Tsitsipas soars, Coco cracks Top 25, and what’s up with Thiem?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
With Roland Garros around the corner, Catherine, David and Matt discuss the biggest stories from last week’s tune-up tournaments, including setbacks for Roger Federer, Serena Williams and Dominic Thiem in their preparation, a second career title for Coco Gauff, and victories for Stefanos Tsitsipas and Casper Ruud which underline their French Open credentials.
There’s also discussion of Denis Shapovalov’s unfortunate withdrawal from Roland Garros, news that Indian Wells will be held in October, and reaction to Federer’s comments about the allegations against Alexander Zverev.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartori. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Matt Svillander. This is Mary Carillo. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm Thun Roenka. I'm Lighten Ewitt. This is Yannick Noah. |
| 0:08.3 | Hi, this is Tracy Collins from Cincinnati, Ohio, |
| 0:11.2 | home of the Western Southern Open and from the tennis club that is home of rising WTA |
| 0:15.8 | star Katie McNally. And you're listening to the Best Tennis Podcast, the tennis podcast. |
| 0:30.3 | Hello folks and welcome to the tennis podcast and Cobra Kai Appreciation podcast. I say that |
| 0:38.7 | to placate the many droves of people that have contacted me over the course of the past week |
| 0:44.4 | to inform me that I simply must be watching Cobra Kai and how dare I even dame to consider |
| 0:50.8 | not watching Cobra Kai. Several people were, quote, moved to contact with the podcast for the first time. |
| 1:00.0 | To let me know, to let me know that I've been making the wrong television choices in my life up |
| 1:06.4 | to this point. So we'll be rectifying that. I've put it on my list officially and I will be |
| 1:13.2 | watching Cobra Kai at some point in the future. So it's only on a list there. You haven't actually |
| 1:18.0 | bothered. It's on a list. I've had a busy week, David. It's on the list. It's on the list. |
| 1:23.7 | Thank you to Tracy Collins that you heard there in our intro. More of Katie McNally later, |
| 1:32.8 | Tracy, because she's one of the many people this week that has done a thing, Matt. |
| 1:38.4 | Yeah, she sure is. What she done. |
| 1:42.2 | David's read the agenda. She's won a doubles title with Coco Gough. Coco Gough. I mean, |
| 1:49.5 | this wasn't supposed to come till this was a couple of agenda points down the list, but Coco Gough |
| 1:55.0 | has become the youngest player since Maria Sharapova in 2004 to do a singles doubles double. |
| 2:02.6 | And that is for me the most unexpected stat of the week, because I was fully expecting 17-year-old |
| 2:08.7 | Coco Gough to A.B. the youngest player ever to do that. And B. I definitely wasn't expecting |
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