Aus Open Day 10 - Djokovic vs. Alcaraz reviewed; Gauff floored by Badosa
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Tuesday at the Australian Open was bookended by a pair of extraordinary results as Paula Badosa beat Coco Gauff and Novak Djokovic overcame Carlos Alcaraz. It meant that Catherine, David and Matt were recording the podcast at well after 3am in an adrenaline-fuelled frenzy.
Part one - Djokovic vs Alcaraz & Zverev vs Paul review.
Part two (from 32m25s) - Gauff vs Badosa & Sabalenka vs Pavlyuchenkova review.
Part three (from 57m11s) - Goran Ivanisevic quits working with Rybakina and Day 11 order of play
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billy Jean King. |
| 0:02.0 | This is Marion Bartoli. |
| 0:03.2 | This is Bianca Andrescu. |
| 0:04.7 | I'm Matt Villander. |
| 0:05.8 | This is Mary Carrillo. |
| 0:06.9 | This is Pam Schreiber. |
| 0:08.0 | This is Janik Noah and you're listening to the Tennis Podcast. |
| 0:27.4 | Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast on day 10 of the Australian Open, |
| 0:31.2 | where it is 2.23 in the morning. And you find myself, Catherine Whitaker, David Law, Matt Roberts, |
| 0:34.9 | in a cafe that stopped serving at 8pm, and I made that six hours and 24 minutes ago. |
| 0:44.0 | David is wearing his koala baseball cap, which is creating a slight error of absurdity to the recording, which feels very, very appropriate because we have seen the absurd |
| 0:56.8 | tonight, 37-year-old Novak Djokovic, beating 21-year-old Carlos Alcaraz 4-6-6-4-6-3-6-4 in 3 hours |
| 1:08.6 | and 37 minutes, David. |
| 1:12.5 | The absurd is correct, Catherine, I think, |
| 1:15.1 | because I thought I'd seen and heard and experienced |
| 1:20.1 | everything there was to see here and experience from Novak Djokovic |
| 1:24.3 | over the course of, you know, a 20-odd year career. |
| 1:28.3 | I thought when he won Olympic gold, there was really nothing else to be taken aback by |
| 1:33.9 | because I thought that that wouldn't happen given what we'd seen at Wimbledon. |
| 1:39.1 | And I thought that him winning against Carlos Alcraz over the best of five sets at a Grand Slam tournament |
| 1:46.7 | was not something I was ever going to see with him at 37 and Alcraz at 21. |
| 1:53.0 | And he's proved all of that wrong. |
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