Olympics - Murray, Puig, Del Potro, Nadal Win Medals And Hearts In Rio
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
It took Andy Murray and Juan Martin Del Potro four hours to determine the destination of the men's singles gold medal, and podcast presenters Catherine Whitaker and David Law looked nearly as weary as the two players after staying up all night to watch it.
And, after a week of glorious sport, drama and emotion, Murray and Monica Puig left the biggest smiles, Juan Martin Del Potro a silver and hearts everywhere, and the rules of tennis came under the spotlight.
Is it time to remove the best-of-5-set format from the game altogether, or add it to the women's game as well? Should it come in halfway through a Slam, or just for the final? It's all discussed on the latest pod.
Puig's extraordinary win, Rafael Nadal's golden return and all of the other medal-winning tennis performances in Rio are discussed, as are the excellent lower level titles of Laura Robson and Dan Evans.
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| 1:44.0 | Hello and welcome to the Tennis Podcast brought to you in association with the telegraph we are recording to you less than 12 hours after the Olympic Tennis finally concluded. |
| 2:02.0 | Catherine Whitaker, you and I have convened. We're both wearing dark sunglasses. There's a very good reason for that. |
| 2:09.0 | I'm actually like to explain. We've not slept very much every thank you one Martindo Pacho. Yeah, we were well I've been up since till 4am pretty much every night since the Olympics started. |
| 2:24.0 | But yeah, you were up in the name of Andy Murray and one Martindo Pacho last night. |
| 2:31.0 | I've been the poor relation in terms of the staying up late on the tennis podcast over the last 11 days. I've only managed the two nights when Jacović lost to Del Potro and then last night when Andy Murray won gold. |
| 2:44.0 | But Catherine has been the night owl and has lived and breathed every single moment of Olympic action with her 12 screens all at the same time. |
| 2:55.0 | And I tell you, even looking at the tennis events in isolation, it's difficult to know where to start this tennis podcast. Who do you talk about? |
| 3:05.0 | Do you talk about Monica Pueg, the first ever human being from Puerto Rico to win a gold medal in the Olympics? Who won gold by beating Angelic Kerber? |
| 3:14.0 | Do you start with Venus Williams, the age of 36 winning silver and just missing out against Mattik Sands and Jack Sock? Do you start with Raphael Nadal winning gold alongside Mart Lopez? |
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