Aus Open Day 9 - Kyle Edmund: Grand Slam Semifinalist; Injured Nadal Downed By Cilic; Mertens Makes Semis; Catherine Whitaker’s BEST DAY EVER!
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In 2010, Andy Murray went through to the semifinals of the Australian Open for the first time when Rafael Nadal retired with injury. His opponent in the final four was Marin Cilic. He then met Roger Federer in the final.
Eight years on, Nadal retired with injury from a Grand Slam match for only the second time in his career. It was also at the Australian Open, and the result is that a British player will once again be playing against Marin Cilic for a place in the final, and Roger Federer might again be waiting. This time though, Murray is at home recovering from hip surgery, and the name on everyone’s lips is Kyle Edmund.
After a tumultuous day of tennis, presenters Catherine Whitaker and David Law, who are in Melbourne for Eurosport and BBC Radio 5 Live respectively, sat down with Telegraph tennis correspondent Simon Briggs to try to make sense of what they had seen.
Will Edmund go another step and reach the final? What do the team think will happen between Madison Keys and Angelique Kerber, and Simona Halep and Karolina Pliskova on Wednesday?
Will Tomas Berdych be able to turn his rivalry against Roger Federer around? And why is everyone so angry at Tennys Sandgren, who takes on Hyeon Chung for a place in the semis? All explained on the latest Tennis Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McEnore. I'm Bjorn Borg. |
| 0:02.2 | This is Martina Navratlova. I'm Matt Vylander. |
| 0:04.9 | I'm San Roenka. I'm Lighten Ewitt. I'm Andy Murray. |
| 0:07.6 | And you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:19.9 | Well, hello, welcome to the tennis podcast, brought to you in association with the |
| 0:24.0 | Telegraph and with Eurosport on a night when Kyle Edmond has reached a grand slam semi-final. |
| 0:32.8 | I feel like I need to say that twice Simon Briggs because I mean, I think I said it about four times |
| 0:39.5 | to Leon Smith and he's every time I did it in commentary. He looked at me as though I was mad at, |
| 0:45.6 | you know, it just doesn't sound realistic. It's incredible what's happened, isn't it? |
| 0:49.7 | Well, I've put in a request to the ATB for the last time anybody ranks number 49 or lower. |
| 0:56.0 | God, that's semi-final. Do you know the answer to that? I'm still trying to figure that one out. |
| 0:59.7 | No, I really don't know. |
| 1:01.5 | And let's say he got past chillic just for a minute. |
| 1:07.6 | Then we'll be talking about Martin Vercurk, 2003 French Open as the nearest point of comparison. |
| 1:12.4 | There would just be sort of like you've been hit not twice by lightning, about 17 times. |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah, it is that unlikely. Now the story is you will know this now by the time you're listening |
| 1:25.6 | to us that not only is Kyle Edmond through into the semi-finals of the Australian Open, he's not |
| 1:31.5 | going to be facing Raffa and the Dow because as you've just heard, Raffa and the Dow is on his way |
| 1:38.8 | into the interview room at 11.30 at night and the reason he's on his way in a little prematurely |
| 1:46.2 | is because he got injured during his match against Marin Chilicius now and it was a pulsating |
| 1:52.0 | match in parts. He went two sets to one up. It looked at that stage really simon as if Nadal |
| 1:58.3 | probably was going to get the job done, didn't it? And you're not so sure? |
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