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The Tennis Podcast

US Open Day 6 - Federer Puts On A Show Against Kyrgios; Kerber, Zverev Lose On Day Of Upsets

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Federer vs. Kyrgios may not have lived up to our lofty expectations, but it still delivered a number of talking points for Catherine and David on The Tennis Podcast.


It was neither a total capitulation nor a fully-engaged performance from Kyrgios. Why does Catherine believe it was a step backwards? Will he finally get a coach?


Federer, meanwhile, produced a shot of genius. You must have seen it. Where does it rank in his long list of memorable moments?


Elsewhere, it was a day laden with upsets. The defeats of Angelique Kerber, Caroline Garcia, Lucas Pouille and Alexander Zverev are discussed. David is refusing to talk about Petra Kvitova…


Were we expecting too much too soon from the Lendl-Zverev partnership? When will the German solve the Grand Slam conundrum?


The devastating form of Naomi Osaka also gets a mention. She’s won three 6-0 sets in a row! 


There will daily editions of The Tennis Podcast throughout the US Open fortnight. 


The Tennis Podcast is produced in association with the Telegraph and sponsored by Amazon Prime Video, the new home of the US Open in the UK. 


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0:00.0

Hi, I'm John McEnore. I'm Bjorn Borg.

0:02.2

This is Martina Navratlova. I'm Matt Vylander.

0:04.9

I'm San Roenka. I'm Lighten Huat. I'm Andy Murray.

0:07.6

And you're listening to the tennis podcast.

0:20.0

Well, we were all building up to Nick Kirios against Roger Federer and frankly,

0:24.1

that didn't amount to much Catherine Whittaker. This is the tennis podcast brought to you

0:28.3

in association with the telegraph and with Amazon Prime Video UK, the home of the US Open

0:33.2

in the UK. Catherine has been presenting for them all day long talking about the tennis.

0:37.9

But yeah, that one didn't exactly catch fire in quite the way we thought it would.

0:44.7

I think it's kind of did for people that just love to feast on Federer exhibition tennis,

0:53.6

because that is what it turned into. But I think most people were looking to that match for

0:59.9

thrills and drama. And for me, I suppose, through all love-falsy in the first set,

1:10.5

up until that point it did and then Federer held and then it all, it was just all Federer.

1:16.8

So relative to expectations, which were that eight of their previous nine sets had gone to

1:22.4

tie breaks and all of their three matches had gone to deciding set tie breaks. I mean, a massive

1:30.7

disappointment relative to expectations for me. And a barring one point, one shot, which

1:37.1

would you all have seen? Yeah, well, we'll get to it and just go over that,

1:42.3

to guess you haven't seen it. I mean, is there any pointing covering that on a podcast in any more

1:48.0

detail? I'm not going to describe it, are we? Well, that's what I do for a living. But, you know,

1:52.7

if you don't like that, that's fine. You're telling land. Yeah. But anyway, the thing is,

2:01.0

the start of it, you've got, curious doing a raffer on the dial type sprint out onto the court

2:08.8

after the coin toss, which was quite funny, in a way. And then first point of the match, he did a

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