Indian Wells - Murray gives Thiem, Berrettini, Raducanu reason to hope
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
A couple of days into the Indian Wells action, Catherine, David and Matt catch up on what they've seen so far, including defeats for Stefanos Tsitsipas, Matteo Berrettini, Denis Shapovalov and Dominic Thiem, and wins for Andy Murray, Emma Raducanu and Maria Sakkari.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt Vellander. This is Mary Carillo. |
| 0:05.3 | This is Pam Shriver. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.8 | Well hello folks and welcome back to Indian Wells where it's Friday night. It's 9.35 pm as we come |
| 0:29.0 | to you from tennis podcast hours myself David and Matt we've got the tennis on the |
| 0:34.5 | tally. We've been at the Indian Wells tennis garden all day. We're now back at base watching |
| 0:39.5 | on the tally. There's still a lot of matches still to be played still to even start quite frankly. |
| 0:45.5 | Round two matches being played just at the moment and the reason there's still so many to be played |
| 0:50.7 | today is because it bloomed rain. What was all that about? I mean I was not happy this morning. |
| 0:57.6 | I mean I wasn't happy with the cloud. I had no clue that there was rain on the way and I mean |
| 1:04.5 | it disrupted things for probably not that long based on normal tennis tournament standards but |
| 1:12.4 | Indian Wells standards category. I mean you looked at me as if to say this had never happened to you |
| 1:18.4 | before. Well it didn't even occur to me as a potential obstacle in our day or any of our days. |
| 1:28.2 | Throughout this tournament so yeah as normal as it is in tennis it just wasn't on my radar for |
| 1:34.8 | this tournament and I was most displeased by it and the place looks all wrong in the rain doesn't it |
| 1:42.7 | you said Matt it's like a British seaside town out of season it just looks looks and feels wrong |
| 1:50.0 | dystopian somehow. I mean still an absolute delight don't get me wrong just less of a delight. |
| 1:56.4 | And then you get all the classic tennis things that it doesn't really know how to behave properly in |
| 2:04.9 | the rain because instead of covering the court with a tent like thing as as Taylor Swift would say |
| 2:11.4 | they they get leaf blowers out to try and dry the courts and they're just sort of pushing water |
| 2:18.0 | around pushing it around then you're thinking there must be a better system than this one |
| 2:25.0 | and yes I speak as someone who who went out to watch will ye beeing versus Alejandro |
| 2:30.8 | Davidavitch Vakina for seven. I was gone a while I was gone a while I saw two points |
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