Sliding Doors - Part 2

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports & Recreation, Wimbledon, Sports, Tennis

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

We’re back with a Christmas Eve special to discuss more Sliding Doors moments from tennis history. Would Tim Henman have won Wimbledon in 2001 if it hadn’t rained during his semi-final against Goran Ivanisevic? Could Juan Martin del Potro have turned the Big 4 into a Big 5 if his career hadn’t been interrupted by injuries? And how would tennis have been different if the conditions - especially at Wimbledon - hadn’t been slowed down in the early 2000s?

We also say hello to Billie Jean and discuss the latest rumours of Australian Open quarantine practice pairings.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary Carillo. I'm Stan Ravinka. I'm like Newt. I'm Andy Murray.
0:06.7	This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:20.9	We're happy Christmas Eve everyone if you are indeed listening to this on Christmas Eve
0:26.1	which is the day that we're recording it. Happy Christmas Day. If you're listening to it then happy
0:32.7	Hanukkah. Happy post Christmas. If you're listening to us post Christmas. This is the 150th episode
0:43.1	this year of the tennis podcast David and Matt are here. David, we made it. I mean, we were always
0:50.0	going to make it if you had anything to do with it but we make it. It wasn't even really planned
0:56.0	to get to this day. It just sort of happened. That is a bold face lie, David. I've been
1:05.0	planning it in the middle of the night for the past three months. Most of the year. But I don't know,
1:11.1	one podcast just seems to go into another and one that was planned becomes two just by doing two
1:17.1	parts and isn't it great? Yes. And speaking of great, there is a Billie Jean on my knee just now.
1:26.4	She is great. She seems to be a sleep which I'm not sure says an awful lot about her early
1:33.2	introduction to the podcast but. It says that she's a whittaker. She loves the snooze,
1:38.8	does Billie Jean. She's the tiniest cutest little thing I've ever seen and she's
1:45.6	she's settled right into the podcast vibe. Just feels so right that you have a dog.
1:53.8	Oh, thanks Matt. Yeah. Yeah. News has not yet reached Rosie. I'll let you know how that
2:01.7	how that goes when it does. Yeah. Rosie, there is room in my heart for both of you and all the other
2:11.2	dogs. There's there is plentiful room in my heart for all the dogs on the planet. But yeah,
2:17.9	Billie Jean is occupying a fair bit of it. She is a delight. I keep checking that she's alive
2:24.1	because she spends so much of her time sort of comatose but she does seem absolutely. She's
2:31.5	spark out and she's like behaving eight weeks old to doing as she's told.
2:37.2	Yeah, she likes a chew. I'm nervous about podcast cables. Yeah. Yeah. Is that microwave for me?
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