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The Tennis Podcast

Statoil Masters Day 1 - Pat Cash, 1987, Appendicitis and playing a 15-year-old Rafael Nadal

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Sports & Recreation, Wimbledon, Sports

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2014

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In the second of our special series of podcasts from the Statoil Masters Tennis at the Royal Albert Hall, Pat Cash talks about the emotional exhaustion he felt the night after winning Wimbledon, the appendicitis he had a year earlier, and his clash with a 15-year-old Rafael Nadal. 

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0:00.0

Hi I'm John McIner and you're listening to the tennis podcast.

0:12.8

Well hello and welcome to the tennis podcast. This is day one of the Statole Masters tennis. We

0:18.2

spoke to you yesterday about 1997 when this first tournament first began and what was going on in

0:25.1

the world back then Catherine Whitaker revealed her fascination with the film Titanic and has been

0:31.4

hearing about it ever since. Actually if you remember watched it three times at the cinema we've

0:37.6

since found out lots more about this this fascination with the film Titanic but today we're going

0:44.0

back even further in time 10 more years back to 1987 when a certain Mr Pat Cash was the name on

0:52.5

everybody's lips hello Pat Cash. Hello I'm fascinated about Titanic I mean is this an original

0:58.1

movie story or what happened I mean let me guess hit a nice bergen and down and you watch it

1:03.2

the watch it three times. The Titanic film Pat was the the the frozen of the day wasn't it Catherine

1:12.7

because obviously it's slightly sadder story more generally but of that level of fascination

1:19.3

I tell you what you'd saved me a lot of time you'd have been around back then to tell me the plot

1:24.6

you'd have saved me three hours a pop every time I went that would be nine hours of my life you

1:29.1

would have saved me. The other two times or so you fell asleep you you had to go three times or watch

1:33.1

that to find out what happened in the end. I'm always fascinated about people. I couldn't get enough

1:38.0

Pat I couldn't I just I needed to relive the glory. You cry every time. Do you know what I can't

1:44.0

believe I'm adding I'm adding to the misery that I've experienced in the last 24 hours since revealing

1:49.2

since using the word Titanic on the tennis podcast but I have to reveal that the second time I went

1:55.2

to see it I cried in the opening credits because it evoked all the memories of the first time I saw

2:02.2

it. You didn't know you were going to get yourself into this did you Pat Cash we'll be finding out

2:07.3

what you were watching about then. Yeah what movies were in an 87 I'm not trying to think I can

2:11.7

well we can tell you Pat Cash because let us just say that we're here at the Statole Masters tennis

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