US Open Day 1 - Total Andy Murray
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Day one felt like the US Open again and Andy Murray looked like Andy Murray again.
Those were the big takeaways for Catherine, David and Matt on the first nightly podcast from this year’s tournament at the end of a day packed with drama, epic matches, and even some aggro.
How did it feel different watching Murray this time compared to other recent matches? Should he have won? And why has he “lost respect” for Stefanos Tsitsipas after the Greek’s lengthy bathroom break?
Elsewhere, we discuss how Sloane Stephens vs Madison Keys exceeded expectations, gritty performances from Garbine Muguruza, Angelique Kerber and Coco Gauff, and a big win for Simona Halep.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartorri. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Matt's Vylander. This is Mary Carillo. This is Pam Shriver. |
| 0:06.4 | I'm Stan Roenka. I'm Lainey Stewart. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis |
| 0:10.9 | podcast. |
| 0:22.1 | Look, I know we had crowds in today and so things feel a bit 2019 but I can't think of a more |
| 0:28.8 | eventful opening day of a US Open than that. Particularly on our thrash |
| 0:36.0 | stadium court. The fact that it's 9pm local time and the evening session is just about to start. |
| 0:42.3 | There have been about 15,000 people waiting outside the court for the last two hours. |
| 0:48.4 | For Andy Murray to finish his match against Stefano Sitsapas and it has just been |
| 0:52.7 | hoping that everything could have hoped for really in terms of competitive opening matches |
| 0:58.8 | on the main stadium court and there was Agro as well, Catherine. |
| 1:06.8 | It was a massively eventful opening day in a completely different way to the way that |
| 1:15.8 | opening days of Grand Slam are usually eventful. They're usually eventful in a completely chaotic |
| 1:23.2 | feeling of, oh my goodness, I can't keep across everything. I need so many screens. |
| 1:27.8 | I've missed something. That just perpetual feeling of FOMO and fear that you might be missing |
| 1:39.7 | some drama unfolding. Today I had the feeling of a really brilliant semi-final day where you know |
| 1:46.8 | exactly where to look, you build it up and it exceeds expectations somehow. It was wonderful |
| 1:56.0 | but in a slightly strange way for an opening day I feel like a lot of other brilliant stuff |
| 2:03.2 | probably happened that I don't know very much about. So the last 10 minutes of this podcast |
| 2:07.7 | and we sort of do any other business could be quite interesting. |
| 2:12.4 | The performance Andy Murray put in tonight, if you haven't seen it, he lost in five sets to |
| 2:18.0 | Stefano Sitsapas despite having led two sets to one. I can't think of him playing a better match |
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