US Open Day 8 - Time for Tiafoe as Nadal falls short
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
It took until 5th September, but Rafael Nadal has finally lost a Grand Slam match in 2022. He was beaten in sensational fashion by Frances Tiafoe, a result which blows the men’s draw wide open and sets up a fascinating second week. On the podcast, we cover what went wrong for Nadal, whether we should have seen it coming, what makes Tiafoe so great to watch, and what this means for his career. Elsewhere, we discuss a rare disappointing day for Cameron Norrie, an unconvincing victory for Iga Swiatek, a typical Jessica Pegula performance to beat Petra Kvitova, a crazy Aryna Sabalenka stat, Casper Ruud's number one shot, and some farcical roof scenes.
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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 Belander. This is Mary Carillo. This is Pam Shriver. |
| 0:06.4 | This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.4 | Well, new location for this edition of the tennis podcast because Catherine is our guest today |
| 0:26.4 | in our brand new living room because Matt and I've moved rooms and we have a bit of a lounge. |
| 0:31.6 | A bit of a lounge. It's nice here, isn't it? It's a lachel. Yeah. |
| 0:36.8 | I thought Manhattan was supposed to be cramped in sort of every square meter of space was, |
| 0:42.9 | you know, worth its weight in gold. Oh, the cake well we seem to have got lucky, Matt. So that's good. |
| 0:48.8 | Yeah, it's lovely. Yeah, yeah, and we haven't moved rooms because that was a problem with the other one. |
| 0:54.6 | No, we were all set to move rooms anyway and sort of we've been upgraded. Yeah, which is great. |
| 1:01.6 | So more upgrades, please. So yes, we have lots and lots of tennis to talk about. Before we get on |
| 1:08.4 | to the US Open tennis of today and obviously there's been some big stories as well. Let me just |
| 1:14.4 | remind you about our partnership with AO Travel now, Catherine. Imagine going to Melbourne in |
| 1:21.0 | Australia in January. Don't need to imagine I can remember. You can read. It was great. |
| 1:28.7 | Visiting the Australian Open to watch the best tennis in the world and having somewhere that can |
| 1:32.7 | sort out your flights, your accommodation, your tickets, your premium experiences such as wine. |
| 1:38.5 | Can I do my ironing? Can they do your ironing? Can they do my ironing? I think that's where they draw |
| 1:43.2 | the iron. I'm willing to pay for it. Okay, well I'll look into it. They can do it. |
| 1:48.8 | An absolute nightmare trying to find anywhere to get laundry done. |
| 1:53.3 | Yeah. If they're up for that. I'll check. We'll pay a premium. |
| 1:59.6 | Okay, well there is a premium experience. It doesn't mention ironing. It just mentions wine |
| 2:03.9 | tasting behind the scenes tours and Rod Lever Arena walk on experiences. But I'll ask about ironing. |
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