Olympics - Djokovic's Dream Dies
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
There will be no Golden Slam for Novak Djokovic in 2021 after he was stunned by Alexander Zverev in the semi-finals in Tokyo. What on earth happened to him when he was leading by a set and a break? And what could this defeat mean for his pursuit of the calendar Grand Slam in New York?
Elsewhere, Catherine, David and Matt discuss Karen Khachanov being guaranteed a medal and what it means for his career, a deserved gold for Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic over their Croatian compatriots, a second defeat of the day for Djokovic in mixed doubles, and tomorrow’s schedule which includes the gold medal match between Marketa Vondrousova and Belinda Bencic.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. |
| 0:01.8 | This is Mayan Bartorri. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Matt's Vylander. |
| 0:04.3 | This is Mary Carillo. |
| 0:05.3 | This is Pam Shriver. |
| 0:06.4 | I'm Stan Roenka. |
| 0:07.4 | I'm Laiten Hutt. |
| 0:08.1 | This is Yannick Noah. |
| 0:09.2 | And you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:22.2 | Well, I'm running out of podcast titles because I called last night's The Weird Olympics. |
| 0:26.9 | And now know that Jokovych is lost. |
| 0:28.6 | No fact Jokovych, the indestructible, no fact Jokovych, Catherine, who had won |
| 0:34.0 | the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and was absolutely the dead |
| 0:38.7 | cert of all dead certs to win the Olympics as far as I was concerned. |
| 0:43.5 | I was concerned a lot of things over the last week. |
| 0:46.1 | But that results him being defeated by Alexander Sverov. |
| 0:51.9 | Despite Sverov losing the first sense 6-1 and being 3-2 in a breakdown, |
| 0:56.9 | I've just watched it again. |
| 1:00.6 | I've just watched it again whilst cooking and having dinner and trying to spot |
| 1:05.9 | where this all turned and why. |
| 1:10.3 | And I still feel a little bit clueless about it. |
| 1:13.4 | No, I thought you were going to say. |
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