Goodbye Rafa

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Wimbledon, Sports, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

The day has come: Rafael Nadal has announced that he will be retiring at the Davis Cup Finals in November. Catherine, David and Matt assemble to react to the news, discuss how it's left them feeling, and share a few Nadal memories. There's also two big announcements from Wimbledon to discuss, reports of a possible ATP-WTA commercial merger, and some appalling behaviour from players towards umpires in Shanghai.

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0:00.0	Hi this is Billy Jane King this is Marion Bartotti this is Biancon Dreskou I'm Matt's Villander this is Mary Carrillo this is Pam Shriver this is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast, a tennis
0:26.8	podcast that we were not expecting to record today, an emergency tennis
0:31.6	podcast. Why are we coming to you in the middle of a
0:35.2	Thursday? I hear you ask. Well it is because today is the day that we had
0:40.5	confirmation of the end of an era 20 past 10 this morning it landed in
0:46.4	our inboxes the news that one of tennis's greats is to retire at the end of this year yes Richard Gaskay and his career shall be no
0:58.4	more I joke I joke but that is
1:05.0	poor old Richard Gasske did announce his retirement overnight and in truly fitting Richard Gascae fashion he has been somewhat gazompt by Raffal Nidal who after 22 years on tour will finally call it quits at the end of this year
1:28.0	at the Davis Cup finals in Malaga in front of home fans aiming to win a fifth Davis Cup title with Spain
1:36.6	to add to his four already his two Olympic gold medals his 92 career singles titles of which 22 are Grand Slam titles.
1:47.0	An incredible career, an incredible era,
1:50.5	one that is going to draw to a sad close for Raffa Nidal and for everybody that has enjoyed the career of Raffa Nidal, which is almost all tennis fans, I think. David David's here Matt is back David whilst everybody else is in
2:07.7	emotional despair and turmoil right now you're thinking to podcast day.
2:13.0	Brilliant.
2:14.0	Exactly, yeah, we've got the live
2:16.6	and a to come tonight for Friends of the Tennis Podcast so you can join us on there
2:20.4	and chat away and give us your memories of Raphael the Dow, which I'm very much
2:25.6	looking forward to. But yeah, I mean when this broke and actually on top of some other quite significant
2:31.6	news, it just felt we've got to do this.
2:34.0	We've got and I frankly I wanted to know what you two had got to say and and
2:38.1	remember back a little bit about Raffa Dau's, you know, it's funny that breaking the news about Richard Gaskin and obviously that is amusing. But they do have such parallel careers in terms of timing because it was the same year that I heard about them for the first time and that was 2002.
3:02.0	Gascay was really the one he was
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