Comebacks Special - Agassi, Seles, Capriati ... Borg
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2016
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Inspired by the returning Juan Martin del Potro, BBC 5 Live and BT Sport commentator David Law, and Eurosport presenter Catherine Whitaker discuss the most memorable tennis comebacks of all time - those that turned out well, and those that didn't
Hear about Seles returning from being stabbed. Agassi's response to plummeting to 141 in the world. Capriati being irrelevant in the game for 5 years and returning to win Slams. Clijsters having a baby and then winning big.
And many more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Laiton Huet and you are listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Comebacks, comebacks, comebacks. Who doesn't love a good tennis comeback? |
| 0:17.0 | Whether it's Andre Agassi plummeting outside the world's top 100 and coming back to world number one, |
| 0:22.0 | Monica Sellers winning a grand slam after being stabbed |
| 0:25.0 | or Martina Hinges reinventing herself in her second comeback as the world's best doubles player. |
| 0:31.0 | And those are just the happy stories. |
| 0:33.0 | You're a sports Catherine Whittaker and myself David Law are here to talk about all of them |
| 0:38.0 | with a little help from your good selves, that tennis podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | Our tennis comeback special is inspired by one Martined Del Potro who played, |
| 0:49.0 | I think, his fifth match in about two years. |
| 0:53.0 | It was this last week Catherine Whittaker, it was a joy to watch him and to see him smile |
| 1:00.0 | because he's had such a miserable time of late. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah, he looked like he enjoyed a tennis match about as much as anybody ever has. |
| 1:07.0 | Great win for him over Jeremy Shoddy, I mean that'll do him the world of good. |
| 1:11.0 | I mean every match will have done but that win in particular I think to be able to beat a top player, |
| 1:16.0 | gosh, that will have been food for his soul, disappointing lost to Sam Quarry but he's a sort of person |
| 1:23.0 | he don't want to play on the combat trailer, is it big serve, no rhythm. |
| 1:27.0 | Didn't have a chance to see much of his matches, I saw glimpses here and there. |
| 1:31.0 | I've heard talk that he's not able to hit the two handed backhand like he was, |
| 1:36.0 | he's having to slice a lot more but I mean he's got such power on the forehand side. |
| 1:42.0 | I think if he really can have a good go at this comeback now I think there's every chance he can get back |
| 1:49.0 | somewhere near the top of the game somewhere near. |
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