Interview - ATP Boss Chris Kermode; Sharapova latest; Venus' Indian Wells Return
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
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🗓️ 14 March 2016
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
It’s been a turbulent couple of months for the boss of men’s tennis - ATP Executive Chairman and President Chris Kermode, who is a guest on this week’s Tennis Podcast, which is produced in association with the Telegraph.
An investigative report into suspicious betting patterns by the BBC and Buzzfeed led to allegations of match-fixing on the eve of the Australian Open in January, an independent review was hastily called by Kermode and the other governing bodies to look at make-up, funding and performance of the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU), and then the sport’s anti-doping process was thrown into the spotlight last week following Maria Sharapova’s revelation about a positive drug-test.
In a wide-ranging, 30-minute interview, Kermode, who has just been re-elected for a further three years, tells David Law about how the independent review into the TIU will work, how players are kept up-to-date with changes to the anti-doping banned list, and how the sport needs to educate the next...
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, this is Martina Navratlova and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:14.7 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast. This isn't David Law after consuming some helium. |
| 0:21.3 | This is Catherine Whittaker. We're having a bit of a roll reversal this week but I am of course |
| 0:25.5 | joined by David Law in the Putney Exchange David. It's wonderful to be back isn't it? |
| 0:31.7 | Where else could we possibly be? I can't believe you've name checked them after saying you wouldn't |
| 0:36.4 | last weeks so the random shopping centre it is. I'm not name checking the coffee shopper in |
| 0:42.0 | that's for sure. They're not they're not getting anything out of us for free. Now we have quite |
| 0:47.1 | the jam pack show coming up. I'm sure you can probably guess what a headline discussion topic is |
| 0:51.8 | going to be and we will come on to that very very soon. Rest assured but first of all we do have a |
| 0:57.2 | fairly major big interview this week with the newly re-elected CEO of Men's Tennis at the ATP |
| 1:05.0 | Chris Camo. David has hot-footed it from the Queens Club where he's been chatting to Chris. |
| 1:09.9 | How was he David? It was very well. I mean as you say it's there's a lot to talk about this week |
| 1:16.1 | generally and there's been a lot for him to deal with over the last couple of months but yeah I've |
| 1:19.7 | just spent half an hour with Chris in his office at the Queens Club. We've touched on all the |
| 1:26.0 | significant topics of the day the match fixing allegations that surfaced during the Australian |
| 1:31.9 | Open obviously the the anti-doping issues of the last seven days. We've also been talking about |
| 1:38.4 | the future of the game as he sees it. Some big changes potentially to the actual fundamental |
| 1:44.1 | elements of the game that are going to be trialled over the next couple of years. So it's an |
| 1:49.3 | interesting shot I hope you enjoy it. He's a known nonsense guy Chris isn't he. He gives a very |
| 1:53.9 | punch interview. It's very interesting. Do listen at the end of the show for that but of course |
| 1:58.0 | first of all we have to talk Maria Sharapova and the events that have unfolded over the last week. |
| 2:03.3 | We of course recorded that supplementary segment at the beginning of the last podcast to cover off |
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