US Open Day 4 - The Challenge Facing Novak Djokovic, by Mats Wilander; Murray, Roof Get A Work-out; Evans Makes It 3
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
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🗓️ 2 September 2016
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
The roof was given a thorough work-out after the mother of all rain storms on Thursday, and Andy Murray passed his own stern examination in match that was closer than the straight-sets score suggested.
The Tennis Podcast convened to discuss his progress, marvel at a fantastic win for Dan Evans and narrow defeat for Naomi Broadway, and to work out whether the additional ambient noise with the roof on Arthur Ashe Stadium is likely to become an issue.
We also hear an interview that Tennis Podcast presenter David Law did with Mats Wilander for BBC Radio 5 Live. In it, Wilander recalls when he won three Grand Slams in a year in 1988, and how and why he was unable to repeat the feat the following year.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McEnore. I'm Bjorn Borg. This is Martina Navratlova. I'm Matt Vylander. I'm |
| 0:05.2 | San Roenka. I'm Lainey Njut. I'm Andy Marri and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:19.9 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast brought to you in association with the telegraph. It is |
| 0:24.7 | Thursday night in frat. It's Friday morning because it's quarter past midnight. It is dark overhead. |
| 0:30.4 | It is blustery. We've had rain today. We've had the roof in action. We've really got to sample |
| 0:36.0 | that tonight after it was first used just very briefly by Rafael Nadal a night before. And it's |
| 0:42.1 | meant that Andy Murray's played best part of a full match underneath it. We've also had Venus Williams |
| 0:47.6 | winning through on that center court at Arthur Ashe Stadium. Serena Williams winning today in front |
| 0:53.5 | of Beyoncé. So all the stars have been in town with Beyoncé and Jay-Z. And then a lovely sort of |
| 0:59.7 | fairy tale finish for one Martin Del Potro. Coming back onto the stadium court that made his name in 2009. |
| 1:07.8 | Of course, when he bit Roger Federer back then to win the title and there he was beating Steve |
| 1:12.0 | Johnson to a rapturous reception. It was quite something to see. The American player actually not |
| 1:18.8 | the majority of the sport support. That's how popular one Martin Del Potro is. I'm David Law |
| 1:24.8 | from BBC Radio 5 Live presenting this alongside Simon Briggs from the telegraph. We've just put in a |
| 1:30.8 | three and a half hour stints on her five-live sports extra together Simon. And we were describing |
| 1:37.2 | another British victory. So down Evans this time. Down Evans taking out 27th seed Alex Veriv, the |
| 1:44.4 | coming man, the future number one according to all the pundits. And who would have thought that |
| 1:50.5 | Evans would beat him almost in straight sense. He didn't quite get it done in the end. He had to go to |
| 1:54.5 | four. But Crikey, he held in the nerve and he was absolutely surging at the end. He was |
| 1:59.5 | cracking winners. Backhand forehand drop shots, smashes with everywhere, wasn't he? It's just |
| 2:05.2 | absolutely little yellow blower of energy. Yes, because he was wearing the tennis ball yellow that's |
| 2:09.7 | become such a theme and so popular here at the US Open so far this year. So Evans into the third round |
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