Halep & Nadal Win In Canada; Tsitsipas Comes Of Age; ATP Finals Venue Up For Tender; Davis Cup Vote To Take Place
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
With David away on holiday, The Telegraph’s Charlie Eccleshare joins Catherine on The Tennis Podcast to review the action from the Rogers Cup in Canada, where world No.1s Simona Halep and Rafael Nadal picked up the titles in Montreal and Toronto respectively.
Halep battled past Stephens in a thrilling final. Can the pair now establish a genuine, lasting rivalry at the top of the game? And is it too early to call them the two clear favourites for the US Open?
Nadal, meanwhile, withstood the challenge of Stefanos Tsitsipas. The Greek beat four top-10 players in a row to reach the final, capturing hearts and turning heads in the process. What makes him so exciting to watch? Can he win a Grand Slam title before Alexander Zverev?
Speaking of Zverev, he described his match with Tsitsipas as “pathetic” and said his opponent didn’t even play that well. It’s fair to say those comments divided opinion, but what did Catherine and Charlie make of them?
Other talking points to come out of Canada included promising signs for Jo Konta and Stan Wawrinka, a glimpse of the Shapovalov-Auger-Aliassime bromance and a positive player response to the shot clock.
Elsewhere, with the news this week that the venue for the ATP Finals after 2020 is being put out to tender, Catherine and Charlie weigh up the pros and cons of moving the event away from London’s O2 arena.
Finally, this Thursday will see member nations vote on reforming the Davis Cup. The specific proposals, and the wide-ranging reactions they have provoked, are discussed.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi I'm John McEnore, I'm Bjorn Borg. This is Martina Navratlova. I'm Matt Svillander, I'm |
| 0:05.1 | San Roenka. I'm like New York, I'm Andy Murray and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast brought to you in association with the Telegraph |
| 0:24.7 | and with Amazon Prime Video UK, the home of the US Open in the UK and of the Labour Cup as well, |
| 0:30.0 | the US Open looming now just two weeks around the corner. I'm Catherine Whittaker, I'm joined |
| 0:36.5 | in Telegraph Towers by Charlie Eccleshire of the Telegraph. Charlie what are my chances of |
| 0:42.3 | bumping into Boris Johnson around these parts should I be prepared? Yeah I think it's a fairly |
| 0:47.3 | long shot but you know constant vigilance just in case he's around and I've just offered you two |
| 0:52.2 | have a nice I've kind of done my Boris impression. You have in fact that's very very good. |
| 0:56.4 | You tell me he's not a nine to five chain to the desk kind of a guard. Yeah you always see him in |
| 1:01.6 | here just you know writing away at his column yeah he's a regular then postwork down at the pub. |
| 1:07.5 | Potentially has other fish to fry just Boris Johnson all of our non-British listeners are |
| 1:12.2 | scratching their heads and possibly tuning out so we will get onto tennis very very quickly. David |
| 1:16.4 | Law incidentally is swanning round Croatia at the moment Charlie you've been following the tennis |
| 1:22.4 | bit of football as well your latest piece is about Nigel Winterburn playing football with Nigel Winterburn. |
| 1:26.7 | I hope this isn't too great to come down for you. Yeah exactly yeah sort of the that piece about |
| 1:33.9 | the delusions that us amateur footballers have and sports people of any kind I think I really |
| 1:40.8 | really struck a note I think for anybody David Law I hope you're listening that's had one really |
| 1:45.8 | great game of tennis or insert sport here and thought yeah I reckon I could take or you know maybe |
| 1:51.2 | not like Federer on a dial but you know someone ranked like I don't know like 200 in the world I've |
| 1:56.1 | fancy my chances. Yeah no absolutely I've heard that I put it that football is in the headline but yeah |
| 2:00.5 | I referenced a couple of other sports in there as well and our very own Simon Briggs who went and |
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