US Open Day 14 - Thiem at last; Zverev devastated
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
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🗓️ 14 September 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Dominic Thiem is finally a Grand Slam champion, but he had to do it the hard way, becoming the first man in US Open history to mount a comeback from two sets to love down in the final, triumphing in a deciding set tiebreak against Alexander Zverev.
On the podcast, we try to get our heads around what happened. Why did Thiem start so slowly? In what way did Zverev's gameplan impress early on? How did the match turn around? What did it feel like to see both players confront nerves in that excruciating decider? How scarred will Zverev be by this defeat? And what will the result do to Thiem?
We also round up the day's wheelchair matches and reflect on the tournament as a whole.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary Carrillo. I'm Stan Roenka. I'm like Newt. I'm Andy Murray |
| 0:06.7 | This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast |
| 0:20.6 | Well, I'm Emma second beer Catherine's on a third. I've just called the name of mine wrong |
| 0:25.8 | What's it called really? What's his real name? I'm on my second beer David. I'm his lead. You've just opened your third. How many a Catherine? |
| 0:34.5 | It's an EQ |
| 0:36.5 | It's an EQ right okay, so yeah, I'm drinking San Miguel apparently. I thought it was called San Miguel |
| 0:44.0 | But not to worry. I've had three of them |
| 0:47.1 | We've just watched the men singles final and |
| 0:50.1 | It is the sort of final that makes me feel like I've had about five beers |
| 0:55.5 | Even if I hadn't because it's it was a meandering delirious |
| 1:04.4 | I don't really know how to sum it up. It was just but onkers |
| 1:09.2 | Yeah, I'm slightly worried that the max is just a big blur in my mind and I'm going to struggle to talk about what actually happened |
| 1:17.4 | I can remember very strongly the feeling of it happening and how I felt watching it |
| 1:22.8 | I think that will be etched into my mind forever because it was one of those matches by the end |
| 1:28.0 | I was just so on edge and so tense for both players |
| 1:33.6 | But trying to rationalize what happened might be quite a difficult task I think |
| 1:41.4 | Is it a bit like last year's final when Raffa and the Dal led two sets to love and a break and |
| 1:48.8 | That looked over and then suddenly it was in a fifth set. Is it a bit like that? |
| 1:54.4 | No |
| 1:56.4 | I don't think so it was far lower quality I would say throughout |
| 2:02.3 | I thought I thought last year's final was really good like the whole time this one was patchy |
| 2:09.1 | But the idea of it being not that interesting because it's looking like it's going to be a straight set to win and |
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