Collins' streak continues as WTA heads for Saudi Arabia
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2024
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
For the second week in a row, Danielle Collins headlines the pod after she kept her winning streak going in Charleston. Catherine, David and Matt try to find new things to say about her incredible form and wonder once again whether this puts her In The Mix at the remaining Grand Slams this year. Elsewhere there's chat about some surprise winners on the clay on the ATP Tour in the form of Matteo Berrettini, Hubert Hurkacz and Ben Shelton. We also discuss the news that the WTA Finals are heading to Saudi Arabia, Rafael Nadal's withdrawal from Monte Carlo, and some changes to doubles which are going to be trialled by the ATP in Madrid.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi this is Billy Jean King this is Marion Bartori I'm Matt Villander this is Mary |
| 0:04.9 | Carillo this is Pam Shriver this is Yannick Noah hey all this is Carol Allen in |
| 0:09.8 | South Carolina and I'm proud to be a friend to the tennis |
| 0:29.5 | podcast on a fine spring day in southwest London David's here. How are things in Solihull David? |
| 0:36.8 | The same Catherine. It's only taken till mid-April and yes you've just been showing us Billy Jean's pause which aren't caked in mud which is a bit of a win I'd say. |
| 0:51.0 | A bit it's it's a lot of a win is what it is. David, they've been caked in mud |
| 0:56.8 | solidly for the last six months. Yeah, we're entering the portion of spring where it really it doesn't matter what outer way you select when |
| 1:07.2 | leaving the house it will be wrong. Matt how you doing? I'm very well, thank you. I feel like we increasingly start with the |
| 1:17.2 | weather on the tennis podcast and I'm really enjoying that theme. Yes, I think it's because I always have, I always walk Billy Jean before we record on a Monday |
| 1:31.0 | so that she's tired and doesn't insert herself energetically into |
| 1:36.4 | into the recordings but that also means that I have to so we schedule our |
| 1:41.8 | recording time and then I work backwards from there and it's |
| 1:44.7 | always a dilemma about whether I allow for bath and blow dry time, which means getting out the door for the walk extra early and today I gambled on not |
| 1:57.0 | requiring a full bath and blow dry and for once it has paid off. Just to... I mean we're Brits aren't we? The weather is a |
| 2:07.9 | big feature of our lives. Thank you incidentally Carol, for a particularly beautiful and lilting introduction to the show today. |
| 2:18.4 | Carol was a media center volunteer at the WTA event in Charleston this week and her |
| 2:26.6 | daughter was ball crew at the event as well so it feels very fitting that Carol is introducing the show today |
| 2:35.1 | because Charleston is where we begin the show today with Daniel Collins once |
| 2:41.8 | again lifting the trophy. |
| 2:44.6 | She beat Daria Kazakina. |
| 2:45.9 | She thrashed Daria Kazakina. |
| 2:48.5 | 6-61 in the final, her 13th win in a row backed up what she did in Miami last week |
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