Australian Open Day 14 – Sublime Djokovic Wins 15th Grand Slam; But What Happened To Nadal?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
As we expected, Novak Djokovic is the Australian Open champion. But the manner of his victory - an emphatic straight-sets thrashing of Rafael Nadal – came as a big surprise. On The Tennis Podcast, David Law, Catherine Whitaker and Matt Roberts discuss the final in depth.
What makes Djokovic so effective against Nadal on a hard court? Will he be able to translate the formula to clay and win a fourth consecutive slam at the French Open? And will he end up winning more slams than both Nadal and Federer?
As for Nadal, was he nervous throughout the final? And why did he not try to play his new, more aggressive hard-court game? Would it have even made any difference?
Elsewhere, Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut completed their career Grand Slam. What makes them work so well together?
Finally, how will we all remember the 2019 Australian Open?
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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 Ravinka. I'm Lighten Jut. |
| 0:06.8 | I'm Andy Murray. And you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | Novak Chokovich is the champion for a seventh time at the Australian Open. |
| 0:24.1 | He has now won 15 Grand Slam singles titles moving in two behind Raffaunderdale, |
| 0:30.0 | five behind Roger Federer. And the only massive surprise here is that that was a pretty awful tennis |
| 0:36.4 | match as a contest. It was an absolute non-event. A, because Novak Chokovich was |
| 0:42.2 | imperious, brilliant, insert your preferred superlative here. And B, because Raffaunderdale, |
| 0:49.8 | well, he didn't really turn up today. This is David Law, Catherine Whittaker, and Matt |
| 0:54.8 | Roberts here on the tennis podcast brought you an association with the telegraph, Catherine. |
| 0:59.2 | Clang, first of a use of Matt's surname. |
| 1:01.2 | Yeah, well, he's officially Matt now. He's not on a grand mat because he's already... |
| 1:06.4 | I mean, he hasn't had his degree taken away from him to be clear. |
| 1:09.6 | He still is a graduate and he was a student, but these are all past tense because he's now officially |
| 1:14.8 | Matt. Right. So... This doesn't feel right. |
| 1:18.3 | No, well, get used to it. This is the new you. |
| 1:21.9 | What do we think about... Well, I have to kickstarter Matt. |
| 1:24.4 | Well, never caught on. Never caught on. |
| 1:26.8 | And Melbourne Matt's been and gone, really. So it's just Matt. |
| 1:30.8 | So, where... What do we say aside from what I've just said about that men's singles final? |
| 1:38.4 | Well, as a contest, it was a huge disappointment as a performance by Novak Chokovich. |
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