What's happened since the Australian Open?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Catherine, David and Matt are home from Melbourne and here to look back on another busy week of tennis as the tours moved onto the Middle East and indoors in Europe.
Part one (00:00 - 34:52) - Women’s results. We discuss the rise of another young Czech as Sara Bejlek won her first career title in Abu Dhabi, a title in her home country for Sorana Cirstea, an eventful week for Emma Raducanu as she reached her first final since the US Open in 2021, and a much-needed title for Katie Boulter in Ostrava!!!.
Part two (34:53 - 56:49) - Men’s results. We cover Felix Auger-Aliassime picking up yet another title indoors and all the results from the Davis Cup Qualifiers, headlined by incredible wins for South Korea, India and Ecuador.
Part three (56:50 - 1:22:49) - Some tennis politics, a look ahead to this week on tour, and a tribute to Mark Hodgkinson, the former tennis correspondent of the Telegraph who sadly died last week at the age of 46.
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| 0:18.5 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast, our first weekly tennis podcast since crashing back down to earth, post Melbourne and post-Australian Open. |
| 0:30.5 | David doesn't care, he's sleep deprived, but he's a Super Bowl champion. Hello, David. |
| 0:38.1 | Yes, yes. Yes, I am. I've got props for the video watchers amongst you. |
| 0:45.9 | And I'm wearing all the colours of the Seahawks because eight years after starting to support this team |
| 0:53.2 | for no other reason that I liked the colours |
| 0:55.2 | and having watched every game and all the disappointments, we are Super Bowl champions. So thank you |
| 1:01.1 | very much. It was so boring, David. I know. I stayed up and watched some of it. Yes. It was so dull. |
| 1:12.3 | Between us, I think we watched the whole night, didn't we? |
| 1:14.7 | Because I watched all the terrible sport, which I loved every minute of, |
| 1:18.9 | despite the fact that the rest of the non-Seahawks Nation hated. |
| 1:22.7 | And you watched all the halftime show while I was making popcorn and tea. |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah. Yeah, so between us, we watched all of the turgid Super Bowl. |
| 1:32.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:32.4 | Well done us. |
| 1:34.0 | Yeah, get me back to figure skating immediately. |
| 1:38.0 | Matt, this time a week ago, we were on a plane with Carlos Alcoraz. |
| 1:42.8 | How are you doing? |
| 1:47.1 | Very well, thank you. I did not watch the Super Bowl I sent sent David my best wishes and then went to sleep and woke |
| 1:53.9 | up to a very happy selfie of David celebrating in front of the TV which was |
| 1:58.7 | exactly what I wanted. |
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