Indian Wells - Dream semis set; David doorsteps Darren Cahill
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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A stunning semi-final line-up at Indian Wells is set: Iga Swiatek vs Elena Rybakina, Aryna Sabalenka vs Maria Sakkari, Daniil Medvedev vs Frances Tiafoe, and Carlos Alcaraz vs Jannik Sinner. No notes. But lots of analysis from Catherine, David and Matt about how they all got there and what might happen.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary Carillo. |
| 0:05.3 | This is Pam Shriver. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.4 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast brought to you from tennis podcast towers |
| 0:25.9 | Indian Wells on the second Thursday of the BMP Paribar Open 2023 where our semi-final |
| 0:35.5 | lineups in both the men's and the women's tournaments are set. The quarterfinals have been taking |
| 0:41.6 | place today and yesterday and what we have for you is fire emoji fire emoji fire emoji. |
| 0:50.6 | We've got arena saboteca against Maria Sackery and Eagish Fiontec against Elena Rabatkinna. |
| 0:58.5 | That is three the three leaders of L race in 2023 in saboteca, Shiontec and Rabatkinna and |
| 1:10.2 | we're Sackery who's also quite good. Very good. And it's also the three reigning Grand Slam champions |
| 1:17.6 | in the women's draw and the men's semi-finals will be Danil Mubbett of against Francis TFO |
| 1:24.0 | and then Yannick Sinner against Carlos Alcaraz. Can I have a yes please? |
| 1:30.0 | Okay, sure, yes please. Yes please. No notes. No notes. We will chat about all those quarterfinals |
| 1:37.0 | that we've seen but yeah it is shaping up to be a pretty special weekend actually I think David. |
| 1:46.2 | I think if you were to write down your preferred semi-final lineup it would be pretty much that |
| 1:55.2 | at the start of the tournament. I can't think of maybe we might throw an Andy Murray in there |
| 1:59.8 | or someone like that but that is a blockbuster lineup. As I said before no notes. It's going |
| 2:08.8 | to be a quick podcast David. It's going to be like the good old days before we got shown up by Matt. |
| 2:15.0 | Yeah, when we just used to chuck opinions around without much evidence. |
| 2:19.9 | Before we get into the eight quarterfinals that is right right eight quarterfinals yes two times |
| 2:26.0 | four is eight. Well done mate. Well we get on this show aren't we? Before we get into all of that |
| 2:32.1 | big news. Yeah very big news. Big news we have a Roland Garros ticket promotion to bring you |
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