Aus Open - The draw, the vibe, but where's Catherine?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
David and Matt have made it to Melbourne! For now, with Catherine still in the U.K. as she recovers from her eye infection, they are joined by The Telegraph’s Simon Briggs to discuss the controversial build-up to this year’s Australian Open. Simon has been down under for a few weeks, and he gives the lowdown on how he thinks the ATP Cup might affect players, the criticism faced by Tennis Australia as qualifying went ahead in spite of the poor air quality, the main talking points from Thursday's draw ceremony, and the injuries affecting a number of British players.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McEnroe, I'm Bjorn Boy. |
| 0:02.3 | This is Martina Navratlova, I'm Matt Svillander, this is Mary Carrillo. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Stan Roenka, I'm Lighten Ewitt, I'm Andy Marri, I'm Drew Sellers, I'm David Kemp, |
| 0:11.0 | and you're listening to the Tennis Podcast. |
| 0:24.0 | Thank you to Drew and David who backed us in our Kickstarter of last year, |
| 0:28.4 | giving the gift of the tennis podcast part of which was to introduce one of our shows, |
| 0:33.6 | and you can still do so for a couple of days yet. |
| 0:36.1 | The 2020 Kickstarter is still running, it's nearly over, we have reached our target, |
| 0:41.5 | but any additional funds you want to check our way, we'll be going on cheese and beers and |
| 0:46.5 | Matt's hot drinks. Simon, what are you like having? Beer wine? |
| 0:50.6 | Well, probably a slap up for five calls for me, or that's all right, beer or you? |
| 0:54.4 | Yeah, that'll sell it to the listeners. |
| 0:56.0 | Simon Briggs is here, everybody, thankfully, I'm happy to say here in Melbourne, |
| 1:00.3 | because we have mostly arrived two out of the three of the core team here, |
| 1:06.2 | Matt Roberts is here, hello, Matt. Hello, David. |
| 1:08.4 | And Simon Briggs is here. |
| 1:10.2 | Greetings, nice to be here, rather than on some dubious electronic phone line, |
| 1:15.6 | where your voice gets faster and slower. |
| 1:17.6 | Yes, that's right. We'll talk to Simon about his time spent here very soon, |
| 1:22.7 | but as I mentioned, only two out of the three of the regular tennis podcast team here at the moment, |
| 1:29.1 | and that's because Catherine Whitaker, who was telling you all about how she was going to share a |
| 1:33.2 | plane with me for the first time and recline onto my knees in the seat in front of me. |
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