Roger returns - what to expect; Djokovic makes history; Here comes Clara
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Roger Federer is back! In this episode, Catherine, David and Matt react to his pre tournament press conference in Doha as he prepares for his first match since January 2020.
Did he consider retirement while he was out injured? How confident is he that the knee will hold up? What are his main goals for the season? And is he still motivated by the Grand Slam race?
We also cover the main stories from last week, including another step forward for Andrey Rublev, a first victory on home soil for Diego Schwartzman, a dominant week for Petra Kvitova, and a first title for the talented Clara Tauson.
The Tennis Podcast is presented by Catherine Whitaker and David Law, and features Matt Roberts. It is produced weekly year-round, and daily during the Grand Slam tournaments.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartorri. I'm Matt Svillander. This is Mary Carrillo. |
| 0:05.2 | I'm Stan Roenka. I'm Lighten Hutt. I'm Andy Murray. This is Janneke Noah. |
| 0:09.3 | Hi, this is Mike Clary from Calgary, Alberta. And you're listening to The Tennis Podcast. |
| 0:15.9 | Well, hello and thank you to Mike there who featured in our intro. |
| 0:30.4 | He played it straight as an arrow. Did Mike? Lovely stuff. From Calgary, Calgary makes me think |
| 0:37.6 | David and Matt of Cool Runnings, the excellent, excellent film. Yeah. Well, it does bring back memories |
| 0:45.0 | of a 15-year-old me watching The Winter Olympics. And yeah, I've kind of find it really cool |
| 0:52.2 | that we have a listener in Calgary. I know that we have listeners in lots and lots of countries |
| 0:57.1 | all around the world, but I never grow tired of hearing about where they're from. So any time |
| 1:02.6 | you want to let us know where you're from, I want to hear it. So you experienced cool runnings, |
| 1:08.5 | the film first handed in real life? Yeah, but I only kind of found out about it after seeing the film. |
| 1:15.2 | In all honesty, really. Yeah, I was concentrating on other sports, but loved it. |
| 1:22.5 | Matt, please tell me you're aware of the film cool running. Yes, yes, yes. |
| 1:27.6 | Okay, that was, I was really anxious about asking that question. I'm glad we've got that out of the way. |
| 1:32.8 | How are we all doing, folks? All right. Yeah, I tell you what, I'm loving tennis at the moment. |
| 1:40.0 | I have to say, because there's a lot of it on and there's Dubai starting on a women's tournament, |
| 1:47.2 | starting on a Saturday and the Doha tournament finished on a Saturday and the men's, you know, |
| 1:52.8 | slightly overlapping and then an autonomous in Europe and they're all good tournaments. |
| 1:56.9 | All of these are good tournaments and then there's the South American clay court ones as well. |
| 2:01.4 | I think this is what I've missed from tennis. Now it'll get even better when crowds are back, |
| 2:07.6 | more crowds, but just this feeling that tennis is alive and happening all over the place. |
| 2:14.0 | It just really cheers me up. It's alive. It's the absolute opposite of a swing. |
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