US Open - Goran Ivanisevic, Mark Philippoussis Preview Fantastic Friday

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports & Recreation, Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2015

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

After a frustrating day of rain at the US Open on Thursday, the silver lining is Fantastic Friday, with all four of the men’s and women’s semifinals played on the same day. The Tennis Podcast’s David Law (BBC Radio 5 Live) and Catherine Whitaker (Eurosport) get together to look forward to the action, with special guests Mark Philippoussis - the 1998 US Open runner-up, and Goran Ivanisevic - coach of defending champion Marin Cilic. Philippoussis looks back on when he was the first ever opponent of Roger Federer in a Grand Slam tournament 12 years ago, assessing his incredible longevity, while Ivanisevic talks about the chances of his man Cilic against Novak Djokovic. And back by popular demand (or, if we’re honest, in spite of no demand whatsover), Catherine and David give their predictions for the four semifinals.

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0:00.0	Hi there, this is Martina Navratlova and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:14.3	Well hello and welcome to the tennis podcast on a day that has been largely frustrating at the
0:18.4	US Open because the two women's semi-finals couldn't be played because of the reign. Serena Williams
0:24.0	and Roberta Vinci and Flavia Penetter against Samurna Halib will have to come back tomorrow.
0:30.0	Fight it out another day. What it does mean though is we get Super Friday. Super Saturday may have
0:35.7	gone but we have Super Friday. Both women's semi-finals followed by both men's semi-finals and in
0:41.7	this edition of the tennis podcast brought to you in association with the telegraph. We are going to be
0:46.8	hearing from Mark Phillip Poussis, the man that was Roger Federer's first ever Grand Slam final
0:53.6	opponent. He was speaking to me on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra and we're going to play that
0:59.2	interview for you here on the tennis podcast and the same with Goran Ivonevich who I spoke to this
1:05.1	morning as Marion Chilich was just going out to practice indoors because of the reign. My name is David
1:10.9	Law and I'm joined by Catherine Whittaker of Eurosport and Catherine it's blowy, it's cool,
1:17.1	it's overcast and it's been a bit of a frustrating day. It's been a holy frustrating day. If it hadn't
1:22.8	been for your marvelous interviews with Phillip Poussis Ivonevich it would have been a bit of a
1:28.0	a blowout really or a washout, a blowout, a washout, definitely a washout. Basically both because it's
1:32.9	blowing as well out there. Well there you go but thankfully you've rescued something good from the day
1:40.1	to bring some joy to all of our tennis podcast listeners. Excellent, absolutely right. Now the day began
1:46.8	as I mentioned pretty frustratingly because of the reign and this place is a bit of a ghost town
1:53.0	but what it does mean is that as I mentioned we have Super Friday and the mind goes back
1:58.8	to the days of Super Saturday. Are you going to miss that at all? I mean tomorrow is going to be like
2:02.9	a throwback isn't it? I remember 1992 was the year that 1991 and 1992 were the years that I really
2:10.1	got into tennis because I watched the US Open and I actually remember sitting on the sofa for what
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