Cincinnati update - the quest for the title, form, and rest
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Catherine, David and Matt get together for a catch up at the halfway point in Cincinnati. There’s chat about the gruelling turnaround after Canada, some high profile withdrawals from the women’s draw, why Serena Williams vs Emma Raducanu wasn’t the memorable occasion we expected, Raducanu’s improved form, Iga Swiatek’s criticism of the balls, struggles for Naomi Osaka, the emergence of Ben Shelton, Rafael Nadal’s defeat to Borna Coric, and Andy Murray’s cramping issues.
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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. |
| 0:20.4 | Well hello podcast fans and tennis fans and greetings from the South Coast of England. |
| 0:28.5 | I don't know why I'm talking like a buttlin's red coat maybe because I am on the South Coast of |
| 0:34.4 | England which I realised Matt for you is not exciting at all because it's where you live but for me |
| 0:40.9 | very exciting. I am on holiday briefly coming home tomorrow. Does that mean you're just permanently |
| 0:49.1 | on holiday Matt? I've just been on I've been on a ferry. I've paddled in the sea. Is this just |
| 0:56.8 | everyday life for you in Pogna? Welcome to my world. Yeah. In fact I ran round buttlin's in Pogna |
| 1:02.8 | this morning. What a life. He's done there David. He's just he's become one of those people |
| 1:08.6 | that drops in that he's been for a run. Drops his exercise routine. Yeah. One step away from |
| 1:16.9 | sharing pictures of your Strava and that is when you know we love Matt's stat Matt but |
| 1:24.8 | you would have to disown me. That is too high a price to pay for a stat. |
| 1:31.4 | A global on the same page about that David how you doing? |
| 1:35.2 | All right I'm in the midlands. I'm done no exercise. Not on holiday anymore. Just been watching. |
| 1:43.5 | Still got a tan though. I've still got a tan. I'm barely moved from the TV screen because of all the tennis |
| 1:48.7 | since been great. Yeah I mean I'm going to I'm going to start this podcast in exactly the same way |
| 1:55.1 | I started was it the last podcast or the last but one podcast and just praising the one week |
| 2:03.8 | 1000 event format because it's just been joyous. Yesterday schedule I think was one of the best |
| 2:12.0 | single day orders of play I have ever seen and that is what that is what you don't get at a grand |
| 2:18.9 | slam. You get lots of other great things that you don't get at a 1000 event but you don't get |
| 2:24.3 | that dense a schedule of just oh my goodness me it's all too much. I'm going to need 17 screens. |
| 2:32.8 | It's overwhelmed me. Rebecca and I move the roots of what caught exactly the Wimbledon champion |
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