Osaka’s Olympics - The Story So Far
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
With the whole world watching, Naomi Osaka re-emerged into the spotlight, lit the cauldron, and opened the Tokyo Olympic Games in a powerful and significant moment for tennis. Catherine, David and Matt talk all about that, as well as her excellent performances so far, the way in which the conditions are impacting matches, Ash Barty's defeat to Sara Sorribes Tormo, Iga Swiatek's tears, Novak Djokovic's popularity in the athlete's village, Andy Murray's withdrawal from the singles and victory in the doubles, a crazy first round win for Marin Cilic, and much more.
Away from the Olympics, there's chat about debut titles for Cameron Norrie, Carlos Alcaraz and Danielle Collins, and yet another great week on clay for Casper Ruud.
We will have daily podcasts from Thursday through Sunday to cover the quarter-final, semi-final and medal matches from Tokyo.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartori. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Max Villander. This is Mary Carillo. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm San Roenca. I'm Lighten Yut. I'm Andy Murray. |
| 0:08.0 | This is Janic Noah. |
| 0:09.2 | Hello, I am Guillermo del Angel, originally from Mexico City and now in Boston, Massachusetts. |
| 0:14.8 | And you are listening to the best podcast of all the tennis podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | Well, thank you Guillermo who has introduced our podcast this week, |
| 0:35.1 | somebody who backed our Kickstarter late last year and you'll have the chance to do exactly |
| 0:40.5 | the same thing for 2022 when we get our next crowdfunding campaign underway. |
| 0:46.0 | I kind of feel as though, Catherine, we should be paying Guillermo for that amazing sort of plug, |
| 0:52.5 | the start of our show. He's done his proud there, hasn't he Guillermo? Yes, lovely stuff. |
| 0:58.0 | Amazing. How did the opening ceremony go, Catherine, because when we last spoke to you, it was |
| 1:06.3 | Nye. Well, I wouldn't wind the clock back to when it was Nye, but it that way. |
| 1:15.3 | Look, I love that I've done it. I love that I was asked to do it. |
| 1:22.4 | I feel very honored and privileged and it feels like a real achievement and all of those |
| 1:29.4 | corny things, but my golly gosh, it was hard. Yeah, so, so hard. I've never said so many names, |
| 1:41.4 | all of them foreign in the space of, well, actually not a very small space, |
| 1:49.4 | it's a piece of about four and a half hours. Yeah, I had to have things to say about 104 different |
| 2:01.0 | countries and their flag bearers and for that, I required the not inconsiderable help of my |
| 2:10.1 | tennis podcast family for which I'm eternally grateful. |
| 2:14.0 | Matt mostly, Matt, I should say, because I was trying to help. David's been about an hour and a half |
| 2:18.9 | on Norway. I kept finding that new stuff that wasn't particularly relevant, but I still couldn't. |
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