Madrid - Big names fall but Raducanu, Andreescu & Halep impress; Boris Becker jailed
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Madrid is well underway, Catherine is there for Amazon Prime Video, and David and Matt talk about the big stories so far. How did Simona Halep beat Paula Badosa so easily? What do we make of Emma Raducanu's decision to split with Torben Beltz? And how do we judge Naomi Osaka on clay after one win and one defeat? On the men's side, there's chat about an exciting half of the draw featuring the returning Rafael Nadal as well as Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz. We also discuss a thrilling week from Frances Tiafoe in Estoril and maiden titles for Sebastian Baez and Holger Rune. Finally, we speak about the downfall of Boris Becker after he was sent to prison on charges related to his insolvency.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartorri. I'm Matt's Vylander. This is Mary |
| 0:04.8 | Carillo. This is Pam Shriver. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.5 | Well, loads to talk about today because Madrid is well and truly underway. Of course, |
| 0:24.8 | it is. In fact, it's about three days underway on the women's side. The men's just about |
| 0:28.9 | rolled into town and they're about to start playing. In fact, they had a few matches today. |
| 0:34.0 | Matt Roberts is here alongside me, David Law virtually. Catherine Whittigry is in Madrid. |
| 0:39.9 | We'll be hearing from her in a little while. We've obviously got the very sad news about Boris Becker's |
| 0:46.7 | downfall, I suppose you could say. He's been jailed for two and a half years of which half of |
| 0:52.1 | that's going to be spent in jail because of his failure to keep to all the rules of his |
| 1:00.0 | bankruptcy. That's a pretty disturbing tale which we'll talk about a little bit later in the |
| 1:07.1 | podcast. Matt, how are you doing? You're all right. Very well. Thank you, David, back from my |
| 1:12.1 | golf trip and ready to tune back into tennis. How did it go? Did you fare better than when you |
| 1:18.8 | played against me or be it you did win? I think I did play better, yes, and it was very enjoyable. |
| 1:24.5 | I don't know whether this is a blasphemous thing to say on a tennis podcast, but I think golf |
| 1:28.4 | might be my favourite sport to play. What? You're cheating on tennis. It's purely personal. I think |
| 1:38.3 | I'm better at being kind to myself with golf because I have far lower expectations. I've actually |
| 1:44.3 | been playing tennis quite a lot of my life and I feel like I should be better than |
| 1:48.9 | I am, but with golf, I don't feel that at all. I've probably played a few of them 50 rounds of golf, |
| 1:56.3 | so if I make mistakes, it doesn't bother me quite so much. Yeah, I enjoyed it, and I did make mistakes. |
| 2:03.9 | Okay, all right. Well, if you are a recent listener to the tennis podcast folks, Matt has |
| 2:09.8 | thrashed me at golf. He's also thrashed me at tennis. So I'm searching for a sport at which I can |
| 2:15.8 | beat him at, and he has not yet taken my challenge of a pull match, because I'm quite good at it. |
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