Australian Open Day 13 - Serena Williams Makes History; Roger vs. Rafa - Previewed with John McEnroe and Boris Becker

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports & Recreation, Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Serena Williams made history by winning a 23rd Grand Slam singles title, and then the tennis world's attention turned to Roger Federer vs. Rafael Nadal. In the Day 13 Tennis Podcast from the Australian Open, Catherine Whitaker (Eurosport) and David Law (BBC 5 Live) convened to look back and ahead. What was the match like between Serena and Venus? How big an achievement is a 23rd Slam? Will she break Margaret Court's number of 24? And how long will she continue to play?As we look ahead to Rafael Nadal vs. Roger Federer, Catherine interviews John McEnroe, David speaks to Boris Becker, and we hear from Federer, interviewed by Mats Wilander for Eurosport.A Tennis Podcast, produced in association with Telegraph Sport and Eurosport, will be available to download after the men's singles final on Sunday.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Andy Murray and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:14.6	Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast brought to you an association with the telegraph and with
0:18.8	Euro Sport on a day that we have seen history made on Euro Sport and on BBC Radio 5 Live,
0:25.4	Catherine Whitaker from Euro Sport is here and that history has been made by the great Serena
0:30.9	Williams 23 Grand Slam singles titles not out, she's still going and she's got Margaret
0:37.8	Cortina's sights next but I don't think there was ever a moment in that match that final
0:42.7	would have been a Williams where it was ever really in doubt and first of all what an achievement.
0:49.3	Not never in doubt but the early stages were highly bizarre, the four breaks have served to
1:01.1	open the match and incorporating the racquet smash in there, I mean that was pretty good.
1:05.4	That was good, tell us about that. Well she smashed a racquet after about a game and a half
1:09.8	in the third game I think she did that. That was awesome. It was sort of a fall combined with a
1:15.0	racquet smash which I really applaud if you can style out falling in that way, that's I can get
1:22.0	on board with that. But yeah some of their matches in the past have felt bizarre because they've
1:28.2	been felt so muted, it's almost like the emotion is too much, they can't, they can't convey it all
1:34.0	is bundled up inside somewhere so deep, none of us outside as can see it and it was the opposite of
1:39.3	that tonight. There was so demonstrative, all the emotion was so palpable even from Venus who
1:44.6	excuse, excuse people that watched me on Eurosport an hour or so ago because I used this same pun
1:51.2	and I didn't mean it to be a pun but she's usually very serene Venus, she's usually more serene
1:55.9	than serena on the court, she does have this remarkable serene expression that comes over her face
2:01.1	which is just okay I can cope with this, it's not, it's not going great but okay and she didn't,
2:08.1	well I mean she still had touches of that tonight but she was, she was an awful lot less serene,
2:12.4	she was a lot more demonstrative, a lot more like the Venus that we saw in her victory celebration
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