US Open Day 2 - Was that the worst Ashe day ever?

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports, Wimbledon, Sports & Recreation, Tennis

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

There's no point pretending otherwise: Tuesday on the Arthur Ashe Stadium was a complete dud, with two extremely one-sided matches in the day session and two awkward ones at night, including a retirement. But there was still plenty for Catherine, David and Matt to discuss elsewhere, including a perfect day for the Brits, the first use of VAR in tennis which failed spectacularly, Ons Jabeur winning despite being ill, another rough defeat for Caroline Garcia, a comeback victory for Hubert Hurkacz, and a first Grand Slam match win for Arthur Fils.

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0:28.0	This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:43.0	Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast on day two of the US Open, where you find us once again for part one of the show in the media.
0:54.0	We've had around about two thirds of the day's play.
0:59.0	It's not hot, but it is unbelievably humid today.
1:05.0	The air feels like soup.
1:08.0	It feels like you're breathing in Boston clam chowder, sort of bits and all.
1:14.0	It's such a bizarre day of weather and it is not the sort of weather you, well, frankly it's not the sort of weather that I want to do anything in.
1:23.0	But it's definitely not the sort of weather that you want to play a tennis match in.
1:28.0	And we have seen a lot of players to varying degrees have not a lot of fun out there today, David.
1:36.0	Yeah, I mean, probably some of them would say, well, this isn't unpleasant compared to what we've had in the past, but you're right.
1:44.0	I mean, just breathing in, you feel as though there isn't enough air for everybody to go around.
1:51.0	And yeah, I don't know how they do it.
1:54.0	They're marvels to me the way they run about, do properly cardiovascular exercise over four plus hours.
2:01.0	But you know, they are super fit and I am not.
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