WTA Finals - Badosa & Sabalenka soar, Swiatek out but still a winner; Where is Peng Shuai?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The WTA Finals in Guadalajara have come to life, with Garbine Muguruza keeping her hopes alive, Paula Badosa battling past Maria Sakkari, and Aryna Sabalenka using the crowd's energy and support to summon her best tennis. David and Matt talk about it all and we hear from Iga Swiatek who spoke openly in her press conference about how PMS affected her in the first match.
There's also a review of Tommy Paul's victory over Denis Shapovalov in Stockholm, more excitement about Carlos Alcaraz after he won the Next Gen Finals, and a shocking and disturbing report from China where Peng Shuai has not been heard from since accusing the country's former vice premier of sexual abuse.
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| 0:38.3 | year, the start of 2021, when we crowdfund the whole season. And so many of you stepped up to show |
| 0:46.0 | your support for the Tennis Podcast. Chrissy was one of them. And yeah, she came in at the intro |
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| 1:03.6 | your support for the show. And yeah, maybe you could be introducing a show or having a shout out |
| 1:08.5 | or having your pet involved because these are the important things, Matt. |
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| 1:23.7 | So Chrissy, thank you so much. We are convening without Catherine today because she is currently |
| 1:30.7 | in a TV studio or a hair and makeup room getting all ready for the ATP finals, which are due to start |
| 1:39.0 | today this afternoon in Churrin. And Catherine's going to be presenting all of it on Amazon Prime |
| 1:44.8 | video in the UK. We are going to talk mainly about the WTA finals, which has continued with |
| 1:51.6 | another couple of days of play of the last 48 hours in Guadalajara. And a lot's happening. We're |
| 1:59.2 | trying to do it group stage by group stage and we'll continue this theme if we can all the way |
| 2:04.4 | through the ATP finals as well, given that they are overlapping, which I mean, marvellous that |
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