Australian Open 2019 – Draw Dissection & Predictions
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
With less than 24 hours to go until the start of the 2019 Australian Open, the time has come for David Law, Catherine Whitaker and Grad Matt to dissect the draws and make their predictions.
There are some potentially dangerous players in Djokovic’s section, but will any of them actually stop him? How will Nadal’s body hold up? And will Zverev reach a Grand Slam semi-final for the first time?
On the women’s side, the consensus is that Simona Halep’s draw is as tough as it gets. How will she cope with it? Will the dream quarter-final of Sabalenka against Barty actually happen? And how will Naomi Osaka deal with the new pressure that comes with being a Grand Slam champion?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Andy Murray and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:14.7 | One more sleep to go until the Australian Open for 2019 gets underway and yes, |
| 0:20.5 | we are going to talk about the actual tennis and the matches and the tournament to come, |
| 0:25.6 | rather than politics, rather than just Andy Murray, although he's going to come up as well, |
| 0:29.5 | I suspect as well, but we've had press conferences today, we've had Roger Federer |
| 0:33.5 | into the interview room, we've had Carolyn, wasn't he Akki in as well? |
| 0:38.0 | Most importantly though, we've got Catherine Whitaker here, hello Catherine, how are you? |
| 0:41.8 | Hello David. And we have got Grad Matt for the first time ever in Melbourne, he's here, |
| 0:48.0 | hello Matt. Hello, I made it. You made it. What do you think? It's great as far. |
| 0:55.0 | He thinks the flight is long. Yes, yes. Who'd have thought it? |
| 0:58.5 | You know how tennis players talk about five set matches and going through ups and downs, |
| 1:02.9 | I was like that on the flight. There were moments where I thought, how much do I like tennis? |
| 1:08.1 | But now it was great to finally get here and so come these first two days, it's better today. |
| 1:14.1 | I was greeted on arrival at Melbourne Park on KIDS Day and thousands and thousands of screaming |
| 1:20.4 | children was my introduction and today it's been very quiet and very nice. Matt and I, |
| 1:25.6 | we're talking about that yesterday, I couldn't be more pro KIDS Day, I think it's the most wonderful |
| 1:30.7 | thing. I'll jump in front of a bus for KIDS Day, I just don't ever want to be anywhere near it, |
| 1:37.6 | it's involved in it. I'm actually in a new way. One of the kids. |
| 1:41.6 | Paul Marys-David was trying to get his photos taken with saxophone Sam. I love KIDS Day, |
| 1:46.1 | so much fun. Yeah, there's walking Lego pieces, it's so cool. Anyway, for those of you that have |
| 1:52.7 | just started listening to the tennis podcast here at the Australian Open and there are many of you, |
| 1:56.5 | I know that lots of people have only just discovered our show over the last couple of days and |
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