Aus Open Finals - Djokovic Joins Laver, Borg; Serena Shocked By Kerber; Jamie Murray Ends 82-year wait
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2016
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Novak Djokovic made it Grand Slam title No.11 to draw level with Rod Laver and Bjorn Borg, and afterwards Simon Briggs of the Telegraph and Sports Illustrated's Jon Wertheim joined David Law to talk about it.
It was straight sets for Djokovic over Murray, but not straightforward, and the trio discussed whether Boris Becker or Ivan Lendl were the biggest reasons for the shift in power in the Djokovic/Murray rivalry.
Meanwhile, after Angelique Kerber made her dreams come true by winning her first major title, the podcast team assess the state of mind of Serena Williams.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi I'm Layton Huett and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:12.8 | Grand Slam singles title number 11 for Novak Djokovic. |
| 0:15.8 | As he draws level with Rod Lava and Bjorn Borg on 11 Grand Slam singles title. |
| 0:21.6 | Heartbreak for Andy Murray yet again, Deja Vu, five finals and all of them. |
| 0:27.3 | He's been defeated in them but Novak Djokovic six Australian open titles |
| 0:32.2 | and myself David Law and Simon Briggs have been watching and here we are on the telegraphs |
| 0:37.3 | tennis podcast joined by a special guest today in John Werthheim of Sports Illustrated |
| 0:43.3 | and Simon Briggs though I'm sure we've been here before. |
| 0:47.2 | Yeah it's not quite as one-sided as the 2011 final but it wasn't as good probably as the two |
| 0:52.8 | others that they've played because once Andy went down in the first set you know that Novak is |
| 0:58.7 | the ultimate front runner these days and once he's got a grip on the match |
| 1:04.1 | you have to be some sort of divine conflation of Federer, Lava, Becker I don't know what's |
| 1:11.9 | really ingredient to it take to come back after losing the first set to the Djokovic one of |
| 1:16.0 | these finals and win. I actually heard John somebody say to me the other day it's only Andy Murray |
| 1:22.1 | ahead got like Rafferndel's forehand and Pete San Francisco he might be out of beat Novak Djokovic |
| 1:28.0 | I mean that is what it feels like it takes now. I think everyone's trying to figure out what it |
| 1:33.8 | takes to beat this guy. He neutralizes pace he goes from defense to offense he doesn't miss he serves |
| 1:40.8 | well I think Andy has some matchup problems here but I think as Simon said getting off to a fast |
| 1:46.7 | start we saw that the women's final last night you rock the champion a little bit in the early rounds |
| 1:51.3 | that could have been helpful that did not happen Andy went 22 minutes before he won his first game |
| 1:57.8 | and after that Djokovic such a strong front runner rolled away after that. What I don't understand |
| 2:02.8 | John is you say that Andy Murray has some matchup problems against Novak Djokovic and yet he beat |
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