US Open Day 2 - Raducanu: a fairytale ends, a career begins
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This US Open keeps on delivering. To wrap up Day 2, David and Matt discuss:
- How Emma Raducanu is looking to the future after her title defence ended against Alize Cornet
- Venus Williams’ moment in the spotlight on Ashe Stadium
- Iga Swiatek and Sloane Stephens setting up a second round blockbuster
- Why Andrea Petkovic will be much missed from the sport
- The incredible level produced by Danielle Collins and Naomi Osaka
- Rafael Nadal’s comeback victory over the impressive Rinky Hijikata
- Hard-fought five set wins for Jannik Sinner, Borna Coric and Lorenzo Musetti
- Benoit Paire’s lack of effort in defeat against Cameron Norrie
- Two fun sets between Carlos Alcaraz and Sebastian Baez
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartorzi. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Matt Vylander. This is Mary Carillo. This is Pam Shriver. |
| 0:06.4 | This is Janik Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.4 | Well hello everybody. It is day two of the US Open. We have so much tennis to talk about. |
| 0:26.2 | And Matt Roberts and myself David Law are sitting outside in the rain. |
| 0:32.5 | Under Ethan Umbrella, so we're sort of navigating a big Umbrella. |
| 0:38.9 | What do you call this post that is sticking out of the ground? |
| 0:42.0 | And we've moved either side of it because we're trying to sort of position ourselves |
| 0:45.6 | that we don't get absolutely drenched with our laptops. |
| 0:48.8 | But that's what's suspended play on some of the courts. It's 11 o'clock at night. |
| 0:54.0 | Inside the Arthras stadium is Naomi Osaka and Ruru. Thank goodness they put a roof on this place. |
| 1:00.6 | So there is still tennis going on. But yeah, we're trying to give you the full |
| 1:05.9 | experience of New York, Matt. You've had heat, you've had humidity, you've |
| 1:10.5 | we've had too cold AC and now you're getting thunderstorms. Welcome. |
| 1:16.1 | Yes and a lot of wind today as well. That felt like a really big factor in the tennis I watched. |
| 1:21.9 | The wind and yes, not only have we got the Umbrella's |
| 1:26.0 | hopefully looking after us and I did notice that the Arthras roof actually sort of extends above |
| 1:32.4 | the stadium and out of the stadium and we're sort of we sort of under that a bit as well. |
| 1:38.2 | So thankful for being such an enormous room. Yeah, thank goodness for that. Well, |
| 1:43.2 | Catherine isn't with us this evening. We've sent her home because it was getting seriously late |
| 1:48.8 | and I saw her call time today for tomorrow is 7.30 in the morning. So there'll be lots of |
| 1:54.7 | evenings when she's able to join us not today. So we're going to keep the ship afloat for the tennis |
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