Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary Carillo.

I'm Stan Ravinka. I'm Lainey Neut. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast.

So Croatia are our first Davis Cup finalists. They will meet the winner

of Germany against Russia, which will be played tomorrow Saturday as we come to you on Friday night.

It's 20 past 10 UK time, 20 past 11 Madrid time and Matt is still toiling away and won't be joining us tonight.

But don't you worry, you will get all of his his views and insights on tomorrow's podcast when he'll be back.

But we're just letting him off the hook tonight because he has a workload, the size of

it's not like in the thick of it when you've got a hilarious analogy just to your fingertips.

I can't think of a funny thing that's big. Well given that Novak Djokovic mentioned Mount Everest

in his press conference, should we go with that? The size, it's not funny though, is it? It needs to be

irreverent. The size of you know, Marantillic's mental baggage. Oh, wow, there's a bit worried there.

Anyway, he'll be back. You've got David and me to digest a big win for Croatia, not thanks to

former USA Open Champion Marantillic, but in fact, thanks to the World No. 1 doubles pairing

of Nicolamettic and Matte Pavic and the World No. 279, Borner Goyo. He's the man, David.

Well, I've realized, actually, I feel quite bad about this, but I inadvertently, well,

I'm not inadvertently because I knew exactly what I was saying when I said it, I think I called him

and the other No. 2 and no hope the other day in just sort of casual chatting about my theory

for Waker, he would win the whole thing, being that you only need the one good singles player

and I meant Marantillic, who has now won one and lost three. And between them, they've gone four

and no with the other two. It's incredible. And Borner Goyo has won all three of his. He is a heck of a

player. I mean, he had a bit of a meltdown in the first set today, but a bit. He was four, one up,

nearly last five days in a row. I tell you what, it was a slightly weird semi-final all round,

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