Cheap, flat and shallow. Did anyone really win the Battle of the Sexes?

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Wimbledon, Sports, Sports & Recreation, Tennis

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Catherine and Matt are joined by The Athletic’s Charlie Eccleshare to review The Battle of the Sexes and look ahead to the new tennis season.

Part one (00:00 - 27:12) How did the reality of the Battle of the Sexes compare to our low expectations?

Part two (27:13 - 45:51) Juan Carlos Ferrero opens up on his split from Carlos Alcaraz.

Part three (45:52 - 1:20:13) 2026 season preview starting with the United Cup as Jack Draper withdraws.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is John from Cambridge, Massachusetts, and you're listening to The Tennis Podcast.
0:16.8	Well, hello, and welcome to the tennis podcast podcast introduced beautifully, commandingly there by John in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
0:28.1	You can get yourself an intro or a shout out on this show at any time of the year.
0:32.8	The link to become a friend of the pod is in the show notes.
0:35.9	Friends also get access to the barge, our online community platform,
0:40.3	Hannah's column, our brilliant writer,
0:42.4	our entire archive of Friends shows and at least 25 bonus episodes of the tennis
0:48.7	podcast every year, including Tennis Relived, our history series,
0:52.4	our Grand Slam review shows, tennis podcast
0:55.5	meets our new edition for 2025, which will continue into 26. We'll continue until we've met
1:02.1	all the tennis players in the world. So I think we've got a good time to run on that. And of course,
1:07.5	12 live Q&A shows every year as well. Plus, we still have some pet mascot slots to fill, some guest editor slots and some Grand Slam prediction slots available for a couple more weeks as well.
1:19.2	Our presenter mascot slots have been snapped up.
1:24.4	More news on that in the coming days, folks.
1:32.5	Watch this space. Matt Roberts is here. Hello, Matt.
1:41.2	Happy holidays. How was your Christmas? Hello. It was very, very nice. Thank you. I am still at my parents,
1:45.9	heading back to London tomorrow, but it feels nice to be doing a podcast again. I feel like we did four in the week leading up to Christmas, and then to go a week
1:50.5	without one is a bit sort of destabilising. But here we are. We're back, and it's good to see you,
1:57.1	Catherine. Were you, Matt, on Christmas Day, doing the sebco steve ovett thing of sort of
2:03.5	practicing your podcasting knowing that none of your rivals would be just keeping that edge over
2:08.5	everyone else i actually wasn't i can't speak for Caparine.
2:18.7	That folks, oh, you don't want to know what I was doing on Christmas Day.
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