Jamie Murray No.1; Miami Memories; Your Rubbish Predictions
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2016
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Four years ago, Jamie Murray had more doubles partners than months in a year, couldn’t reach the final of a futures tournament in Loughborough and looked as if he was going to retire. Now, he’s the World No.1
In the latest Tennis Podcast, Catherine Whitaker and David Law discuss his huge, history-making achievement, and that of Jo Konta and Heather Watson reaching the last 16 in Miami.
There’s a recap of the events that have followed since Novak Djokovic sparked an equal prize money debate a week ago, discussion of a rare occurrence - Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer withdrawing from a tournament through ill health, and memories of Miami, which used to be called the 5th Slam.
And listeners and presenters come together for a cathartic admission of their most rubbish tennis predictions, including ‘I picked Ryan Harrison for Top 10’, ‘I said Roger Federer would retire in 2008’, and ‘I thought Novak Djokovic would be a one-slam wonder’. Oops.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Andy Murray and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast brought to you in association with the telegraph. |
| 0:19.0 | We are at the halfway stage of the Miami Open and my word has been a lot to catch up on. |
| 0:25.0 | Because Great Britain has a world number one tennis player for the first time ever in many people's books. |
| 0:32.0 | Some people are saying that Virginia Wade managed to get there in 1975 as a doubles world number one, |
| 0:41.0 | but they weren't really doing the rankings back then. |
| 0:43.0 | Jamie Murray, we absolutely know, is the world number one doubles player at the moment or he certainly will be when the rankings are released on Monday. |
| 0:52.0 | And so fantastic achievement for him. |
| 0:55.0 | We've also had Heather Watson and Joe Conter from a British perspective getting into the last 16, the first British woman to do that since Joe Jury in 1988. |
| 1:06.0 | And there's two of them who've managed to do it. |
| 1:08.0 | We'll be discussing our Miami memories. |
| 1:10.0 | There's many of those from over the years. |
| 1:13.0 | And we're going to have our own little game of confessions in the appropriately named My Rubbish Prediction. |
| 1:21.0 | In honor of Catherine Whitaker, who's right here on the tennis podcast, Hello Catherine. |
| 1:25.0 | Not for long if you carry on like that David. |
| 1:27.0 | Well accurate, you know. |
| 1:29.0 | We'll find out it's been a very cathartic week discovering how many other people have made predictions as rubbish as me and are prepared to admit to them as I seem to do weekly. |
| 1:40.0 | Yeah, certainly all of them combined probably do add up about the same numbers you've made in total. |
| 1:46.0 | But anyway, we've got other things to discuss before we get onto my rubbish predictions. |
| 1:51.0 | And it is a rather more serious discussion that we need to have just to follow up on last week when obviously the news broke of Ray Moore's comments. |
| 2:03.0 | And he subsequently resigned pretty much the next day. |
| 2:08.0 | I think it was absolutely the right thing to do. |
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