Madrid - Here Comes Djokovic; Bertens Earns The Spotlight
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s Tennis Podcast, Catherine Whitaker, David Law and Matt Roberts discuss a fantastic tournament in Madrid, headlined by titles for Novak Djokovic and Kiki Bertens.
After a lacklustre few months, is it any coincidence that Djokovic has returned to top form when Roland Garros is less than two weeks away? How did he see off the challenges mounted by Dominic Thiem and Stefanos Tsitsipas?
As for Kiki Bertens, what’s changed to turn her into a winner of big titles? And where does she rank on the list of French Open favourites?
All the other major storylines from Madrid are also discussed. How did Tsitsipas conquer his demons to beat Rafael Nadal for the first time? Should we be worried by Nadal’s form? How did Roger Federer look on his return to clay? And what on earth happened for Viktoria Kuzmova to lose 6-0 6-0 to Simona Halep?
Finally, a word on the retiring David Ferrer. How will we look back on his career?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McEnore. I'm Bjorn Borg. |
| 0:02.2 | This is Martina Navratlova. I'm Matt Svillander. |
| 0:04.9 | I'm San Roenka. I'm Lighten Ewitt. I'm Andy Murray. |
| 0:07.6 | And you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.2 | Welcome to Catherine's Back Garden. |
| 0:22.2 | That's where we're recording this week's tennis podcast. |
| 0:24.8 | And we've just spent the last three minutes |
| 0:26.8 | revealing our football fandom woes. |
| 0:29.9 | Because Matt's team has just lost nil four of the weekends. |
| 0:33.3 | He's looking forward to next season. |
| 0:34.6 | Catherine's team just about escape |
| 0:36.6 | delegation by the skin of the teeth. |
| 0:38.4 | And my team are in the playoffs and they ain't going up. |
| 0:41.1 | So anyway, let's talk about tennis |
| 0:43.4 | because that's what's better on the tennis podcast, isn't it? |
| 0:46.4 | Really? I'm David Law. |
| 0:48.0 | Matt Roberts is here. Catherine Whitaker's here. |
| 0:49.7 | We got loads to talk about. |
| 0:51.0 | It was yesterday. The Madrid men's singles final. |
| 0:55.0 | And it was pretty routine in the end. |
| 0:58.1 | Wasn't it as a final goes? |
| 1:00.1 | Could compare I think to what we probably expected it to be. |
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