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

Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast. You join us just after Raphael Nadal has beaten

Roger Federer in the semi-finals of the ATP World Tour Finals, and we are inside the O2 arena.

Assessing the aftermath, Catherine Whitaker is here, and Catherine, you didn't see the good

bits of that match, did you? You arrived just a bit late, and you saw Federer on the

on the way in in that match, but what was your assessment?

Yeah, thanks to the wonder that is the London Underground. I did I did enter the arena a bit late,

and I missed what I'm reliably informed was was the most competitive part of the match, so

unfortunately my assessment is that I was hugely disappointed in the greatest of all time,

Roger Federer, I thought it was a tame performance at best. He started well, hold on, what time

did you get there? I've explained, I missed that, so. Well, what time did you get here when he

was having the break point or after? I walked into the arena just as Rapha broke for the first,

so the beginning of the run of three breaks of serve is when I walked in. Right, okay,

okay, well Catherine missed the bit where Roger Federer was the greatest player of all time,

the better player for part of it, but overall though, I mean first of all from a perspective

of Roger Federer, it's been quite a good week, hasn't it? Are you referencing him beating Delpho

to get to the... Absolutely, yeah, and I was going to get onto that, it's been an even better week

for those that have predicted that he would get to the semi-finals. Yeah, it has, it has, who are

those people? You're looking at one, yeah, and what was it you said again? I can't remember,

it's all blurred into just a big blur of terrible predictions by me, so I can't remember the

specifics anymore, because they're all just much of a muchness. See, honesty gets you out of so much,

if you're just brutally honest with yourself, anyway, just to remind you, Catherine Whitaker said that

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