Welcome To Melbourne! AO Draws Dissected

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Wimbledon, Sports, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

For the first time in three years, Catherine, David and Matt are all together in Melbourne for the Australian Open. And after Thursday's draw, the excitement has only grown for the year's first major. We talk through those draws, speculate about what might happen over the next two weeks, and cover the biggest storylines from this week so far, including Naomi Osaka's announcement that she is pregnant.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mayan Bartori.
0:03.1	I'm Matt Svillander. This is Mary Carrillo. This is Pam Shriver.
0:06.4	This is Yannick Noah. This is Erica Saloo in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
0:11.1	And you're not listening to A-Tennis Podcast, but this super irresistible Tennis Podcast.
0:18.3	Well, thank you, Erica, for introducing our show today from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
0:34.2	And welcome to the super irresistible tennis podcast.
0:39.3	I don't mind me calling that.
0:40.5	Erica's words, not mine, although now mine.
0:44.2	You find us in tennis podcast towers Melbourne, the three of us here recording in Australia
0:52.2	for the first time in three very long years. It is good to be back, David.
0:59.5	It is. I'm wearing shorts. I wasn't doing that in the last two months.
1:03.7	Oh, dear, it's amazing this place. Don't tell anybody I know back home because there's a lot of
1:09.5	envy going around. It's amazing. It's amazing. And it's come on a bit, I think as well,
1:16.4	I mean, you both here a year ago and saw some of the changes they've made on the site of the
1:21.9	Australian Open. It's one of those places innovative, isn't it? They're always doing something.
1:27.5	But I think I'm probably looking at it through slightly different eyes now because I'm just so happy
1:32.0	to be here. Yes, we have wireless charging stations for our phones on our desks now.
1:38.6	Easily please. That's the best innovation that's happened.
1:42.1	That's the content you think people are coming to the tennis podcast for,
1:45.0	Matt, hearing about, oh, wireless charging stations that we're very
1:51.3	nerdily excited about. I'm going to say, don't pretend you're not excited about it too.
1:55.2	We were delighted to find those. We're pretty delighted with lots of things. The weather,
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