Miami - Who can stop Swiatek and Alcaraz?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
As Miami moves towards finals weekend, will the titles be heading to Iga Swiatek and Carlos Alcaraz? Their fearsome form is the subject of much discussion between Catherine, David and Matt who also can't help getting excited about the prospect of seeing Swiatek vs Osaka AND Alcaraz vs Medvedev in the coming days.
Elsewhere, there's chat about Alexander Zverev's disappointing season so far, the extraordinary run of Francisco Cerundolo, Nick Kyrgios' treatment of umpire Carlos Bernardes, the consistent Jessica Pegula and the inconsistent Belinda Bencic, how to pronounce 'Linda Fruhvirtova', the comebacks of Stan Wawrinka and Dominic Thiem, and Joe Salisbury's rise to World No.1.
We also pay tribute to Richard Moore, the journalist, author and co-founder of The Cycling Podcast, who died on Monday. The Tennis Podcast would not be what it is today without Richard's generous help over the years.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Matt Vellander. This is Mary Carillo. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis |
| 0:08.0 | podcast. |
| 0:19.4 | Well hello folks, we are back. It's another Miami Midway update podcast because Miami continues to |
| 0:27.5 | be Miami-ing. It feels like it's been going on quite a long time. There's still quite a lot of it to |
| 0:33.6 | go. David's here. Hello David. Hello. Okay, good chat. David, good chat Matt. Hello Matt. |
| 0:42.9 | I'm into my amnesia. How are you? How are you? |
| 0:47.6 | All right, David folks has been up since 3am today. He claims he got back to sleep and had a bit of |
| 0:57.5 | supplementary sleep on top of that. But basically he woke up at 3am and watched the deciding |
| 1:02.2 | set of Casper Rude and Alexander Zverov. So, well, he'll be able to give detailed analysis of |
| 1:07.3 | the final set of that match. He might not be firing on all cylinders in other departments. |
| 1:12.9 | Sure, so make it a really excellent description, David, of that deciding set. Go. |
| 1:20.4 | Okay, well I think I can because I found it very interesting. I joined it with Casper Rude having |
| 1:26.2 | just lost the second set 6-1 and he's having extensive treatment to his foot. Turns out all for |
| 1:32.5 | blisters and he needed it retaped. Now, I think as well after losing the set 6-1, the problem is a bit |
| 1:37.9 | of reboot going on. But he said once he got out there again in the third set, it immediately |
| 1:44.4 | loosened up and boy did it because he raced into a three-love lead in that third set. And it was |
| 1:51.2 | it was like he went through a mental reboot as well because he he clearly decided to just go |
| 1:56.0 | for it and take it to Zverov. And that I thought that rocked Zverov back on his heels. And I thought |
| 2:04.8 | that's a bit of a trend in Zverov's career. If you can stand up to him, I was thinking but it |
| 2:10.8 | reminded me quite a lot of elements of that. Then a shaper valve match that Zverov lost at the Australian |
| 2:15.5 | open. Somebody stands up to him. What Zverov going to do about it? And he went in. I felt he went, |
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