Aus Open - Inside The One Point Slam
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Catherine, David and Matt are together in Melbourne for the Australian Open and we start our coverage Down Under by reacting to the One Point Slam which we all attended on the Rod Laver Arena on Wednesday night.
We discuss how the event differed from last year’s, the parts that worked and the parts that didn’t, the glorious journeys of eventual champion Jordan Smith and breakout star Joanna Garland, and whether Roland Garros will follow suit or go down the Mixed Doubles route.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello and welcome to Melbourne Park, Garden Square, to be precise, and a beautiful Melbourne evening. |
| 0:19.7 | It is 11pm. |
| 0:21.2 | And this is the first of 19 daily podcasts from the 2026 Australian Open. |
| 0:28.6 | And it's a bit of a bonus pod from us, this one, |
| 0:31.9 | because the serious stuff gets underway tomorrow. |
| 0:34.9 | That's when the draw is happening. |
| 0:36.8 | Media Day is Friday. and we'll be back |
| 0:39.1 | with pods after all of that and a final hype show on Saturday ahead of the main draw getting |
| 0:46.1 | underway on Sunday. But tonight is all about the one point slam. The event's second edition, although frankly, in many ways, it felt like an inaugural event |
| 0:59.3 | tonight because it has been sexed up to the max, folks. |
| 1:03.8 | Full TV production, sellout Rod Laver Arena crowd, and most of the world's top tennis players. |
| 1:10.5 | And yet, the winner of the one million dollar prize was 29-year-old Jordan Smith, |
| 1:19.1 | an amateur tennis coach from New South Wales. |
| 1:23.0 | En route to victory, he beat Yanik Sinner, sort of, |
| 1:31.1 | Amanda Munoza and Pedro Martinez, |
| 1:36.0 | before in the final, scoring a win over the iconic, |
| 1:40.9 | the breakout star, more on her later, Joanna Garland. |
| 1:45.9 | David, first of all, congratulations on still being awake. I think you've slept for four of the last 48 hours. Yeah, that's about right. How was your one-point slam experience? |
| 1:53.6 | Well, I think the only word that I disagreed with you in the entire intro there was not |
| 2:00.0 | describing this as the serious stuff because this kind of felt |
| 2:04.0 | pretty serious in the end of it's fun but my word was it a big high profile glitzy event with |
| 2:12.6 | actually you know some serious stakes for the ones at the end who ended up in the final, |
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