Indian Wells - Rybakina vs. Sabalenka, The Rematch; Alcaraz is at 60% of his potential - Ferrero
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
The Indian Wells final will be a repeat of the epic Australian Open final between Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina. Sabalenka's victory over Maria Sakkari was no surprise, but Rybakina's 6-2 6-2 demolition of Iga Swiatek certainly was. Catherine, David and Matt analyse what went wrong for Swiatek and why that match-up causes her so many problems. Ahead of the men's semis, the next instalment of #DoorsteppedByDavid sees him speak to Juan Carlos Ferrero for more insight into Carlos Alcaraz's career.
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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. |
| 0:20.6 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast coming to you from tennis podcast towers. |
| 0:25.6 | Indian Wells, where our women's singles final lineup is set and tantalisingly it will be a repeat |
| 0:36.8 | of quite possibly the match of the year so far, the Australian Open Final between Arena Savalenca |
| 0:43.5 | and Elena Rabatkinner. Can I have a yes please? Oh yeah, you sure can. Yes please. |
| 0:50.7 | And with all due respect to Maria Sakari at the point that Arena Savalenca booked her spot |
| 0:57.5 | in the final by virtue of a competitive but convincing straight sets victory I think. |
| 1:05.3 | We were then at the stage where I think we knew we would guarantee a pretty epic final. |
| 1:11.3 | Sabalenca Shviontech. Yes please. Sabalenca Rabatkinner. Yes please. So that was a good place to be. |
| 1:20.3 | I don't think any of us quite expected what we ended up seeing tonight a match that finished |
| 1:26.6 | not long ago on our screens here at tennis podcast tower a thrashing for Elena Rabatkinner over |
| 1:33.7 | the world number one EG Shviontech. There is a lot to talk about David. Yeah, there is and it |
| 1:40.2 | actually I think before that match took place between Shviontech and Rabatkinner. I'd have been |
| 1:48.0 | a little bit disappointed. Had you told me that Sabalenca Shviontech was not going to happen in the final |
| 1:54.0 | even though we saw that incredible match in the final of the Australian Open. It's just been so much |
| 2:00.2 | at the forefront of our minds the idea that Shviontech is the best player in the world and Sabalenca |
| 2:06.3 | is the most recent Grand Slam champion. So them clashing is something to really get excited about. |
| 2:13.4 | Now that we're in this position and we've just seen the performance that Elena Rabatkinner put in, |
| 2:18.4 | I'm now properly excited about that as a final match up because suddenly Sabalenca and Rabatkinner |
| 2:24.4 | look in fantastic form and we know how well they gel as a final. But you're right there's a lot to |
| 2:30.9 | unpick because it wasn't just about Elena Rabatkinner being good and she was very very good. That |
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