French Open - Djokovic Makes History, How Many More Will He Win? Muguruza Comes Of Age; Serena - Still On For The Record?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2016
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
He’s only the third man to hold all four Grand Slam titles at the same time, just two behind Rafael Nadal on 14, and five behind Roger Federer on 17, but where will Novak Djokovic end up when his career finally comes to a close?
In a Tennis Podcast to review the men’s and women’s French Open finals, we flash back to when presenter David Law interviewed Federer in August 2010, while the great man was the same age as Djokovic is now (29), and on 16 Grand Slam titles. Law asked Federer if he would be satisfied with another three major titles over the five years that followed.
Hear what Federer had to say.
So, where was Djokovic’s final against Andy Murray won and lost? And how big an impact has his coaching team, led by Boris Becker, had? All discussed on the latest podcast.
The rise of Garbine Muguruza to Grand Slam champion is also covered, as is the pursuit of 22 major titles by Serena Williams. Will she finally get over the line at Wimbledon? Co-host Catherine Whitaker goes...
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McIner, I'm Bjorn Borg. |
| 0:02.4 | This is Martina Navratlova. |
| 0:03.9 | I'm Matt Vylander, I'm San Roenka. |
| 0:06.1 | I'm like Newt, I'm Andy Murray, and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:09.6 | The tennis podcast, the tennis podcast. |
| 0:22.5 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast, brought to you in association with the telegraph. |
| 0:27.7 | It is a tennis podcast, brought to you at the end of finals weekend of the 2016 French Open |
| 0:33.6 | and Water Finals weekend. It has been, we have seen a new French Open champion crowned in the |
| 0:38.4 | men's and the women's, Garbenia Mugoratha winning the women's titles and of course, |
| 0:43.5 | Novak Djokovic lifting the Novak slam, the career grand slam just earlier on today beating Andy |
| 0:49.8 | Murray in the men's final joining me to dissect both those matches is of course David Law. |
| 0:55.7 | David, how are you doing? |
| 0:57.0 | I'm very well, very well, just listening to that intro does make me realize how this could have |
| 1:02.3 | gone either way, you know, you're talking about Novak Djokovic winning the career slam and winning |
| 1:08.2 | his first French Open. It could so easily have been so in a Williams making her history, it didn't |
| 1:13.5 | happen for her, didn't happen for Andy Murray, it did happen for Garbenia Mugoratha. |
| 1:17.6 | It was a great weekend for me in that regard, the fact that we just had no idea what was going to |
| 1:23.1 | happen and any of the results would have been a big story and we've got a couple of caucus there. |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah, well, we'll start with Corkin number one and I think we'll start with the men's final because |
| 1:33.5 | it is most recent, it finished just a few hours ago and of course, Novak Djokovic was the champion, |
| 1:38.9 | but there's a little bit more to it than that. It was a little bit different to their recent |
| 1:43.8 | grand slam final clashes, certainly very different to their Australian Open final encounter in that |
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