US Open Day 7 - Djokovic Defaulted. Our Reaction.
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In one of the biggest stories in Grand Slam history, Novak Djokovic's unbeaten streak came to a dramatic end on Sunday as he was defaulted from the US Open for hitting a line judge with a ball.
We discuss the incident, place it in the context of his career, react to his statement, consider his decision not to attend a post-match press conference, and debate who the new favourite is in the men's draw. Catherine also talks about what it was like to be presenting live TV coverage at the time of Djokovic's default.
There's also chat about impressive wins for Jennifer Brady and Shelby Rogers, and a preview of Day 8 which includes Serena vs. Sakkari and Thiem vs. Auger-Aliassime.
Approximate episode timecodes:
0.00 - 30.00 - Djokovic default reaction
30.00 to end - Everything else.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Mary and Bartori. I'm Matt Vlander. This is Mary Carillo. I'm Stan Ravinka. I'm Lainey Stewart. I'm Andy Murray. |
| 0:06.7 | This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.6 | Now that Chokovich is out of the US Open. That in itself would be a big new story. |
| 0:26.4 | The fact that he is out of the US Open having been defaulted in the first set against Pablo |
| 0:32.1 | Carina Buster having hit a line judge in the throat with a tennis ball is just one of the biggest |
| 0:39.4 | stories that I think I can ever remember at a grand slam tournament and it happened a few hours ago. |
| 0:45.2 | Catherine Whitaker who was presenting the live coverage of Amazon Prime video at the time and |
| 0:50.0 | sat with Tim Hemen and Greg Rzezki to try to make some sense of it all is here with us. |
| 0:55.2 | Matt Roberts and I were both watching Catherine's coverage and the Amazon Prime video coverage |
| 1:01.0 | and absolutely open mouth throughout. It was an incredible new story that has reverberated |
| 1:11.0 | that has reverberated all around the world and where to begin. I think the place to begin is |
| 1:19.9 | just to tell you what happened to recount what happened and this is a match that began. I think |
| 1:26.8 | I came to it at 5 all and I saw that it was love 30 on Chokovich's serve at 5 all and at that |
| 1:36.0 | point I thought oh I'm going to tune in now. This sounds quite interesting and it had reminded me |
| 1:41.6 | that Jim Currier earlier in the day on your coverage Catherine had said that maybe if Carina |
| 1:48.5 | Buster played a little bit like Jules Simone at the Australian Open a couple years ago and just |
| 1:53.7 | behaved like a backboard maybe Chokovich might get frustrated. Later turned out that he had already |
| 2:00.8 | by this time by the time I tuned in had taken a heavy fall apparently hurt himself. He'd also |
| 2:08.7 | smashed away a ball in anger into the Hawkeye cameras and that looked pretty you know pretty |
| 2:18.3 | worrying from his mindset point of view but what he did at 1540 when he was broken for 65 by |
| 2:26.2 | public Carina Buster who hit a little passing shop past him. He swatted a ball away in frustration |
| 2:33.3 | behind him without looking and it struck this line judge in the throat and the sounds that she |
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