Aus Open Day 13 - Djokovic hits wall, Sinner cramp question mark, Sabalenka-Keys preview
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Catherine, David and Matt wrap up men’s semi-finals day as Jannik Sinner and Alexander Zverev booked a Sunday showdown.
Part one - Djokovic retires against Zverev, what does the future hold for him?
Part two (from 19m36s) - Sinner overcomes Shelton…and cramps
Part three (from 35m46s) - Results round up and Sabalenka vs Keys final preview
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billy Jean King. |
| 0:02.0 | This is Marion Bartoddy. |
| 0:03.2 | This is Bianca Andrescu. |
| 0:04.7 | I'm Matt Vlander. |
| 0:05.8 | This is Mary Carrillo. |
| 0:06.9 | This is Pam Schreiber. |
| 0:08.0 | This is Janik Noah. |
| 0:09.1 | Hi, this is Vickram in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:11.4 | And you're listening to the tennis podcast on day 13 of the Australian Open, introduced beautifully there by Vickram in Washington, D.C. What are we? Washington, D.C. has had. Hope you're okay, Vickram. We come to you at four minutes past five in the afternoon. Myself, D.C. has had. Hope you're okay. Vikram. We come to you at four minutes past five in the afternoon. |
| 0:41.1 | Myself, David and Matt, we are in our media lobby area. And we're recording this part one an awful lot earlier than we expected to be because we have just watched Novak Djokovic retiring after losing the first set, |
| 0:56.0 | a one hour, 21 minute first set to Alexander Zaverev on a tie break. |
| 1:01.9 | He was booed off court. |
| 1:03.4 | Zveriev then chastised the crowd for doing that. |
| 1:07.2 | We've just seen Novat Jokovic in press and heard everything that he has to say, |
| 1:12.6 | look, even though we all knew this was one possible scenario after the physical state that he was in |
| 1:19.4 | after his victory over Carlos Alcoraz the other night, |
| 1:22.1 | because it's Novak Djokovic and because we've seen him fight through so much adversity, physical and mental and |
| 1:29.3 | and TJ related and otherwise, it's still really shocking, David, to have seen that this |
| 1:38.0 | afternoon and to be reeling from it. |
| 1:41.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:41.8 | You can't know when you come into a match like this how physically impeded he's |
| 1:48.1 | going to be. We only have what we've seen a couple of nights ago against Carlos Alcraf and what |
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