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

Well hello and welcome to the tennis podcast. It is Sunday night after a big week in the tennis

world and we are putting together a very off the cuff tennis podcast here for you. I only

decided to do it about half an hour ago. It's a good good job. Catherine's in, isn't it? I asked

about half an hour ago if she founded doing the tennis podcast and lo and behold she did.

Because Catherine, we have a great storm come in tonight so nobody's going out. Has your house

stayed up so far? Apparently it's going to be bigger than the 1987 storm. Even Michael Fish has

been treating about it, such as the magnitude of the weather we have coming our way so.

Yes, for overseas listeners, Michael Fish is a weather forecaster who once said famously in 1987

that the storm that was on its way was nothing really to worry about and lo and behold it blew

down half the country but we don't call them hurricanes over here but that's more or less what we're

talking about tonight and it's getting a bit blustery outside my window. I don't know what it's

like where you are Catherine but I don't think we would get too much of a good game of tennis going

if we went out there now. Now I think these are what you call challenging conditions to say the

least. Actually it's a good job but obviously with the purity of my hitting from the bass line I'd

still be all right I think but I think you're you're sort of kind of more agricultural style would

struggle in this. Agricultural style. I do even know if that I don't know whether to protest about

that I don't know whether it's an insult or not so maybe I'll leave it to hang in the air.

I'm just going on the evidence your brother has given me from your previous matches. Anyway we move

on that's the weather forecast outside you know you didn't know you're going to get that as an

optional extra here on the tennis podcast but you have but today we've had a couple of significant

finals and first of all we should really start with the the WTA finals in Istanbul and

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