Davis Cup Semis - Argentina Break British Hearts; Face Croatia In Final
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
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🗓️ 18 September 2016
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Juan Martin Del Potro came close to hanging up his tennis racquet for good 18 months ago. In Glasgow he did what no man had ever done before - beating Andy Murray on home territory in the Davis Cup, as Argentina eventually knocked out the defending champions Great Britain.
After his win over Murray, he spoke to BBC 5 Live commentator and Tennis Podcast presenter David Law about the experience.
And, moments after Leonardo Mayer sealed victory with a win over Dan Evans, Law joined Murray’s former coach Miles Mclagan to discuss where the tie had been won and lost, o consider how long Murray might need away from the game to return energised, and to look ahead to the Davis Cup final between Argentina and Croatia.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McInery. I'm Bjorn Borg. This is Martina Navratlova. I'm Matt Svillander. I'm |
| 0:05.2 | San Roenka. I'm Lainey Njut. I'm Andy Marri and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:19.9 | Well hello and welcome to the tennis podcast brought to you an association with the |
| 0:23.2 | tenor graph. My name is David Law. I've been here in Glasgow at the Davis Cup semi-final |
| 0:28.5 | between Great Britain and Argentina which has just finished with Argentina winning it |
| 0:34.1 | three-two to get through to the final four the fourth time, fifth time in fact for them. |
| 0:40.0 | They're going to try and win it for the first time and Great Britain just coming up short as they |
| 0:45.5 | tried to respond from zero to down after the opening day. I'm joined by Mars McClaggan |
| 0:52.0 | former Great Britain Davis Cup player and five live tennis summariser who's been with us all |
| 0:58.4 | weekend. You've been with us all the way through this extraordinary run to the title last year, |
| 1:04.0 | Mars and right here to the semi-finals. It's been it's been some weekend, doesn't it? And I mean |
| 1:10.5 | it ended today ultimately in defeat for Great Britain but what a performance today specifically |
| 1:17.1 | from Leonardo Meyer in that fifth and designing rubber. He was really impressive and I know he's |
| 1:22.6 | you know he's outside the top 100 now but you know he showed why he's been up to 21 in the world |
| 1:28.5 | and especially after the start of Dan Evans got off doing the Argentine captain said he'd |
| 1:34.1 | started a little bit nervously but you know overcame that and it was a really commanding performance |
| 1:38.8 | but he said it's been we've been lucky it's been a great run of of ties so many home ties |
| 1:45.6 | it's been a lot of fun I suppose you know it's in a way it's just kind of one that got away but |
| 1:50.9 | I'm sure a few of our opponents along the way have said that as well. Yeah well absolutely right |
| 1:55.1 | of course one thinks back to when we were here 18 months ago watching James Ward come back from |
| 2:00.3 | two sets to love down to to defeat John Isner. The first rubber of the tie was a real battle |
| 2:07.3 | of the Giants wasn't it literally unf figuratively speaking in the case of one Martin Del Potro but |
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