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

Hello and welcome to the Tennis Podcast the morning after the Australian Open Men's Singles Final in which a new Grand Slam champion was crowned.

And Catherine Whitaker, it wasn't exactly your average final.

Well, I've certainly never seen a final like it. I don't know about you.

It's very odd, usually a final involving injury is utterly anticlimactic and very much lacking something.

I mean, obviously there were periods in it where that was the case, but it didn't lack for drama and excitement and atmosphere.

Certainly considering how heavily affected it was by Raffa's obvious back injury.

Yeah, so there was certainly plenty going on, that is without question.

But it was a bit weird. I mean, I think first thing to say is for the first set, I think Stanislaus Vavrinka was winning fairly and squarely.

I don't think most people didn't know when the injury started, particularly when Benito Perez-Baba-Dio, the PR manager of Raffa on the Dow and a regular listener to the Tennis Podcast I might add.

Hello, Benito. He did tweet after Raffa had gone off the court for a medical time out.

His displeasure at the crowd reaction who did roundly boo Raffa that I was returned to the court and Benito wasn't happy with that.

And he made clear that obviously there is a physical problem there.

But speaking to him afterwards, I interviewed Benito for BBC Radio 5 Live and he did confirm that

there wasn't a specific injury going on to the court of that type.

I mean, he said he had niggles but he did something on the court and that tallade would what Raffa said pretty much when he came into interview afterwards.

So it was a very strange evening and what we mustn't do, I think, is take anything away from Stanislaus Vavrinka who got the job done.

Yeah, and what you say there about it was something he did on the court.

I think that's crucial because that means that that first set in a half, set in a third, was a level playing field.

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