Australian Open Day 3 - Evans Earns Ultimate Compliment From Federer; Anderson's Loss, Dimitrov's Gain? 67 Aces And He Still Didn't Win
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
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🗓️ 16 January 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Dan Evans didn’t beat Roger Federer, but he pushed him hard, and did himself proud. That’s the view of David Law, Catherine Whitaker and Grad Matt on The Tennis Podcast at the end of day three at the 2019 Australian Open.
How did Evans cause Federer problems? Should he have won the opening set? And how confident should we be that Evans has got his career back on track and won’t have another lapse?
Elsewhere, the biggest shock of the tournament so far saw Kevin Anderson lose to Frances Tiafoe. How much was Anderson’s injury a factor? And why does this feel like a significant step forward for Tiafoe?
Anderson’s loss opens up the draw for Grigor Dimitrov. How did he look today against Pablo Cuevas?
In the night session, David’s man-of-the-tournament Roberto Bautista Agut won a second straight five-setter, this time against John Millman. How does he keep doing it? There was better news for home fans when Alex de Minaur held his nerve to win in five. But is he showing signs of fatigue?
There’s also discussion about Bob Bryan’s insight into Andy Murray’s hip injury and surgery, news of David (Thomas Fabbiano) beating Goliath (Reilly Opelka - 67 aces and all), and word on Aryna Sabalenka’s victory over Katie Boulter.
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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 Svillander. |
| 0:04.9 | I'm Sten Roenka. I'm Lighten Jut. I'm Andy Murray. |
| 0:07.6 | And you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | We are sitting under the stars. I can see the moon. |
| 0:23.0 | There are seagulls flying above our heads as we approach midnight on day three of the Australian |
| 0:29.5 | Open myself David Law, Catherine Whittaker, Grant Matt's here. |
| 0:32.9 | We've brought you an association with a tenograph. The reason I've just been able to describe |
| 0:36.7 | this wonderful scene is because we are outside and we are nursing a beer the first of |
| 0:42.1 | of my two beers before I pass out Catherine. |
| 0:45.2 | Which is what you did last night wearing shoes. |
| 0:48.8 | Yes, fully closed. Don't recommend it folks. |
| 0:53.1 | But anyway, that's how committed we are to the tennis podcast and talking about this wonderful |
| 0:57.2 | sport until the early hours of the morning. I was quite relieved to find out that Matt had also |
| 1:02.4 | passed out in his class. Not wearing shoes though. I really feel it as a crucial detail. |
| 1:07.6 | Right, tennis. What's happened today? We started as I can recall. |
| 1:13.0 | It feels like a long, long time ago. The story of the day felt to me at the time |
| 1:17.2 | that Dan Evans had managed to win two or play two tie-break sets against Roger Federer. |
| 1:21.6 | And really could have won that first set. I mean, wow. |
| 1:24.9 | Should have won that first set. |
| 1:26.3 | Discuss. |
| 1:28.1 | Five four. Five four. It was echoes of the 2009. |
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