US Open Day 3 - Serena shines to beat Kontaveit. Can she win the whole tournament?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Serena Williams has got us all dreaming. After she played some vintage tennis to beat World No.2 Anett Kontaveit, Catherine, David and Matt discuss whether she can go on to win the entire tournament. How is Serena's run making us feel? What was better about today's performance compared to Monday's? And will there be anyone who can cope with the crowd and the sheer enormity of the occasion to actually beat her?
We also talk about Jack Draper's routine victory over Felix Auger-Aliassime, Coco Gauff and Madison Keys setting up a third round blockbuster, Andy Murray's improved form and his prospects against Matteo Berrettini, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartori. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary Carillo. This is Pam Shriver. |
| 0:06.4 | This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.5 | Well we believe this is the final tennis tournament that Serena Williams will ever play. |
| 0:25.7 | But it certainly isn't the final day that she will ever play as a singles professional |
| 0:30.2 | because she's still going. She is extraordinary for the second night, for the second incredible night |
| 0:39.4 | of the US Open. This time against the second seed, Annette Conzervade. Serena Williams has found |
| 0:45.6 | a way to win and it is mind-boggling. She's turning 41 next month. She has really struggled |
| 0:54.1 | but Catherine as we sit in your lobby trying to make sense of it all. One Earth is happening out here |
| 1:02.6 | at the moment at the US Open. Something pretty special I think. I'm really trying to |
| 1:11.3 | temper the part of me that the bottom of my brain that is getting awfully carried away with |
| 1:17.4 | fairy tale scenarios. Let it get carried away. Let it get carried away. She'll |
| 1:22.0 | like disclose what I said on a group chat. What are you thinking is a possibility? |
| 1:29.2 | At various different points in today I have allowed myself to imagine both Serena Williams and |
| 1:37.3 | Andy Murray lifting US Open trophies this four nights. On successive days. On successive days. |
| 1:43.8 | The Serandi, I've given it a name. The Serandi Slam. Okay. We'll be covering Andy Murray in the |
| 1:51.2 | second half of the show and actually we recorded that a little bit earlier on knowing that Serena |
| 1:58.5 | would be the headline story. Actually, spoiler alert, Matt goes bigger on Andy Murray than I do. |
| 2:04.4 | And I've imagined the Serandi Slam. He took us by surprise. And it sounds like you're going pretty |
| 2:10.2 | big on Serena, Matt. You were in the stadium. What was it like? Like nothing I've ever experienced |
| 2:16.0 | before. I say that. It was a bit like Monday night. 48 hours ago. I thought it felt really |
| 2:27.1 | quite different to Monday. There was a different energy. Monday was a celebration. It was everyone |
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