Indian Wells Review; Osaka & Del Potro shine, Federer flounders at the final hurdle
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
With Juan Martin Del Potro and Naomi Osaka mixing up tennis’ natural order in Indian Wells, Catherine & David meet in the Putney Exchange to discuss what the pair’s respective victories mean for the future.
Does Osaka have the desire and ruthlessness to propel her to World Number One? And how powerful a role model could she end up being? Can Del Potro continue his rise back up the rankings? And will Federer maintain his Number One status, and beard, in Miami? And how good was that final??
Also discussed is the ATP and ITF ‘arms race’ to stage the definitive tennis team competition. Is further division the last thing tennis needs? Plus Catherine gets a long-awaited chance to talk about her love affair with gin and tonic.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McEnore. I'm Bjorn Borg. |
| 0:02.2 | This is Martina Navratlova. |
| 0:03.7 | I'm Matt Svillander. |
| 0:04.9 | I'm San Roenka. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Lainey Nguet. |
| 0:06.8 | I'm Andy Murray. |
| 0:07.6 | This is Michael Siegel and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:21.5 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast, |
| 0:23.5 | Portina Association with the Telegraph and with Euro Sport. |
| 0:26.5 | And today presented alongside the likes of Andy Murray and Martina Navratlova |
| 0:32.1 | by Michael Siegel, who I think is Mr Trick by not pronouncing his name to the gal, |
| 0:36.7 | Aless Steven Siegel. But anyway, |
| 0:38.4 | In fact, you got quite excited about the prospect of Michael Siegel, the new son Michael. |
| 0:42.3 | Michael Siegel, one of our kickstarter backers who is chair of the pensions committee |
| 0:47.5 | for the WTA tour, which sounds like a pretty interesting job. |
| 0:51.9 | Pretty stand-up job, isn't it? |
| 0:53.6 | Pretty stand-up jobs. |
| 0:54.5 | So Michael Siegel, not Siegel. |
| 0:56.5 | Thank you very much, providing that lovely intro to our show today. |
| 1:01.6 | A little bit of housekeeping, David Law, who joined me at Costa Coffee in the Punt New Exchange, |
| 1:06.0 | before we start talking about this week's tennis. |
| 1:08.5 | And that is to say that last week we persistently mispronounced the name |
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