Australian Open Day 2 - Mind Over Matter For Halep; Williams Sisters Impress; Dysfunctional Australian Tennis
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
There was less drama on day two of the 2019 Australian Open, but still plenty for David Law, Catherine Whitaker and Grad Matt to talk about on The Tennis Podcast.
The biggest story was Simona Halep’s comeback victory against Kaia Kanepi. Just how significant was that for Halep? What was she like when she spoke to Catherine? And can she now go far in the tournament?
Halep might run into Serena Williams in the fourth round. Serena thrashed Tatjana Maria in less than an hour. But why did she not do a pre-tournament press conference? Venus Williams was also a winner on Tuesday. Does she get the credit she deserves for her longevity? Is it understandable why she doesn’t give much time to the media?
The biggest off-court story was Bernard Tomic’s criticism of Lleyton Hewitt. Why are there so many rifts within Australian tennis?
There’s also a look ahead to day three. Can Katie Boulter beat Aryna Sabalenka? And how much will the heat of the day help Dan Evans against Roger Federer?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McAneroy. I'm Bjorn Borg. |
| 0:02.2 | This is Martina Navratlova. I'm Matt Vylander. |
| 0:04.9 | I'm Stan Ravinka. I'm Lainey Njut. I'm Andy Murray. |
| 0:07.6 | And you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | Well, I think it's fair to say that tonight has not been quite the emotional |
| 0:24.7 | journey that last night was, but it has still been an intriguing day of tennis here at the Australian |
| 0:31.5 | Open. Day two on the tennis podcast to brought you an association with the Tenograph. I'm David |
| 0:37.3 | Law from BBC Radio. I'm joined by Catherine Whittaker, one-take Whittaker from Eurosport. How |
| 0:43.2 | you doing? Well, it was actually three-take Whittaker tonight, but two of those takes were |
| 0:48.3 | down to some absolutely choice numpties in the background. Well, well saved there, Catherine. |
| 0:55.2 | Can you imagine what my tolerance level for numpties is? I imagine it's 11pm after not enough sleep. |
| 1:02.8 | No, I think. It's low, David. I think it is. Yes, I'm sort of gathering that. However, |
| 1:08.7 | the day has been interesting. Catherine is here, Grand Matt is here. |
| 1:12.0 | Grand Matt smiling, he's happy enough, but then he's about half my age, so here he can go. |
| 1:17.0 | And he's also just witnessed the three previous takes of me saying something other than numptie. |
| 1:21.8 | Yes, which we had to cut, folks. Which is fine. Yes, I'd like to start the day by talking about |
| 1:29.2 | the world number one Summoner Hallop, because I feel her 6'7", I think it was 6'4", 6'2", victory over |
| 1:37.6 | Kaya Kanepi, the woman that beat her at the US Open, just socked her off the court at the US Open. |
| 1:42.2 | I think that that was a major triumph of mind over matrim. She's a great tennis player as well, |
| 1:47.9 | and she played really good tennis. But mentally, that was one of the strongest performances I've seen |
| 1:54.0 | from Summoner Hallop. Obviously, we've seen many of them, most specifically, the French Open |
| 1:58.9 | Final last year, but this was a really good performance on every level in that way. |
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