Sublime Swiatek cruises amidst the chaos
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
As a bumpy week in Cancun reaches its conclusion, Catherine and David discuss Iga Swiatek's statement performance in the final and her triumphant return to World Number One. Plus, is this the end of the road for beleaguered WTA CEO Steve Simon?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi this is Billy Jane King this is Marion Bartotti I'm Matt's Willander this is Mary |
| 0:04.8 | Carrillo I'm Stan Rarinka I'm Leighton Hewlett this is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis |
| 0:09.7 | podcast podcast. Well, hello, and welcome to the tennis podcast on this very special of days, a double |
| 0:28.0 | podcast day. Yes, this is the first of two this morning. |
| 0:33.1 | As we come to you myself and David, |
| 0:35.4 | we will be talking all things WTA finals |
| 0:38.1 | and leaving Cancun behind us. |
| 0:41.0 | And then later on today, |
| 0:42.4 | we will all convene with Matt Roberts in Seville to discuss |
| 0:46.7 | day one of the Billy Jean King Cup finals. If David Law has his way every day would be a double podcast day. |
| 0:54.6 | That's not actually completely inaccurate. |
| 0:58.3 | There are still days. |
| 1:00.5 | You remember about four years ago and I said, oh, imagine if we did a |
| 1:03.9 | podcast every single day. That occasionally goes through my mind. And then I |
| 1:09.6 | think I've just had a really good holiday. So who's going to do all these everyday |
| 1:15.9 | podcasts and also you know the more I've thought about it much as we all get on and |
| 1:21.3 | seem to always have something to say I think we would probably have to |
| 1:25.0 | mix it up because even we would get bored of each other's takes if they were every day. |
| 1:30.1 | Some sense of, you know, breaks and so forth. Absence is important in life, isn't it? |
| 1:40.0 | We would definitely end up doing the tennis's worst shadows podcast which quite frankly I'm |
| 1:46.1 | actually always pushing for in our editorial meetings. |
| 1:50.8 | When are we doing the Shadows Pod guys? |
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