US Open Day 6 - The morning after Serena's exit, final set tiebreaks, Azarenka speaks out
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
There was a morning after feeling to Day 6 at the US Open following Serena Williams’ defeat on Friday night. But it actually didn’t take long for great matches to start happening again, bringing new life to the tournament and giving us plenty to talk about on the podcast. After a night off, Catherine re-joined David and Matt for all of her Serena vs Tomljanovic takes plus lots of chat about Saturday’s action.
We reflect some more on Serena's legacy before talking about final set tiebreak victories for Petra Kvitova and Andrey Rublev, their beaten opponents Garbine Muguruza and Denis Shapovalov, a surging Frances Tiafoe, an 18th consecutive win for Rafael Nadal against Richard Gasquet, and whether Marin Cilic can trouble Carlos Alcaraz. There's also discussion about some incredibly important words from Victoria Azarenka on the issue of safeguarding against abusive coaches and relationships on the WTA Tour.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartorzi. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Matt's Vellander. 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 | We're so middle weekend of the US Open and a lot has happened as we seem to find every single day |
| 0:26.0 | that we record one of these. Some days I'll look at the order of play and I think nothing's going to happen today. |
| 0:30.0 | And then, line behold, loads happens and here we are sitting in Catherine's hotel lobby. |
| 0:36.8 | And it's nice to see you Catherine. We weren't able to have you with us last night. |
| 0:40.8 | Thankfully we have today. It's very nice to be back and many apologies to the listeners for not being on last night. |
| 0:47.3 | But I wouldn't have made any valid contributions. Let's put it that way. |
| 0:51.2 | It felt like a tool task as it was to try and put the Serena experience |
| 0:58.4 | let alone her career and legacy into words. You two both did valiantly at it by the way. |
| 1:04.4 | But I feel a bit more up to it tonight. Today I was going to feel utterly flat by the way. |
| 1:10.1 | It's funny that I'm not the way it works. It's flushing meadows. |
| 1:14.4 | And it's almost like the tennis god sent us some final set tie breaks to compensate for the end |
| 1:22.0 | of the Serena show. Matt was present for both of them. That's why he witnessed with his own eyes. |
| 1:27.6 | Two final set tie breaks today. It is the first Robert's Law which is to be present at all final set |
| 1:36.5 | tie breaks or to be watching them on the screen. You can't miss those. |
| 1:41.6 | You are a bit like a sniffer dog for totally final set tie break. |
| 1:45.6 | He would watch a final set tie break between David Law and Sully Hall Simon. |
| 1:49.3 | If the matches were of a competitive enough to get that far. |
| 1:53.2 | We have had some final set tie breaks Matt. I'll book you in. |
| 1:58.2 | The thing is I was quite flat this morning. Grand Slam's are a thrill. |
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