Hurkacz, Rublev rip it up in Shanghai; The best show in tennis is back

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Sports & Recreation, Wimbledon, Sports

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

After 12 long days, Shanghai is finally over, and it was won by Hubert Hurkacz over Andrey Rublev in the final. Catherine, David and Matt chat about both players and get stuck into all the other major talking points from the week, including Grigor Dimitrov’s victory over Carlos Alcaraz.

On the women’s side, there’s chat about a special victory for Jessica Pegula in Seoul, a thrilling final in Hong Kong which was won by Leylah Fernandez, and Zheng Qinwen’s impressive run of form continuing in Zhengzhou, where she won the title and then did some karaoke.

Elsewhere, there’s news of the cancellation of the ATP event in Tel Aviv, the decision to keep Cincinnati in Cincinnati, a potential Holger Rune-Boris Becker partnership, and an update from Rafael Nadal about his fitness.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mayan Bhattori.
0:03.1	I'm Mats Villander. This is Mary Carrillo. This is Pam Shriver.
0:06.4	This is Yannick Noah.
0:07.6	Hi, this is Ryan Bennett, Nasi Connect living in the Central Coast, Australia.
0:11.3	And you're listening to The Tennis Podcast.
0:13.8	Hello and welcome folks to The Tennis Podcast. Introduced this week by, as you heard,
0:31.8	their Ryan Bennett and Aussie Canuck in Australia. Is he Australian? Is he Canadian?
0:38.4	Who can say? Apparently not even Ryan, but those are two excellent
0:43.8	countries. Both tennis hosting countries. I visited them both on several occasions and
0:50.4	enjoyed them both. Very much indeed. David, how are you doing?
0:54.8	I'm very much okay because Solid Hold has decided to give us just a little bit of sunshine
1:02.2	just for the back end of, can I call it even summer?
1:06.9	I can't really. It's autumn now, isn't it? It's fall, as the Americans like to say.
1:12.3	And yeah, so I'm all right, thank you.
1:15.5	Mats, how are we doing?
1:18.0	Very well, thank you. At my seaside retreat this weekend, also known as my parents,
1:24.0	and it's been lovely here too.
1:27.7	We after 12 long days, folks, have finally reached the end of the A2P Masters 1000 event
1:37.4	in Shanghai. And that also means that we are finally back into a normal ATP timetable
1:45.8	in terms of tournaments starting at the beginning of the week and ending at the end of the week.
1:51.6	And can I have an alaelulia for that, please? Because I was at no point in the last month of
2:00.0	that situation. Did I ever really get a handle on it? Full disclosure, I never really got a
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