US Open Preview, Predictions, PTPA, Politics

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports, Wimbledon, Sports & Recreation, Tennis

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

No shortage of talking points as we discuss the formation of the Professional Tennis Players’ Association with Simon Briggs, Naomi Osaka’s stand against racism, titles for Novak Djokovic and Victoria Azarenka at the Western and Southern Open, a wide-open women’s draw at the US Open, the Bryan Brothers’ retirement, and the sad news that legendary commentator David Mercer has died.

What do the players hope to achieve with the PTPA? Why set it up now? Where does it go from here? How does Djokovic keep winning despite his off court distractions? Is Azarenka now in the US Open mix? And what about Milos Raonic?

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.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Mary Ann Bartoli. I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary Carillo. I'm San Roenka. I'm Linden Huit. I'm Andy Murray.
0:06.7	This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:20.9	Hello folks and welcome to the tennis podcast, an edition of the tennis podcast in which myself David
0:27.9	Law Matt Roberts was supposed to be reflecting on a week of tennis and looking ahead to a fortnight
0:33.2	of tennis and talking about tennis, tennis, tennis, tennis. And alas, tennis has intervened and provided
0:41.0	a whole host of other talking points that aren't tennis related for us to get a teeth into.
0:48.8	It has been a busy week in tennis. I don't know how we're going to cram it all into one tennis podcast,
0:56.8	but we're going to try David. Well, the good news is we've got Simon Briggs on so he can help.
1:02.3	I mean, the other thing is we were supposed to be in New York and we're not over doing that. I was
1:07.2	trying not to dwell on that David. Trying to focus on the positives which are Matt Roberts is going
1:14.0	to be in a caravan. Very. Yeah, which is exactly 10 minutes from my house walking and the agency
1:21.2	through which I booked it is not stopping emails about things to do in the area because I think I'm going
1:26.2	on holiday or something. Have you discovered anything you didn't know about? What are the things to
1:32.4	do in the area? It does include what you were so open on telly. Lots of great walks. You've got
1:39.5	to see. You've got a big lie dough as well. Yeah, a castle. All sorts of fun, but things I've done.
1:47.4	And we'll be doing this for tonight. Yeah. If anybody hasn't caught this, the reason he's staying in
1:52.8	a caravan down the road is that he doesn't want to wake up the rest of the family in the middle of
1:58.0	the night while he's recording tennis podcasts for you. He also just wants a US Open caravan. Who
2:05.3	doesn't? I'm quite jealous. David is not currently but will be in a sort of, you know,
2:13.3	Salford style caravan setup. I mean, okay, a hotel. Yeah, I'll be in Manchester with the BBC radio team
2:21.7	talking every single day about about what's gone on and then talking to you about what's gone on.
2:26.3	And I'll be in Houndslay. So don't ever let it be said that a tennis podcast can't be glamorous
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