Australian Open Day 10 - Serena Squanders 5-1 Lead; The Mauresmo Effect
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
After the earliest finish of the tournament so far, David Law, Catherine Whitaker and Grad Matt look back on another dramatic day, headlined by Karolina Pliskova’s victory over Serena Williams.
In what way is Karolina Pliskova’s new coaching set-up helping her? How much was Serena’s ankle injury to blame for her final set capitulation? And how much of a missed opportunity was this for Serena in her quest to win a 24th Grand Slam?
Pliskova will play Naomi Osaka next after she beat Elina Svitolina. Who will have the edge in that match?
In the men’s draw, Kei Nishikori was forced to retire against Novak Djokovic. Why was there a sense of inevitability about the whole thing?
Djokovic’s semi-final opponent will be Lucas Pouille. How impressive were his tactics to beat Milos Raonic? And what influence is Amélie Mauresmo having on his game?
Looking ahead to Day 11, who will reach the women’s final? And can Tsitsipas beat Nadal?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Andy Murray and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | Music |
| 0:14.0 | Well ladies and gentlemen, it is 1027pm and we're recording a tennis podcast and that's after consuming a drink each and a cheese board. |
| 0:24.0 | Yeah. Life's good. Life's good. |
| 0:26.0 | Awesome, amazing. Thank you very much, Cain and Shikori. |
| 0:29.0 | Yeah, I'm in poor old Cain and Shikori. |
| 0:31.0 | That is not what anybody was saying as they fled away from the world-labor arena and Melbourne Park this evening. |
| 0:37.0 | I left with the mass, the thronging mass of disappointed fans, many of whom were lamenting the $1,800 they had spent on the ticket tonight. |
| 0:48.0 | It was unfortunate, wasn't it? And we're only starting here chronologically and I don't think we'll dwell on it long, so there's not a whole lot to say. |
| 0:55.0 | But it was unfortunate that the first and only session where we've had one singles match has turned out to be the most overwhelmingly disappointing one. |
| 1:05.0 | This is the tennis podcast talking about disappointing tennis. |
| 1:09.0 | Yeah, do we even have an hour? |
| 1:10.0 | Do you have an association with the Telegraph? |
| 1:12.0 | Yeah, I don't think we even got to an hour, did we? |
| 1:14.0 | No, I don't think so. |
| 1:15.0 | And the worst thing about it was that no one, I don't think was that disappointed when he retired because it put us all out of our misery, K included. |
| 1:24.0 | Well, the first service game he had, I think he was at 30 all, you just, we're so close to them physically in the back of the court. |
| 1:34.0 | Our commentary box is right behind the knees of the centre-service line, Judge. |
| 1:39.0 | And he had a couple of rallies with him and he walked towards us and the guy looked like a ghost. |
| 1:46.0 | He looked spent out there and you thought, I still didn't really think he was going to retire any time soon, but I thought, |
| 1:53.0 | just in terms of his hopes of actually competing here, he already doesn't think he's up to it. |
| 1:59.0 | The physically doesn't think he's up to it. |
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