US Open Preview - Murray, Djokovic, Serena, Kerber, Robson, Roof
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
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🗓️ 27 August 2016
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
David Law (BBC Radio 5 Live) and Catherine Whitaker (Eurosport) are in New York for the Us Open, and they are joined by Simon Briggs of the Telegraph for a preview Tennis Podcast.
The main news story is the fact that rain will never again interrupt a final thanks to the biggest roof in tennis.
But there are plenty more to keep us going. The fitness of top seeds Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams is a big question mark. And what frame of mind are they both in?
Will Andy Murray and Angelique Kerber, as the next highest seeds, be there to pick up any pieces?
Or are we in for a big shock?
What about Laura Robson’s return, and the fact that there are eight British players in the draw?
What’s your favourite night session memory?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McInerd. I'm Bjorn Borgh. This is Martina Navratlova. I'm Matt Svillander. I'm |
| 0:05.2 | Stan Ravinka. I'm Lainey Nguyen. I'm Andy Murray. And you're listening to the Tennis Podcast. |
| 0:19.8 | Well hello, welcome to the US Open and the Tennis Podcast. My name is David Law. I'm here for |
| 0:25.8 | BBC Radio 5 Live. Joining me this week, of course, will be Catherine Whittaker, who's here for |
| 0:31.6 | Euro Sports and of course Simon Briggs from the Tenergraph because we are produced in association |
| 0:37.2 | with the Tenergraph and Simon and myself currently stand in the player garden where all the players |
| 0:43.6 | are doing their interviews just a couple of days before the start of the 2016 US Open and it is |
| 0:50.0 | a hive of activity right now. It is funny isn't it watching the way it all operates, Simon? You know, |
| 0:56.8 | we're two days away. It's kind of the phony war, isn't it? You've got all these players who are |
| 1:01.0 | going to be beating the living daylights out of each other in a couple of days time. They're all |
| 1:05.2 | rubbing shoulders and the sunshine. They're all doing their interviews. Probably trying to keep |
| 1:08.9 | their voices down so that their perspective opponents can't hear how their chances are looking |
| 1:14.2 | in all the rest of it. And the broadcasters challenge is to probably feed out the final of the |
| 1:18.4 | planes going overhead from the Gardyr Airport. We're right underneath the flight path here but |
| 1:23.7 | it's pretty sweltering out here as well. Most of the players are trying to compete to see who |
| 1:27.6 | can get to the Umbrella first. It always used to be a lot worse actually, the flight path here. |
| 1:33.2 | If you go back maybe 20 years ago, in the certainly in the 90s, I remember the flight path was such |
| 1:40.8 | that matches were just getting drowned out and then eventually the mayor of New York changed |
| 1:47.2 | the flight path so that it didn't collide with the US Open anymore. They also built the |
| 1:52.0 | R-thrash stadium so that the smell of hot dogs and hamburgers didn't drift over the centre court |
| 1:57.6 | during the action. So it's all changed a bit but some things don't change. Certainly the excitement, |
| 2:03.2 | I think, ahead of the final grandson-tornals of the year is palpable as ever. Is that how it feels |
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