Aus Open 2021 - Let's Do This!

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Wimbledon, Sports, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

There have been moments over the last few days, weeks and months when the chances of there even being an Australian Open in 2021 have felt slim. But one of the great feats of organisation has been pulled off, some bullets have been dodged, our fingers remain crossed, and play is set to get underway in a few hours.

In this episode we wrap up the results from the six lead-in tournaments. What is Dan Evans’ ranking ceiling after he won his first ATP title? Why has Felix Auger-Aliassime not even won a set in his seven finals? Will Jannik Sinner be physically compromised after his efforts this week? In what way did Ash Barty send a statement to the rest of the tour in her victory over Garbine Muguruza? And is Andrey Rublev in the Australian Open mix?

We also discuss the major talking points from the pre tournament press conferences, including what Novak Djokovic thinks of Nick Kyrgios, Iga Swiatek’s honesty about how she’s dealing with being a Grand Slam champion, updates on the fitness of Rafael Nadal and Simona Halep, and some feel-good stories from Francesca Jones.

The Tennis Podcast is presented by Catherine Whitaker and David Law, and features Matt Roberts. It is produced weekly year-round, and daily during the Grand Slam tournaments.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt Vylander. This is Mary Carillo.
0:05.3	I'm Stan Ravinka. I'm Lainey Hutt. I'm Andy Murray. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis
0:10.8	podcast.
0:22.0	Well we're back. We're going to be saying that a lot over the next fortnight. We're back. We've had
0:25.8	very, very in quantities of sleep at very different times. I think just as I was heading off to sleep,
0:32.2	David Laws, internal soli-hole body clock was awaking him for Dan Evans big moment. Meanwhile, Matt and I
0:41.7	stayed up late to watch Gurbini Mugrutha against Ashbati in the final of the Yarra Valley classic.
0:50.4	nailed it. I'm never going to have to say that again after today.
0:55.6	Yeah, it's a taste of what's probably to come over the next 14 days. David's getting no sleep and
1:03.2	being inexplicably pumped at 9.30 in the morning on a Sunday. How you doing, David?
1:08.1	Oh, all right. I've been upstairs 3.49. I feel great.
1:12.4	Yeah, he does. Folks, it's annoying. Matt, how you doing?
1:16.7	I think I'm somewhere in between you two.
1:22.9	Matt, Matt, you had to sort of referee a couple of me coming up with lots of ideas that I think
1:27.6	are great because I'm really, really pumped up and Catherine thinking, do we have to do it? Can we
1:33.5	just do that another time? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's 9.30 on a Sunday. You'd be the
1:40.1	search of who's in the more appropriate mood. Full disclosure, while I watched all of Ashbati
1:47.2	against Gurbini Mugrutha and loved it, as you can probably tell, I've only been up half an hour
1:52.2	on this fine Sunday morning. I don't even know the results if the other two finals that we had
1:58.0	overnight. I made the executive decision that I could have looked up the results, but I decided
2:04.6	that I would have the reveal live on the podcast because David watched both matches. Yannick
2:11.2	Sinagin's Karen Hachanov in the final of the Great Ocean Road Open and Dan Evans against Felix
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