Rybakina returns, Humbert delivers and what is Holger Rune doing?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Catherine, David and Matt start with an eventful week in Abu Dhabi which saw Elena Rybakina lift her second trophy of the season, Daria Kasatkina impress, and injury concern for Ons Jabeur.
Elsewhere there’s chat about Karolina Pliskova’s first title in four years, Ugo Humbert delivering on his immense talent by winning in Marseille, Tommy Paul’s title run in Dallas, and an all-qualifier final in Cordoba.
There’s also a disqualification in UTS, coaching news for Holger Rune and Jessica Pegula, and a look ahead to this week as the tennis keeps coming.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi this is Billy Jean King this is Marion Bartotti I'm Matt Villander this is Mary Carrillo this is Pam Shriver this is Yannick Noah. |
| 0:07.6 | Hi this is Ashley from Washington DC and you are listening to the award-winning tennis podcast. Well hello and welcome to the tennis podcast and thank you to Ashley there in |
| 0:29.4 | Washington DC for |
| 0:33.7 | pointing out that we are indeed an award-winning tennis |
| 0:36.8 | podcast David we we do like it when other people point it out because we |
| 0:41.8 | we like it to be known but we don't want to be |
| 0:45.0 | the assholes pointing it out so actually that is an ideal scenario for us to |
| 0:51.6 | start the show. Hello David. |
| 0:53.3 | Hello, I couldn't have put it any better myself, Catherine. |
| 0:57.6 | So thank you very much Ashley. |
| 0:59.0 | Yes, that remains the highlight of 2023 or one of them and yeah bring it up anytime you like. |
| 1:07.0 | Absolutely, Matt, hello, how you doing? |
| 1:11.0 | Hello, very well, thank you. Yes, we should probably like just encourage people to do it and then we'll get it every week. Be great. |
| 1:22.0 | I mean, I think I have done just that that so yeah all three |
| 1:27.0 | of us I would expect to be inundated with with mentions of our award winning |
| 1:31.5 | status David you're still you still have custody of the |
| 1:35.1 | trophy is it in in safe hands? Yeah it's it's in the living room I was looking at it just this morning whilst getting ready to watch the the |
| 1:44.7 | Super Bowl you know I thought you know there's the Lombardi trophy that they're |
| 1:48.1 | playing for but you know we've already got ours it's just in the on the windowsill. They do that thing that the Australian Open does |
| 1:55.8 | and certain other tennis tournaments but I most associate it with the Australian Open |
| 2:00.9 | at the Super Bowl where they have the trophy sort of on display on the field of play. |
| 2:08.9 | Dangling there is a carrot in front of the competitors which at the Australian Open I find just I mean |
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