Aus Open - Draw Dissection

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Wimbledon, Sports, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

After a 24-hour stoppage with everyone holding their breath, tennis returned again in Melbourne with all six Australian Open warm up tournaments now hurtling towards the finish line.

In the first half of the show we discuss the possible motivation behind the large number of retirements and walkovers, assess how concerned we are about Simona Halep and Rafael Nadal’s physical state, marvel at Garbine Muguruza’s form, and cover Dan Evans’ run to the semi-final of the Murray River Open.

Then, it’s time to break down the Australian Open draws. What makes the bottom half of the women’s draw so mouthwatering? And in what way does the men’s one look more balanced overall?

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 Bartolí. I'm Matt Vylander. This is Mary Carillo.
0:05.2	I'm Stan Roenka. I'm Lainey Stewart. I'm Andy Murray. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening
0:09.9	to the tennis podcast.
0:22.1	Well, tennis is back and so is the tennis podcast not only for the second time in two days,
0:27.9	but actually for the second time in one day because full disclosure, this is our second time
0:34.2	recording this particular podcast because of a technological malfunction
0:42.1	for whose blame there is no need to be specific about where blame lies. I don't think.
0:51.6	No, I'd agree. I mean, it wasn't Catherine's recorder that just broke down completely wiped out
0:57.2	an hour's worth of podcasts at all. And yeah, so here we are. Let's do it all again.
1:04.3	Nobody will know any different. David has gone from crust fall and to pumped in record time.
1:11.5	This is a really different David Law to the one that we were experiencing about two and a half
1:18.6	hours ago. Action faced. It's like you're turning around on Jennifer Brady from
1:25.5	Middling America not having a good run in a pandemic to world beta going to win everything.
1:34.0	Yeah, you're saying our flip flop, which is true, but I like to look at it as I'm able to make
1:43.3	a comeback. That's what it is. I've never been more grateful for pumped David Law than right now.
1:49.6	Not because I'm to blame for the function. Not for that reason.
1:54.8	Well, David's drawing on experience. David has been in this situation before and re-recorded
2:01.6	a podcast that he's recorded. This is my first time doing that. I think so. I think so.
2:08.3	Don't think we've had any technical errors in the last couple of years.
2:13.2	David and I once had to re-record a podcast twice. And I'm trying to remember, David,
2:19.3	whether we confessed to that at the time. Yeah, I think so.
2:25.2	That time it was my recorder that went a while. And actually, we did it twice and we didn't have
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