Australian Open Day 4 - Djokovic Dealt Seismic Shock By Istomin; Mouratoglou - Serena Is Still The Best; Nadal Looking Good

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

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🗓️ 19 January 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Boris Becker, Novak Djokovic’s now former coach, and Mats Wilander, a seven-time Grand Slam title winner, sat in the Eurosport studios, watching the Australian Open demise of the six-time champion.In the Tennis Podcast, following a tumultuous day 4 and one of the biggest upsets in the tournament’s history, presenter Catherine Whitaker, who is part of the Eurosport team, joins David Law and details how the pair reacted to Djokovic’s defeat. Beaten in five sets over nearly five hours by Dennis Istomin, it was Djokovic’s earliest loss in a Grand Slam tournament for nearly nine years. Istomin played the match of his life, but even so, why has Djokovic lost his edge? The Tennis Podcast team try to make sense of it all.The losses of Agnieszka Radwanska and British pair Kyle Edmund and Heather Watson are also discussed, as is the win of Jo Konta, who the team agree is looking more convincing by the day.We also hear from Eurosport pundit and the coach of Serena Williams - Patrick Mouratoglou. He talks...

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Andy Murray and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:15.0	I'm not used to losing in Australia and opening second round.
0:18.0	I've always played so well.
0:20.0	Throughout last ten years I've been, you know, I've won six titles here and this court has been so nice to me.
0:29.0	It's disappointing but in the end of the day I have to accept it.
0:34.0	Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast brought to you in association with the telegraph and Eurosport.
0:40.0	You know, are the sole rights holders in the UK for television coverage of the first grand slam tournament of the year.
0:46.0	My name is David Law, part of the BBC Radio 5 Live tennis team.
0:50.0	Catherine Whittaker is here with me from Eurosport and we join you from the commentary box court side
0:57.0	where Serena Williams has just avoided the fate of Novak Djokovic who went out earlier today in one of the most seismic shocks that we've had at this tournament in many, many years.
1:09.0	Perhaps ever at this particular tournament we're waiting for Raft found the dow to come out onto the court for the final night session match of the day.
1:17.0	But Catherine, I mean, Dennis Istemen has had the 12 months from hell in many ways.
1:23.0	He's ranked outside the world's top 100. He's barely one matches at times at a tour level.
1:28.0	This was the second round. This was the six time champion, six titles in nine years.
1:34.0	He hadn't lost this earlier to slam for nine years.
1:38.0	2008 in Marit Safan and Wimbledon.
1:41.0	It was hard to fathom really when it was going on. I mean, he was two sets to one up at the whole match.
1:48.0	That didn't look like Novak Djokovic.
1:51.0	Yeah, the last time I saw Dennis Istemen was notting him 2015, winning his very first ever ATP World Tour title.
2:02.0	And now here he is having another major, major career highlight good on Dennis Istemen.
2:09.0	It was hard to fathom. Yeah, it was hard to fathom from Novak Djokovic. Look, Dennis Istemen played really, really well.
2:16.0	But there is no way he should have been challenging Novak Djokovic.
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