Davis Cup - The Djokovic Catalyst? Kyrgios Comes Good Again; Kasatkina’s First Title; The Mary Carillo-Steve Simon Interview

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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After a Davis Cup weekend in which Lleyton Hewitt got the very best out of Australia, France’s strength in depth quelled Great Britain and Novak Djokovic played his first tie in more than a year, the Tennis Podcast team assembled to discuss the results. Is Nick Kyrgios’ recent excellence now just ‘a thing’? Could Britain have done any more? And will Djokovic returning to the Davis Cup fold be the catalyst for renewed form on the singles circuit?The podcast team also discuss the first title won by 19-year-old Russian Daria Kasatkina, the somewhat less-than-gracious runners-up speech of her opponent Jelena Ostapenko, and the subsequent tweet of Elena Vesnina, who wasn’t impressed. On-court coaching again comes up, as does player ‘grunting’ in a review of Mary Carillo’s interview with WTA CEO Steve Simon on the Tennis Channel. The Tennis Podcast is a weekly, downloadable tennis audio show presented by Catherine Whitaker (Eurosport) and David Law (BBC 5 Live, BT Sport), with daily editions during the...

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Andy Murray. Hi, I'm like New York. Hi, I'm Matt Vylander. Hi, this is Charlie's Mum and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:19.2	Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast brought to you in association with the telegraph and with
0:24.8	Euro Sport and this week this special week brought to you in association with Kay Anderson
0:30.9	Chivers that was Kay's voice that you heard in her intro and Kay as she explained in her intro
0:38.7	is the mum of Charlie the Ferret, one of our very favourite hashtag tennis podcast pets David Law.
0:46.5	Yeah and there are so many of them and yeah basically Charlie has his own Twitter account and I've
0:54.7	been following his his journey in Instagram in fact I do get my social media.
0:59.7	Following his journey. Yeah, so anyway Charlie the Ferret is a tennis podcast listener and we're
1:07.1	very grateful for the support given us to buy Kay Anderson Chivers thank you very much.
1:11.9	We are can I suggest a Kay that maybe Charlie considers trying his hand at tennis predicting because
1:19.2	animals it turns out are quite good at that so yeah just just a thought to see if if Charlie's got it
1:24.8	in him to I don't know predict the winner of the French Open or something like that but anyway we
1:30.0	love him regardless of his predicting skills and we're very happy to have his mum on our intro
1:37.2	this week David Law of BT Sport, Fame and BBC Radio and all the rest of it joins me of course
1:46.0	David has a week been. Oh it's been glorious glorious weather at the weekend in the UK
1:51.2	even you seem jolly so must have been good and yeah I was watching and listening or most
1:56.6	specifically listening to the master's golf last night and getting hammered by various people
2:02.2	on social media about my comparison of Sergio Garcia who had turned pro 17 years before he finally
2:10.8	won a match. We're not doing this David. And go around in the east of it who 14 years after turning
2:17.0	pro finally won his first major. Yeah but it's a completely different sport those years in the
2:22.7	context of the sport those years don't mean the same thing it is an absurd comparison. No it
2:27.7	isn't it's absurd it's a very very good one in terms of feel you have two hugely popular
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