Madrid Madness underway; Why Doesn't Portugal Have More Tennis Champions? Just How Good Could Monica Seles Have Been?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
After a week when the Munich, Estoril and Prague titles were all won by home favourites, attention now turns to Madrid, which is a veritable who’s who of the best, healthy tennis players in the world. Catherine Whitaker, sitting in a car park, and David Law in a window-less room, go through a draw that has thrown up some corkers.
The wins of Alexander Zverev in Munich, Petra Kvitova in Prague and Joao Sousa in Estoril are covered, and David wants to know why Portugal, where Sousa’s triumph was celebrated, has produced so few top players over the years.
The awful stabbing of Monica Seles is remembered, 25 years on. Just how good could she have been if that had not happened?
Seles features in many listeners’ memories of the best matches of the 1990s.
The Tennis Podcast is produced weekly throughout the year and daily during the Grand Slam tournaments, in association with Telegraph Sport and Eurosport. It is presented by Catherine Whitaker (Eurosport) and David Law (BBC 5 Live, BT Sport).
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McIner, I'm Bjorn Borg. |
| 0:03.1 | This is Martina Navratelova. |
| 0:04.6 | I'm Matt Vylander, I'm San Roenka, I'm Lighten Ewitt, I'm Andy Marri and you're listening |
| 0:09.2 | to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:11.7 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:23.5 | What's you in association with the telegraph and with Euro Sport by myself, Catherine |
| 0:29.0 | Muttica and by David Law and we are this week David by the magic of technology coming |
| 0:35.9 | at you from different locations. |
| 0:38.5 | I am in a car park in Felton and you David, hopefully, are not because nobody, I wouldn't |
| 0:48.1 | wish this on anyone. |
| 0:49.1 | No, and also if I was there and you didn't know it, it would be a bit weird, wouldn't it? |
| 0:53.8 | But anyway, I'm in a windowless office at the moment, so we're really, we're really |
| 0:59.0 | making this an exciting exotic tennis podcast that you're on here. |
| 1:04.1 | We're really feeling the sunny, bank holiday joy aren't we? |
| 1:08.3 | I mean, I'm literally in the front seat of my car, David, in a car park. |
| 1:12.3 | I've got the laptop on the passenger seat, I've got the iPad on my lap and in front of |
| 1:17.3 | me is an empty car parking space with a big yellow cone attached to it and a four piece |
| 1:24.1 | of paper saying reserved for Jimmy White. |
| 1:27.3 | Yeah, the legendary snooker player, Jimmy White and I'm a bit concerned because I am at |
| 1:34.3 | the home of Eurosport and also WCA media and I'm on commentary duty this week for that |
| 1:41.6 | is the explanation for why I'm in a car park in Felton. |
| 1:45.2 | And Jimmy White space? |
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