Aus Open Day 8 - Dull day explodes into controversy

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Wimbledon, Sports, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Day 8 at the Australian Open will not go down in history as a classic Grand Slam day, but it ended in dramatic fashion with Novak Djokovic refusing to do an on court interview after a comment made by a Channel Nine reporter. Catherine, David and Matt discuss it all.

Part one - Women’s Results. Gauff and Sabalenka remain on a collision course, but can Badosa and Pavlyuchenkova trouble them? We discuss Gauff’s intriguing match against Bencic, Sabalenka’s demolition of Andreeva, and the knee injury suffered by Vekic which ended her match with Pavlyuchenkova as a contest.

Part two (from 28m10s) - Men’s Results. Djokovic refuses to do on court interview and explains his reasons in extraordinary press conference. Plus, let the hype begin for Djokovic vs Alcaraz! We discuss how they both got here, what might happen in the match, all the drama involving Djokovic, as well as wins for Paul and Zverev.

Part three (from 61m20s) - Day 9 Order of Play.

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1:36.8	Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast on day eight of the Australian Open here in Melbourne, where it has been an absolute scorcher today. We come to you in part one, five minutes before 7pm, so the night session shortly to get underway.
1:43.3	We are in the lobby of the media centre with
1:45.7	glorious air conditioning and we'll be covering the night session and all of the men's matches in
1:52.0	parts two and three we're able to cover the women's matches in part one today because the schedule
1:58.6	has put all of the women's matches on first, followed by
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