US Open Day 11 - Bad, Bizarre, Brilliant: Women’s semis reviewed; Men’s semis preview

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Sports & Recreation, Wimbledon, Sports

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Women's semi-final night at the US Open has delivered guaranteed drama in recent years, and Thursday night was no exception. Catherine, David and Matt discuss Aryna Sabalenka's mental resilience to come back from 0-6 down to win despite all her Grand Slam baggage, whether Madison Keys will have any regrets despite a great performance, how Coco Gauff vs Karolina Muchova went from horror show to absolute thriller, and the climate protest which interrupted play for more than 45 minutes. Our men's semi final preview includes a lovely chat between David and Bryan Shelton, father of Ben.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary
0:04.9	Carillo. This is Pam Shriver. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:20.5	Well hello and welcome to the tennis podcast where it's 10 past 2 AM and we are on the whiskey.
0:29.5	Whiskey bought for us. Almost specifically bought for David by Pam Shriver. Hello Pam. So this
0:36.5	podcast is brought to you not only in partnership with AO Travel, but also with Pam Shriver Scotch.
0:46.1	So we'll see how this goes. Our women's final lineup is set. 19 year old Coco Gough against
0:57.6	future world number one. Come Monday, she will be the world's number one player,
1:03.5	arena, sabbelenca. What is Saturday night in New York? That is going to be what a Thursday night
1:11.6	in New York it has been David. Yeah, it really has been a lot actually today, hasn't it? And I didn't
1:20.0	necessarily think it would go like that particularly because of the way the first sets of both matches
1:26.7	went. Actually, I was really worried about how it was all going to go. Obviously there was a
1:33.5	non-tennis moment that will come onto as well, 45th moments actually, the interrupted play in the
1:41.6	Gough MOOC of a match, but actually in many ways the second match is the one that I'm just glad
1:47.8	became a real tussle because it was going horribly wrong from a sabbelenca point of view.
1:56.2	And I don't feel as though keys can leave that court with too many regrets. Obviously,
2:01.2	she would have loved to get out of the line, but she played hard and she played well and she just
2:06.0	lost to somebody who's better in those moments, I thought. Well, let's lead with that match,
2:11.8	shall we? Love 6, 7, 6, 7, 6, we're in a sabbelenca. I know in lots of ways Coco Gough reaching the
2:18.4	final is the bigger story and we'll cover that in lots of detail, but we've just watched
2:25.6	sabbelenca come back from the most horrible of starts against Madison Keys, and we're kind of
2:32.7	still reeling from it. An hour ago, we were still on Arthur Ash Stadium, butching arena sabbelenca,
2:40.0	celebrate what she thought was match points when she got to seven in the match,
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