Statoil Masters Tennis Special - Where were you in December 1997?

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Wimbledon, Sports, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

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🗓️ 2 December 2014

⏱️ 26 minutes

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From inside the Royal Albert Hall, as a tennis court is built before their very eyes for the Statoil Masters which starts tomorrow, Catherine and David are joined by team member Dave Lewy to reminisce about where they were and what they were doing in December 1997, when the Masters Tennis was born.

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0:00.0	Hi I'm John McEnore and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:12.8	Well hello welcome to the tennis podcast but not only a normal tennis podcast this Catherine
0:18.3	Whittaker is the first of the Statole Masters tennis Royal Albert Hall specials are you ready?
0:24.0	Yeah just when you thought the tennis podcast couldn't get bigger or better well we're trying.
0:29.4	We're trying we're ready and we are here to talk about tennis. We are here to look forward to
0:34.2	the Statole Masters tennis which begins tomorrow and brings together some of the greatest tennis
0:38.9	players of all time including John McEnore Pat Cash and the Rodic here for the very first time.
0:45.5	Tim Hemen will be back and many more in the supporting cast as well the matches get underway
0:51.1	at 130 tomorrow. This tournament though Catherine has been going now for 18 years or this is the
0:57.8	18th edition of this tournament it began in 1997. Where were you in 1997?
1:05.2	It was the year I started secondary school. This is all just a big ruse to get us to revealing our
1:09.9	ages isn't it. It was the year I started secondary school happy memories. I would have been I was
1:16.6	11. I turned 11 in 1997. I see and and and what we're going to do in this edition of the tennis
1:24.8	podcast is ask you where you were in 1997 in December and who are your favourite tennis players and
1:31.4	what was going on in the world at that particular time we're going to reveal it all here on the tennis
1:36.0	podcast while building up to the matches here as they build the tennis court they actually
1:41.6	completely build the tennis court from scratch in 24 hours inside the Royal Albert Hall and it's
1:47.4	halfway underway isn't it Catherine. Yeah they should sell tickets to watch the build on the day
1:53.5	before the tournament actually starts because it's really something you know we walked past an
1:58.3	entrance to the court earlier and we sort of ended up standing there for ages watching watching
2:03.6	the thing go up it's it's miraculous if I think on the YouTube channel for the event there's a
2:09.2	time lapse video of the court going in and if you have a chance to catch it it's it's quite something.
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