Australian Open Final Preview/Predictions - Djokovic vs. Murray; Azarenka vs. Li Na; Azarenka Injury Time-Out Talk;
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2013
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Recorded a few hours before the women's final, Catherine and David look ahead to Victoria Azarenka vs. Li Na, and Novak Djokovic vs. Andy Murray. They also discuss whether Azarenka deserved the hard time she received from the watching world after the semifinals.
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| 0:00.0 | Well hello and welcome to the tennis podcast we are on the eve of the finals. The women's final |
| 0:05.3 | is tonight. We're recording this on Saturday afternoon, local time here in Melbourne. The men's |
| 0:09.6 | final is decided after that thrilling semi-final between Roger Federer and Andy Murray last night. |
| 0:16.9 | Everybody's still shaking with excitement over that one. We've just been at an extraordinary |
| 0:21.0 | legend's lunch here which included the presence of Rod Labour. It was in the honour of Roy |
| 0:27.0 | Amerson. Andre Agassi was here. We had Jim Courier out on stage. Ken Rosewell, |
| 0:32.2 | Lindsay Davenport, Martina Hinges, Martina Navrataleva, extraordinary place to be that we've just |
| 0:37.8 | had lunch Catherine and I and we were the gate crushes Catherine. It was great fun, wasn't it? |
| 0:42.3 | Yeah, hopefully nobody noticed us at the back of the room clapping away. No, it's been great. |
| 0:47.7 | It felt like a really special occasion, didn't it? Yeah, it really did. And so we have first of all, |
| 0:52.0 | I think we just need to before we get on to discussing Lee Nariance Victoria as a Renker. |
| 0:56.1 | Obviously that was a huge talking point, wasn't it? The fact that as a Renker had that lengthy |
| 1:00.7 | medical time out and immediately everybody jumped on Twitter and had a right-old go to her and |
| 1:06.4 | said, this isn't in the rules and la la la and she's not going off for an injury, she's going off |
| 1:11.6 | for a panic attack and she should be able to control the nerves, la la la, she's trying to |
| 1:15.3 | do gamesmanship. Catherine Whitaker, what's your take? My take is that she has been slightly |
| 1:22.6 | unfairly treated. I think her biggest crime was the timing of her injury time out. I think |
| 1:28.6 | you shouldn't be able to do it before your opponent is about to serve, but that's |
| 1:32.0 | a error in the rules perhaps rather than, you know, I think that it showed up some of the dangers |
| 1:39.8 | of Twitter, the reaction to that situation, you know, what she said, let's remember she was |
| 1:45.6 | speaking in a second language and the question that was put to her on court was slightly ambiguous |
| 1:53.6 | and I don't think when she talked about feeling panicky and like she had choked, I don't think |
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