US Open Day 11 - Raducanu. Fernandez. WHAT IS HAPPENING?

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Wimbledon, Sports, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The teenage dream will extend all the way to the US Open final after Leylah Fernandez and Emma Raducanu booked their places in Saturday's showpiece event. At the end of an extraordinary women's semi-final night, David and Matt try to convey what they saw and how they felt. How much was Aryna Sabalenka her own worst enemy? What did Fernandez do to cause Sabalenka's downfall? In what way did Raducanu neutralise Maria Sakkari's physical presence? And how did the Brit maintain her composure throughout the second set?

There's also a rundown of the records they're setting, lots of shock about surreal it all is, and a look ahead to the men's semi-finals on Friday.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartorzi.
0:03.1	I'm Matt's Vylander. This is Mary Carillo. This is Pam Shriver.
0:06.4	I'm San Roenka. I'm Lighten Hutt. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:22.1	Well you know folks the tennis podcast has been in existence for coming up to 10 years
0:28.5	and we've produced coming up towards 900 episodes of it.
0:34.4	And the idea of it is to talk to each other, myself David Law, Matt Roberts and Catherine
0:41.4	Whitagoo is not with us tonight because she's she's getting some sleep ahead of a TV presenting
0:47.2	duties tomorrow and we will be back together all very soon. But the idea of the podcast is for us
0:52.4	all to talk about what's gone on in the tennis each day and react to it and look ahead to what's
0:58.0	coming next. Well I don't quite know how we're going to do that tonight Matt because for the first
1:03.8	time in those nearly 10 years of doing this I don't know what to say about what we've just witnessed
1:10.0	from particularly Emma Radicano who has just reached the final of the US Open in only her second
1:20.0	Grand Slam tournament in her entire life and she's done it as a qualifier which nobody has ever
1:28.8	done before. She's played 18 sets she's won all 18 none of them closer than 64
1:38.4	and she's done it in a manner with tennis that has just left me breathless. I just can't I can't
1:47.6	believe what I've witnessed and she's going to play an all teenage final against Layla Fernandez
1:54.8	who in her own right has just played jaw-dropping tennis and shown guts and determination and
2:03.5	tenacity and fighting spirit and defiance and brilliance and I feel giddy I feel absolutely I
2:12.4	feel giddy on it all and it's it's it's simultaneously wonderful and exhausting and
2:19.3	overwhelming. Can you do any better? Well like you I am absolutely buzzing after what I've
2:28.2	just witnessed tonight and I hope that comes across as I try to keep my voice down and not wake
2:34.4	Kathwin up from her very important sleep. She's gutted she can't be on she really is and the
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