Aus Open Day 11 - Halep Wins Instant Classic To Set Up Winner-Take-All Clash With Wozniacki; Edmund Journey Ends; Federer vs. Chung preview
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Moment after Kyle Edmund’s Australian Open odyssey ended at the hands of Marin Cilic, Catherine Whitaker (Eurosport), David Law (BBC 5 Live) and Simon Briggs (Telegraph) got together in the media cafe to talk over where the match was won and lost.
Could he have done anything differently? How big a factor was the injury he apparently sustained? And will Cilic be able to go all the way in the final?
Earlier in the day, Simona Halep saved match points for a second time in a week to reach the final. She will face another player that saved match points along the way - Caroline Wozniacki.
Halep’s match with Angelique Kerber went from damp squib to instant classic in a sensational 9-7 third set, and meant that Catherine Whitaker did not have to follow through with her threat to ‘sue the tennis gods’ if another match didn’t live up to expectations.
Where does the Halep vs. Kerber third set rank among the all-time greats? What did the players say afterwards that so uplifted the podcast team? And how surprising was it that Wozniacki revealed she had been suffering with nerves as she closed in on a semifinal victory against Elise Martens?
The women’s final will now feature Halep vs. Wozniack, with one of them crowned a Grand Slam champion for the first time. It will also decide the World No.1 ranking.
On Friday, the second men’s semifinal - Roger Federer vs. Hyeon Chung - will be live on Eurosport, with coverage starting at 8am UK time. Both Whitaker and Law think it will be a lot closer than most people seem to expect.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McInerick. I'm Bjorn Borg. This is Martina Navratlova. I'm Matt Vylander. I'm |
| 0:05.2 | Stan Ravinka. I'm Lainey Njut. I'm Andy Murray. And you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | Well hello and welcome to the tennis podcast brought to you in association with the |
| 0:24.2 | telegraph represented by Simon Briggs across the table from me and Eurosporz represented by Catherine |
| 0:31.1 | Wittigat who is sitting in front of a little glass of wine and I'm having a sandwich and the |
| 0:36.0 | reason we're doing all of this is because the tennis is over for the day. On semi-finals day or at |
| 0:40.9 | least three of the semi-finals have come and gone and they have resulted in Simone Hallebb winning |
| 0:46.8 | an epic and extraordinary match in which match points were saved on either side against Anjali |
| 0:53.6 | Kerber and Caroline Wasney. Accu struta her first ever final the Australian open and we've just had |
| 0:59.6 | Kyle Edmund against Marin Chilich and it ended with a straight-sets win for Marin Chilich and so |
| 1:04.8 | we're going to talk about all this with Catherine and Simon. But what did you make of the performance |
| 1:12.3 | of Kyle Edmund today? He had a tie break in the second set but got injured pretty early on in |
| 1:18.8 | the tie thoughts. Yeah well I think we are waiting in fact we just had an announcement to say he's |
| 1:23.6 | going to be a little bit delayed coming into person I think until we've heard from him and heard |
| 1:28.6 | him explain how amputty was physically it's difficult to know I mean there's no doubt he didn't |
| 1:37.6 | play well tonight he didn't lay an egg it's what the expression that John McIner used in our |
| 1:44.3 | preview piece with him live on Eurusport John McIner used to say he said he's just going to make |
| 1:50.4 | sure he doesn't go out and lay an egg out there which I think means you know disgrace yourself. |
| 1:54.9 | I don't show up. I don't think that happened I just don't think he played particularly well |
| 2:01.2 | he wasn't able to put the venom on his forehand which is necessary for him to have a chance in |
| 2:06.4 | matches like this and he wasn't able to move quite as well as usual particularly |
| 2:14.0 | yeah after I don't was it the end of the first set when he seemed to drop off considerably physically but |
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