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Well hello folks and welcome to the tennis podcast following day four of the Davis Cup

Finals in Malaga. I'm Catherine Ritsky. David Law is here. Hello David. Hello. Hello. No pressure

David but you have got to be extra excellence tonight because we are once again without the star

of the show Matt Roberts. Good luck us. Good luck us. We are we're sort of torn here between

telling you that the show will not be depleted in any way and will be excellent and

we'll make up for the absence of Matt but also very much knowing that we are much depleted without

Matt and he is much missed. He's still feeling under the weather so we sent him our best and I'm

sure you do as well and we will do our very best to make up for his absence in full knowledge that

we will not fully succeed in that task but the tennis today David has gone a long way to do the

work for us hasn't it because it all played out in pretty dramatic fashion today. We know our first

Davis Cup finalists and it is team Australia and if you'll allow me to to slap and explicit

sticker on this podcast less than two minutes in to quote Max Purcell there's nothing fucking like

it mate. That's exactly what he said and to be honest that was his first answer on international

global television live because he was asked the question how does this feel and that's

that's exactly what he said and it did make me laugh because there wasn't time for the

interviewer to to even apologize and laugh or anything and actually I just think you get to a point

of delirium in a stadium like that where you just think well that is an entirely appropriate

reaction for what we've just witnessed and and the celebration is the same. I loved it.

I loved it. Which would just so euphoric and the players were swearing left right and center at

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