US Open Day 8 - Is Emma Raducanu in the mix?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Recorded while watching Jenson Brooksby throw everything at Novak Djokovic during the night session, Catherine and Matt wrap up yet another excellent day at the 2021 US Open, headlined by Emma Raducanu reaching the quarter-finals. We discuss how she overcame her nerves, the way in which she belongs on the big stage, and whether or not she's 'in the mix'. And if she's not, who is?
Elsewhere, there's praise for Matteo Berrettini, recaps of Belinda Bencic vs Iga Swiatek and Alexander Zverev vs Jannik Sinner, a look ahead to tomorrow's order of play, and a look back on aggro between Garbine Muguruza and Barbora Krejcikova as well as a deeply impressive performance from Felix Auger-Aliassime against Frances Tiafoe. We also Dial-a-David!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartorri. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Matt's Vylander. This is Mary Carillo. This is Pam Shriver. |
| 0:06.4 | I'm Stan Ravinka. I'm Lighten Hutt. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis |
| 0:10.9 | podcast. |
| 0:22.0 | Well it's 145 in the morning on day 8 of the US Open and as we come to you we are watching |
| 0:28.5 | Novak Djokovic sit in a meditative state at the chair midway through his fourth round match |
| 0:36.3 | against 20 year old American Jensen Brooks B. He lost the first set. It has been an epic second set. |
| 0:44.9 | We're still in it. Djokovic leads five games to two. Brooks B is serving at two five |
| 0:51.2 | to stay in the set. Two five does not tell the story of this set of tennis. There was a |
| 0:57.8 | 20 minute game in the middle of it in which Brooks B broke eventually the Djokovic serve to get |
| 1:05.6 | things back on track but Djokovic being the guy that he is immediately sees the break. Now full |
| 1:11.1 | disclosure we've got no David. He has been instructed to have one more great night's leap before |
| 1:20.6 | he's allowed to return to the pod despite being champing at the bit to come back all day. |
| 1:26.1 | To have a very stern conversation with him. I have a day job to do |
| 1:33.2 | and Matt despite me thinking it would be a wonderful listen. Can't do this podcast alone. |
| 1:40.7 | So we are gambling on Jensen Brooks B being the plucky guy that takes Djokovic to four or five |
| 1:48.9 | sets but eventually loses and not this being the Roberta Vinci moment. Look folks if you're |
| 1:57.3 | listening to this knowing that Jensen Brooks B is the new Roberta Vinci don't worry it will be |
| 2:04.8 | amply covered in any and all future tennis podcasts just to make up for the delay. We'll just |
| 2:13.9 | mention it in every tennis podcast of the future. We'll just give you a little review of how the |
| 2:18.0 | upset happened in a different accent every time. So that's our state of affairs Matt. |
| 2:27.7 | Absolutely yes we're gambling on having already seen perhaps the best of Jensen Brooks B. |
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