Billie Jean King - The Reaction; And what’s next for us

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Wimbledon, Sports, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Catherine is joined by David and Matt to react to her big interview with Billie Jean King. Picking up on some of the points raised by Billie Jean, we discuss the way she makes us feel when she talks about tennis, the way she forces us to challenge our preconceptions, the emphasis she puts on the importance of knowing your history, the lessons she can teach us about not alienating your audience, the place of team events in tennis, and the majors vs. slams debate.

We also share our plans for Australian Open Re-Lived week and beyond.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Billie Jean King and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:15.5	Yeah, that was actually what Billie Jean King
0:17.5	introducing our podcast. I can't quite go ahead round that. Other than to say listening to
0:24.0	Billie Jean's interview with Catherine a few days ago was probably the highlight of the eight
0:30.5	and a half years of the tennis podcast to date for me and and I was nowhere near the show at all.
0:37.1	But it was just a joy to listen to and a privilege and a pleasure to have a as I guess we can't
0:42.9	thank her enough for her time which as you'll hear over the course of this podcast lasted even
0:49.0	longer than that interview. It was it was quite an experience for Catherine who's here. Hello,
0:55.0	Catherine. Hello, David. You're right. Yes, I'm fine. You think I feel I worry that expectations
1:02.8	are going to be high of me in this podcast to reflect upon and digest that experience of
1:09.1	speaking to Billie Jean King for for so long. But I'm still in a slight state of shock and awe
1:17.0	about it. I'm not sure I've still yet fully processed it. So I might be relying on you both
1:24.8	for considerable support here. You've not been able to listen back to it, have you? Because it's
1:30.0	just you know, I've listened to it six times and I'm not exaggerating. No, I haven't because
1:38.2	I want you know in my head it's this sort of wonderful perfect experience and I know if I
1:44.5	listen back to it all I will hear is the things that I should have asked or wish I'd asked or
1:50.4	wish I'd said differently. Yeah, which is probably really narcissistic of me but yeah, I want to
1:59.2	preserve I will I will listen back to it because it's it's important. You know, I there's so much
2:05.2	meat in there. You know, I'm going to sort of constantly remind myself throughout the course of
2:11.2	my career, I think of the thing she said, but I just need a little bit more distance before I'm
2:17.6	able to properly listen, listen back to it. You have the honey mat. Yes, I have and while I haven't
2:27.2	had such a such a profound experience as Catherine, I also am a bit lost for words at just the whole
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