Murray misery, Sabalenka soars, and a few feel-good stories

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Wimbledon, Sports, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The first titles of the 2021 season have been won and players are now flocking to Australia for two weeks of quarantine. But not everything is going according to plan, with Andy Murray isolating at home after testing positive for covid-19 and Tennys Sandgren boarding his flight to Melbourne despite returning a positive test. We react to those two bits of news and discuss where it leaves the Australian Open.

Wrapping up this week’s results, we ask whether Aryna Sabalenka can translate her dominance on the WTA Tour to the Australian Open, whether Alex de Minaur is in the mix, and who has more potential out of Delray Beach finalists Sebastian Korda and Hubert Hurkacz?

Finally, we explain our enjoyment of Australian Open qualifying and tell the uplifting story of British qualifier Francesca Jones.

The Tennis Podcast is presented by Catherine Whitaker and David Law, and features Matt Roberts. It is produced weekly year-round, and daily during the Grand Slam tournaments.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Mary Ann Bartoli. I'm Matt Villander. This is Mary Carillo. I'm Stan Ravinka. I'm like Newt. I'm Andy Murray.
0:06.7	This is Janik Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:20.8	So now listen and intro today just your standard smogers board of tennis greats.
0:28.0	We will listen and chose will be back if you want to
0:31.3	Banksy yourself a listener entry. There is one more week left to do so that is when our kickstarter
0:36.9	campaign closes in a week's time. We've hit our target. We're delighted about that. We are
0:43.9	overwhelmed and thankful for all of the support that you've shown. But if you want to bag yourself
0:49.1	an intro a shout out, take us on in the predictions. I think there's one pet mascot slot
0:57.1	still open. Then you can do so for one week more. And yeah, hello Bentley, our weekly pet mascot
1:08.0	for this week. He's a lovely Hungarian Vizlo puppy. Speaking of puppies, apologies once again
1:14.5	for any sound effects that they accompany. Hopefully just the opening stages of this podcast. Billy
1:20.0	Jean has been placed in Guantanamo and she's looking at me very pathetically at the moment. But
1:26.0	I'm certain she'll settle down and realise it's not so bad. After all David, how are you doing?
1:31.7	I'm alright. Yeah, no, I'm fine. I've been I am struggling to watch all the tennis that's happened
1:38.1	and now I'm going to go to zero, which is the next two weeks. So I find that a bit jarring,
1:44.4	but you know, it's a pandemic. But you should just accept that really.
1:49.6	It is indeed a pandemic, Matt, how are you doing?
1:52.8	Yes, okay, thank you. A lot of a lot of mixed emotions, I think. Excited for the tennis to come,
2:00.1	kind of sad. We can't be there, nervous about it. Could it go wrong still? There's a lot going on
2:06.0	at the moment. It's still an uncertain time. Yeah, how is everyone feeling about all the social
2:12.9	media selfies of tennis players on planes to Australia? I'm just experiencing crippling FOMO.
2:20.3	Anybody else? Yeah, I'm a bit irritated. But to be honest, I suppose at least they're on the planes
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