Live from the Departures Lounge - United Cup, Djokovic, and Melbourne here we come

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

With seconds to spare before boarding the plane to fly to Melbourne, Catherine and Matt join David from the London Gatwick Departures Lounge to look back on the United Cup, the week of Novak Djokovic and everything else that went on in the tennis world over the last 7 days.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartorri. I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary
0:04.8	Carillo. This is Pam Shriver. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:20.6	Well hello and welcome to the tennis podcast brought to you from two very very different
0:26.0	locations today. David is in sunny soli hole but not for too much longer. David, how are you doing?
0:32.3	I'm alright. I'm alright. Very very delighted that I'm now less than 24 hours away from going and
0:38.6	I do seem to have a mostly packed bag. Great to hear. David I'm sure it will be a stress-free trip.
0:45.5	24 hours from now you find Matt and myself in the lounge at Gatwick Airport around about two
0:52.4	hours from takeoff for flight number one of two. It's been a bit of a wild experience so far.
1:00.4	This journey let's just hope better things are ahead. I was I was called young lady and man
1:09.6	both within the space of about 30 seconds so Gatwick Airport give-eth and it takeeth away.
1:16.1	Yes my passport photo was questioned. I was questioned about my age and then when I said
1:22.2	26 the guy said oh well you've got a young face as though. As though 26 is in the arms.
1:28.2	26 is in the arms. I was going to say what we think. Which of the compliments and which of the
1:35.3	we think the chances of my second suitcase making it to Melbourne are a generous 50-50.
1:41.4	And that suitcase is in my name. Right. It was a bumpy check in experience. It was
1:48.4	put it that way. He started talking about snakes. Yeah have you seen any snakes?
1:52.0	In Australia. Okay. Yeah I wanted to say let's focus on the bags here dude.
1:59.7	It's bigger, it's bigger fish to fry. But anyway we are checked in. We are not far away from boarding
2:07.3	but we have important business to get done before then. We have a weekly pod to record reviewing
2:13.4	the United Cup, the other events that we've had this week as well. Seeing where we're at
2:18.8	with just a week to go until the first grand slam of the year. If you don't already know just a
2:25.0	reminder that Friends of the Tennis Podcast is our membership platform on which we provide
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