US Open - Djokovic ‘Could Catch’ Federer; Flavia's Fitting Finale
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2015
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The newly crown US Open champion Novak Djokovic is capable of winning more Grand Slam titles than Roger Federer, according to the Telegraph’s Tennis Correspondent Simon Briggs.
In a Tennis Podcast recorded just moments after Djokovic’s victory in the final of the US Open - his tenth major title - Briggs told presenter David Law (who commentated on the match for BBC Radio 5 Live) that ‘it is not impossible’ for Djokovic to reach and surpass Federer’s current total of 17.
In the podcast, Briggs, Law and Catherine Whitaker of Eurosport also discuss the women’s final - the victory and subsequent retirement announcement of Flavia Pennetta.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, this is Martina Navratlova and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:14.2 | Well hello, welcome to the tennis podcast on a windy blustery late night show here |
| 0:20.0 | at the US Open because I'm joined David Law by Simon Briggs from the telegraph and Catherine |
| 0:24.4 | Whittaker from Eurosport after the US Open Men singles final between Roger Federer and |
| 0:29.5 | Novak Djokovic which has ended in the same sort of manner as the Wimbledon final |
| 0:34.3 | Simon Briggs with victory for Novak Djokovic and it actually went in a very similar fashion as |
| 0:39.5 | well didn't it? Yeah although I felt it was a different sort of match because Wimbledon I thought |
| 0:44.2 | Novak was really stronger for most of the time and deserved to win for the quality of his tennis. |
| 0:50.7 | I'm not sure he did deserve to win with the quality of his tennis today he just really |
| 0:54.4 | applied the kind of mental arm lock on Federer. It wasn't about forehands and backhands today |
| 1:00.5 | it was about what happened on break points and Federer looks a bit crushed at the end I think he'll |
| 1:05.1 | be more disappointed we haven't spoken to him yet. I'm guessing he'll be more disappointed about |
| 1:08.5 | this one because it was on his racket. It was actually quite similar it more so perhaps to 2014 |
| 1:15.4 | basically when he was coming back from 5 to down in that four set if you remember he won five |
| 1:20.3 | games in a row from that position in the 2014 Wimbledon final to take it to five he had two break |
| 1:25.3 | points to level at five games all he was very close wasn't he? Yeah but all the way through he had |
| 1:30.9 | not been bold enough on his break points you know I always think it's incredible how his physical |
| 1:39.8 | frame has stood up to the rig as of this sport but I also always listened to the champions you say |
| 1:45.3 | the first thing that tends to slip a little bit is is that sort of confidence or self belief |
| 1:51.2 | the the biggest moments we're just beginning to see a little bit of that with Federer in the last |
| 1:54.8 | couple of years he has maybe not closed out break points and the biggest matches in the way that |
| 2:00.0 | he would have done at his peak. Yeah I think it was four from 20 something break points 23 |
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