Aus Open Day 12 - Major Keys stuns Swiatek
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Catherine, David and Matt recap an extraordinary women's semi-final night as Madison Keys stunned Iga Swiatek in a thriller to set up a final against Aryna Sabalenka.
Part one - Keys’ extraordinary win over Swiatek
Part two (from 25m46s) - Sabalenka finds her peak to beat Paula Badosa
Part three (from 43m37s) - Men’s semi finals preview
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billy Jean King. |
| 0:02.0 | This is Marion Bartotti. |
| 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. |
| 0:35.8 | Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast on day 12 of the Australian Open, where you find us in interview room two, actually, a very much quiet and abandoned interview room two. |
| 0:40.4 | It is 2.17amam and we don't care. |
| 0:47.6 | For once we don't care because we have just watched or finished watching a couple of hours ago. |
| 0:50.0 | The match of the tournament. A two hour 36 minute deciding tie-break win for Madison Keyes, saving matchpoint along the way to reach a second Grand Slam final and her first here in Australia. |
| 1:05.1 | All of it just a few weeks before her 30th birthday. |
| 1:09.6 | It was a thriller. |
| 1:12.6 | 57-61-7-6-8 in the deciding set tie break. |
| 1:18.7 | That tie break beginning at three minutes to midnight, |
| 1:21.8 | moments after Eagosventech failed to serve out the match at 6'5. |
| 1:33.6 | Madison Keyes choked and won anyway and Matt Roberts lost his mind a little bit. Yeah, it's going to be tough to do this podcast because I've actually |
| 1:41.1 | been speechless for the past couple of hours. I think I think Madison |
| 1:45.2 | Keyes actually said it best when she just wrote oh my god on the camera. That's kind of how I've been |
| 1:52.1 | feeling. She talked about blacking out during the match and I was I was relating to that as well. |
| 1:58.2 | Oh, it just had just had everything, didn't it? I mean, particularly the final set. |
| 2:04.1 | You know, stakes, drama, high quality, momentum swings, not knowing who's going to win it right |
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