Davis Cup Quarters - Edmund Soars, Croatia Creates History, US Crashes; Poll Vault Launches
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2016
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
After Andy Murray won Wimbledon he was straight on a plane to Serbia for the Davis Cup quarterfinals. But not to play.
This time it was another British player - Kyle Edmund, who was the hero.
Catherine Whitaker and David Law convene to cover a cracking Davis Cup quarterfinal weekend in which both Croatia and the United States made history, but for rather different reasons.
And we enter the Poll Vault. Don't ask.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Andy Murray and you're listening to the tennis podcast |
| 0:14.8 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast brought to you in association with the telegraph and brought to you for once |
| 0:21.4 | Not from the all England law tennis and croquet club because David and I are in our respective homes |
| 0:26.7 | Me and London and David in well sunny Birmingham David is it sunny? I'd go as far as say glorious |
| 0:34.0 | Glorious this is this is the sort of thing that that people on the weather forecasts |
| 0:37.9 | Just call a heat wave and newspaper headlines call it |
| 0:41.5 | Scorcher yes for once the weather is front page news |
| 0:45.1 | Which is nice to see and it has been a glorious weekend of sport |
| 0:49.9 | Davis Cup tennis is played a very significant part of that but what a weekend of sport for one thing |
| 0:56.0 | It was with you know the open golf the test match at lords. There was |
| 1:00.9 | Drama in the Tour de France with Chris Frey walking part of the stage |
| 1:05.8 | I mean, it's just been the most fantastic |
| 1:09.2 | Advertisement for sport over the past few days and it's fantastic that the Davis Cup has played such a big part in that |
| 1:15.4 | We being the bias British people that we are are going to deal with the GB Serbia tight first |
| 1:21.8 | And I think that's deserved because it was a fantastic tie and in particular if it has a fantastic tie for mr |
| 1:29.7 | Kyle Edmund wasn't he good? I remember when we were up in Glasgow David for the semi final last year |
| 1:36.0 | Against Australia and there was talk about whether or not Kyle Edmund |
| 1:39.4 | He was named in in the team, but he actually didn't end up playing any of those matches in that tie and there was there was talk |
| 1:46.4 | potentially of him being put forward and and the word was that he |
| 1:50.0 | Just wasn't ready for it mentally wasn't ready for the pressure. He was getting very stressed out by it |
| 1:55.9 | Well, how if that is the case and those were just you know rumours behind the scenes |
| 2:01.9 | What a remarkable transformation development it has been then for Kyle Edmund over the past what? |
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