Aus Open Day 10 - Tsitsipas conquers Nadal and Barty loses her way

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Wimbledon, Sports, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

What a day at the Australian Open: one that began with Ash Barty’s shock defeat to Karolina Muchova, and ended with Stefanos Tsitsipas' remarkable comeback against Rafael Nadal. We tried our best to put it all into words on the podcast.

How did Tsitsipas turn the match around? What happened to Nadal in the third set tiebreak and beyond? Why was Barty vs. Muchova so weird? What role did the medical timeout play in the match? Will this defeat leave scar tissue for Barty? What does it mean that Jennifer Brady has backed up her US Open run? And how did Daniil Medvedev display his dominance over Andrey Rublev?

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 Nguet. I'm Andy Murray. This is Janik Noah and you're listening to
0:10.0	the tennis podcast.
0:22.1	Well, how about day 10 of the 2021 Australian Open A? I hope this isn't too high-bubblest,
0:29.2	but a truly, I think, historic day in in Grand Slam and Australian Open history. Talk about
0:35.9	going out on a high for Batman with the fake crowds controls. He's out of the job tomorrow,
0:43.6	not because he's had a shocker of a few days, but because crowds will be returning to Melbourne Park
0:49.8	from Thursday, which is just such a wonderful thought. And it's a doubly wonderful thought that
0:58.0	after the day that we've had today and we're going to spend an hour waxing lyrical about it,
1:03.6	that there's still a way for tomorrow to be better. There's not that feeling of, oh, it's over.
1:09.5	I still feel like, wow, tomorrow is kind of guaranteed to be different, but wonderful.
1:17.5	Yeah. And just enriched by having people there, no matter what, isn't it?
1:23.0	Should say overnight, we had the breaking news that it isn't a person operating the fake crowd.
1:30.6	Do we trust this breaking news? I don't trust any of your breaking news anymore, David, after
1:38.8	is it run by a poll? After yesterday, we didn't even have time to come onto this yesterday,
1:45.8	but David started rumours of a wind predictor scandal by breaking the news on the BBC.
1:55.0	So I took it to be gospel, that the wind predictor, which you'll see at various points in
2:02.0	in matches flashed up on the screen in graphics, was not in fact based on a complicated and
2:10.4	finely tuned algorithm, but in fact based on the world's biggest poll vault.
2:16.8	This information had come to me by somebody who worked for ABC in Australia, so it must have
2:21.9	been true. Which is the equivalent of the BBC. Yeah. This is a lot of misinformation being spread
2:27.6	by supposedly reputable sources. Sorry, everybody. Anyway, David started a big poll vault rumour and it
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