Aus Open Day 4 - Electric night follows rainy day; Osaka rolls back the years

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Wimbledon, Sports, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Day four began in thrilling fashion with dramatic matches galore, then became very wet and windy, and finally finished with a feverish atmosphere around the grounds as fans made up for lost time. Catherine, David and Matt react to all the fun.

Part one - Women's results. Zheng beaten by Siegemund, Osaka gets revenge on Muchova, Sabalenka and Gauff both win through without their best tennis.

Part two (from 31m50s) - Men's results. Djokovic looks vulnerable again, Machac survives Opelka test, Mensik gets in on the Next Gen Party by beating Ruud, David soaks up vibes around Melbourne Park.

Part three (from 63m) - Sensation of the Day and Day 4 Order of Play.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Billy Jean King.
0:02.0	This is Marian 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.
0:32.3	Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast, where it is a little after midnight here at tennis podcast, Towers, Melbourne, on day four of the Australian Open.
0:35.8	And it has been one of those nights. After actually quite a disrupted day with a fair bit of rain and a lot of flatness,
0:40.4	the night just somehow ignited.
0:43.4	A night where Donovic was cheered on by absolutely raucous Croatian fans out on
0:49.5	court number 14 to victory over Britain's Harriet Dart, a night where Alejandro
0:56.7	Davidovich Fekina and Felix Auger Elyssim had to move courts mid-match because the noise
1:03.6	bleed from the French fans on an adjacent court supporting Artikazo, who eventually lost to
1:10.4	Jacob Fernley.
1:12.4	The noise bleed from that was so great that Davidovich Fekina and all J.LIC
1:17.6	moved courts to get away from it, a night when Jack Draper has come back from the
1:24.0	jaws of defeat against the Narsi Cochinarchis, cheered on by his own raucous Australian fans
1:31.7	with multiple kangaroo inflatables on the John Kane Arena.
1:36.4	He has come back to reach the third round of the Australian Open for the first time.
1:42.1	It's been a special night in Melbourne, David.
1:45.1	Yeah, I mean, we haven't even mentioned Hadi, Habib from Lebanon, who I went and watched
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