Hi, I'm Matt Svillander, and you're listening to the tennis podcast.

With the US Open just around the corner, since the Natty Take Centre's

stage is the main preparation for the final grand slam tournament of the year.

We assess our attempts to pick a non top four type of winner in Toronto.

Well, it didn't go very well. And with rather more success, we speak to the world number 15,

now in chillich, right here on the tennis podcast.

Well, yes, welcome to the tennis podcast. I'm David Law, I've worked in tennis for about 15

years. Now I'm happy to say and I'll shortly be off to the US Open in New York for BBC Radio 5 live.

I'm joined by Catherine Whittaker, who's been alive about as long as I've been watching tennis.

Haven't you, Catherine? I'm older than 15. Come on.

Well, so you say you've got that youthful look to you.

But we're now into episode 9 here on the tennis podcast. We hope you're enjoying the podcast

every week, and we're certainly enjoying delivering it to you. This week we've got a

cracking interview with Marin Chillich, who is a player that we've been following the progress

off for a number of years now. He's had some great results. He's coached by one of my favourite

people in tennis Bob Brett, and we'll talk a little bit more about Marin before we get into

his interview. But what a few weeks has sported has been. I mean, the Olympics are over,

and it feels in great Britain at the moment, as if we've descended into sort of one big

funk, as the Americans might say it, because I don't know about you, Catherine, but it just

exceeded my expectations in just about every way. I wasn't that pumped up about the Olympics

until it really got underway, but it was amazing. I think a lot of people felt that way,

actually, that they were sort of not necessarily anti, but just not, you know,

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