Cincinnati - Kerber Comes Up One Match Short; Cilic Conquers Murray But Brit In Perfect Pre-US Open Shape; On-Court Coaching Time Machine

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

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🗓️ 22 August 2016

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Angelique Kerber stood on the brink of World Number One, but ran into Karolina Pliskova playing at the very top of her game.

Andy Murray faced something similar in Marin Cilic, who won his first Masters 1000 title. But despite the defeat, podcast presenters David Law and Catherine Whitaker reckon he is in perfect position ahead of next week’s US Open in New York.

Grigor Dimitrov, the Tennis Podcast’s favourite player, started to look like his old self last week. Is he back?

And, as on-court coaching became a factor again last week in Cincinnati, we ask which matches might have changed history had on-court coaching been a factor.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm John McInerd. I'm Bjorn Borg. This is Martina Navratlova. I'm Matt Vylander. I'm
0:05.2	Standruinka. I'm Lighten Youet. I'm Andy Murray and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:19.8	Well hello and welcome to the tennis podcast brought to you in association with the telegraph.
0:23.9	We come to you just 24 hours or less in fact since the Cincinnati tournament concluded we are just
0:30.7	a week away from the start of the year's final Grand Slam tennis tournament Catherine Whittaker is
0:36.6	here. I'm here David Law. We are here to talk about tennis and we are here first of all Catherine
0:42.1	Whittaker to talk about Angelique Kerber falling one match short of world number one. Ouch.
0:49.3	Yeah it's got to hurt. It's been a tough couple of weeks for Angelique Kerber. I reckon that
0:54.4	Olympic loss hurt and I think this one probably hurt as much. I mean the fact is with the rankings
1:03.6	the factor remains she's incredibly close to Serena Williams and will have future chances to
1:08.1	catch her up. I think we're going to discuss how that could possibly happen at the US open how
1:13.7	desperately Serena Williams will want that not to happen because she is on the brink I believe of
1:19.4	well if she were to win the US open she would break one of Steffi's records but she could
1:24.8	potentially break another of Steffi's records is that right? Yeah that's right because if she were
1:32.3	to get through the US open Serena Williams and still be number one in the world so if she
1:38.8	accumulated enough points she would go ahead of Steffi graph in terms of consecutive weeks
1:45.1	at world number one. Serena Williams has amassed 184 weeks at number one in a row she's just behind
1:52.2	Steffi on 186 so in three weeks time three three three Mondays worth basically that would take her
1:58.9	through the end of the the US open so if she could do that yeah she'd be the most can the player
2:05.5	is accumulated the most consecutive weeks at number one ever which would be a nice little landmark
2:11.4	to go with all the others she's third currently Serena Williams in terms of weeks total at world
2:17.2	number one but this was Angelic Kerber's opportunity certainly first opportunity to overhaul her
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