Olympics - Imperious Djokovic completes tennis with gold, but is he done?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2024
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Novak Djokovic has finally won Olympic gold, delivering an incredible performance to beat Carlos Alcaraz 7-6 7-6 in the final. Catherine, David and Matt discuss Djokovic’s remarkable level, how it appeared to shock Alcaraz, and what finally winning gold might mean for the rest of Djokovic’s career. Elsewhere, we reflect on Zheng Qinwen’s gold-medal winning moment, wrap up all the doubles results, give our thoughts on Olympics tennis generally, and react to results in Washington.
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| 0:59.0 | after the Olympic tennis |
| 1:05.0 | reached its conclusion. |
| 1:06.0 | It'll be another four years before we see tennis at the Olympics. |
| 1:08.0 | Excuse my, excuse my moroseness, I'm in a period of mourning for Olympic tennis but it was |
| 1:17.3 | awesome it was an absolutely awesome tennis tournament and I can't wait to talk |
| 1:21.0 | about it with David Law hello David |
| 1:24.0 | Hello, no neither can I I've just had the best week of watching tennis that there were moments in it where I where I found myself thinking |
| 1:35.2 | do I normally feel like this about the Olympics tennis because this is I think this is |
| 1:39.5 | maybe the best tournament to have seen just every day was just so |
| 1:44.2 | rampacked full of great stuff and I don't know I've had a wonderful time watching the |
| 1:51.4 | Olympics. Yeah I mean mean I felt the same David and I'm always kind of trying to adjust my responses and reactions |
| 2:01.8 | for my massive Olympic bias because you know I just love it and I |
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