San Diego, Gijon, Florence...and ‘Pickleball’
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
For the eighth time this season we’re talking about an Iga Swiatek title this week after she beat Donna Vekic to win in not-so-sunny San Diego. Catherine, David and Matt discuss the impressive nature of her run and her dominance over what should be her closest rivals.
There’s also chat about Andrey Rublev doing what he does best by winning the ATP 250 in Gijon, Felix Auger-Aliassime improving his finals record in Florence, the hunt for WTA Finals qualification as the tour moves to Guadalajara, Emma Raducanu’s decision to work with fitness trainer Jez Green, the shambolic events in Naples which have led to the ATP event there being delayed, and the sad news that British player Tanysha Dissanayake has had to retire from the sport at the age of 21 because of Long Covid.
Come for all of that. Stay for a spectacular rant from David about Pickleball.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. |
| 0:01.8 | This is Mary and Bartori. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Matt's Vlander. |
| 0:04.2 | This is Mary Carillo. |
| 0:05.3 | This is Pam Shriver. |
| 0:06.4 | This is Yannick Noah. |
| 0:07.5 | Hello, tennis fans. |
| 0:08.8 | This is Kim Vogli from Sunny San Diego, California, |
| 0:11.8 | where it's actually raining today. |
| 0:13.6 | Welcome to one of the best pods in podland, the tennis podcast. |
| 0:17.9 | Well, hello folks and welcome to your weekly tennis podcast. |
| 0:32.6 | And thank you to Kim for introducing your weekly tennis podcast. |
| 0:38.4 | From not so sunny San Diego, I can only assume Kim's intro was recorded |
| 0:44.0 | at some point in the last week, where it rained solidly throughout the San Diego open. |
| 0:51.7 | There are lots of reasons to take a tennis tournament to San Diego. |
| 0:54.8 | I've been and enjoyed it very much, but the weather is pretty much number one on the list of |
| 1:00.9 | reasons and it did not deliver as promised last week. |
| 1:04.5 | Somehow they got the tournament finished on time and we'll be talking about that tournament |
| 1:11.0 | and an extraordinary win for eager Schvillentech, a prize of prize, |
| 1:15.6 | folks, she's won a final. |
| 1:18.2 | But yeah, it wasn't sunny San Diego last week, David. |
| 1:22.0 | No, I was reading that they have on average each year about 38 days of rain. |
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