Paris - Djokovic goes where no man has gone before
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Catherine Whitaker is back alongside David Law to talk about another extraordinary achievement from Novak Djokovic - ending a year as the World No.1 male for a record 7th time.
They cover the stress of his semifinal and serenity and joy of his final against Daniil Medvedev. Plus, there's chat about the crowd, Hugo Gaston, and what the week might mean for the Djokovic vs. Medvedev rivalry.
With a busy week ahead, there's also debate about the new rules at the Next Gen finals, and Catherine gives her take about the recent Billie Jean King Cup controversy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary Carillo. I'm Stan Roenka. I'm like Newt. I'm Andy Murray |
| 0:06.8 | This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast |
| 0:20.8 | Catherine Wittig is back. Hello Catherine. Hello David. Yeah, how's your way? |
| 0:25.7 | Long, long but good, very good. Yeah, we thought we'd better get Catherine back on because |
| 0:34.8 | Paris has happened in all the time that Matt's been infiltrating press conferences and talking to |
| 0:42.0 | teams about goodness knows what over the last week at the Billie Jean King Cup Final. So Matt's |
| 0:46.2 | got the day off. In fact, he's gone to a family event which leaves Catherine and me to do it old |
| 0:52.5 | school before Matt. I'm anxious about this. Yeah, I've had to write my own agenda. We've got no |
| 1:00.4 | Matt available to us if we have a fallout or if we need to ask a question to which he can't |
| 1:08.5 | reasonably expect it to be known to be known the answer to. And we're going to most |
| 1:14.4 | talk. Could go wrong. We did this for about six years. I don't know how. Yeah, six years. And |
| 1:24.0 | yeah, it's nice occasion to have another go and then Matt quickly come back. No, it's delightful to |
| 1:33.1 | you and yeah, you've had some week to report on with Paris. So let's start and talk about that |
| 1:41.2 | shall we because no, that jocker, which is one his sixth Paris Masters title, his seventh year that |
| 1:48.4 | he's ended as the world number one. What was your take on on his route through the week? I feel |
| 1:57.0 | like we saw a lot of different sides to him over the course of the week with with all the sort of |
| 2:01.9 | pressure that was on him and then the pressure being released and then the different level that |
| 2:07.3 | he kind of came up within in the final once that was released. Is that how you saw? Yeah, |
| 2:12.0 | absolutely. The contrast between the Novak-Dokovic that we saw in the semi-finals against Hubert |
| 2:17.6 | Hurkach, which of course was the match that took him over the line to secure his seventh year |
| 2:24.7 | and number one. And the Djokovic that we saw in the final was just immense. It was it was the two |
| 2:31.6 | opposite ends of the Djokovic spectrum and clearly for very, very obvious reasons. Look, |
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