Peng Shuai fears grow; WTA Finals bliss for Muguruza…and Catherine

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We begin this episode by discussing the latest developments surrounding Peng Shuai who has not been heard from since she made sexual assault allegations against a top Chinese government official two weeks ago.

Steve Simon, chairman of the WTA, has continued to take a strong stance by casting doubt on an email released by Chinese state media attributed to Peng Shuai and saying that there remains a lot of concern for her safety.

Elsewhere, David and Matt talk all about Garbine Muguruza winning the WTA Finals. How did she beat Anett Kontaveit in the final? In what way did Guadalajara bring out the best in her? What made her so emotional in victory? And what does this title mean in the context of her career?

There’s also more chat about the ATP Finals, including the performances of Jannik Sinner and Cameron Norrie as alternates, Novak Djokovic’s contentment, and whether Andrey Rublev needs a Plan B.

Finally, we react to a detailed update from Roger Federer about his knee injury.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mayan Bartorzi.
0:03.1	I'm Matt Vellander. This is Mary Carillo. This is Pam Shriver.
0:06.4	This is Janik Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:20.4	Well the WTA finals is over and we'll get on to talking about Gabin Yuma-Garuth.
0:25.5	There's Win Over and it's Contervate in a moment or two because there were some incredible scenes
0:31.3	and scenes I don't think I'll ever really forget actually from over the course of the last week.
0:36.4	Matt's here alongside me David Law and we're going to be talking about everything that's gone on
0:42.4	over the past couple of days and the semi-finals and the final of the WTA finals and also
0:47.3	what's gone on at the ATP finals because there's been some change there with injuries and
0:52.5	replacements and alternates coming in and we'll update you with where we are with all of that.
0:58.1	But I think we have to start with the ongoing story about the Chinese player Pung Shui
1:05.6	and the story that just continues to develop and the concern that continues to grow over her
1:13.2	whereabouts and the lack of verifiable knowledge that she's okay and that she is in going to be
1:23.4	in a position to have her allegations investigated. Just to bring it up today with what happened
1:29.5	yesterday we sort of tweaked from I think I first saw a tweet from Naomi Asaka, Matt, that made me
1:37.6	think oh well she's speaking up on Pung Shui's behalf and asking where is she and this comes a day
1:47.1	after Steve Simon had said that they'd received some assurances all be it not directly from her or
1:54.2	not directly from anybody that directly knows her from the tour that she was okay and there was
2:01.0	nothing to worry about but he made it clear that he still wanted to hear more. Then suddenly in the
2:08.6	afternoon a letter was posted by a China state affiliated media organization which said the following
2:19.6	and it was coming from or at least purported to be from Pung Shui it says this, hello everyone this is
2:29.3	regarding the recent news released on the official website of the WTA the content has not been
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