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The Tennis Podcast

What happens when tennis stops?

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Catherine Whitaker and David Law set out to examine the way in which covid-19 is impacting tennis players and events.

Hear from World No.211 Liam Broady on how he’s coping without tennis as well as the physical, mental and financial challenges he’s facing, LTA chief executive Scott Lloyd on the support package provided to British tennis players, World No.375 Sofia Shapatava on her petition seeking financial assistance from the ITF, and Queen’s tournament director Stephen Farrow on what goes on behind the scenes when a tennis event is cancelled.   

Plus, what have the sport’s governing bodies said in their latest statements? And could the US Open take place without fans?

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Mary and Bartoli.

0:01.9

I'm Matt Villander. This is Mary Carillo.

0:04.1

I'm San Roenka.

0:05.1

I'm like Newt. I'm Andy Murray.

0:06.8

And you're listening to the tennis podcast.

0:19.6

We have a very different tennis podcast for you today because we wanted to

0:24.5

pull back the curtain, speak to some people involved in the game that we wouldn't normally get to hear from

0:30.1

and find out how the coronavirus and the enforced delay, the forced cancellation of so much

0:36.7

of the tennis tour is having an effect on people involved in the game, people that are ranked 200

0:42.4

or 300 in the world, people that are trying to run tennis tournaments, people that are trying to run

0:48.7

federations of national tennis countries like the UK. We've been speaking today to the chief

0:56.5

executive of the LTA. We've been speaking to the world number 211, Liam Brody. The world

1:01.7

number 375 on the women's side has been putting together a petition to try to find a way to support

1:08.4

players that are struggling financially. We've had responses from the tours and Catherine

1:14.0

Whitaker and myself are here to talk all about it. And Catherine, overnight we've had the first words

1:21.2

of the ATP's new chairman, Andrea Gadensi, talking to a group of Italian media on a conference call

1:29.6

which Simon Briggs has written up. That's quite interesting. And he's also, Catherine, given

1:36.3

some information that he believes to be being talked about at the moment that the US Open might

1:42.5

end up being played indoors. Yeah, today was a day when Simon didn't wake up to discover he'd been

1:49.9

scooped by Mike Dixon. Yeah, really interesting story from Simon Briggs on a number of levels.

2:00.0

I mean, we're going to talk about the responses from that we've had. All of them come in today,

2:05.9

actually, haven't they? We've been pressing for word from the very,

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