US Open Day 5 - Serena says goodbye in style
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Serena Williams' tennis career is over. On an extraordinary night in New York, David and Matt react to her fitting final match against Ajla Tomljanovic and the emotions it provoked. There's also chat about Andy Murray's defeat to Matteo Berrettini, Coco Gauff's statement performance to beat Madison Keys, and great wins for Casper Ruud and Ons Jabeur.
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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. |
| 0:20.6 | Well unless she performs the most extraordinary U-turn, |
| 0:24.1 | Serena Williams' career is over and it is over after the most dramatic, spectacular, |
| 0:32.9 | spine tingling night of tennis in the Arthur A. Stadium that I think I can possibly imagine |
| 0:39.4 | you we could have ever had. I've been doing this for 20 years and I commentated on the second set |
| 0:44.3 | of the match and I am going to be to use one of our own words reliving it all night long, I think, |
| 0:51.2 | to be God on this. It was just incredible and I'm not exaggerating. The match she's had today |
| 0:58.2 | against Eilert on the Anavitch to bring down the curtain on her career in front of the biggest |
| 1:04.4 | single day crowd in the US Open history. That's how many people came through the gates today and |
| 1:09.5 | it was an utter privilege to be there to witness it. I'm David Law. I'm joined by Matt Roberts. |
| 1:16.3 | The third member of the tennis podcast team is Catherine Whittaker. She's not with us |
| 1:20.8 | tonight. It's very, very late. She's got to be up incredibly early and so we have decided to |
| 1:28.8 | wait for her takes tomorrow and we're going to be asking her everything about Serena Williams |
| 1:33.8 | because she watched that match back at the hotel and we all had different experiences tonight. |
| 1:38.7 | Catherine was watching on TV. Matt was in the stadium in the Arthur A. Stadium out there in the seats. |
| 1:44.7 | I was commentating on the radio in the commentary box so we're all coming at it from different |
| 1:50.5 | angles but trust me Catherine's take will be worth it. We'll be getting that tomorrow but |
| 1:55.8 | for tonight Matt it's you and me and we've got to try and make some sense of what we've just witnessed. |
| 2:03.6 | Yeah. How was your night? Well I was I was holding it together until Serena destroyed me when she |
| 2:14.1 | said I wouldn't be Serena if there wasn't Venus. Yeah. And that was the moment really. There was |
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