The Pub Podcast! Barcelona Title No 11 - Is Nadal becoming unbeatable? Pliskova wins in Stuttgart & Cash shares Vandeweghe's clay court secrets
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2018
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
After clinching his second 'undecima' of the season in Barcelona following yet another week of straight sets victories, David & Catherine meet in the pub to ponder what the miracle formula might be to muster a challenge to the King of Clay. Is Nadal's lack of competition hurting men's tennis? And how annoyed are we allowed to be at Roger Federer for denying us the chance to see the rivals face off on clay once more.
Karolina Pliskova's Stuttgart win is also discussed, as is the surprise clay court form of her final opponent Coco Vandeweghe. Via the revolutionary medium of whatsapp, David is even able to share first hand secrets from Vandeweghe's coach, 1987 Wimbledon winner Pat Cash.
There is talk of Dan Evans' return to action in Scotstoun (correct pronunciation clarified herein) following his 12 months drugs ban, and the 'cockle-warming' reunion of Stan Wawrinka with his former coach Magnus Norman. we trail the upcoming fly-on-the-wall HBO documentary about Serena Williams.
The Tennis Podcast is produced weekly throughout the year and daily during the Grand Slam tournaments, in association with Telegraph Sport and Eurosport, and presented by Catherine Whitaker (Eurosport) and David Law (BBC 5 Live, BT Sport).
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McEnore. I'm Bjorn Borg. This is Martina Navratlova. I'm Matt Svillander. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm San Roenka. I'm Lainey Njut. I'm Andy Murray. And you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast brought to you in association with the telegraph |
| 0:24.6 | and with Euris Bort by myself, Catherine Whittaker, who today, shall be known as One Mine Whittaker, |
| 0:31.6 | and by David Law, who today shall be known as Two Beers Law, despite the fact that he's |
| 0:37.0 | only on his first beer because we'll be breaking midway through surely for a second beer for the |
| 0:42.5 | law man because due to the late recording time of this podcast, we were unable to sneak into the |
| 0:49.6 | partner exchange in time. So we have migrated, David, to the pub down the road, which means pub podcast. |
| 0:56.4 | Yes, which, I mean, let's see how things go. In 45 minutes time, I might demand that we don't actually |
| 1:02.5 | publish this show. But anyway, we'll try our best to keep it going. If you're listening to this, |
| 1:06.3 | it went well. It went brilliantly. It was the perfect amount of beer for the law man. |
| 1:11.6 | And we have tennis to talk about. First of all, thanks to David and to Simon Briggs for holding |
| 1:15.4 | the fort while I failed to get a tan in the Caribbean. I did wonder, I mean, did you actually go anywhere? |
| 1:22.1 | I am very, very prudent about sunblock. There was not something about tanning loads. I'm very |
| 1:31.5 | pale skinned and very health conscious. So no, I don't have a tan. No. I can vouch for that. |
| 1:40.3 | But I'm delighted that everyone keeps asking. That's great. It's lovely to have to explain |
| 1:44.4 | why you don't have a tan when you've been to the Caribbean. That was lovely. |
| 1:47.6 | Other two caravans is one of them in Worcestershire. That's what I want to know. |
| 1:52.8 | Is one of them in Sully Hall? Yes. No, but it's lovely to come back to seven degrees and rain, |
| 1:58.2 | which is what we're recording in today. Always improves my mood before a podcast, David. |
| 2:02.8 | Yeah, I know I'm sitting a fair distance away from you. I mean, there are many things that affect |
| 2:07.0 | my mood, but seven degrees and rain in April. When you've spent a whole holiday hearing about |
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