Sabalenka-Sinner double again; Djokovic motivation question; Stop scheduling clashes!

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Wimbledon, Sports, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

For the fourth time this year, Aryna Sabalenka and Jannik Sinner have won titles in the same week. Sabalenka won in Wuhan, beating Zheng Qinwen in a brilliant final, while Sinner became Shanghai champion by beating Novak Djokovic in a rather flat final.

Catherine, David and Matt discuss both matches and the talking points from both tournaments, including how Zheng is viewed in the locker room, Coco Gauff’s 21 doubles faults in the semi-final, and whether Novak Djokovic can ever rediscover the edge he needs to beat Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz.

There’s also a rant about both finals being scheduled at the same time and Matt lauds Tomas Machac.

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0:00.0	Hi this is Billy Jean King this is Marion Bartotti this is Biancon Dreskou I'm Matt's Villander this is Mary Carrillo this is Pam Shriver this is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast on a drizzly Monday morning in
0:29.1	London and Solihull respectively I'm Catherine Catherine Rittaker. David Law is here.
0:34.3	Matt Roberts is here. We've had what five days now of watching the Great and Good of
0:40.6	tennis post. Every photo they own of themselves with Raphael Nidal.
0:47.0	David, I can't believe you've resisted.
0:50.0	I do have one of me interviewing him back in 2006 shortly ahead of his first ever
1:02.2	appearance at Queens Club where I was a media director at the time and I did an interview with him for something known as the Stella Artois Tennis Podcast which we just launched in which you had to sync up your recording to an iPod and download
1:18.8	it if you wanted to listen to it. But anyway I got to interview aaffandadau for that and yes I have that picture
1:26.4	and I'm not intending to show it to anybody.
1:30.3	Matt you're good on Twitter I'm sure you could have come up with a, you know, an
1:35.2	irreverent caption for a photo of yourself with Nidal. The caption might not have been
1:41.4	the issue. There's a big lack of lack of
1:43.7	photo available that's a pretty big guest for the stellar artoir
1:49.5	podcast David yeah well he was the big new signing of the tournament so we kind of
1:55.0	had it in his contract that he'd got to do stuff. There must be lots of photos
2:02.0	David of the on court ceremony in 2008 when Nidal won Queens and
2:08.3	you would have been on the court no?
2:11.3	We're going on the lawn.
2:13.0	You could have done a whole photo album of yourself with the doll.
2:18.0	I could have done.
2:20.0	Funny enough I chose not to.
2:22.0	Those exist, those are out there.
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