Listener questions special - travel tales, worst 5-set matches and what should Wimbledon change?

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Sports & Recreation, Wimbledon, Sports

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In the first of two pods over the next week answering listener questions, we discuss who is the best at tennis out of Catherine, David and Matt, whether there should be a free-for-all tournament without seeds, our worst travel disasters, who might be a good coach to take Stefanos Tsitsipas to the next level, the Wimbledon traditions we would ditch, how social media has increased tribal fan support in tennis, and the worst five set matches we’ve watched.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt Villander. This is Mary Carillo. I'm San Roenka. I'm
0:05.2	like Newt. I'm Andy Murray. This is Janik Noah. Hi, this is Drishton Cruz-Limpsico from Amsterdam
0:11.3	and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:14.1	Well, hello and thank you to Drishton in Amsterdam for your intro and for your support in the year
0:32.5	2020. What a year it's been. It's been three whole days since our last tennis podcast and very
0:39.1	little tennis has happened in the intervening time so we thought why not do another one.
0:45.1	Just to update you on tennis news from that three day period, we've been denied Dominic
0:51.5	team. Against Stan Roenka, yes, I'm pronouncing it Roenka. Apparently we've been pronouncing his name
0:56.8	wrong for the past 15 years. So I'm just going to keep saying it correctly over and over to try
1:02.9	and make amends for 15 years to balance it out now. Yes, it turns out Andy Murray was getting it
1:10.2	right all along. I can't believe we ever doubted him. So Christian Garen has denied us for
1:16.2	Roenka against team because he got the better Roenka, Dominic team, the defending champion is still in.
1:23.1	No, like Jokovic won his first round match against Philip Crayonovich, which means that Jokovic
1:29.5	has secured the year end number one ranking for a sixth time in his career, provided big caveat
1:37.5	here that Raffa Anadal doesn't enter to play the tournament in Sofia, which I hope I'm not speaking
1:45.7	out of term when I say I think is unlikely. Although he has confirmed he intends to play Paris and
1:52.8	London, which is also unexpected. So who knows, Sofia, don't get your hopes up, but stranger things
1:59.2	have happened. We've also had a couple of stories break in the past 48 hours off the court, both of
2:08.9	them surrounding Alexander Azverov, both of them coming as a real shock and surprise to the tennis
2:19.9	world. The first of them, the news that his ex-girlfriend Brenda Patea, and I hope I'm pronouncing that
2:26.4	correctly, is expecting a baby. We understand she's expecting Alexander Azverov's babies.
2:35.2	She's a first of all, there was an Instagram post, she's subsequently done in interview in Germany
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