Can Barty Stop Sabalenka? Thiem Returns, Ruud Arrives
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Ash Barty is World No.1 and with good reason. Aryna Sabalenka is sweeping quality players aside as if they’re nothing. So what will happen when they clash in the Madrid final on Saturday? Catherine, David and Matt assemble ahead of the business end of the tournament, give their picks, and look at the other big storylines from the men's event in the Spanish capital.
The Tennis Podcast is presented by Catherine Whitaker and David Law, and features Matt Roberts. It publishes on Mondays and Thursdays, and daily during Grand Slam tournaments.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartorri. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Matt Vylander. This is Mary Carillo. I'm Stan Ravinka. I'm Lainey Nguet. |
| 0:07.1 | This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.9 | Well, we've got lots of wonderful tennis to talk about today on the tennis podcast |
| 0:24.9 | because Ash Bart is going to play Arena Saberlench in the final. Can't wait to talk about how they |
| 0:29.2 | got there and to preview it and to talk about everything that's gone in the men's tournament |
| 0:33.7 | today. But we've just been talking about perceived wisdoms and I've just learnt one from Matt |
| 0:40.4 | Roberts about the length of his hair and how he got it, which has amazed me. What I said again, |
| 0:48.1 | what's the vegetable that you've been eating that has made your hair grow incredibly quickly in that? |
| 0:52.8 | Look at that facial expression from Catherine. She's not expecting the podcast. |
| 0:56.4 | Just start like this. Just definitely not perceiving it to be wisdom. |
| 1:00.0 | Are we recording? We are. Yeah, come on. Well, this is need to know this. |
| 1:06.3 | I was told that broccoli eating broccoli makes your hair grow quickly, but Catherine's very, |
| 1:12.2 | very skeptical of that notion. Well, I eat quite a lot of broccoli, Matt, and my hair grows very |
| 1:18.3 | slowly. Right. I eat quite a lot of broccoli in my hair grows quickly, but |
| 1:24.7 | David, a tie breaker. I'm the tie breaker. And don't worry about giving a good answer because no one's |
| 1:31.7 | listening anymore. So take your time. Yeah, well, I eat a normal amount and I've got a normal |
| 1:38.6 | hair grow length. So yeah, that's how we start in this show. So how's your day being? |
| 1:48.6 | Yeah, it's sort of relatively normal up until the last few minutes. |
| 1:54.3 | Yeah, what, what tennis talked about tennis came home talking about tennis again. Great. |
| 2:00.8 | On the telly. Yeah, and Matt has been doing other things other than just assessing his hair length. |
| 2:07.9 | He's been watching all these tennis matches. Let's start first of all. Before we get onto all the |
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