Madrid - Aggro, action and agony everywhere
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
With Madrid well underway, Catherine, David and Matt catch up to discuss everything that's happened so far. There's chat about an impressive win for Maria Sakkari over the improving-but-not-there-yet Paula Badosa, more forehand woes for Coco Gauff, Mayar Sherif becoming the first Egyptian to reach a WTA 1000 quarter-final, and the thrilling run of 15/16 year old Mirra Andreeva to the fourth round. On the men's side, Holger Rune brought the aggro (of course), Dominic Thiem came so close to beating Stefanos Tsitsipas, we all had a fun time watching Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, and Carlos Alcaraz has ignited after a slow start.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello folks, just to say that I'm an idiot suffering terribly from the one hour of jet lag between |
| 0:09.2 | Hiram Madrid and London and I failed to plug my microphone in for the first 40, 45 minutes or so |
| 0:18.4 | of recording of this podcast. Luckily we are pros at things going wrong so we were recording the |
| 0:26.8 | zoom audio so you will hear me for the first 40 minutes but the quality of my audio will be |
| 0:33.2 | slightly diminished but don't worry I'll I come back strong towards the end of the episode sorry |
| 0:39.5 | about that folks and thank you as always for bearing with us. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:46.5 | Hi this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartolini. I'm Matt Vellander. This is Mary |
| 0:51.4 | Carillo. This is Pam Shriver. This is Janik Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 1:07.4 | Hello and a very warm welcome along to this latest edition of the tennis podcast, |
| 1:13.0 | brought to you in association with On Location, the premium hospitality and experience provider |
| 1:19.3 | on location, provide packages via Steve Furgles, international tennis tours to all of the four |
| 1:24.9 | grand slam tournaments including the US Open which is on sale now with fantastic seats, hospitality |
| 1:31.2 | and hotel packages available for next years all for the years. Final major event at Flushie Meadows |
| 1:39.2 | in New York go to on location exp.com forward slash TTP to see what they have to offer. My little |
| 1:47.8 | stumble there reveals to the unsuspecting public that I am in fact reading that from a script. |
| 1:54.7 | Hidditoo I hope that everybody thought that it was all off the top of my inspired heads. David |
| 2:02.7 | say hello David. Yeah hello. Just you reading out about the USA from XP excited about the USA |
| 2:08.4 | from but first I've got to get excited about Wimbledon and Ron and Arras first so |
| 2:13.0 | is it good tennis. Control yourself David. That's a hello Matt. Hello yes David saying he's |
| 2:21.2 | got to get excited about Roland Garros as though he hasn't been excited about it for the last 12 months. |
| 2:26.8 | Every time I go around Catherine's house she gives me a different Roland Garros mug to drink. |
| 2:32.0 | It's a same mug every time they love any got one. Yeah well every time I look at it I get excited. |
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