Aus Open Day 4 - Kenin conquered, Nadal heckled, Italian aggro

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Wimbledon, Sports, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

After the joy of Wednesday’s atmosphere at Melbourne Park, Day 4 at the Australian Open had a tough act to follow, but it certainly delivered drama.

Why was it not surprising that defending champion Sofia Kenin lost? How did Stefanos Tsitsipas find himself in a five set battle with Thanasi Kokkinakis? Should we be talking about Karolina Pliskova as a title contender? Is Jennifer Brady in the mix now? How did Rafael Nadal react to being given the middle finger by a fan? And what on earth was the post-match aggro between Fabio Fognini and Salvatore Caruso all about?

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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 Hutt. I'm Andy Murray. This is Janik Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:11.4	So hello folks and welcome along to the day four Australian Open tennis podcast. Matt and David are with me lots of fun happenings to discuss.
0:34.0	But frankly, all of it is all derves relative to the main course that is the Italian Rau between Fabio Fennini and Salvatore Garuso.
0:44.5	Just let me know David how far into this podcast it's acceptable for me to read the translated transcript of that Rau.
0:53.6	How much tennis do we have to talk about before I can get into that?
0:58.0	You see, I've just gone from thinking I'll just read it to actually tell you why let's put that at the end.
1:03.2	That'll keep a list of you. I won't be able to hang on till the end. But we'll try and talk about some important tennis stories before I just burst and start reading the transcript.
1:18.1	How was your night and morning Matt?
1:20.4	Yeah, today went from the sublime to the ridiculous very quickly. Yesterday was amazing. Today was just a lot of fun.
1:30.8	I mean, you've mentioned the Italian gestural rant. We haven't even talked about the woman in the crowd giving the dull the middle finger, which was probably my highlight of the day.
1:42.4	I mean, I cannot believe those words have just come out of my mouth. Amazing.
1:47.4	Yeah, it's just get removed from the stadium. If anybody's not aware of that happening, Nadal had to pause his service game while his own personal heckler got removed from the stadium.
2:03.9	And if she refused to move and in the end, he just went up to the environment goes, I was just carrying on.
2:09.2	And in his press conference afterwards, he was very funny about it. And he said, I assume she was drinking journal to Keela.
2:15.9	Oh, both.
2:19.1	Several times.
2:21.1	Yes. So, yeah, we'll be covering all of the ridiculous, some of the sublime. And I'll make sure we've got a good 15 minute portion of the podcast in which to cover the great Italian job.
2:36.8	But should we start? Should we just start with the start with the exit of the defending women's champion, Sophia Kennen?
2:46.2	She's out. She lost six, three, six, two to Kayek Nepe. That's a 13th top 10 win for Kinepe and an eighth in a slam.
2:55.7	And look, anybody, anybody can lose to Kayek Nepe. Those stats say that.
3:03.2	There was a really interesting line from Darren Kayek, a little bit of ESPN coverage.
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