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The Tennis Podcast

Aus Open – Draw Dissection and Predictions

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports, Wimbledon, Sports & Recreation, Tennis

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

David and Matt sit down to dissect the draws and make their predictions for the 2020 Australian Open, with a few surprising choices and disagreements along the way. Will Serena Williams finally claim No.24? And is this the moment that the Big 3’s Grand Slam dominance will be broken? 

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm John McEnroy, I'm Bjorn Borg.

0:02.3

This is Martina Navratelova, I'm Matt Vylander, this is Mary Carrillo, I'm Stan Roenka, I'm

0:07.2

like Newt, I'm Andy Murray, and you're listening to the tennis podcast.

0:21.4

And if you would like your name included alongside those wonderful figures from the world of tennis,

0:26.8

you can do so, although you've got a matter of hours in order to do so. We'll have many, many other

0:32.2

tennis podcast listeners included in our intros over the next few months because more than 30 people

0:37.2

have signed up for intros in our Kickstarter. And yeah, I think we've got about 12 to 16 hours

0:42.7

or whatever it is left before the thing closes as we come to you from Melbourne right now.

0:48.0

So if you want about the tennis podcast, we've already hit our target, but it'll all go into the

0:53.0

pay for our beers, pay for our cheese and help us to do more with the show and we're hugely

0:58.5

appreciative of everybody that has been out to so far. So thank you. Matt, we sit here on Sunday.

1:04.9

In Garden Square again, third day in a row, however, we are looking up at the sky at the moment.

1:10.3

I should say no smoke issues in terms of air quality at the moment, but looking up into the sky,

1:17.1

it is a really dark shade of gray up ahead of us. It's brighter behind, but the air is heavy

1:25.2

and all of the little emojis on the weather forecast have got little sort of lightning.

1:30.1

Lightning bolts. Yes. Yes, we are here only in the name of potentially good radio with a

1:37.5

downpour imminent and we will have to scarper. Yeah, most people are saying I tell you what,

1:42.9

let's record whatever we're doing inside because it might rain. I sort of went the other way.

1:47.5

Yeah, David said hopefully it rained on. Hopefully we get a thunderstorm. That was sound great.

1:53.2

So here we are. We've been into more press conferences today. There have only been a couple of

1:58.8

additional ones because today it was Novak Djokovic and Ash Barty and there were a few others that came

2:04.8

in. I had a good chat incidentally, which we might try and get into tomorrow's show if we can.

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