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The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Wimbledon, Sports, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Even in the off season, tennis has produced enough talking points for Catherine, David and Matt to come together for one final pod in 2023.

There’s chat about what the restructuring at the WTA might mean as Steve Simon relinquishes his role as chief executive to become executive chairman, Simona Halep distancing herself from Patrick Mouratoglou ahead of her appeal date in February, victory for Jack Draper at the Ultimate Tennis Showdown in London, David vs Nick Kyrgios on Twitter/X, news that Juan Carlos Ferrero won’t be travelling to Australia with Carlos Alcaraz as he recovers from knee surgery, and lots of excitement for the start of the new season.

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0:00.0	Hi this is Billy Jean King this is Marion Bartotti I'm Matt's Willander this is Mary
0:04.9	Carrillo this is Pam Shriver this is Yannick Noah hi this is Billy Aituli from Phoenix
0:10.0	Arizona it's time for the best hour of your week.
0:13.2	Welcome to the tennis podcast, the final tennis
0:31.0	podcast of 2023 introduced brilliantly there by Billy in Phoenix, Arizona which isn't a place that Matt and I have driven through but I think is a place that we have seen on signposts during road trips to other US destinations.
0:51.0	He's really big this up there Billy. I think it's going to be quite tough for us to be the best hour of a lot of people's weeks, given that a lot of people's weeks this week are going to feature pigs in blankets but
1:03.3	Matt David we will do our best yes big challenge but but I'm confident I
1:12.0	about two days ago I think I did write to you and say I don't think we should bother doing a podcast this week. What do you think?
1:18.0	And somehow we are doing one so that's a bit of an about turn isn't it that I'd be saying that and that we would still end up doing it.
1:25.0	Yeah first time ever I think those words have been typed by David but tennis in in true tennis fashion has has thrown up news and stuff to talk
1:36.9	about even even in the so-called off season so here we are., we're all trying to avoid having to do a podcast that focused too much on the Ultimate Tennis Showdown,
1:49.0	but it turns out other things have happened besides the ultimate tennis showdown.
1:54.2	Don't worry, we will mention that.
1:57.3	That is on our agenda.
2:01.8	But so are a number of other notable news stories that have cropped up over the last week or so.
2:09.0	And we should probably start with the news, which I first read on the BBC Sport website
2:16.0	story by Russell Fuller and the BBC tennis correspondent which is that the chief executive of the WTA Tour, Steve Simon, is to relinquish his role and become executive chairman of the organization, a role that didn't previously exist.
2:35.0	Simon has been chief of both chief executive and chairman since 2015,
2:40.0	but the roles will be split to create quote greater focus on the
2:44.3	WTA's goals. Obviously Steve Simon's position as the BBC report here says has
2:51.7	been under scrutiny since last month's season ending
2:53.8	WTA finals in Kankunua world number two or in a sab link has said she felt
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