US Open Day 13 - Kerber Wins US Open In Classic; Jamie Murray/Bruno Soares Doubles Champions; Catherine/David Wage War With New York Bus Driver
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2016
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Eight months ago, Angelique Kerber was match point down in the first round of the Australian Open. Eight months on, having saved that match point, she is the Australian Open and US Open champion, the World No.1, a Wimbledon runner-up, and an Olympic silver-medalist.
After a classic 3-set tussle between Kerber and Karolina Pliskova, the Tennis Podcast’s team of Eurosport presenter Catherine Whitaker, BBC Radio 5 Live commentator David Law and Telegraph tennis correspondent Simon Briggs caught up to review it all while racing for the bus back to Manhattan.
How has Kerber gone from solid Top Ten player to World No.1 inside a year?
What next for Pliskova after her impressive wins over Venus and Serena Williams, and narrow defeat in the final?
And who will win the men’s final between Novak Djokovic and Stan Wawrinka?
The podcast team debate it all, and review a second Grand Slam doubles title in 2016 for Jamie Murray.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McInerd. I'm Bjorn Borgh. This is Martina Navratlova. I'm Matt Vylander. I'm |
| 0:05.2 | Stan Bavinka. I'm Lighten Huat. I'm Andy Murray. 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 telegraph. |
| 0:24.2 | Catherine Whitaker, Simon Briggs from the telegraph and myself come to you from |
| 0:30.4 | Flushing Meadows just after the women's final and absolutely pulsating women's final. And guess what? |
| 0:36.0 | We're on the move. Catherine is going to have to keep a wits about her to avoid walking into |
| 0:41.0 | another tree. Simon Briggs, you haven't done the war can talk before but we haven't spoken to you |
| 0:46.7 | for a few days. First of all, what a women's final that was. That's one of the better ones we've |
| 0:50.9 | had in a long time. Yeah, actually I was thinking that this year the women's finals at the |
| 0:54.6 | slams have been better than the men's finals generally. You know the Kerber Williams in Melbourne was a |
| 0:59.3 | great start and we had two straight sets but strong matches in the meantime in another excellent |
| 1:05.7 | Kerber three setter here. So I think they've actually probably been better overall. We'll see |
| 1:10.0 | how Jokovic and Bavinka stack up tomorrow but I think the women have been doing some great stuff |
| 1:15.2 | in this year's Grand Sam Finals. Somebody, one of our colleagues Leo Schlink from one of the |
| 1:20.8 | Australian news outlets, an excellent tennis writer from Australia tweeted just about 10 minutes |
| 1:27.2 | ago to remind everybody how Angelic Kerber was match point down against Misaki Doi in the first |
| 1:35.5 | round of the Australian Open and here she is eight months older holding two Grand Sam singles titles. |
| 1:42.0 | She was in the final of Wimbledon and she got Olympic silver medal and she's world number one. |
| 1:46.0 | It's pretty extraordinary isn't it? Yeah it's like a sliding doors moment isn't it? You could go back |
| 1:51.6 | you know you could make a film about the alternate reality of Angelic Kerber's life and maybe she |
| 1:57.8 | would still have gone on to win this one. She wouldn't have gone on to win the Australian Open as she |
| 2:02.3 | hadn't saved that match point but yeah it I mean what can you say it is just a fascinating twist |
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