Hi, I'm John Mackenore and you're listening to the tennis podcast.

Well hello and welcome to the tennis podcast. We are halfway through the US Open. It is Sunday

morning in New York where I am. It is Sunday afternoon where Catherine Whittaker is. We've already

had five, when I was six, in fact, fascinating days of tennis in New York. Lots of stories developing

and plenty still to come. We've got your questions to answer as well. Catherine, how are you doing?

I'm doing very well. Thanks. Better than you, I think. What do you mean? What's wrong with me?

Well, I know you spent your morning either watching or listening to West Brom lose.

Yes. Well, we won't talk about that. Right. In fact, I'm going to just forget this. I'm not,

I'm not doing the tennis podcast today. I'm in a bit of a stinking mood and if anybody can think of

a way to cheer me up, do let me know. But now all right, well, we'll crack on and we'll talk about

tennis and I'll try and put it behind me. We had, let's talk about the story of the week so far and

it has to be the person who comes from my hometown in Solihul in the West Midlands, Catherine. Mr.

Dan Evans, who would have thought that a 23-year-old who's ranking is 179 in the world and who was

three or 400 in the world earlier this year could have beaten Canis Shikuri having qualified,

then backed it up with victory over Bernard Tomic and very nearly managed to beat Tommy Robredo

last night. He had two set points to take it into a fifth set and it was, it was a fantastic

performance from the young man, wasn't it? Very impressive indeed. I don't have the same

West Midlands bias that you have, shall we say. And I still found it very impressive.

Yeah, I thought he, well, I mean, to say out of the blue, I mean, I know he'd reached the

final of a couple of challenges, hadn't he, and he had match points in both of those, which you

could see as either a positive or a negative. And you've got to perhaps wonder if those two double

faults really served against Robredo last night at a key moment, perhaps that was playing on his

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