Aus Open Media Day - Alcaraz faces Ferrero questioning
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Catherine and Matt and are joined by The Athletic’s Matt Futterman to discuss the major talking points from media day, where the vibes were mostly very good.
There’s chat about Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek going for the career Grand Slam, the confidence of Aryna Sabalenka and Jannik Sinner, tales from some of the smaller interview rooms, Coco Gauff’s search for consistency, and a call out from Amanda Anisimova.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Melbourne Park and Australian Open Media Day, |
| 0:16.2 | the day when the world's top tennis players are brought through the media conveyor belt of TV interviews, |
| 0:23.8 | social media funnies, press conferences, one-on-one interviews and huddles. |
| 0:30.9 | More on those later. |
| 0:32.8 | It is a slightly chaotic day at any grand slam. |
| 0:37.3 | For Matt, it's a bit of a come-down day because it always |
| 0:40.9 | follows the day after the draw. Matt, are you bouncing back? I am, you know. There usually is only |
| 0:49.5 | one way to go after draw day, but today has been great and I've had yeah I've had a sort of |
| 0:58.3 | happy slam vibes today I started my day with tennis spoke to Jasmine Paolini she's |
| 1:05.2 | always a good vibe and yeah had a fun fun moment in the middle of the day as well |
| 1:10.8 | which I'm sure we'll talk about. |
| 1:12.7 | Excellent tease, Matt. Excellent stuff. David has been asked to join Team Medvedev as a hype man. |
| 1:19.3 | So no David on today's show. Don't worry, he'll be back tomorrow for our Australian Open hype show. |
| 1:24.9 | Today we have the company of the man who claims to have the cure for jet lag. |
| 1:29.4 | It's Matt Futterman. Thanks for having me. And yeah, I think I think I'm a jet lag black belt at this point. |
| 1:37.9 | I really like it's, there's like two things I can do in life. And one is conquer jet lag and the other is parallel park. |
| 1:47.0 | I think you probably need to share with the class what you think are the jetlake kids, because I think the cure for jet lag is drugs. |
| 1:55.3 | Well, I do use drugs, and maybe that eliminates me from the jet lag Olympics I would I would fail the |
| 2:04.4 | doping test if drugs were not allowed then I would yeah then I can't compete same but |
| 2:12.3 | let's assume that drugs are allowed in and you know look the whole key is you got to get on the time of the place |
| 2:23.4 | you're going as soon as the wheels lift off the ground and like let's do whatever you can do |
| 2:32.1 | to sleep on a long flight during the night of the place where you're going. |
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