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The Tennis Podcast

Episode 64 - Is Nadal vs. Djokovic The Greatest Rivalry Ever?

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Sports & Recreation, Wimbledon, Sports

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2014

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

A couple of hours after Rafael Nadal overwhelmed Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic beat Ernests Gulbis in the French Open finals, Catherine and David got together to predict winners for the finals, and ponder whether Nadal vs. Djokovic is the greatest rivalry of all time. 

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0:00.0

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

0:12.8

Well hello and welcome to the tennis podcast. My name is David Laura. I'm a tennis commentator for

0:17.8

BBC Radio 5 Live and BT Sport and also the media director of the Aegon Championships at the

0:23.9

Queen's Club and I'm joined by Catherine Whittaker. Also a tennis broadcaster and someone who has

0:29.5

hotfooted it from working at Raleigh and Garros to the Queen's Club where we now sit in a deserted

0:35.2

media centre where it is very much the calm before the storm. In a few days time hundreds of

0:40.6

journalists, photographers, broadcasters will arrive to what is effectively a number of converted

0:47.7

squash courts in the Queen's Club to cover the first grass court tennis tournament of the year.

0:52.8

But first Catherine as we sit here on Friday night trying to digest the days tennis in Paris.

0:59.1

We've arrived at exactly the final we all expected. Or at least I expected.

1:05.8

You pressured me into a prediction. I knew you were predicting the boring old

1:12.4

Nadal, Nadal, Jochwitz. Accuracy. So I thought oh you know I'll throw a bit of a

1:17.1

spanner in the works and I'll go with my heart rather than my head. You know I'm younger than you.

1:22.0

I'm more naive and more hopeful. So I threw a mohri prediction in there and I now feel

1:29.2

incredibly stupid. But there we go. I did it and I did it on the record thanks to you. So there it is.

1:36.0

Excellent and if you wonder where this prediction was about four hours ago on Twitter and if you

1:43.3

don't follow us on Twitter at tennispodcastes where you do to be and first of all why don't you follow

1:48.7

us on Twitter. So correct that immediately. But yes Catherine was forced into making a prediction

1:54.9

believing that I would then follow and make one myself. But no I didn't. I just let Catherine say

2:00.0

Murray in four, wasn't it? And then that didn't happen. My memories got foggy. It might have been

2:08.2

Murray in four. I can't exactly remember what it was. It was something like that. It might have

2:13.2

been Rafferntree or it might have been Murray in four. He knows. Yeah it was Murray in four. And I

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