Hi, I'm Andy Murray and you're listening to the tennis podcast.

Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast brought to you in association with the telegraph represented by Mr.

tennis correspondent Simon Briggs. I'm waiting for the Federer question.

Well, since you ask Simon, we'll just hold on to that. He's referring to the fact that he made a prediction and he's been living with it ever since about our

geophedra would lose heavily against Thomas Burdick. It didn't happen, did it? But anyway, we'll get to that.

Catherine Whittaker is also here from Eurosport, our partners for the Australian Open and writes holders for the tournament. Catherine, how's your day been?

Well, never a greater contrast in quality of predictions could there be?

Oh, yeah, we're going a bit arrogant now. What have you said?

Well, didn't I say last night that Nadal would be pushed but eventually win?

Yeah, you did say that. And you also say that Angelic Kerwood lose?

I did a bit. Yeah.

It's a good job. I'm here. It is, isn't it?

Yeah, maybe. That was my... Yeah, okay, moving on.

Yeah, okay. So today we've just seen Nadal and he was pushed. My goodness, what a match.

Five sets against Alexander's Verre. I mean, it really was battle of the generation stuff, wasn't it?

Simon. But eventually, what amused me was the fact that he had a 37-stroke rally in the fifth set,

which he lost. And Nadal looked devastated having lost it. And then when you looked up at his player box,

they were all saying, no, no, look at him. Look at what you've just done to him. He can barely walk.

It was a bit savage. I mean, there are some people in this media centre who believe that

there's a problem with five set tennis in that it doesn't actually mean the best player wins all the time.

Let's be honest. Pure tennis, Raffa was not the best player out there, but he's what, 29 is 30, is he?

30 now? 30 now. So he's built up this kind of, Krina is talking about building the house of York,

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