Australian Open Day 13 - Superstar Osaka Wins Second Consecutive Grand Slam; Djokovic vs. Nadal Final Preview
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
After an exhilarating women’s final was won by Naomi Osaka over Petra Kvitova, David Law, Catherine Whitaker and Grad Matt revel in the brilliance of Osaka.
What caused her second set wobble? And how did she manage to recover from losing that set in such crushing circumstances?
How significant is it that Osaka has now won back-to-back Grand Slams? And how is she so at ease with her relatively newfound status as a champion?
Looking ahead to the men’s final between Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal, will it be anything like their 5h53m epic from 2012? If it is, who will it favour? And will Nadal’s new, more aggressive hard court game be able to hurt Djokovic?
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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 San Roenka. I'm Lighten Jut. I'm Andy Murray. |
| 0:07.6 | And you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.3 | Moments ago, the Australian Open Women's title was decided and it has gone to Naomi Osaka |
| 0:27.2 | in a thrilling final, following a thrilling final of three sets, seven, six, five, seven, |
| 0:33.8 | six, four over Patrick of Itaver. And that does not do it justice because of the ups and downs |
| 0:39.6 | and the feelings and the emotions and the stress and the brilliant shot making that we've just |
| 0:44.3 | witnessed. And here on the tennis podcast, myself David Law, Catherine Whitaker. Hello. |
| 0:49.2 | Hello. Hello. And, uh, Graad Matt, how are you? |
| 0:51.3 | Hello. Very well. Thank you. |
| 0:52.5 | I think we're uplifted. I am. What are you? |
| 0:56.5 | Well, I mean, a slightly unfortunate state of speechlessness from a podcast. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah, I sort of tweet like that from Graad Matt over here and I'm thinking, how's this |
| 1:05.5 | going to work on the podcast? Yeah, well, that just blew me away, the whole match. |
| 1:09.5 | It was just one of those evenings, wasn't it? The sky was immense and the tennis just sort of matched |
| 1:16.5 | it. It was just the perfect evening. If you'd like to see the immenseness of it, the sky, |
| 1:22.5 | Gadoire Instagram page where Catherine Whitaker is shown taking herself. |
| 1:27.0 | It's a little bit better. It's someone taking a picture of me taking a picture. |
| 1:32.1 | But it kind of kind of summed it up. Yeah, it was an incredible night's |
| 1:39.2 | entertainment and sport. And it really is hard to feel completely good about |
| 1:49.2 | the person that has won it simply because it means that one of them is feeling miserable right |
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