Australian Open Day 14 - Federer's 18th: His Greatest Achievement?

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports & Recreation, Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis

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🗓️ 29 January 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Fittingly, it went five sets, and they saved the best for last. Roger Federer produced a period of other-worldly tennis to win his 18th Grand Slam title against his biggest rival of all.Catherine Whitaker (Eurosport) and David Law (BBC 5 Live) concur that it amounts to the greatest of all of his victories. In a Tennis Podcast recorded moments afterwards, they explain why.Over the course of the 30-minute show, they discuss where the match was won and lost, what happened to Nadal after going a break up in the fifth, and Mats Wilander drops by to give his verdict.We also hear from Rene Stauffer, journalist from Tages Anzeiger in Switzerland. Stauffer has covered Federer since he was junior and is uniquely placed to sum up the victory. The Tennis Podcast in Australia was produced in association with Telegraph Sport and Eurosport. The weekly show will return soon.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Andy Murray and you're listening to the tennis podcast
0:14.6	Hello, welcome to the tennis podcast brought to you an association with a telegraph and
0:18.9	Eurasport and we are watching Catherine with to gut Roger Federer just coming out of the Eurasport studio
0:25.0	Waving two thousands and thousands of people down below the balcony on which he is standing with Mats Vellander at the moment
0:32.0	And he has just been telling everybody how he won his 80th Grand Slam singles title aged
0:39.1	35 after a four and a half year wait for another one of those and he did it by beating his third
0:46.7	Five set match in two weeks and by beating his nemesis Raffaunadal in the final
0:52.5	His greatest triumph
0:55.1	His greatest triumph by quite some distance. I would say you didn't even mention the six months on the sideline and this being only his
1:02.4	Well first competitive tournament back. I mean the the
1:07.4	Home and Cup doesn't count as a tour event. I mean you could not
1:12.3	Script to any better if you'd written this script and presented it to anybody in the tennis world they'd have gone
1:17.3	Yeah in your dreams tennis. It's
1:21.5	Unreal. It's absolutely unreal. It's a
1:24.4	It is a it will be a film one day. I'm sure Roger Federer the movie Shilaburfe somewhere is busy making John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg the movie
1:33.6	I hope there's better casting for Roger Federer the movie who would play Roger Federer? That's a very good question
1:39.6	Who would play Roger Federer in Roger Federer the movie?
1:42.8	Who we going for?
1:44.3	Give me some time to think about that one. Okay, at tennis podcast who would play Roger Federer in Roger Federer the movie will hand it over to you
1:53.1	The the thing that stuck out for me was I was commentating on it and BBC Radio 5 live and and I felt as though the four first sets
2:01.8	whilst
2:03.0	Fascinating were not amazing
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