Serena Williams - 19 Slams! Chris Fowler (ESPN) Joins To Review A Dramatic Aus Open Women's Final (Episode 86)
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2015
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Within minutes of Serena Williams' 19th Grand Slam title, David joined ESPN tennis commentator Chris Fowler to review a dramatic final, discuss Serena's impact in the United States, and to talk about his job. Meanwhile, Catherine and David argue about the quality of the match and look ahead to Murray vs. Djokovic.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McEnore and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:04.3 | Hi, I'm Luis Grigor de Mietro, and you're listening to tennis podcast. |
| 0:08.1 | Hi, I'm Matt Vylander, and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:15.1 | It is a few minutes and about an hour maybe after the women's final between Maria Shalpova |
| 0:20.9 | and a victorious Serena Williams, who has won her 19th Grand Slam title edging ahead |
| 0:26.8 | of Chris Everett and Martin and Avratel over on 18, just three behind Steffi Graf who leads the open era |
| 0:33.8 | most titles in the world of all time, and she has had 22 titles, Catherine Whitaker. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm David Law. I think that was a sensational final. |
| 0:44.4 | I described it on BBC Radio 5 Live. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm happy to say we're very shortly going to be joined in an interview I've done just a few moments ago. |
| 0:52.1 | I would Chris Fowler, the presenter of ESPN's coverage in the United States, who has lots of interesting things to tell us. |
| 0:59.2 | He was commentating on the match too. |
| 1:01.2 | But Catherine, that was an amazing final, wasn't it? |
| 1:03.8 | I think it was a good final. I think it was a very good second set. |
| 1:09.8 | I don't think I would bust any more superlatives out of my vocabulary bag than that. |
| 1:18.9 | You're more raving about it than I am. |
| 1:21.7 | My feeling is, as gutsy as Sharapova was, there was never a moment when I really thought Serena wasn't going to win. |
| 1:31.3 | And for me, that can't be a sensational match. |
| 1:35.7 | No, I don't think I didn't think she was going to win. |
| 1:39.9 | But the key thing was that even though she threw 15 aces past Maria Sharapova in one set of tennis, |
| 1:47.4 | which is extraordinary number, she was hitting the ball as hard as she possibly could. |
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