Hi, I'm John McIner, and you're listening to the Tennis Podcast.

Well, hello. Welcome to the Tennis Podcast.

Yeah, that's about how enthusiastic I feel about this emergency podcast too.

This time it's serious, Catherine, because this isn't just Patrick Avittiver, semi-finalist,

predictor, who's let me down and gone out in the first round.

Juan Martín del Potro, US Open Champion of 2009, man in whom I put so much faith

has gone out as well in the second round. What is going on?

What's going on, David, is I think you've put the curse on people.

Right. So that's how it works, is it?

Well, I have to say, as much as I was scathing or implicitly scathing of your prediction

of why Martín del Potro to win, I certainly was not predicting him to go out in the second round.

I will not answer you. What you were actually saying, you actually said,

that sounds like a banana skin. Well, yeah, I could claim that anybody

that heard any slight sarcasm or a slight sardonic tone in my voice on yesterday's emergency

or two days ago's emergency podcast were misled and actually there was none of that.

But no, I'm going to be honest and say, I really didn't think that was a banana skin and I am

surprised. As much as I wasn't predicting him as the eventual winner, I wasn't predicting him

to go out to Batista Agusta in the second round and well, I'm a bit torn really because

I want del Potro to do well, but I am enjoying this moment rather a lot also.

Great. Okay, well that's that dealt with. Well, it was a funny old day, wasn't it yesterday?

I mean, finally they decided to invoke this extreme heat policy and I think the word came

through at 1.53pm that this was all happening and matches stopped at the end of sets,

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