Brad Gilbert - Winning Ugly, Coaching Andre, Nicknames and a New No.1 (Episode 90)
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2015
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The author of Winning Ugly, and one of the greatest coaches the game has ever known - Brad Gilbert - joined Catherine Whitaker at the ATP Champions Tour event in Delray Beach to talk about coaching against Federer and Sampras, joining forces with Agassi, and how he comes up with those nicknames.
Add to that, a prediction for a New No.1 in the world, his thoughts on Kyrgios, Kokkinakis, Zverev et al, and some advice for David Law ...
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McEnore and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:04.3 | Hi, I'm Luis Grigor de Mietro for you listening to tennis podcast. |
| 0:08.1 | Hi, I'm Matt Svillander and you are listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:13.9 | Well, I'm delighted to say that I'm drawing by Brad Gilbert on this week's edition of the tennis podcast, |
| 0:18.3 | formal world number four and of course one of the best coaches in history and now |
| 0:22.3 | very successful commentators. Well, Brad, I have to ask you first of all, |
| 0:26.0 | you're making your ATP Champions debut here in Delray Beach at the age of 53. |
| 0:30.7 | I think I think that's a record. How's it been for you? |
| 0:34.1 | I'd like to have made my debut at maybe 39, 40 |
| 0:39.2 | and I was a late replacement. I had a really good time. |
| 0:44.4 | Unfortunately, when I got on the plane from San Francisco, I left my serve |
| 0:49.2 | and my backhand, my two most reliable shots. They didn't get on the plane |
| 0:53.8 | and you know, the one thing I didn't, you know, I just had two days to get ready. |
| 0:58.4 | So I didn't train that hard so I wouldn't get injured like |
| 1:00.8 | Emilio Sanchez. He trained for two days, got hurt, but I survived three days. I had a really good time, |
| 1:06.2 | but the guys out here are just a little better than my level at this point, |
| 1:09.2 | but I think I'm going to train a little harder. I don't know if I'm going to play anymore, |
| 1:12.4 | but I'm going to train harder though now. They didn't make life easy for you. |
| 1:15.2 | They did. They put him up against Mark Phillipusis and going even as much both of whom |
| 1:19.7 | look at their best like they could still be winning matches on the tour, I think. |
| 1:24.0 | Those two were over my skis, you know, I mean, even if I played, you know, as well as I could, |
| 1:29.3 | they're much younger, they move better, they serve big. |
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