Aus Open Day 8 - A dud of a day but the pod’s great, honest
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Day 8 didn’t live up to the heights of previous days, with no upsets and no epics. But with the quarter-final line-up complete, we still had lots to cover.
Has Jennifer Brady’s rise given Jessica Pegula belief? Why was Rafael Nadal vs. Fabio Fognini so disappointing? Will Matteo Berrettini’s withdrawal help or hinder Stefanos Tsitsipas? And is the lack of crowds benefitting Ash Barty?
The Tennis Podcast is presented by Catherine Whitaker and David Law, and features Matt Roberts. It is produced weekly year-round, and daily during the Grand Slam tournaments.
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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 |
| 0:10.8 | podcast. |
| 0:22.0 | Well folks, hello and welcome to our first week two Australian Open tennis podcast. The second |
| 0:27.5 | week has begun in earnest. The quarter final line-ups are officially set. David and Matt are with |
| 0:34.0 | me. David, how are you feeling? What are your levels of pumped? Oh, the right up there. Although |
| 0:39.8 | they've just taken a bit of a hit in the last hour or two because of the the curtailing of the |
| 0:45.4 | evening session, but I'm also slightly selfishly pleased as well. Just to have a bit of a bit of a |
| 0:52.3 | bit of a break before what is to come? Matt pumped levels, not related to full and beating ever |
| 1:02.4 | soon. Or maybe you can't disentangle the two. Exactly. Yeah, tennis-wise, probably as low as pumped |
| 1:11.0 | levels have been this tournament. That's beyond it. Are you surprised by David's pumped levels there? |
| 1:16.1 | I was a bit taken aback. You need somewhere to go from here, David. I'm never surprised by |
| 1:22.0 | David's pumped levels. Don't you worry, Catherine. I'm using, it's all A, it's kind of residual from |
| 1:29.6 | yesterday and it's also looking ahead to the future. You've got your nitrous oxide in reserve |
| 1:37.2 | ready to sing short E through to the quarter final stages. Okay. Correct. Because I would say |
| 1:43.9 | today was rather summed up by the sort of day that whoever was operating the fake crowd noise |
| 1:50.2 | which was a shocker. Erratic, I think the person operated it yesterday must have either hated |
| 1:59.3 | and just said, I'm not doing that again, or called in sick. Or I don't know, it can't have been |
| 2:04.8 | the same person because everybody was praising it is the best tennis fake crowd noise there had been |
| 2:12.3 | particularly given that they'd had no time to prep for that. This person was presumably called |
| 2:16.9 | last minute and just completely outdid themselves. Well, I don't know what happened today whether it |
| 2:24.0 | was bringing your daughter to work day or something. Yesterday it was Ash Barthier at the controls with |
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