US Open Preview - All eyes on Djokovic; Osaka's search for meaning
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
With Catherine and Matt together at Tennis Podcast Towers, and David in Salford, we discuss qualifying success for Britain's women, how Novak Djokovic is embracing the challenge of his Grand Slam pursuit, whether Andy Murray has a chance against Stefanos Tsitsipas, what to expect from Naomi Osaka, and why Sloane Stephens vs. Madison Keys in round 1 makes us a bit sad.
There's also reaction to Alexander Zverev's press conference after more allegations of domestic abuse from his ex-girlfriend Olga Sharypova and to the growing issue of vaccine hesitancy among players.
The Tennis Podcast is presented by Catherine Whitaker and David Law, and features Matt Roberts. It is produced weekly year-round, and daily during the Grand Slam tournaments. It is crowdfunded by listeners each December.
TO READ
Olga Sharypova says her ex-boyfriend, tennis star Alexander Zverev, abused her. Why hasn’t the tour addressed it? - https://slate.com/culture/2021/08/alexander-zverev-domestic-abuse-allegations-olga-sharypova.html
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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 Roenka. I'm Lighten Eur. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:22.1 | Well it's the fourth and final Grand Slam tournament of 2021 and we seem to have been |
| 0:27.8 | combining the various positions that we've been in at all the other pandemic Grand Slam tournaments |
| 0:34.5 | for a record in tennis podcasts. We've got Catherine and Matt in position in tennis podcast |
| 0:39.6 | towers, Alla Wimbledon and we've got me in the soul for the hotel room, Alla, everything else. |
| 0:47.0 | It's a pandemic podcast greatest hits, Medley. Are we allowed to call it tennis podcast |
| 0:53.2 | towers if David's not here? That's like that sort of tree falling in the forest thing, isn't it? |
| 1:00.6 | Billie Jean is as truly and utterly ecstatic as she was when she caught sight of Matt for the first |
| 1:09.6 | time. She does now have a look about her when's the tool coming. Well I feel similarly, what can I say? |
| 1:18.4 | But yeah I do miss it, but I'm a little bit there, isn't it? Look at that. I should be sitting |
| 1:25.2 | right there on your left side, Catherine, eating delivery food. Wait till the snack delivery comes. |
| 1:33.2 | It may or may not come actually during this recording. So you might see a parade of snacks |
| 1:39.5 | literally being delivered before your eyes. I can't wait. I've had my chocolate bar and I'm |
| 1:45.6 | sat here with my cup of tea and I'm ready to talk about tennis. Those curtains are very evocative. |
| 1:51.2 | Not me. The Pavlovian equivalent of the tennis podcast, if they make me want to make stupid |
| 1:58.7 | predictions just the sight of them in Pavlovian way. Well I've just done my quarterfinals and |
| 2:06.8 | yeah I think that I'm keeping up form here in this hotel room is all I can say. The US Open's about |
| 2:13.6 | start tomorrow, which means nightly editions of the tennis podcasts. It means morning newsletters |
| 2:21.9 | being sent out, put together by Matt with a daily prediction with his stat with pictures of our |
| 2:30.9 | lovely mascot Francis. We've got loads of stuff coming your way and Catherine's going to be |
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