US Open Day 14: Carlos Alcaraz - the present and the future
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
There were special scenes on Sunday night in New York as Carlos Alcaraz beat Casper Ruud to become the youngest US Open men's champion since Pete Sampras in 1990 and the youngest ATP World No.1 ever. Catherine, David and Matt were in the stadium to witness it and they discuss the match and the significance of the moment on the podcast. What made it such an enjoyable match? How did Alcaraz make up for any fatigue he was feeling? And will Ruud have regrets?
Throwing it ahead, are we entering the Alcaraz era? What will Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and the Next Gen challengers be thinking as they watch Alcaraz win this title? And how much better can Alcaraz still get?
There's also chat about the women's doubles final, the inspirational Taylor Townsend, and all the day's wheelchair results.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartorita. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary Carillo. This is Pam Shriver. |
| 0:06.4 | This is Yannick Noah. |
| 0:07.6 | Hi, this is Virginia Priests from Brooklyn, New York, and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:23.4 | Thank you so much, Virginia. It's fantastic to have somebody from around here where we're recording |
| 0:29.0 | the tennis podcast right now in New York, introducing this edition, the final edition of the US Open |
| 0:35.1 | Dailies, and Virginia became a friend of the tennis podcast at the intro level. You can do the same. |
| 0:41.3 | If you'd like to go to our friend's link in our show notes and you'll be able to introduce a show, |
| 0:48.0 | request a shout out at the end of the show, and just generally get access to the 20 podcasts that |
| 0:53.7 | we've already recorded over the course of the last 10 months. They include the One Martined |
| 0:58.0 | Apotro story, the Tracy Austin story that we did a couple of weeks back, loads more, and this week |
| 1:03.5 | alone we're going to be recording our review show in a couple of days time. We've got a Q&A |
| 1:08.8 | coming with friends of the tennis podcast Catherine Matt and myself answering friend's questions. |
| 1:14.0 | That's coming up next week, and also even tomorrow we've got one for you. That's my diary of the US Open. |
| 1:21.4 | Also, don't forget our competition. You could be in with a chance of winning a trip to the Australian |
| 1:27.2 | Open in January if you're a friend. Throughout the US Open we've been brought to you an association |
| 1:32.3 | with AO Travel who provide the Australian Open experience the easy way. With AO Travel you can |
| 1:37.6 | create your own package of tickets for the days and sessions and courts of your choosing at the 2023 |
| 1:42.7 | Australian Open. They'll look after your flights, your accommodation, premium experiences such as |
| 1:47.4 | wine tasting, behind the scenes tours, even a rod laver arena walk on experience. So go to osopentravel.com |
| 1:54.4 | that's a usopentravel.com for details on how to get the best of all of it. Best tennis, the best |
| 2:00.8 | of Melbourne, and it's all in one place. Faf free. And don't forget that one lucky friend of the tennis |
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