BJK Cup - Matt’s in Prague! Kontaveit qualifies for WTA Finals; Turbo Tiafoe
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Matt is in Prague for the Billie Jean King Cup Finals, and Catherine and David are jealous.
Find out what he asked in a weekend of press conferences, which group he sees as the Group of Death, and what the vibe is like on the ground.
Elsewhere, Catherine assesses Emma Raducanu’s week, reveals her feelings about Halloween and the clocks going back, the form of Frances Tiafoe gets bigged up, and Anett Kontaveit's incredible run to reach the WTA Finals is discussed. Finally, remember Marin Cilic?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartorzi. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary Carillo. This is Pam Shriver. |
| 0:06.4 | I'm Stan Roenka. I'm Lainey Eur. This is Yannick Noah. And you're listening to the tennis |
| 0:10.9 | podcast. |
| 0:22.1 | We have got one busy week coming up here on the tennis podcast because frankly there's a heck of a |
| 0:27.2 | lot going on in the tennis world right from all the results that we've had over the course of the |
| 0:31.3 | week which we'll get to a little bit later in the show. We've got Paris coming up next week. Catherine's |
| 0:37.6 | going to be presenting that on Amazon Prime Video and it is the start tomorrow as we speak to you |
| 0:44.4 | right now on Sunday evening of the Billie Jean King Cup finals in Prague. Moved from where they |
| 0:51.3 | were supposed to be initially in Budapest. Prague has decided to step in which I think everybody |
| 0:58.4 | in tennis is pretty grateful for. That means that Catherine is in her flat. I don't see Billie Jean. |
| 1:04.2 | Catherine, where's Billie Jean today? I dropped her off with my brother earlier. She can't |
| 1:11.6 | handle the Paris hours. No. So she has fled for the shelter of my brother's flat. So not to |
| 1:21.1 | bring the tone down. So early, but it is officially the most depressing day of the year added to by |
| 1:27.6 | Billie Jean's absence. What why? It is clocks going forward day back to day. |
| 1:38.9 | Yes, back. Yeah, similar, just the other way around. Similar, just just infinitely worse. |
| 1:49.1 | clocks going forward days the best day. Yes, that's right. I hate it. I hate it. It got dark at about |
| 1:57.5 | half past 12. Yeah, let's just hibernate until March. Anybody up for that? |
| 2:06.8 | No, because there's loads and loads of tennis to watch in the meantime, including this week. And |
| 2:12.4 | you've got to present live TV tomorrow. So we're going to do that instead, but I'd get your point. |
| 2:17.9 | I'm pumped. I'm pumped, as you can tell. I very much understand where you're coming from. I think |
| 2:22.7 | of all of us, Matt is the one here that has nailed the end of October, because where are you right now, Matt? |
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