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Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast after Andy Murray and Thomas Burdich have just reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open and joining me, David Law.

Having just commentated on five live sports extra on Andy Murray's progress is Catherine Whitaker. Hello, Catherine.

Hello, David. And Gigi Sammon. How are you, Gigi? I'm good. How are you, David?

I'm very well. We had fun on there tonight, didn't we? We did. It was always going to be a fun match and I think Andy Murray's performance just made it that extra bit special.

He was on fire tonight, wasn't he? He beat Nick Curios in straight sets and before we get on to talk more about that, guess who our special guest is today, Catherine?

I'm telling you, it's Gauron even his image. How about that?

I get to introduce the guests. That's the theme we've established.

Well, he's coming up later because he's not with us at 11.30, whatever it is at night time, but we've already had a good chat with Gauron.

You'll be hearing that very shortly. But the match is today. First of all, I have to say it, Catherine Whitaker was right because Raffa and the Dal did indeed lose to Thomas Burdich.

Why many people predicting that a week ago were they, after his 17 match, losing streak, but there was I putting my neck on the line and for once it paid off.

You were banged on. What a performance that was by Burdich, Shiji. Did you tip an adult in with the tournament?

I can't really remember that. It's a long time ago now, yes it did. No, I said it gets to the final, didn't I, and lose to Jacques of Edge, but he didn't.

It was a great performance. I think a lot of people after we were talking about Nadal now, he wasn't quite right, but I think we have to give credit to Thomas Burdich.

He's got a twinkle in his eyes, got Danny Valverde on his box, he got engaged last week, and everything seems to be falling into place.

Having had such a bad run against Nadal, there's no matter what kind of Nadal Nadal is a fighter, he will stay there, he'll keep putting balls back into court.

Thomas Burdich was too strong, he was just on it from the start. Thoroughly deserved it, but I'm still really surprised at that straight set score line.

Yeah, because the only one two games did Nadal in the first two sets, Catherine.

Extraordinary, I'm sure the ITF can produce a statistical, and the last time that happened to Nadal and Grand Slam was, I certainly can't recall it.

I suspect you'd have to go back to a decade ago, or something similar. It was extraordinary. I was quite impressed with, I don't think it was a sensational performance by Burdich.

I think it was a very good performance, a very mature performance, because he sort of realized I don't need to hit the lines every time here.

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