Resurgent Rafa, meandering Madrid, but here comes Collins vs Sabalenka!
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
With Madrid pretty much at the halfway stage, Catherine, David and Matt catch up to cover the biggest stories so far, headlined by Rafael Nadal’s stirring victory over Alex de Minaur.
We also cover defeats for Stefanos Tsitsipas and Holger Rune, promising signs for Carlos Alcaraz, a ridiculous match between Corentin Moutet and Juncheng Shang, convincing victories for most of the top women, and a clash to savour between Danielle Collins and Aryna Sabalenka.
Elsewhere, there’s our usual discussion about two-week Masters 1000 events, plus how wildcards are awarded, the new men’s doubles format being trialled, changes to the Billie Jean King Cup Finals, Alize Cornet’s upcoming retirement, and an upsetting question put to Garbine Muguruza.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi this is Billy Jean King this is Marion Bartori I'm Matt's Willander this is Mary |
| 0:04.9 | Carillo this is Pam Shriver this is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis |
| 0:09.0 | podcast Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast on this fine Monday morning and by fine I mean six degrees |
| 0:29.0 | That's it for your weather update. |
| 0:31.0 | It's just really really cold in the UK and TBC on whether |
| 0:34.8 | it's ever going to get any warmer. Matt is here experiencing the very same |
| 0:39.6 | weather that I'm experiencing just a few miles down the road. How you doing Matt? I'm very well thank you and I |
| 0:46.3 | played tennis this morning which was fun. I didn't I didn't text the group so that probably |
| 0:51.4 | tells you all you need to know about how I played but |
| 0:55.2 | Jack Draper that never stops me bumped into him oh mmm one day you're losing to |
| 1:02.2 | Hubert Herkach in Madrid and the next you're playing on the same court as I am. |
| 1:06.6 | It's a weird life being a tennis player. |
| 1:12.0 | David's here. Hello David, since we last spoke you have acquired top of the range |
| 1:18.0 | athlete level wearable tech and been on a lads golfing holiday. |
| 1:22.4 | Yeah. Who who are you? and been on a lads golfing holiday. |
| 1:23.0 | Who are you? |
| 1:25.0 | Who is this man I see before me? |
| 1:27.0 | Spring does funny things to me and it's not six degrees here either. |
| 1:30.0 | It's a lot warmer than that. |
| 1:32.0 | So you know, come to sunny solly hall and you end up wearing |
| 1:36.0 | wearable tech and and yeah going on that's holiday first time I've been in one in 30 years and it was with the same people. We are mostly different shapes |
| 1:46.0 | than we used to be 30 years ago but still we got along famously and golf was just as bad as it used to be. So yes, vintage. |
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