We're at Indian Wells!
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Indian Wells! Catherine, David and Matt have made it to Palm Springs and the place they call Tennis Paradise for the first combined Masters 1000 event of the year. In this show we talk about our experience so far, discuss all the main talking points from media day, and catch up on the results from last week. There's chat about Aryna Sabalenka's joy at being a Slam champion, Stefanos Tsitsipas' injury worries, whether Iga Swiatek has been winning too easily, Denis Shapovalov's essay about wanting to ender the gender gap in tennis, a title for Donna Vekic in Monterrey, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartori. I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary Carillo. |
| 0:05.3 | This is Pam Shriver. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.8 | Well hello and welcome to the tennis podcast brought to you for the very first time from tennis |
| 0:28.3 | podcast hours Indian Wells Matt is here. Hello Matt. Hello. Making his Indian Wells debut. How does it feel? |
| 0:37.9 | It feels amazing. Yes, I think when you work in tennis or watch tennis you constantly get told |
| 0:46.4 | how amazing Indian Wells is and you come here for the first time and you realise that everything |
| 0:53.1 | everyone says is true and yet at the same time there are also words can't really do it justice. |
| 1:00.3 | You need to see it for yourself. I am in awe at the physical beauty of this place. |
| 1:07.4 | Yeah and there will be a lot more on the amazingness of Indian Wells to come. David's here. Hello David. |
| 1:13.1 | David is making his Indian Wells return. Don't call it a comeback. I'm calling it a comeback. |
| 1:21.1 | This time he's got gray hair because it's 15 years since I was here and I'm in, yeah, trying to explain |
| 1:30.8 | to my lovely wife how lovely it is when she's in the snow in England at the moment is not easy |
| 1:39.9 | and best avoided. Yeah, over the course of the last 24 hours I sent a sequence of three. What I |
| 1:46.8 | thought were lovely photos of the three of us sampling the delights of Indian Wells in the sunshine |
| 1:54.4 | to my family WhatsApp group and after three of these photos without reply I then sent a sassy |
| 2:01.7 | follow-up saying that's quite a lot of smug photos now without reply and I just got back from |
| 2:07.0 | my brother my fingers are too cold to type and that's that's where we've left things hanging on the |
| 2:14.3 | whittaker WhatsApp group. So sorry to our listeners and to my family for being quite so |
| 2:22.4 | quite so pleased with ourselves about where we find ourselves thanks to one location that |
| 2:26.8 | have brought us here as a podcast for the very first time to sample the delights that this |
| 2:32.7 | tournament has to offer and we are sampling. Yeah they've brought the right people |
| 2:38.9 | because the idea I think is to have people who are having a good time and we are having a good time. |
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