Australian Open - Draw Day!
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Catherine, David and Matt are together in Melbourne after the Australian Open draws have been made to talk through all the headlines, including Iga Swiatek’s loaded section, Naomi Osaka facing Caroline Garcia in the first round, and Jannik Sinner landing in Novak Djokovic’s half.
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| 0:00.0 | You match with Maya on Tinder. You agree you don't fancy each other, but she makes you laugh till it hurts. |
| 0:05.4 | She dragged you to a mate house in the Northern Quarter, and you actually have a great time. |
| 0:09.9 | You connect with some new people, like Isaac, and decide to go to the gallery on Mosley Street, |
| 0:15.8 | where you bond over your shared appreciation of silence. |
| 0:19.2 | And bit by bit, the world starts to feel so full of possibilities and you think what if I hadn't |
| 0:25.6 | met Maya on tinder it starts with a swipe download the app now |
| 0:32.2 | hi this is Billy Jean King. This is Marion Bartodi. I'm Matz Villander. This is Mary Carrillo. This is Pam Schreiber. This is Yannick Noah. |
| 0:40.0 | Hi, this is David Levy and you're listening to my friends on the tennis |
| 0:43.1 | podcast. Well, hello, hello and welcome to Draw Day at the 2024 Australian Open. |
| 1:01.2 | We are now just a handful of days away from the opening |
| 1:04.3 | Grand Slam of the tennis season and we come to myself, Catherine Medica, |
| 1:08.6 | David Law, Matt Roberts from Melbourne Park. Yes, that ambient sound you hear in the background is the |
| 1:16.9 | lovely trickle of the fountain which I'm sort of having to hold myself back from |
| 1:22.0 | from splosashing around in. |
| 1:24.2 | We've got the announcer over there doing something involving kids short tennis. |
| 1:30.6 | We've got a big screen over match shoulder showing qualifying which is very much in |
| 1:35.9 | full swing on all of the outside courts and we're in a very very good place. Thank you |
| 1:42.1 | incidentally to our lovely friend Dave for introducing the |
| 1:46.0 | show today. Just adding Dave to the good mood that you find us all in today. These are big smiles on all our faces David. |
| 1:55.4 | Yeah Dave Levy is a very long time friend of all of us. We've worked with him for many |
| 2:01.0 | years too, a great supporter and frankly if he's on the show then I feel even warmer than I do sitting in this sun that I'm really not used to in January. |
| 2:12.1 | It's going to be another two and a half weeks of shows where we tread the line of a hashtag gratitude |
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