WTA Finals Day 5 - More Shenzhen misery, but Shapovalov cheers us up in Paris
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
It was a downbeat day in Shenzhen, with alternate Kiki Bertens being forced to retire against Belinda Bencic, and Ash Barty easily beating Petra Kvitova.
Catherine Whitaker, David Law and Matt Roberts do their best to find some talking points amid the gloom.
Why are so many players getting ill or injured? Would the tennis be more interesting on a faster court? And how much better did Ash Barty play today than in her second match?
In Paris, there was at least a thrilling performance from Denis Shapovalov to discuss, but why was Alexander Zverev so sloppy?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McEnroy, I'm Bjorn Boy. |
| 0:02.4 | This is Martina Navratlova, I'm Matt Svillander, I'm San Roenka. |
| 0:06.2 | This is Mary Carrillo, I'm Andy Murray, and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | So here we go with another tennis podcast. |
| 0:23.3 | Recorded about two hours after original plans because of Dennis Schapavallov and Alexander's |
| 0:28.5 | Veriv, delayed us because they got involved in an exciting match in a warehouse, also known |
| 0:35.1 | as Paris Indoor Court number one. |
| 0:39.1 | And Catherine Whitaker, hello Catherine. |
| 0:41.3 | Hello David. |
| 0:42.3 | Hello, Matt Roberts. |
| 0:43.6 | Hello. |
| 0:44.6 | Hello. |
| 0:45.6 | And myself, we're all watching it and having a conversation in which we also started to |
| 0:49.9 | reveal the contents of our sixth form experience where I was thrown out of geography. |
| 0:57.4 | And I think Catherine was refused to enter into her history exams. |
| 1:01.4 | And Matt Roberts, well, he didn't put a foot wrong. |
| 1:04.3 | I don't quite know how we got into any of that. |
| 1:06.6 | This is a tennis podcast, we aren't going to talk about the WTA finals, which was all a bit |
| 1:10.3 | damn beat today, I have to say. |
| 1:12.4 | But we've got loads of other stuff to talk about as well. |
| 1:15.1 | You're going to trail more sadness. |
| 1:17.7 | Yes, I mean, come on Catherine. |
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