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The Tennis Podcast

Jo Konta: Champion, Role-Model, Future No.1? Incredible Federer - Three Titles And Out, For Now; Kyrgios Comes-Of-Age.

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports & Recreation, Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In becoming the first British woman to lift the Miami Open trophy, Jo Konta scored the nation’s most notable win by a female tennis player since Virginia Wade won Wimbledon in 1977, and reached World No.7 in the process.In the view of the Tennis Podcast team, this is only the beginning for Konta. On the latest show, presenters Catherine Whitaker (Eurosport) and David Law (BBC 5 Live, BT Sport) agreed that she is a going to be a powerful, influential, positive role-model. But how far can she go on the court? They debate her prospects, considering whether Grand Slam titles and perhaps even the World No.1 ranking are possibilities. Roger Federer, meanwhile, keeps winning, aged 35 and a half. Australian Open, Indian Wells, Miami and out, for now, as he revealed he won’t play again until the French Open. How is he doing this? Would he win if he played the 2006 version of himself? And could he even win the French Open? The man he squeezed past in the semifinals, Nick Kyrgios, appears, in the view of the...

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Andy Murray. Hi, I'm Lainey. Hi, I'm Matt's Vylander.

0:04.1

Hola, this is David Moreno and you're listening to the tennis podcast.

0:19.0

Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast brought to you in association with the telegraph

0:23.7

in association with Euro Sport and this week in association with David Moreno,

0:28.8

whose voice you heard in the intro there. Thank you very much David for your input, David,

0:33.6

back to us very generously in our Kickstarter campaign and as a reward,

0:38.0

I know there's a reward for us as well. We now get to hear his dulcet tones in our intro today.

0:42.8

Sounds better than us, doesn't he, really? And he certainly sounds better than all those other

0:46.0

players that we had in the intro. Sorry, that's... I like the international flavour. I think that's

0:50.4

something that we can definitely take forward and into more international flavour. And in fact,

0:56.0

we know how good you are at accents and languages and pronunciations, David. So...

1:02.4

Yeah, I'm multi-lingual. I speak at least one language and brummied.

1:08.4

You and Dan Evans both. We're back at the puttany exchange, David. That's why there are

1:14.3

some slightly unpleasant noises in the background, but we're delighted to be here and we have

1:18.4

my cubes. You can't, I know it's not quite visible through the medium of radio,

1:23.0

it do head to our social media channels. We can see our jazzy new microphone cubes. We are branded.

1:29.2

We are. I mean, we get some very strange looks in this particular place at the best of times

1:34.7

with our microphones and having a conversation and looking pretty excited about life as I always do.

1:41.1

Catherine slightly lessso. But when we're using branded tennis broadcast microphones,

1:46.7

kareiki, it takes it up another level. I look pretty excited about life today, I think. I was

1:50.9

actually smiling as you said that. Somebody described me as caustic yesterday. That didn't go

1:55.6

down well anyway. Life generally is good now that we're back in the puttany exchange caustic

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