Coaching carousel reaches crescendo; Off-season news and views
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2024
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Catherine, David and Matt convene to catch up on all the latest news from the off season and to look ahead to 2025.
Part one - Coaching updates. Hubert Hurkacz hires Ivan Lendl AND Nicolas Massu; Donna Vekic teams up with Sascha Bajin; Emma Raducanu starts working with fitness trainer Yutaka Nakamura.
Part two (from 32 minutes) - Davis Cup Final 8 moves to Italy; Del Potro’s sad farewell in Argentina; Joao Lucas Reis Da Silva becomes first active male pro player to come out as gay; WTA Awards.
Part three (from 54 minutes) - Djokovic to start his season in Brisbane; United Cup preview.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billy Jean King. |
| 0:01.9 | This is Marion Bartoddy. |
| 0:03.2 | I'm Matt Svillander. |
| 0:04.4 | This is Mary Carrillo. |
| 0:05.5 | This is Pam Schreiber. |
| 0:06.5 | This is Janik Noah. |
| 0:07.7 | Hi, this is Mark from Jackson Hole, Wyoming. |
| 0:10.8 | And you're listening to David, Catherine, and Matt on the tennis podcast. |
| 0:33.8 | Thank you. Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast introduced expertly there by friend of the pod, Mark Ladd. |
| 0:39.8 | I don't know if that's a Wyoming accent that Mark has, but I like it. |
| 0:47.2 | I'll assume that's a Wyoming accent, and I'll now add Wyoming to the list of accents that I like. |
| 0:55.1 | Mark is one of many lucky friends of the tennis podcast who are now listening to us ad free. |
| 1:00.9 | Yes, we relaunch Friends of the Tennis podcast last week with our brand spanking new categories. |
| 1:04.7 | Pet mascot slots up for grabs again, guest editorship. |
| 1:11.3 | Unfortunately, all the slots in our brand new fantasy tennis league have been snapped up. |
| 1:14.7 | But there are plenty of other fun things still available. |
| 1:22.3 | And everybody that is a friend of the tennis podcast now at any level gets to listen to us ad free. |
| 1:25.4 | So lucky, lucky Mark. |
| 1:29.3 | And thank you for introducing the show so beautifully there, Mark. |
| 1:31.6 | We are knee-deep in the off-season. |
| 1:34.5 | The Maldives posts have been and gone because we are now at the pre-season training block stage of the off-season. |
| 1:41.0 | So the hashtag gifted, thank you to the Hilton Mandarin Oriental insert |
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