Miami - Sabalenka surges, Mensik arrives; Where does this leave Djokovic?

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Wimbledon, Sports, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Catherine, David and Matt were live to look back on Finals weekend in Miami and ahead to the clay court season.

Part one - ATP Miami. Have we been under-hyping Jakub Mensik? Was this still a positive week for Novak Djokovic? And what can we conclude from the Sunshine Double?

Part two - WTA Miami (from 26m21s). How Aryna Sabalenka overcame Jessica Pegula in the final to cap her strong start to the season.

Part three - News and clay season hype (from 39m59s). Daria Kasatkina to represent Australia, Andrey Rublev hires Marat Safin, and clay season predictions.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Billy Jean King.
0:02.0	This is Marion Bartotti.
0:03.2	This is Bianca Andrescu.
0:04.7	I'm Matt Vlander.
0:05.8	This is Mary Carrillo.
0:06.9	This is Pam Schreiber.
0:08.0	This is Janik Noah, and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:41.2	Hello and the warmest of welcomes to the tennis podcast after the conclusion of the sunshine double singles titles for Arena Sabalenko and Novak Djokovic in Miami to complete the month-long FOMO spree.
0:46.9	And we'll be looking back on that and looking ahead to the clay court season in earnest over the course of the next hour or so.
0:49.3	Some of you are with us live on YouTube.
0:52.6	A very warm welcome, if that is the case. And just a standard, hello,
0:57.5	if you're with us as a podcast, as per usual. This is a broad church. And all are welcome.
1:05.0	Hello, David Law. How are you doing? Hello, I'm very well. Thank you. I managed to get sunburned today in about 14 degrees,
1:13.5	which I think is a very solid whole thing to do. So yeah, I feel a bit dizzy, but other than that,
1:20.4	great. That is so British, David. Matt is here on the comeback trail after what has been described as,
1:32.8	quote, his lowest ebb. How are you doing Matt Roberts? I'm better than I was on Saturday.
1:42.0	Thank you for asking. Yeah, we will not be not be talking about football today.
1:47.6	There we no smug look on my face like that sometimes is just a disastrous weekend of football, to be quite honest.
1:56.0	So let's move on.
1:57.7	Yeah, we're going to move on very quickly.
2:00.0	The first thing I need to do is correct the fact that
2:01.5	that Novak Djokovic won the Miami title at the start. Oh, I love it when that happens on a live
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