Auger-Aliassime Unleashed; Ruud & Kontaveit Keep Winning; Farewell Delpo
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Felix Auger-Aliassime has done it! In his ninth ATP final, he finally won his first title in Rotterdam, and Catherine, David and Matt begin this episode by discussing what it means for him now and in the future.
There’s also chat about Anett Kontaveit and Casper Ruud continuing their respective winning streaks indoors and on clay, Maria Sakkari’s tendency to get tight in big moments, and the emotional scenes in Buenos Aires as Juan Martin Del Potro played what seemed like the last match of his career.
Finally, we cover Reilly Opelka’s title in Dallas and the success of that event, the disparity between the number of WTA and ATP tournaments in 2022 so far, and the WTA’s response to Peng Shuai’s interview with L’Equipe.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartotti. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Matt Svillander. This is Mary Carillo. This is Pam Shriver. |
| 0:06.4 | This is Yannick Noah. Hi, this is Mary Tester from Melbourne, Australia. |
| 0:11.3 | And you're listening to the wonderful tennis podcast. |
| 0:14.8 | We're back folks and we're back with a bang because fans of tennis and I'm assuming, |
| 0:31.2 | given that you're listening to this podcast, you are. Fans of tennis will know that tennis never |
| 0:36.1 | stops. So in the two weeks that we've been away, lots and lots of tennis has happened. |
| 0:43.0 | We did have a listener question special last week for friends of the tennis podcast and we will |
| 0:48.4 | also have a Juan Martín del Potro special for friends of the tennis podcast this week. So if you |
| 0:54.8 | want to be like Mary in Melbourne and become a friend of the tennis podcast or buy yourself an intro, |
| 1:00.0 | then you can do that. The link is in our show notes. We will of course be talking about Juan Martín |
| 1:06.0 | Apotro in this podcast as well. But we are first going to deal with title winners this week in the |
| 1:12.8 | events that have been happening in St. Petersburg and in Rotterdam where we've had titles for |
| 1:18.0 | Annette Contevate and Felix Orger, Ali Asim and Melbourne has never felt so far away, Matt, |
| 1:26.6 | as when you're watching St. Petersburg and Rotterdam because they feel so wintry and cold and |
| 1:35.9 | indoors. I know they're indoor events but they feel ultra indoor somehow. It's almost sort of |
| 1:42.9 | a spike out of spite to the Australian open and all its bright sunshine. We're going to make this |
| 1:48.8 | as dark and as cold as possible. Just remind you that you're back in winter. It's such a contrast |
| 1:56.9 | isn't it? It's very February, a tennis in February. I must say if you did want something totally |
| 2:03.2 | different and unexpected, watch Buenos Aires this week. I was not ready for clay in sunshine in |
| 2:10.0 | February as well. That played tricks on your mind as well. You're going from watching Rotterdam in |
| 2:15.3 | the cold indoor to Buenos Aires outdoors on the clay. It is a weird time of the year for tennis |
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