Canada - Halep & Carreno Busta champions, but what does it mean for The Mix? Coco Gauff is doubles No.1
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Simona Halep is back where she belongs - winning big titles and inside the World’s Top 10. How did she win in Toronto without always playing her best tennis? In what way has Patrick Mouratoglou helped her this season? And can she keep it going in New York? Catherine, David and Matt talk it all through at the end of a thrilling week.
Elsewhere from Toronto, there’s chat about Beatriz Haddad Maia doing big things, Iga Swiatek’s dip in form, and Coco Gauff becoming doubles World No.1. Over in Montreal, Pablo Carreno Busta beat Hubert Hurkacz to win the biggest title of his career, and he looked absolutely delighted about it. We talk about how he defied our expectations this week, what his victory means for the men’s US Open Mix, and a strong showing from Dan Evans.
And the tennis just keeps coming! With Cincinnati already upon us, there’s a battle for the men’s No.1 spot and huge excitement for Serena Williams vs. Emma Raducanu.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt Vellander. This is Mary Carillo. |
| 0:05.2 | This is Pam Shriver. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.5 | Well hello folks and welcome to your Monday tennis podcast where Canada has concluded |
| 0:27.5 | and Cincinnati has already got underway in earnest. It is that time of the tennis year where the |
| 0:34.3 | events come so thick and fast that they overlap and we love it. You find us in very hot and humid |
| 0:42.4 | climbs once again. I've got my air conditioner on so that's the hum that you can hear in the background |
| 0:48.5 | and I'm still sweaty and there's a hose pipe ban. So who knows what state of showering you will |
| 0:56.0 | find us in over the course of the next few podcasts? How are you coping David? |
| 1:00.8 | All right we have had a drop in temperature of about six degrees today to which I am able to |
| 1:08.7 | exist without being just sat there in a mess. But I mean it's I do love this this period of |
| 1:18.9 | tournaments. There's these one week mixed tournaments. I said on Thursday that I could imagine |
| 1:26.9 | just sitting there for 15 hours a day watching these matches and it's pretty much what I've done |
| 1:33.6 | and looking you know then I look to Matt sent through this Cincinnati highlights of the first |
| 1:38.2 | round and again it's just the same thing. It's just fantastic as a time of year. |
| 1:43.4 | And I know we have a B&O bonnet about this. This is very much pushing the tennis podcast agenda |
| 1:48.6 | but I do think last week and I anticipate the same this week is a great advert for one week long |
| 1:56.8 | 1000 events. Yeah and it's going the wrong way then because I mean they're actually going to |
| 2:02.2 | make these tournaments one and a half weeks aren't they and they're going to do the same with |
| 2:06.1 | Madrid and I do get here. I understand the point of trying to expand and build these particular |
| 2:15.1 | moments and names of venues and cities in the calendar and making a big fuss of them. I really |
| 2:20.4 | do understand that but it does dilute them and you do end up with days that are a bit |
| 2:28.0 | not that bothered about today or there's not that many big matches on today and |
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