US Open Day 11 - Swiatek & Jabeur set up fitting finale
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
With the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, it was been a strange, unsettling day at the US Open. Sporting coverage on BBC Radio was replaced with rolling news and obituary programming, meaning David didn’t commentate on the tennis. Catherine wasn’t required to present Prime Video’s coverage and a moment’s silence was held on court ahead of the women’s semi-finals.
We discussed what to do with the podcast and decided to continue production - we are a tennis podcast on-site at the US Open, with a global audience of tennis fans. We understand and respect that some of our listeners will not want to listen to us at this time, but we want to continue as normal for those that do. So on we go. And in this episode we review semi-final wins for Iga Swiatek and Ons Jabeur.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartori. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Matt's Vylander. This is Mary Carillo. This is Pam Shriver. |
| 0:06.4 | This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.5 | Hello folks, women's semi-finals day to day at the US Open and well it's been a day like no other |
| 0:27.6 | really for us because as you'll know by now I'm just in the Queen past away today which meant |
| 0:33.1 | wall-to-wall news coverage in the UK. I wasn't required for commentary on BBC Radio on the tennis |
| 0:39.0 | today. It may be affected tomorrow as well. Maybe even over the weekend we're still waiting for |
| 0:43.0 | confirmation about all of that. The prime video coverage as well. That was reduced a little in the UK. |
| 0:48.7 | The matches have been played and screened though but it has meant no studio work for Catherine |
| 0:55.4 | today. All of that very much understandable. It's what we would have expected in the UK but for |
| 1:00.8 | the podcast with our global audience well we're going to proceed as normal. Daily podcasts we know |
| 1:06.3 | that some of our listeners may not want to listen to it today and maybe over the next few days as well |
| 1:12.0 | and we very much understand that. We were we were we were spent that but at the same time the US Open |
| 1:17.8 | here has continued. We're the tennis podcast. We're here to cover it so we're going to do that |
| 1:23.0 | and do that for those of you that are listening right now and anybody else who wants to over the |
| 1:27.6 | next few days. Has been a strange old day though hasn't it Catherine? Yeah a day that we'll |
| 1:35.8 | we'll never forget. I don't I don't think one of those sort of you'll remember where you were |
| 1:41.9 | and look people feel a broad range of emotions about this. A broad sort of |
| 1:48.5 | volume of emotions about this. Some will fall none at all and say oh women that I don't know |
| 1:54.6 | has died but I just think it's it's just unsettling. My my 97 year old grandpa passed away while |
| 2:07.9 | I was at the Australian Open this year and what my brother said to me when I spoke to him and sort of |
| 2:16.4 | was confused about how obsessed I was about it because he was very elderly and very much ready to go |
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