Episode 50 - US Open Finals preview with John Lloyd, Jill Craybas and the BBC Radio team

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Wimbledon, Sports, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

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🗓️ 8 September 2013

⏱️ 8 minutes

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On the eve of the US Open finals between Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka, and Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, we enter the BBC Radio commentary box to get the views on what will happen from a woman that has beaten Serena - Jill Craybas, an Australian Open runner-up John Lloyd, the BBC's Tennis Correspondent Russell Fuller, and BBC producer Steve Jones.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm John Mackenore and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:12.8	Hello, this is the tennis podcast. Thank you for joining us on the eve of the two grand slam
0:17.7	finals at the US Open. You join us inside the commentary box of BBC Radio three hours away
0:23.8	from Victoria Azarenca against Serena Williams. Catherine Whitaker at the moment is back in the UK.
0:29.6	We haven't got her on the tennis podcast today so there'll be no arguments nobody to annoy me
0:34.3	instead I've got a range of guests who are all very well qualified to talk about these two
0:39.4	grand slam finals. The big question is how do you beat Serena Williams? Let's ask somebody who's
0:45.3	done it. Jill Kraybass. How'd you beat Serena? How did you do it? To be honest I think everything
0:51.2	was just going right for me that day. It was on grass and this was in 2005 so the grass was
0:57.6	a lot different than it is now. It bounced a lot lower which helped me because I'm not the tallest
1:01.6	person but I literally just was swinging away and it was one of those days that I just felt everything
1:08.1	everything felt good and I just went for my shots and didn't think about the score I didn't think
1:12.4	about what was happening and just played great and I was able to hold myself together a match
1:17.0	point and come out with the win. I suppose that's what Victoria Azarenca's got to do. She very
1:21.3	nearly did it last year didn't she? Do you think that will help her or do you think that that might
1:25.8	have been a big chance? I think that's definitely going to help her because she knows
1:30.3	how to play Serena now. She's beaten her twice this year. Still hasn't beaten her out of the slam
1:35.1	but I think she's really looking forward to this opportunity because she feels more confident now
1:40.4	in playing her. She has a better idea of her strengths and weaknesses and she knows she's going
1:44.8	to have to fight for every point and fight till the end and she's ready to do that because she's a
1:49.2	fighter. She's going to win then. Well just I've watched both of them play today and I definitely
1:56.0	think she has a chance no doubt about it. I mean she's gotten this far she's in the finals of course
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