No Grand Slam for Novak

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and the New Yorker’s Louisa Thomas talk about Daniil Medvedev’s upset over Novak Djokovic and Emma Raducanu’s shocking U.S. Open title. They also discuss Jameis Winston, the Jacksonville Jaguars, and Cam Newton’s interview with his dad. Finally, they assess the U.S. men’s national soccer team’s rocky opening to World Cup qualifying. U.S. Open (2:25): What to make of Djokovic’s loss, and his response to it. Plus, where did Raducanu and Leylah Fernandez come from? NFL (31:12): Making sense of pro football’s opening weekend. U.S. soccer (48:19): How concerning are the USMNT’s on-field struggles? Afterball (1:06;30): Stefan on Sheriff Tiraspol, the Moldovan soccer underdog that you maybe shouldn’t root for Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language, including the words, well, you'll just have to wait and see. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slates National Editor, and this is Hangup and Listen for the week of September 13, 2021.
0:27.0	On this week's show, we're going to talk about Denyle Medvedev's Grand Slam stopping U.S. Open win over Novak Jokovich, and Emma Radukanu's out-of-nowhere run to her first major title.
0:38.2	We'll also discuss Jamesa Winston, The Jacksonville Jaguars, and the other success stories and disasters of the
0:45.8	NFL's opening weekend. And finally, we'll assess the US men's national soccer
0:50.5	teams up and down opening of World Cup qualifying started sort of bad, slightly
0:56.1	more bad in the middle, and ended actually kind of okay. I am in Washington, D.C. I'm the
1:01.8	author of the Queen, the host of the podcast one year also in DC
1:05.2	Stephen Fatsus author of the book's Word Freak a few seconds of panic and
1:09.6	wild and outside people are talking about wild and outside more and more these days.
1:14.5	It's making a comeback.
1:15.9	It's hot.
1:16.9	It's hot. Joel Anderson, our pal, he's off this week.
1:20.3	Filling in, it's Louisa Thomas. She is a staff writer at the New Yorker. She's
1:24.2	written as many books as Stephan has plus she's the co-editor of losers
1:29.6	dispatches from the other side of the scoreboard. So take that, Stephan.
1:34.0	Much younger too.
1:36.0	The books per year ratio, it's off the charts.
1:40.0	Welcome, Louisa, always great to have you with us.
1:42.0	I'm thrilled to be bettering
1:45.2	stuff in any way I can. Yeah, not that hard. This episode is brought to you
1:51.6	by Pepsi Max.
1:53.0	Pepsi Max knows the music isn't just a soundtrack.
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