like to introduce a show, the option is there for |
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| 1:07.6 | We are joined by Catherine Whitaker in Sheeran, actually in person today, not on voice note. |
| 1:15.0 | Catherine, it's been another long day, but you're here and you've only got one more to go. How you doing? |
| 1:22.0 | Yes, flagging, but um, you're done here. Flagging, but still standing. |
| 1:30.1 | Indeed, although I suppose in some respects, Casparoude has done you a bit of a favour tonight, |
| 1:38.5 | by absolutely racing through matters against André Rublev. |
| 1:42.1 | How's he though, because I don't know, I think I think adrenaline is worth more than an early night, |
| 1:49.8 | and it was not an adrenalineized evening. You're speaking my language suddenly. I like that. |
| 1:56.8 | Yeah, I mean, I'm sure it was for Casparoude. He really was brilliant tonight, but goodness me, |
| 2:02.5 | that was a bizarre second semi-final. He's one of those sort of matches that make you feel so |
| 2:08.4 | foolish for the half an hour big cell that you've just given it on national television. |
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