Episode 30 - Sue Barker On Wimbledon 1977 - 'It was the most harrowing, hurtful experience', The Return of Nadal, One Week Wonders
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2013
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In 1977, Britain's Sue Barker stood on the brink of reaching the Wimbledon final for the first time. She had won the French Open the previous year, beaten her semifinal opponent on each of their meetings that year, and was already thinking about a potential final against Chris Evert or Virginia Wade. And then she lost. Now the presenter of BBC Television's Wimbledon coverage, Sue talks to the Tennis Podcast about an experience from which she says she never recovered.
In Episode 30, we also discuss the return of Rafael Nadal, and the rise of Horacio Zeballos, while trying to assess whether this is the start of his rise to the top, or the peak of his career.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Matt Svillander and you are listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast, apologies in advance, but you should expect |
| 0:18.1 | a bit of a breakfast in episode 30 of the show. |
| 0:21.1 | What with FedCut victories for Great Britain and our special guest, the 1976 French Open |
| 0:27.4 | Champion and BBC presenter is Sue Barker. |
| 0:30.8 | That's our special guest today in what I have to say is a absolutely riveting interview. |
| 0:37.0 | I mean, it's one of the best I think we've ever done and I hope you'll enjoy that with |
| 0:41.5 | us. |
| 0:42.5 | We will throw in a healthy dollop of Raffa on the dial and review the week's tournaments |
| 0:46.9 | of course as well. |
| 0:47.9 | We'll do a preview of this week and our talking point of the week will be players that had |
| 0:53.2 | won incredible World Beating Week and then pretty much disappeared without trace or at |
| 0:59.2 | least didn't follow it up. |
| 1:00.8 | So before we get into that, we'll just explain who we are. |
| 1:04.4 | Shall we? |
| 1:05.4 | I'm David Law, a BBC Radio 5 Live tennis competitor. |
| 1:08.7 | I'm joined here on the tennis podcast by Catherine Whittaker. |
| 1:12.8 | Catherine, how you doing? |
| 1:13.8 | Hello, hello, I'm doing very well. |
| 1:15.8 | Good and Catherine travels the world with the greats of the game on the ATP Champions |
| 1:19.7 | Tour and has worked with me for the past six years. |
| 1:23.9 | It has been... |
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