Australian Open Day 1 - Murray Rolls Back Years In Glorious Defeat - Perfect Goodbye, Or A Stepping Stone To Wimbledon?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
We thought we’d seen it all from Andy Murray, but in what could be his final ever match, he left us spellbound once more.
On The Tennis Podcast, David Law and Catherine Whitaker discuss one of the most extraordinary opening days in Grand Slam history, as Murray produced a rousing comeback in a match of unrivalled poignancy and significance. It wasn’t quite enough for him to beat Roberto Bautista-Agut, but it provided hours of compelling drama. What were David and Catherine feeling as they watched Murray look like Murray again?
They also consider his possible next steps. Have we really seen the last of Murray? What was he like in press? Was this match the perfect send off?
It was a day of mixed fortunes for the other six Brits in action. Harriet Dart lost 0-6, 0-6 to Maria Sharapova. Was that a harsh scoreline or did it reflect the match? Since when has Katie Boulter been capable of the gritty, aggressive tennis that saw her beat Ekaterina Makarova? And what about Dan Evans? Catherine’s description of his victory over Tatsuma Ito is not to be missed.
There’s also excitement over wins for Stefanos Tsitsipas and Maria Sakkari, an analysis of Rafael Nadal’s performance, and David discovers the day’s handshake controversy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McEnore. |
| 0:01.4 | I'm Bjorn Borg. |
| 0:02.2 | This is Martina Navratlova. |
| 0:03.8 | I'm Matt Vylander. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Stan Roenka. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Lighten Huat. |
| 0:06.8 | I'm Andy Murray. |
| 0:07.7 | And you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.4 | Well, we might just have witnessed the end of Handy Murray's career. |
| 0:23.4 | We might not have done it. |
| 0:25.5 | Classic Andy Murray. |
| 0:27.0 | But what we do know is we've seen classic Andy Murray over the last four hours, |
| 0:32.3 | Catherine. |
| 0:33.5 | This is the tennis podcast if you hadn't already guessed it. |
| 0:36.0 | We are here after just an amazing night here at the Australian Open. |
| 0:41.8 | It's only day one, but it's our fourth tennis podcast brought to you an association with the telegraph. |
| 0:47.1 | And I'm pretty lost for words, which is not very helpful on a podcast, |
| 0:52.9 | but that was one of the most exhilarating special nights here at the Australian Open |
| 0:59.2 | in the 15 editions of it that I've covered. |
| 1:02.8 | Yeah, do you need to have your loss for words? |
| 1:05.5 | Say you throw, throw it over to me, you use also loss for words. |
| 1:09.7 | Right. |
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