Aus Open Day 10 - Chung vs. Federer, Halep vs. Kerber In Semis; Edmund Prepares For Biggest Day Of His Life; Tennys Takes Aim
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
All of the four quarterfinals played on Wednesday were won in straight sets, but each had its own story, and the resulting semifinals are mouth-watering, according to the Tennis Podcast team.
Hyeon Chung is one of the stories of the tournament and he backed up his straight sets win over Novak Djokovic by overcoming a very difference challenge - being the favourite to win against the World No. 97, Tennys Sandgren. It made Chung the first Korean ever to reach the semifinals of a Grand Slam tournament and put him into a semifinal against Roger Federer. Sandgren continued to create headlines of his own because of his social media activity, and responded with a statement in his post-match press conference.
What sort of challenge do the Tennis Podcast team think Chung can pose to Federer? Catherine Whitaker and David Law weigh up whether the similarities of his strengths to those of Djokovic might be a factor.
Federer saved set points against Tomas Berdych and has yet to drop a set, but how well is he actually playing?
In the women’s quarterfinals, classics were hoped for but didn’t materialise, partially because of the brilliance of Angelique Kerber and Simon Halep, partly because of erratic displays from Madison Keys and Karolina Pliskova. Surely Kerber vs. Halep is going to deliver?
Meanwhile, Kyle Edmund prepares for the biggest match of his career in the semifinals against Marin Cilic. It will be live on Eurosport and BBC Radio 5 Live from 8am UK time.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McEnore. I'm Bjorn Borg. This is Martina Navratlova. I'm Matt Vylander. |
| 0:04.9 | I'm San Roenka. I'm Lighten Youet. I'm Andy Murray and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:19.8 | Well hello and welcome to the tennis podcast brought to you an association with the telegraph |
| 0:24.0 | and with Eurasport, the UK broadcasters of the Australian Open, from where Catherine and I |
| 0:31.2 | talked to you inside the players area, outside the players restaurant with Mark Woodford |
| 0:38.2 | multiple grand slam champions. Just walking past having done his day's work, he's |
| 0:43.1 | commentated on the tennis and Catherine. This is an extraordinary place to be broadcasting and |
| 0:49.8 | podcasting the tennis podcast, isn't it? After Roger Federer has just defeated Thomas Bordeck and |
| 0:56.3 | I'm going to keep my voice down a little just as I say that because Thomas is a wife, Esther is just |
| 1:03.7 | about 20 feet away from us at the moment and I mean it was it was a we'll get on to the match |
| 1:09.5 | itself in a moment or two but just a little anecdote which just gives you an idea of the sort of |
| 1:15.3 | frame of mind that I think Federer is in and is usually in. We just saw an amazing interview I |
| 1:21.3 | thought one of his best interviews on court with Jim Courier just certainly one of his longest. |
| 1:25.2 | It was a long one. I think Courier incidentally has been superb this this fault and I really do. |
| 1:31.4 | I think sometimes he's he's overdone it in the interviews in the past but I think that this |
| 1:38.0 | week he's got the tone just right in the interviews and has got a lot from these players that |
| 1:43.1 | been at ease and Federer today talking about the flinder station design on the shoe which |
| 1:51.0 | he has on there he says because he thinks storytelling in sport is important and you're not |
| 1:57.6 | allowed to have trophies on a shoe apparently it turns out that's what he said. So he sets a |
| 2:03.7 | rule that you're not allowed an image of a trophy on your shoe. Well I don't know who sets the |
| 2:08.0 | rule too I. I mean that's what he said. Definitely not true. I mean who is out there legislating for |
| 2:15.5 | what you can have on your shoes? What a load of cods wallet. Catherine calls Roger Federer |
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