Olympics Mayhem; Del Potro Joy; Djokovic, Serena Struggling; Federer - Is This It?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2016
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
After the Olympic tennis in Rio lost the Williams sisters, Murray brothers, Novak Djokovic and the top seeds in men's doubles on the same night, and then Serena Williams fell in singles shortly after, Catherine Whitaker and David Law reconvene on the Tennis Podcast.
What is wrong with Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams? Could Juan Martin Del Potro now go all the way? What of Murray, Nadal, Konta, Kerber and the rest? It's all in there.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McInerd. I'm Bjorn Borgh. This is Martina Navratlova. I'm Matt Villander. I'm |
| 0:05.2 | Standruinka. I'm Lighten Youet. I'm Andy Mori and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:19.9 | Hello, welcome to the tennis podcast, brought to you in association with the telegraph. |
| 0:23.6 | My name is David Lawre. I'm a commentator for BBC Radio 5 Live and BT Sport in the UK. |
| 0:28.7 | I'm joined by Catherine Whittaker, a presenter for Euro Sport. Catherine carried it all on |
| 0:34.4 | her own shoulders, didn't she last week? Did the monologue podcast whilst I was selling myself |
| 0:40.1 | in somewhere nice and beautiful, which is rather different from the windowless office of which I |
| 0:46.0 | can touch all four walls in one go at where I'm sitting right now? Catherine has since been on |
| 0:50.8 | holiday. We are back together. We are the tennis podcast and Catherine, we have loads to talk about |
| 0:56.6 | today because the Olympics is on. Never have the listeners been so pleased to hear the voice |
| 1:01.2 | of David Lawre. People have been tuning in with trepidation, fearing another monologue. |
| 1:07.4 | You say that, Catherine, but I actually got a number of messages saying, is there any chance you |
| 1:11.9 | could not be on it permanently because it was much better this week? It was concise, it was factual, |
| 1:17.6 | it was informative and there's too much faffin around when you're on. Right, okay, yeah, I mean |
| 1:23.2 | minimal faffing, minimal, minimal fun as well, but yeah, I was pleased to be able to hold the |
| 1:30.4 | fort while you were selling yourself, but I'm also very pleased that you're back. Oh, thanks very |
| 1:34.9 | much. I should also say a big thank you to Tom UK designer, one of our listeners who fixed the |
| 1:42.1 | audio problem that we had. We've reloaded the show a couple of days ago, so it's there in its |
| 1:47.9 | full glory if you'd like to listen to it. We had one or two technical problems a week ago, but it is |
| 1:52.1 | now fixed. Catherine, so Olympic tennis, yes or no? Oh, yes, yes, everything Olympic for me, |
| 2:01.0 | I think the Olympics is the most magical sporting event, one of the most magical events we have in |
| 2:08.8 | the world. It's just an absolute joy. I'm feasting on it. I'm triple screening. I can't get enough |
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