Miami - Eala dream continues; Serious for Swiatek? Is Zverev the worst World No.2 ever?

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Wimbledon, Sports, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

With Miami reaching its climax, Catherine, David and Matt catch up to discuss scheduling issues, more struggles for top players, and what might happen over the weekend.

Part one - WTA Results. We start with a rant about the scheduling before moving on to happier things and Alex Eala’s incredible run to the semi-finals. The flip side of that, however, is digesting a shocking performance from Iga Swiatek. What can we expect from her clay court season as her title drought continues? There’s also chat about an encouraging tournament for Emma Raducanu as well as Aryna Sabalenka, Jessica Pegula and Jasmine Paolini discovering some of their best form.

Part two - ATP Results (from 38m57s). We hail Grigor Dimitrov’s incredible effort to beat Francisco Cerundolo and reach the semi-finals, revel in a couple of wonderful wins for Arthur Fils, and wonder if Alexander Zverev is currently playing worse than any world number two ever.

Part three (from 61m57s). Any other business including the one year anniversary of The Barge, our next edition of Tennis Re-Lived, and shout outs.

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1:24.4	Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast on the morning, certainly morning UK time of Thursday, the 27th of March.
1:33.4	Miami is stumbling towards its conclusion. The women are at the semi-final stage. The men are at
1:39.6	mostly the quarterfinal stage. We have one semi-finalist.
1:44.8	We were supposed to have two.
1:46.8	But Miami decided to make its first good scheduling decision of the fortnight
1:51.9	and not put Novat Djokovic and Sebastian Corder on court at midnight last night.
1:58.0	Thank you.
1:58.8	Tennis gods.
2:00.1	Although Matt, it has been a poor week for the tennis
2:06.4	scheduling gods generally, I would say. Yeah, I've written the word scheduling rant into the
2:13.0	agenda three times. Would you like to just get out ahead of this and sort of...
2:21.3	Bundle them together?
2:22.6	Bundle them together now, yeah.
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