GRASS!
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Clay has turned to grass and Catherine, David and Matt are back to discuss the stories of the swing so far. Catherine has been at Queen's for media day and she relates what Ben Shelton, Carlos Alcaraz and Holger Rune had to say, Andy Murray is on a 10-match winning streak at Challenger level, Frances Tiafoe has become a Top 10 player for the first time, and British women had a great week in Nottingham, right when they needed it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartorii. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary Carillo. This is Pam Shriver. This is Yannick Noah. |
| 0:07.6 | Hi, this is Hannah Timmons and you are listening to The Tennis Podcast. |
| 0:23.6 | Well hello everybody and thank you to Hannah Timmons for introducing this edition of The Tennis |
| 0:28.9 | Podcast. Hannah is one of our three executive producers and top folks and just underlining the |
| 0:36.0 | facts by introducing the show expertly. There with Catherine Matt and myself ready to chat post |
| 0:43.2 | Roland Garros and to talk about Grass Court tennis which suddenly seems very very strange and when |
| 0:51.6 | I've turned on the TV I have really not been ready for this. It's come upon me before I've really |
| 0:57.6 | had chance to think about it but I'm delighted to share a Zoom call with you both and to be able to |
| 1:03.3 | chat to everybody and to be able to welcome Hannah as our intro. If you'd like to introduce a show |
| 1:09.2 | you can do that by becoming a friend of the tennis podcasted intro level. Just go to tennis.supportingcast.fm |
| 1:17.3 | or our link is in the show notes. You can get access to the the review show that we did straight |
| 1:22.3 | after Roland Garros which had guests such as Mary Carrillo on and Pam Schreiver and Simon Briggs |
| 1:29.7 | and Christopher Clarey. We also did our Q&A show recorded on Finals Day actually on Men's Finals Day |
| 1:36.6 | with Catherine and Matt out in the open and it was a lovely Q&A show so there you go. Two shows to |
| 1:43.2 | catch up on but here's another one for you. Catherine how are you? Very well thank you. I've got |
| 1:49.6 | Clay to grass Whiplash as I think we all have. Players included but other than that's great. |
| 1:59.1 | Yeah Matt I don't know about you but I find the rallies suddenly very strange to look at because |
| 2:05.2 | they're so different. What rallies? Yeah it's also fast and different to the clay and yeah we've |
| 2:15.0 | had we've had months of watching clay courts and it's haven't we and I think that surface has |
| 2:19.6 | probably become my favourite over the years and suddenly we're on grass and it's all very quick |
| 2:26.3 | a bit like the grass court season generally really. You sort of have to save it while it's here |
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