Muguruza’s moment, Herbert’s hair and introducing Barbora Krejcikova
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Garbiñe Muguruza has finally turned her fantastic form into a title with victory in Dubai. In what way was she feeling the pressure of ending her title drought? How much of a role has Conchita Martínez played in her improved consistency? And how might her season develop from here?
As for the woman she beat in the final, Barbora Krejčíková, David explains why we’ve mistakenly considered her to be exclusively a doubles player up until now, the advice she received from her former coach Jana Novotna, and the way her singles results have improved since tennis re-started last summer.
Elsewhere, we discuss the way in which lengthy bathroom breaks in women’s tennis are talked about and whether there needs to be a rule change, we cover a 10th career title for new World No.2 Daniil Medvedev in Marseille, and we dive deep into the playing style, career and hair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt Vylander. This is Mary Carillo. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm Stan Ravinka. I'm Lighten Hutt. I'm Andy Murray. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening |
| 0:09.9 | to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:22.0 | So another week in the 2021 tennis calendar gets underway. The Dubai Tournament |
| 0:28.1 | switches to the ATP. This week we had Gabbini and Mugorutha lifting the WTA title there on Saturday. |
| 0:36.2 | The ATP Doha event is done and dusted. Nicholas Bassalashvili a winner there. And the WTA calendar |
| 0:43.8 | moves on to St Petersburg and Monterey, Mexico, not California. So for once you will all be spared |
| 0:55.6 | my completely irrelevant chat about how great the aquarium is in Monterey, California. |
| 1:01.4 | I mean that is still the case. It's just not at all relevant to tennis. If it ever was, David, |
| 1:07.8 | how are you doing? I'm all right. We heard about it anyway. I'm raising. And I'll tell you, |
| 1:14.4 | they've got some going to do, haven't they, in Dubai, the men to match up to what the |
| 1:20.1 | women's tournament was last week. That's the one thing that really struck me. I know they've had |
| 1:24.2 | some seriously high profile withdrawals in Dubai for this week. But it's becoming more and more |
| 1:31.2 | stark just how strong women's tennis is that even when you strip out a layer of players, |
| 1:37.3 | you're still left with another layer of fantastic names, all of whom are relevant. And it's |
| 1:43.2 | it's just becoming more apparent, I think, by the week now. Yeah, it's true, isn't it? Because |
| 1:48.0 | there are tremendous draws in men's tennis, absolutely. But that's a great description. A layer |
| 1:54.5 | stripped out as it has been this week in Dubai. And it quite quickly looks a little thread-bend, |
| 2:01.6 | not that there aren't going to be great matches and storylines of intrigue and players to watch. |
| 2:08.7 | But just in terms of matches and names that grab people's attention, grabs the more casual tennis |
| 2:17.6 | fan, the struggling this week in Dubai on the men's side. I think that's well illustrated by the |
| 2:23.9 | fact that Dennis Schappelvalov is actually seeded higher this week in Dubai, which is a 500 event |
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