BJK Cup Finals Preview - Nations ready to rumble in Glasgow, and Matt is there
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The Billie Jean King Cup Finals by Gainbridge are here, or in Glasgow to be more precise.
There for us is Matt, who spent the day in and out of preview press conferences talking to the teams, captains and players.
That meant being reunited with the Swiss team, who Matt interrogated after a controversial loss in the final last year.
We hear all of the gossip and chat from behind the scenes, despite the lights going out on Matt mid-pod, and try to work out who is most likely to come through each group.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartorri. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary Carillo. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm Stan Roenka. I'm Lainey Neut. |
| 0:07.1 | This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:21.5 | Well hello and welcome to the Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge Finals, |
| 0:26.7 | where Matt Roberts is in Glasgow. Matt, how are you? |
| 0:31.9 | I've made it. I'm very well, thank you. I'm a little bit on edge at the moment because I feel like |
| 0:37.6 | I'm in a place where I maybe shouldn't be. I am fine. I've been told that I can record here, |
| 0:44.4 | but I'm sort of expecting someone to come in at any moment and kick me out because I'm in the press |
| 0:49.7 | conference room, which is where I've spent the majority of today. And yeah, it just sort of feels |
| 0:55.3 | like it should be off limits, but apparently it isn't. And I'm here. |
| 0:59.6 | Right. Yeah, because we should say tennis podcast listeners, this is our second go at recording |
| 1:05.6 | this particular show. We didn't get past, well, we didn't impress record because just when we were |
| 1:10.4 | about to, Matt was stationed inside the stadium. He showed me the camera view that he had from the |
| 1:18.4 | very back seat in the stadium, overlooking the court that they're going to be playing on over |
| 1:22.0 | the next week at Billie Jean King Cup finals. And then just as we were about to record, |
| 1:27.9 | some music started up. And this was following what was going on with the British team, Matt. |
| 1:35.8 | It was an initiation ceremony for Olivia Nichols and Alicia Barnett, who are pretty unfamiliar names, |
| 1:45.3 | but they've been, they've been called up by Ankiyata Vong to play doubles here in Glasgow, if |
| 1:51.3 | required. And yeah, it's their first appearance in the Billie Jean King Cup. So they had to do an |
| 1:56.3 | initiation. They were introduced by Heather Watson. And then they did some kind of rap. I can't |
| 2:03.8 | put any more detail on it than that. I'm pretty sure Catherine would have been absolutely scathing |
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