Serena Williams vs. Maria Sharapova; What are they really like? Novak/Stan review (Episode 85)
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2015
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
What are Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova really like? On the eve of their Australian Open final clash, we put that question to Chris Clarey of the New York Times - a man that has spent many hours in their company.
We get Chris to give us his predictions, review Stan Wawrinka vs. Novak Djokovic and look ahead to Andy 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 Mietrof 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 | Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:15.2 | It is the night before the first of the two Grand Slam Finals between Serena Williams and Maria Schaupova. |
| 0:22.5 | Then we have Andy Murray against... |
| 0:25.8 | Who's he against, Catherine? Because we've just found out. |
| 0:28.9 | No, that's not. |
| 0:29.9 | That's right. No, that's not. |
| 0:31.1 | Fighting through in five sets against Stan Vavrinka, five weird sets. |
| 0:36.4 | And we have a very special guest to discuss that and also to throw ahead to the Maria Schaupova against Serena Williams final tomorrow. |
| 0:44.9 | And it is one of our heroes of the media world that is Chris Clary from the New York Times. |
| 0:50.2 | Hey, don't Chris. David, it's good to be a hero. It doesn't happen often to me. |
| 0:53.1 | I can tell you that. |
| 0:54.2 | Well, you are one of ours. |
| 0:55.7 | And you came up with a word, Chris, in your piece today in the New York Times looking ahead to Maria Schaupova against Serena Williams that I've never heard before. |
| 1:04.6 | An unreivory. |
| 1:06.3 | It's an unreivory. It's exactly right. It's the match. |
| 1:09.3 | Match up. It should be a great rivalry. I mean, this is Star Power Galore. |
| 1:12.5 | Number one and number two, everybody around the world knows Serena and Sherpova, but it just ain't a good match up for Maria. |
| 1:18.7 | It's been a very, very bad rivalry. |
| 1:20.3 | So I kind of came up with that to that that it was kind of a new way of describing an old problem. |
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