Australian Open Day 12 - Federer vs. Nadal. It's On. Dimitrov Has Arrived; Serena vs. Venus - The Preview

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports & Recreation, Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis

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🗓️ 27 January 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Nine years since the one and only time that Serena Williams played Venus Williams, and Roger Federer met Rafael Nadal in the same Grand Slam tournament, it will happen against this weekend.After Nadal somehow subdued the brave, magical tennis of Grigor Dimitrov in a five-set, near five-hour epic on Friday night, Catherine Whitaker (Eurosport), David Law (BBC 5 Live) and Simon Briggs (Telegraph) got together on the Tennis Podcast to try to make sense of it all.Where was the match won and lost? How devastated was Dimitrov in his post-match interview? And what physical state will Nadal be in by the time he makes the final?Plus, with less than 24 hours to go until the Venus Williams vs. Serena Williams final on Saturday, who do the team think will come out on top? Will Venus win the title for the first time, in her 37th year? Or will Serena break the record she shares with Steffi Graf for Grand Slam title No.23? It’s all discussed in the Tennis Podcast. A new Tennis Podcast is available throughout the...

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Andy Murray and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:15.0	Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast brought to you an association with the telegraph and with your sport and
0:20.2	Thank goodness we have Simon Breaks of the telegraph and Catherine Whittaker of your sport here to try to make sense of this
0:26.7	Extraordinary couple of days that we've had and particularly the last five hours in which Raffaunder
0:32.9	Dal has set up his first Grand Slam final against Roger Federer for six years with the most extraordinary win over Gregor Dimitrov
0:41.7	five hours nearly
0:43.7	Five sets
0:45.1	We're all a bit emotional particularly only Catherine
0:48.4	Yeah, I think the least emotional personal or the person who's covering it up the best is Gregor Dimitrov
0:53.8	I've just come from his press conference. I was expecting a sort of
0:58.1	A shattered human being a shell of a man and I'm sure there is an element of that somewhere
1:03.6	But I'm so encouraged by what he's saying
1:06.8	He said I don't want to let my head go down for a minute it hurts
1:10.2	But I want it to hurt and I'll let it hurt for four or five days and I won't let it hurt after that
1:16.8	I'll let it motivate me which I know it's very easy to say
1:20.6	But I really believed him just now. Yeah, he didn't stop today
1:25.0	Simon he okay in the end he was beaten but he had to be beaten
1:28.8	He did not beat himself Gregor Dimitrov that that was a new a new man out there for me somebody who was
1:35.9	Willing to go into the trenches would one of the greatest warriors of all time
1:39.8	Yeah, massive step forward for him. I was doing commentary from third to onwards
1:45.4	and
1:47.5	Was it the fourth set where he looked like he was being punched out of it?
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