Is Daniil Medvedev currently the best male player in the world?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Shortly after Daniil Medvedev won his second straight Masters 1000 title in Shanghai, debate raged on The Tennis Podcast WhatsApp group: is this just a 4-month hot streak, or is Medvedev actually the best of the ATP #NextGen and the current best in the world?
It's a conversation which Catherine Whitaker, David Law and Matt Roberts continue on this week's episode. They also get stuck into the other talking points from Shanghai, including ATP Finals qualification for Stefanos Tsitsipas, aggro involving Roger Federer, and Andy Murray telling Fabio Fognini to "shut up".
Elsewhere, there's chat about Coco Gauff winning her first ever WTA title and the headlines it generated, Dan Evans becoming the British No.1, and Marion Bartoli's coaching role with Jelena Ostapenko.
Finally, our Davis Cup Finals competition winner is revealed, and last week's big Solihull Showdown between David and Matt is re-lived.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McEnore, I'm Bjorn Borg. |
| 0:02.3 | This is Martina Navratelova, I'm Matt Svillander, this is Mary Carrillo, I'm San Roenka, I'm Lighten Hewitt, I'm Andy Marri, and you're listening to the Tennis Podcast. |
| 0:21.5 | Is Donald Medvedev the best tennis player in the world? |
| 0:26.7 | Male. |
| 0:28.0 | Catherine Whitaker, that is the question that was hanging in the air on our WhatsApp chat late last night. |
| 0:35.5 | Matt Roberts is here, it all kicked off. |
| 0:39.5 | Generally speaking, he has caused some consternation in tennis podcast towers over the last 12 hours. |
| 0:46.0 | So we've got Daniel Medvedev to talk about because he is the new champion in Shanghai. |
| 0:52.0 | We've got Alexander Sverev, his defeated final opponent to talk about, Stefan Asid-Supas, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Andy Murray, Coco Goff. |
| 1:01.5 | We've got our Davis Cup finals in Madrid competition winner to give a call to once we've found out who's won it. |
| 1:07.5 | Oh, my word, there's so much to talk about. |
| 1:10.0 | So answer my question, Catherine. |
| 1:12.0 | Well, you were one long pause and one word away from me having to do an Andy Murray impersonation. |
| 1:20.0 | Or I say having to meet delighting in doing an Andy Murray impersonation. |
| 1:24.0 | But a last. |
| 1:25.0 | Do it anyway. |
| 1:26.5 | Female player. |
| 1:28.5 | It wasn't my best. |
| 1:29.5 | Wasn't my best. |
| 1:30.5 | I thought it was going to be, I'm getting closer. |
| 1:34.0 | No, I didn't. |
| 1:35.5 | Daniel Medvedev getting closer. |
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