Australian Open Day 11 – Goran Guests; Extreme Heat; Kvitova, Osaka Set Up Final With No.1 On The Line; Nadal Destroys Tsitsipas
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
After chasing him all tournament, David Law and Catherine Whitaker are finally joined by Goran Ivanisevic in part one of today’s podcast.
Goran gives an insight into life as Milos Raonic’s coach, compares Stefanos Tsitsipas and Alexander Zverev, and explains why he’s strongly against on-court coaching.
Also, what qualities are required to be a good coach? How does the feeling of winning as a coach compare to winning as a player? How often does he watch the 2001 Wimbledon final? And why have we never seen him on Strictly Come Dancing?!
In part two, Catherine, David and Grad Matt discuss the day’s singles matches, which were all played in extreme heat. Was it a good decision to close the roof? Is the new heat stress scale a satisfactory solution?
As for the tennis, Petra Kvitova and Naomi Osaka set up a “no-lose” final. What makes Osaka so impressive in press? How much did the indoor conditions help Kvitova today?
In the evening session, Nadal thrashed Tsitsipas. Has Nadal ever played better on hard courts? And why do we think it’s a good thing that Tsitsipas looked distraught in his press conference?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McEnore. I'm Bjorn Borg. |
| 0:02.2 | This is Martina Navratlova. I'm Matt Vylander. |
| 0:04.9 | I'm Stan Roenka. I'm Lighten Youet. I'm Andy Murray. |
| 0:07.6 | And you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.1 | So Catherine Wittig on myself, not here at 3am in the morning today, |
| 0:24.9 | but here at noon, because we have a very special guest here. |
| 0:28.7 | Before we start talking about all the players that have been involved in the semi-finals, |
| 0:32.1 | and we are going to get to that, folks, here on the tennis podcast. |
| 0:34.8 | We're going to talk about Patrick Cavitt over and Daniel Collins, |
| 0:38.0 | Karen In the Police, Giver, Naomi Osarca, Stefanus, Sid Supass, |
| 0:41.4 | and Raphael In the Dow. We're going to talk about all these people. |
| 0:44.0 | But first, we've come in early. Catherine has just run here |
| 0:48.8 | in the hottest weather of the tournament for a very good reason, |
| 0:52.2 | because we have this gentleman here with us. Hello, Goran. |
| 0:56.6 | Hello. Hello. You've just been playing. |
| 1:00.2 | I've just been playing. I saw Catherine almost fell three times. |
| 1:03.3 | Very amazing running. And I was like, |
| 1:06.4 | she's a good Catherine. She's a good faster and faster. |
| 1:10.4 | She's a good girl. Goran has the unique privilege of having seen us |
| 1:14.8 | both fall over in spectacular fashion. |
| 1:17.7 | That's true. Yes. Yes. In fact, did you get a name out of it, by the way? |
| 1:22.2 | I didn't get in there. I don't think so. I think that was in Belgium. |
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