Canada - Mboko stars, but what to make of Naomi Osaka?

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Wimbledon, Sports, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Catherine, David and Matt were live on Friday night to look back on the dramatic final few days in Canada and ahead to Cincinnati.

Part one - WTA Montreal. Rarely have we felt such conflicting emotions watching a tennis match as we did during Victoria Mboko’s victory over Naomi Osaka. For Mboko, what made this run so special? And what does this title mean for her future? But what happened to Osaka? How much criticism should she get for her post match speech? And where does this tournament leave her?

Part two - ATP Toronto (43m20s). Ben Shelton won his first Masters 1000 title. What developments did we see in his game this week? What gave him the edge over Karen Khachanov in the final? And what’s his US Open Mix status?

Part three - Coaching news and Cincinnati preview (66m57s). We cover Emma Raducanu’s decision to work with Francisco Roig, Holger Rune hiring Marco Panichi, Aryna Sabalenka adding Max Mirnyi as a consultant, and the breaking news that Stefano Vukov has had his WTA Tour suspension lifted.

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1:04.2	Thank you. Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast on a Friday night if you're with us live, I think outside of Grand Slam Daily's and Billy Jean King Cup and Davis Cup
1:33.7	dailies, this might be our first live Friday night podcast.
1:39.5	So anything could happen, folks.
1:43.1	Disco David is here. Hello, David. Hello. Hello. I've never been called
1:49.6	that before. I really like it. Just came up with it. Yeah. I didn't have time to workshop it, but I quite like it.
1:55.8	Do you know, I used to hate, I used to hate discos when I was, when I was of an age that I was supposed to go to them.
2:03.7	And now that I'm in my 50s...
2:04.6	Do you mean school discos?
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