US Open Day 11 - Angelique Kerber - World No.1; Serena Shocked And Crocked; Pliskova Breaks Through

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

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🗓️ 9 September 2016

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

With a single double-fault, Serena Williams handed Karolina Pliskova a passage through to her first Grand Slam final, the World No.1 ranking to Angelique Kerber, and dashed her own chances of going ahead of Steffi Graf in the all-time list of Grand Slam title holders.

Afterwards, David Law (BBC 5 Live) and Catherine Whitaker (Eurosport) got together on the daily US Open Telegraph Tennis Podcast to discuss a couple of hours that shifted the tennis world on its axis.

Where was the Williams-Pliskova match won and lost?

What caused Williams to double-fault at match point? Could her nerve be going?

How big a factor was the knee injury that she revealed afterwards. Was it poor form to mention it?

All discussed on the Tennis Podcast, as well as an assessment of the rise of Kerber, and a preview and predictions of the men’s semifinals.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm John McEnore. I'm Bjorn Borg. This is Martina Navratlova. I'm Matt Vylander. I'm
0:05.2	San Roenka. I'm Lighten Youet. I'm Andy Marri and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:19.9	Well hello and welcome to the tennis podcast brought to you in association with the
0:23.8	Tenograph. We come to you between the women's semi-finals and my goodness. With only one having been
0:30.8	played we have a lot of stories to talk to you about after just a couple of hours of play. My name is
0:35.8	David Law. If you listen to the tennis podcast for the first time I'm a commentator for BBC Radio
0:40.6	Five Live. I'm joined by Catherine Whittaker who's presenting Euro Sports coverage tonight here
0:45.5	from Flushing Meadows and we are gathering between matches Catherine because we've just seen in
0:51.4	order, Carolina Pishkava reaching her first ever Grand Slam singles final. We've seen Serena Williams
0:57.6	beaten as she tries to create records for the number of Grand Slam titles. She's won leaving a stuck
1:04.2	on 22 along with Steffi Graff and losing her world number one ranking on Monday. She will no longer
1:11.7	be the world number one. Angelic Kerber is the world number one. She has now just taken to the court
1:17.0	for her semi-final against Caroline Bosnian. We'll be bringing you an updated segment of the podcast
1:23.4	with that result at the end of that match. But I mean at the moment Catherine I don't know about you.
1:28.4	I'm just bold over by the last couple of hours. It really was one of those sort of earth-earth shifting
1:34.8	moments for tennis. Yeah the sequence of events has been unreal really. Obviously the culmination
1:41.0	being Angelic Kerber walking on to court for her semi-final already knowing that she is the world
1:46.0	number one in waiting just at the moment she seems to be dealing with that just fine. She's a double
1:51.2	break up against Caroline Bosnian. I barely seen Bosnian. She won a point. But obviously the focus in
1:59.2	this segment of the podcast is on well primarily Pishkava who was unbelievable today. I didn't
2:06.4	really I didn't know that she was capable of playing that well honestly. I really didn't. I mean
2:11.4	she was retrieving today. I mean I know it was never going to be the the forefront of her game,
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