Next Gen, Politics and 2024
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2023
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
The tennis off season is officially here! In part one of the pod, Catherine, David and Matt wrap up the ATP Next Gen Finals where we learned a lot about Hamad Medjedovic. There’s also the annual rant about the scoring system, excitement for the return of Rafael Nadal in Brisbane, and news that Zheng Qinwen is going to be coached by Pere Riba again. Plus, we’re very excited to reveal our own big plans for 2024!
In part two, we speak to Matt Futterman of The Athletic about his story that the Grand Slams are plotting a deal for a ‘premier tour’ that would revolutionise the sport. Matt goes into detail about how it might work and what it would mean for different parties, the roles of Saudi Arabia and the PTPA in all this, and how likely it is to actually happen.
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns. |
| 0:07.0 | Now, picture you, zooming past it all, light and breezy. |
| 0:15.0 | Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic. |
| 0:20.0 | Book your train journey via Avanti westcoast.co. UK. |
| 0:25.0 | avante west coast feel good travel. |
| 0:29.0 | Hi this is Billy Jean King. This is Marion Bartotti. I'm Max Villander. This is Mary Carrillo. This is Pam Shriver. This is Yannick Noah. |
| 0:40.0 | Hi, this is Kathy Kiles from Roselle, New Jersey, and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:47.0 | Kue the music. Well hello and welcome to the tennis podcast on this beautiful December day and by beautiful I mean |
| 1:07.5 | absolutely frigging miserable I am counting down the days till Australia. |
| 1:12.3 | Matt is here. |
| 1:13.3 | Hello, Matt. |
| 1:14.8 | Hello, yeah, we're definitely not in Malaga anymore. |
| 1:18.0 | Yeah, but we wish we were. |
| 1:21.5 | David is here. |
| 1:22.4 | Hello David. Hello David hello yeah solid hall |
| 1:24.8 | ain't sunny today I'm afraid folks so there's no point in trying to put a gloss on it I |
| 1:29.6 | went to a little walk with the kids this morning to the bus stop just because I was |
| 1:33.8 | worried for their safety in the gloom. They thought I was crazy but I did it and |
| 1:38.7 | that's the sum total of my outdoors day. It's not a time for being outdoors in the UK at the moment, but Australia beckons folks. |
| 1:49.0 | We can't wait. |
| 1:50.0 | Thank you to Kathy Kiles there for introducing the show. |
| 1:53.3 | Kathy is of course from New Jersey because apparently all of our |
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