US Open Day 7 - Is Djokovic Back To His Best? Nadal Falls To Pouille In Instant Classic; Konta Hits The Wall
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
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🗓️ 5 September 2016
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Was it Novak Djokovic returning to his all-conquering self, or Kyle Edmund struggling to cope with the occasion that led to a fairly lopsided scoreline in their last 16 US Open clash?
In the Telegraph’s latest Tennis Podcast, David Law (BBC 5 Live) and Catherine Whitaker (Eurosport) don’t entirely see eye to eye on the subject.
Jo Konta had a difficult day in the fourth round, losing in straight sets to Anastasia Sevastova. Did she just hit the wall or was it a huge missed opportunity? More disagreements ensue.
Rafael Nadal’s US Open came to an end at the hands at Lucas Pouille of France. Who? The Tennis Podcast team explain, and describe how he took his chance, while also remembering a Nadal forehand that might give the Spaniard nightmares.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McInerd. I'm Bjorn Borg. This is Martina Navratlova. I'm Matt Vylander. I'm |
| 0:05.2 | San Roenka. I'm Lighten Huat. I'm Andy Mori 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. My name |
| 0:24.8 | is David Law. I'm joined by Catherine Whittaker of Eurosport and at the moment on middle Sunday of the |
| 0:31.3 | US Open, Kyle Edmund is having a bit of a difficult experience because he is two sets to love down |
| 0:36.8 | and two love with a breakdown against a world number one in Novak Djokovic who looks like the |
| 0:42.8 | world number one Novak Djokovic tonight, Catherine Whittaker. He looks like a world number one |
| 0:47.6 | year that's certainly benefiting from the rest. He's had, yeah, we've been speculating for the |
| 0:53.4 | last few days about what effect those two, well the one withdrawal and the one retirement |
| 0:58.0 | would have on him and I think all that speculation is pretty much ended because yeah, he's back to |
| 1:03.4 | back to being the world number one. I think it's fair to say that he's not being massively tested, |
| 1:09.2 | not to say that there hasn't been the odd point where Kyle Edmund hasn't shown what he can do but |
| 1:15.9 | I think it's fair to say he's not with the greatest of respect risen to the occasion. I think he |
| 1:22.5 | looks a bit over-ord you know he's not able to do it on any kind of consistent basis clearly and |
| 1:28.4 | I don't know he just actually thought and what's interesting the warm-up, the knock-up on |
| 1:33.6 | on the and I thought wow he looks really pumped and looks like he believes but then suddenly |
| 1:38.6 | soon as the match actually started that seemed to to ebb away very very quickly. I'm not sure |
| 1:43.9 | there's a difference. I actually asked him this after his last win and said you know loads of players |
| 1:51.0 | in your positions say yeah I believe or you know the usually setting the third person don't |
| 1:56.2 | know you've got to believe you know there's no point going on the court if you don't believe in |
| 1:59.6 | all of that but there's a difference in saying that and telling yourself that and really deep down |
| 2:04.6 | believing it and for me that's that's it you know he's gone onto the court thinking yeah I've got |
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