Svitolina, Yastremska play for Ukraine like never before, WTA’s win, Djokovic & Murray’s big coaching news
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
The tennis news keeps coming, meaning Catherine, David and Matt have a lot to discuss, including:
- The WTA’s new title sponsor - Hologic - and how it came about from the tour’s stance on Peng Shuai and China
- The inspirational run of Dayana Yastremska in Lyon just days after she fled Ukraine with her younger sister
- The governing bodies’ swift action to stop Russian and Belarusian players from competing under their national flag following a statement from Elina Svitolina
- An absorbing Monterrey final between Leylah Fernandez and Camila Osorio in which both players displayed their best selves
- A round up of all the results from this weekend’s Davis Cup Qualifiers
- Djokovic and Vajda split…again, Murray and Lendl get back together…again
- Ash Barty and Dominic Thiem to miss Indian Wells and Miami
- An update on Roger Federer’s rehab and comeback plans
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| 0:17.2 | Hello folks and welcome to the tennis podcast. A very special welcome to Tristan and his lovely |
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| 1:10.5 | The link to do so is in our show notes. This though is going to be our weekly podcast covering all things tennis, |
| 1:18.3 | news and results. Now obviously those things at the moment vary from the tremendously depressing and troubling to. |
| 1:27.3 | Luckily the odd sort of glimmer of light and uplifting, new story and result and all those sorts of things. |
| 1:35.1 | Look we'll cover all of it. Some of it will be tough. That's just the way the world is at the moment. |
| 1:39.7 | But we're going to start I think with tennis. We're going to start with the tennis this time folks. |
| 1:47.2 | And we're going to start with the two WTA tournaments that we've had this week. The two |
| 1:52.4 | hologic. If I said that right folks I don't think I have. That was my debut saying |
| 1:58.1 | saying hologic and I think I said it wrong. It's the new name for the WTA tour. |
| 2:03.7 | They have a brand new title sponsor. So we're going to start with our two hologic WTA tour events |
| 2:11.9 | that we've had this week. And our winners, Drung Shui and Layla Fernandez. Can we just |
| 2:17.5 | row back David and Matt and have a review of my pronunciation of hologic? |
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