Aus Open Day 5 - What led to Osaka aggro?

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports & Recreation, Wimbledon, Sports, Tennis

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Catherine, David and Matt are together to look back on Stan Wawrinka’s epic victory and a day with some aggro as well as the first big upset in the women’s draw.

Part one - Men’s results. We discuss Wawrinka stealing the show by winning a fifth set tiebreak against Arthur Gea, another comfortable day for Novak Djokovic, a somewhat surprising loss for Hubert Hurkacz, a sad Stefanos Tsitsipas scene, and an intriguing clash between Ben Shelton and Valentin Vacherot to come.

Part two (34:23) - Women’s results. We cover the aggro between Naomi Osaka and Sorana Cirstea and all the fallout in the press conferences, an astonishing performance from 19-year-old Czech Nikola Bartunkova to beat Belinda Bencic, and the smooth progress of the rest of the top seeds.

Part three (54:04) - How Maddison Inglis withstood the Laura Siegemund show to win Sensation of the Day.

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0:00.0	Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast on day five of the Australian Open recording at around about 11.30pm in the media centre's Creator Lounge, just like the young relevant content creators that we are.
0:26.5	And yet, today feels like it was all about the millennials, the remnants of the golden generation,
0:34.6	the players trying to hold on for dear life to the sport they love
0:39.1	and who they are when they get to play it and taste victory.
0:43.8	And nobody epitomises that more than 40-year-old Stan Wurinka,
0:50.5	who has completely stolen the show at Melbourne Park today.
0:55.1	Two weeks ago, it was rumoured that he would be denied a wild card to play the Australian Open one last time.
1:02.7	And now here he is into the third round of the tournament he won back in 2014 after a four-hour and 33-minute win over a 21-year-old in the Twilight on the Kia Arena, a one-man demolition job on my wild cards and nonsense agenda.
1:25.6	And I'm prepared to be magnanimous about it.
1:28.8	And thank you, Nick Kierios, for giving up your spot.
1:34.7	It's been a special day, hasn't it?
1:37.6	Yeah, it has.
1:38.8	And he not only had a moment where he got to feel the love of the crowd again, but to come out
1:47.0	victorious, over the distance in proper trademark Stanver and Castile was as much as he could ask
1:57.0	for and hope for, I think. I think he set up a third round clash with Taylor Fritz,
2:01.7	which I would expect that's probably where it'll end for him. But to be able to go toe-to-to-to-to-
2:07.6	like that, those are the sort of matches, I think, when you look back on his career, there'll be
2:12.7	some matches where the spectacular shot-making will stand stand out like the Novak Chokovic
2:20.8	final at Roland Garros and the matches he played against Chokovic here. But I think also
2:26.7	his incredible, it came up in the press comments, his incredible five-set record over the years.
2:32.2	You know, he was one of those players that actually got better when he played at Grand Slams
2:37.5	than on the regular run-of-the-mill tour because he played better over the distance.
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