Australian Open Day 10 - Finally Grigor; Rafa’s Renaissance; Serena Slams Konta; Lucic-Baroni: ‘This Moment Has Made My Life’

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports & Recreation, Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis

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🗓️ 25 January 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Grand Slam tennis tournaments always throw up a special moment or two, a decent storyline, and usually a fitting crescendo.But the Australian Open is different. Everywhere you turn there are stories.Yesterday, Roger Federer and Venus Williams, aged 35 and 36 respectively, advanced to the final four. Today it was the turn of Rafael Nadal, who hasn’t reached a Grand Slam semifinal in more than two years, Serena Williams, who is 35 years of age and chasing 23 Grand Slam titles, Grigor Dimitrov, who finally looks like coming of age, and the best of the lot - Mirjana Lucic-Baroni - who reached a semifinal 18 years after her first. 'This moment has made my life,' she said.With all of that in mind, Catherine Whitaker (Eurosport) and David Law (BBC 5 Live) didn’t really know where to start, so they asked Mark Petchey what he makes of it all instead.Can Federer win title No.18? Will Nadal stop him in the final again? Is Stan Wawrinka going to ruin everyone’s party the way he can? Or is Dimitrov ready to...

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Andy Murray and you're listening to the tennis podcast
0:14.4	Hello, welcome to the tennis podcast brought to you an association with a telegraph and with your sport where
0:19.8	Catherine Whitaker has been on the telly with mr. Mark Petchi moments ago live to the nation
0:26.2	Mark Petchi how you doing sir? Well after that big momentous moment in my life
0:30.8	I'm just trying to come down to earth so if I don't get every word out
0:34.7	It's just because I'm a bit flustered from that from spending time with Catherine on telly. I see is it less of the sass pet
0:40.7	It's been an exciting day hasn't it my goodness. What year is this 2005?
0:45.2	I mean you we've got Nadal Federer Venus Williams and Serena Williams and Mary Ann Luchitz Boroni or is it the 90s?
0:51.5	What's going on? It's unbelievable isn't it? It's absolutely unbelievable
0:54.4	I was interviewing Mary Pearce earlier and she was talking about
0:57.9	Miriana Luchitz Boroni and her memories of hers are 15 year old here and you know it's all just
1:03.8	wonderful but highly
1:05.8	bizarre and and I do wonder if maybe this was all part of the big grand plan of the Australian open this year
1:12.4	You know, let's change the balls. Let's change the courts and let's bring back the early naughty's
1:17.9	I don't know could be indeed well
1:20.3	We've got a talk to Mark Petty very quickly because he's apparently he's got a beardate with Jim Korea so
1:26.3	Mark it's
1:28.3	It's been an amazing tournament hasn't it? I mean first and foremost I mean the you know obviously
1:33.7	There's a lot of Andy Murray and Robert Jockovich fans thinking it's a terrible tournament because their man have gone out
1:40.1	But we're left now with an extraordinary few days in prospect
1:45.0	Let's just take a couple of these stories in turn first of all you got Roger Federer stand for vrinka
1:49.7	What do you think what do you think about that match? I mean for me?
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