US Open Day 4 - Alcaraz out; Botic Van de Zandschulp, what did you do!?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2024
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Carlos Alcaraz is out of the US Open. The Roland Garros and Wimbledon champion was beaten in straight sets by Botic van de Zandschulp on a shocking night on Arthur Ashe Stadium. Catherine, David and Matt watched every ball and went to Alcaraz's press conference. What went wrong? Just how impressive was Van de Zandschulp? How did Alcaraz explain his performance? And what does it mean for the rest of the tournament? We discuss all of that, as well as Karolina Muchova's victory over Naomi Osaka, the withdrawal of Elena Rybakina, Jannik Sinner brushing off criticism from Nick Kyrgios, and so much more on a seismic day in New York.
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| 0:00.0 | Behind this door is uncertainty. |
| 0:05.0 | Neighbors reported a break-in, smash glass. |
| 0:08.7 | It could be a false alarm. |
| 0:11.0 | It could be a burglary. Someone could still be inside. They could be dangerous. |
| 0:17.5 | So are you going in? |
| 0:20.5 | If you think you could be a regular or volunteer police constable, such Met careers, change needs courage. |
| 0:28.0 | Change needs you. |
| 0:32.0 | Hi, this is Billy Jean King. This is Marion Bartodi. This is Biancon Dresku. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Mats Vylander. This is Mary Carrillo. This is Pam Schreiber. |
| 0:40.0 | This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast on day four of the US Open where it is |
| 0:59.3 | 27 minutes past midnight and you find myself Catherine Whitaker David Law and |
| 1:03.9 | Matt Roberts convened in the media garden a chilly media garden an eerie |
| 1:10.8 | media garden as we have all just watched Carlos Alkra as the third seed |
| 1:16.2 | the Wimbledon and French Open champion the Olympic silver medalist lose in a sets 6 1.7564 to Burtic Vandersandershulp. |
| 1:29.2 | It's fair to say that we and Carlos Alcaras are reeling David. |
| 1:35.0 | Yeah, that's one of the bigger upsets that I can remember seeing in a stadium in person. |
| 1:41.0 | I think if we were to go back we can find other big shocks like |
| 1:46.5 | Serena Williams losing in the first round of the French Open in 2012, |
| 1:50.7 | Raffa Nadao to Lucas Russell, there's a number of them over the years that you can point to |
| 1:57.6 | Roger Federal losing to Tommy Robredo here in 2013 losing to Sergei Stokovsky things like that but considering what our |
| 2:05.2 | Kraus has done this year the way that he's won those last two Grand Slam |
| 2:10.2 | tournaments and given who he was up against as somebody that has just not done anything |
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