Muchova’s moment - the first of many?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Catherine, David and Matt discuss an exhilarating week of action across events in Doha, Rotterdam, Dallas and Buenos Aires.
Part one - WTA Doha (00:00 - 34:36). The joy of seeing Karolina Muchova win another title at last, Victoria Mboko showing she belongs in the Top 10 after incredible wins over Mirra Andreeva and Elena Rybakina, varying degrees of concern for Coco Gauff, Iga Swiatek and Amanda Anisimova.
Part two - ATP Results (34:37 - 1:00:00). Alex de Minaur and Ben Shelton make hay in the absence of Alcaraz and Sinner, Daniil Medvedev complains about the balls in Rotterdam defeat, more Dutch drama as Jesper de Jong and Tallon Griekspoor fall out, and a sweet win for Francisco Cerundolo at home in Argentina.
Part three (1:00:01 - 1:18:14) - News and a look ahead to this week as another 1000 event takes place without its top players.
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| 0:18.6 | Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast on this fine Monday morning. |
| 0:24.0 | And I do mean sort of fine Monday morning or certainly relatively fine Monday morning |
| 0:28.2 | because I can see the sky from where I'm sitting. |
| 0:32.4 | And I'm not sure that's been true for several days, if not weeks, here in London. David is here, still not over the Seahawks |
| 0:42.3 | Super Bowl victory. How are you doing, David? No, never will be over it. We'll just keep on |
| 0:48.6 | wearing merch items. I think I've probably got 52 weeks worth if I alternate. |
| 0:55.7 | And pre-8am recording for the first time, perhaps in a history, unless you want to correct me otherwise. |
| 1:05.2 | Yes, because I have a dentist appointment to fix a chip that I sustained at 3am in Australia while eating some very |
| 1:16.4 | depressing crisps in a sort of I had dinner nine hours ago type situation. Matt witnessed it |
| 1:24.8 | happened live. I did. It was quite it was quite a dramatic thing to happen at three o'clock in the morning. |
| 1:31.1 | But it is the sort of thing that does happen at three o'clock in the morning when you just want to go to bed and yet something like that gets in the way. |
| 1:40.6 | I feel like any sort of time we've recorded at this time of day before is like after an Andy |
| 1:47.7 | Mary against Cochinakis at the Australian Open except we're recording at this sort of time of |
| 1:52.5 | day because we've not been to bed yet. |
| 1:54.7 | For us to be waking up and recording this early feels new to me. |
| 2:02.0 | Yeah, I saw you Matt less than 12 hours ago. |
| 2:05.7 | You did. |
| 2:06.1 | You're wearing the same top. |
| 2:08.3 | I am. |
| 2:09.2 | Have you changed? |
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