Episode 52 - Could Martina Navratilova coach Laura Robson? Andy Murray's back, OBE or Drugs Test, and Federer - by the man that beat him in his first final.

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2013

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Laura Robson needs a coach. Martina Navratilova wants to be a coach. Is it a perfect match? Andy Murray is out for the season. Will he ever reach No.1? Roger Federer can't hit a barn door at the moment. Should he retire? And what was he like when he was young? We speak to the man that he grew up idolising, and who beat Federer in his first final.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm John Mackenore and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:13.0	Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast. It's been a while, hasn't it? I think about a month
0:17.2	in total and I don't know what you're thinking. We said we would keep this going a bit more regularly
0:21.4	than we have. Well, it's my fault, but here we are now, so let's say no more about it and just crack
0:25.7	on show. We're there's lots to talk about because we haven't been here for a while. Catherine
0:29.2	Whittaker's here. Hello, Catherine. I am here. Hello. Yeah, this is in fact the second time
0:33.7	today. We've tried to do this because we've already recorded the podcast once, but brain box
0:38.4	are Britain over here managed to mess up the recording. So this is the second time we're doing it
0:44.3	today, but this one's going to be even better than the one that you never got to hear. There's
0:49.1	lots to talk about as we discussed and I suppose we should start with Andy Murray, who when we were
0:55.2	last speaking when I was at the Davis Cup in UMAG was David. David, when we were last speaking,
1:01.5	it was an hour and a half ago. Let's be clear about this. Okay, all right, when we were last
1:05.6	speaking in a podcast that people could hear before I wiped it off the computer without actually
1:10.3	publishing it, he was absolutely fine by the looks of things because he was doing very well in UMAG,
1:17.2	helping Great Britain back into the world group. However, now he's had a back surgery since then.
1:21.9	What do we think about that? Was it the right decision? He's not going to play for the rest
1:25.9	of the year. We don't even know if he'll be fit for Australia yet. Yeah, all sorts of question marks
1:31.4	hanging over Andy Murray. I mean, yes, there's speculation about Australia, but you've got to think
1:35.9	that the decision he's made to have the surgery and the timing of that decision is in order that
1:41.2	he can come into the 2014 season, fresh and healthy and prepared for an assault on the number one
1:49.3	and to win more slams. I think it certainly sounds rather drastic back surgery,
1:55.0	but I completely trust Andy Murray's judgment in his decision, so I think it can only be the right
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