Esther Vergeer - Undefeated
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Our guest this week is wheelchair tennis legend Esther Vergeer. One of the sport’s greatest ever champions, Vergeer spoke to Catherine about how turning to sport helped her after she became paralysed from the waist down as a child, why she embraced using a mental coach throughout her career, what it’s like psychologically to be on a 470-match winning streak, the time she almost lost at the Beijing Paralympics, designing her own wheelchair, how she feels about the word “inspirational” to describe disabled athletes, and her hopes for more integration in the future.
The Tennis Podcast is presented by Catherine Whitaker and David Law, and features Matt Roberts. It is produced on Mondays and Thursdays, and daily during the Grand Slam tournaments.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartori. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Matt Svillander. This is Mary Carillo. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm Sunroenka. I'm Lighten Huet. This is Janik Noah. |
| 0:08.1 | This is Eleanor Jordi from Dresden, Germany and you're listening to a gem |
| 0:13.7 | among podcasts, the tennis podcast. |
| 0:16.7 | So thank you very much Eleanor. What an absolutely lovely intro to the show, |
| 0:31.7 | Catherine, and fitting that it is for a show in which you are interviewing |
| 0:37.2 | somebody who is as wonderful as Estevegear as everybody's going to get to hear. |
| 0:41.2 | But Eleanor is really got the right idea, I think, for the intros. |
| 0:46.6 | Yes, I am always fabulously impressed by people who can use colloquialisms in their |
| 0:53.6 | non-native language. So to call this a gem of a podcast in what is at least Eleanor's second language, |
| 1:02.0 | I find very impressive and heartwarming. |
| 1:04.8 | Indeed, and Matt, hello, how are you? |
| 1:07.0 | Hello, fine, thank you. I think Eleanor started the intros arm race that developed last year. |
| 1:13.9 | She did one for us last year as well and jazzed it up and ever since |
| 1:17.8 | has sort of set the bar. So thank you Eleanor. |
| 1:20.4 | How wonderful. Well, if you didn't know, the reason Eleanor got to introduce our shows because she |
| 1:25.7 | helped to fund the tennis podcast in 2021. She was part of our crowdfunding effort at the |
| 1:30.8 | last end of last year. We'll be doing the same thing again at the end of this year. |
| 1:34.9 | And if you want to introduce the show, you'll be able to then. |
| 1:38.0 | So something a bit different for today's tennis podcast. We have an interview for you with |
| 1:44.0 | Esther Vaguerre, who is pretty much the most successful tennis player that has ever lived. |
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