Naomi Osaka / Sascha Bajin Split - Why? Wawrinka & Monfils Roll Back Years; Mertens, Opelka Make Their Mark
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
After a few weeks apart, David Law, Catherine Whitaker and Matt Roberts are back together on this week’s podcast, and the only place to start is Naomi Osaka’s split with Sascha Bajin.
What could be the reasons behind it ? Should we have seen it coming? And how important is it that she’s prioritising her mental health over her on court success?
On a similar theme, is Simona Halep on a mission to prove she can win big without a coach? Her trial period with Thierry Van Cleemput was unsuccessful, but she still reached the final in Doha. What makes her conqueror Elise Mertens such a brilliant player?
Elsewhere, the biggest men’s results from the past fortnight are discussed. How good could New York Open champion Reilly Opelka become? What makes Stan Wawrinka’s return to form so uplifting? Will Gael Monfils kick on from his win in Rotterdam? And why should we be paying close attention to the form of Daniil Medvedev?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Andy Murray and you're listening to the Tennis Podcast. |
| 0:14.4 | We are back in our spiritual home. It is the Putney Exchange Centre. |
| 0:18.8 | It is me, David Law. It is, hello, Catherine, where to go? |
| 0:22.0 | Hello. Hello. |
| 0:23.1 | Were your kiddy's lunch pack that you've brought with you? |
| 0:26.2 | No, it's a kid's snack box when I bought it. |
| 0:28.3 | No, but it's got a cheese board all of it, so... |
| 0:30.9 | I really feel like many traders should be available and marketed children and adults alike. |
| 0:35.6 | Yeah, and we brought a grandma with us. |
| 0:37.6 | Grandma, tell us. |
| 0:38.4 | Making of children, yes. |
| 0:40.4 | Somebody half my age is in the vicinity. |
| 0:43.0 | And we are the tennis podcast brought to you in association with the tenor graph. |
| 0:46.6 | We have so much tennis to talk about because we have not really been with you for the last couple of weeks. |
| 0:51.6 | Of course, we had our questions special that was recorded in the dead of the night |
| 0:55.2 | after the men's singles final that know that Jacović won in Melbourne. |
| 0:58.9 | You might have been able to tell. |
| 1:00.6 | Sentences were not being strung together with their normal fluidity. |
| 1:04.3 | And then we had our special from the Fed Cup with Laura Robson and Claire Bolding and Joe |
| 1:08.6 | Jury and all that jazz. But we are now back together. |
| 1:11.8 | So, folks, where to start, I think, where to start is with the current world number one |
| 1:18.0 | and her coaching situation. |
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