WTA Finals Day 6 – Cahill and Halep: Disgrace-gate; Pliskova hits form; Djokovic dominates in Paris
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
At last! After a couple of frustrating days in Shenzhen, there was no shortage of drama on Friday with two gripping matches and one extraordinary on-court coaching timeout involving Darren Cahill and Simona Halep.
Catherine Whitaker, David Law and Matt Roberts get stuck into it all on The Tennis Podcast.
How did it feel to watch Cahill call Halep a ‘disgrace’? Was it out of order or was Cahill well within his rights to use that language and tone? And what effect did it have on Halep?
There’s also plenty of chat about the sublime play of Pliskova and yet another win for Svitolina, this time over alternate Sofia Kenin.
In Paris, Novak Djokovic crushed Stefanos Tsitsipas in under an hour. What happened? And will Djokovic end up equalling Pete Sampras’ year-end World No.1 record?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McAnerd. I'm Bjorn Borg. |
| 0:02.8 | This is Martina Navratlova. I'm Matt Svillander. |
| 0:05.5 | I'm Stein Ruinca. This is Mary Carrillo. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm Andy Murray. And you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.4 | West episode 601, which means we completely forgot about talking about episode 600 yesterday of the tennis podcast. |
| 0:26.9 | It's only seven and a half years of tennis podcasts that we were in |
| 0:31.0 | tenning to celebrate and completely forgot all about. |
| 0:33.8 | But anyway, that's a sort of tradition here on the tennis podcast. |
| 0:36.6 | We did exactly the same after number 500. |
| 0:39.0 | And the good news is we have got loads of tennis to talk about today. |
| 0:42.4 | We don't need to get into Boston Legal or Suspect. |
| 0:45.6 | It might come up. But Catherine Whittaker is here live joining us |
| 0:50.9 | from the Amazon Prime Video Studios, the dressing room, |
| 0:55.0 | whilst tennis is going on halfway through the day. |
| 0:57.8 | What's the latest Catherine? |
| 0:59.1 | The latest is that there's a bloody big inconvenient gap in play. |
| 1:03.2 | You say inconvenient. |
| 1:04.6 | And to me, this is convenient. |
| 1:06.1 | This is perfect podcast recording time. |
| 1:07.9 | Podcast shaped gap in play. |
| 1:10.5 | Yeah, because Jockovich beats it to pass in 58 minutes. |
| 1:15.4 | I say gap. They've actually they've moved the doubles match that was going to be played on court. |
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