Aus Open highlights, lowlights; Fed Cup fever; SIX Top 100 GB players
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2016
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
After running the podcast single-handed for a fortnight of the Australian Open, David Law is rejoined by TV's Catherine Whitaker to share notes about what went on in Melbourne.
Catherine reveals the tears that flowed in the Eurosport studios, her highlights and lowlights of the tournament, and her concern that it will take 'a Soderling moment' to provide a different Grand Slam male champion.
A fabulous Fed Cup weekend is reviewed, but is there something we can do to make the thing more easily understood?
We talk about Great Britain boasting six players in the singles Top 100 for the first time in three decades, and discuss Rafael Nadal, who has signed up to return to the Aegon Championships at The Queen's Club in June.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Layton Huett and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:12.8 | Jorkovich was able to put his feet up but for women's champion Angelique Kerber, |
| 0:16.4 | there was no rest for the wicked. |
| 0:17.8 | She was brought crashing down to earth by the Belinda Benchich, |
| 0:21.3 | a Switzerland reach the final four of the Fed Cup. |
| 0:24.4 | The Netherlands recorded one of the most stunning upsets in the competition's history, |
| 0:28.6 | and six of the eight matches in the top two groups would one by the away team. |
| 0:33.0 | Meanwhile, Britain got itself a new top 100 player and I, David Law, |
| 0:39.0 | got my podcast partner back. |
| 0:40.4 | Catherine Whittaker, TV Zone, Catherine Whittaker. |
| 0:43.2 | Hello, welcome back. How you doing? |
| 0:44.6 | Putnik's Change Centre is ready and waiting for you. |
| 0:47.6 | TV Zone, you've got the memo about how to introduce me now, |
| 0:50.8 | then. Yeah, it's a pleasure to be back. |
| 0:52.8 | Mostly a pleasure to be back in the Putnik's Change, |
| 0:55.6 | back where we belong, David. |
| 0:57.0 | Is that siren coming for you or is that something you said on your |
| 1:00.7 | sport that can't be repeated on the podcast? |
| 1:02.9 | Don't usually hear sirens in Putnik. It's usually such a genteel place, how unusual. |
| 1:08.3 | So we've had a lot going on since that you were last on the tennis podcast, |
| 1:12.8 | brought to you in association with the Telegraph, Catherine Whittaker. |
| 1:16.8 | For a start, I've had to do the whole thing single-handedly, |
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