Hi, I'm Andy Murray and you're listening to the tennis podcast.

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My name is David Law and the big news on the tennis scene at the moment is that Raphael Nadal is back.

9th Monte Carlo title. Yes, you heard that correctly. 9th.

1 after 8, 1 before 10. Remarkable. What an exciting week for him and his fans though to get back in the winner's circle for the first time in three years.

What happened to Novak Djokovic? Lost in his first match to Yuri Vesely. That was a shock.

We're talking about those two enormous events. We'll talk about a Tetsy Andy Murray. We'll take your questions.

We'll talk about our predictions competition and particularly looking forward to that bit.

And our discussion point this week is what was the point in winning?

That's in reference to Vesely's monumental victory over Novak Djokovic, followed by an immediate, pretty limp defeat.

Catherine Whittaker's in Monte Carlo. Still, Catherine, have you decided to just sort of live there now?

No, I still can't afford that, David. No. And also, it was a bit overcast today, which I feel like getting some sort of refund from the Monte Carlo Tourist Board,

that lulled me into a full sense of security, thinking that it was going to be glorious and sunny every day.

And then today there was there was rain, David. There was actual rain in Monte Carlo. So no, I'm ready to come home now.

Catherine, it was snowing here yesterday. Do you mind? It's April. It was snowing.

So enough of your complaints. We saw the television pictures. We saw the glorious panoramic views over the Mediterranean in the background of the Monte Carlo Country Club.

But anyway, Catherine Whittaker is in Monte Carlo. We're establishing that. She's coming home tomorrow.

And you've been witnessing, as the rest of us have on TV, Raphael Nadal returning to something like the sort of form that we remember for them.

Yes, it's been, it's been a very, very interesting week because everybody's looking for this sort of definitive yardstick, aren't they?

By which to measure Raphael Nadal in his performance, you can't, you can't have Raphael Nadal today play Raphael Nadal of 2008 or nine or 10, you know.

Oh, imagine if you could let's do that. Yeah, I mean, that really is the only definitive measure of whether he is back to his best.

So we have all these inaccurate measures and we have, you know, look, I don't want to take anything away.

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