WTA Finals Group Stages - Swiatek and Sakkari soar; Pegula and Gauff hit the wall
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
With the WTA Finals having reached the last four stage, David and Matt come together to wrap up the Round Robin action which saw some surprising results (Maria Sakkari finding her best form) and some unsurprising ones (Iga Swiatek serving up bagels).
There’s chat about Sakkari playing with freedom again, Swiatek dominating everyone, a gripping and dramatic match between Caroline Garcia and Daria Kasatkina with semi-final qualification on the line, and the fact that Jessica Pegula and Coco Gauff combined for a 0-9 win-loss record across singles and doubles.
Did they just hit the wall? How will this week affect USA in the Billie Jean King Cup Finals next week? And do Pegula and Gauff need to reconsider the amount of doubles they play next year?
We also preview the semi-finals and discuss the tricky situation which the WTA finds itself in regarding a host venue for this event after a week of disappointing crowds in Fort Worth.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. |
| 0:01.8 | This is Mary and Bartori. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Matt's Vellander. |
| 0:04.3 | This is Mary Carillo. |
| 0:05.3 | This is Pam Shriver. |
| 0:06.4 | This is Yannick Noah. |
| 0:07.6 | Hi, this is Cat Goddard from the Timberpines Tennis Club in Spring Health, Florida. |
| 0:12.4 | And you're listening to the Tennis Podcast. |
| 0:25.6 | Well, thank you very much, Cat, in Florida. |
| 0:27.8 | No doubt sunny Florida. |
| 0:30.0 | Which is very much the opposite to what it is here in SoliHole, Matt Roberts. |
| 0:34.5 | As I returned to the tennis podcast after a week or more, certainly more, |
| 0:39.9 | than I was supposed to have in sunny split in Croatia, which was delightful. |
| 0:44.1 | Blum, in heck, what have you been doing with the weather since I last was on this podcast? |
| 0:49.3 | The news I was watching last night said that we've had a month's worth of rain in five days, |
| 0:55.4 | and it sure feels like it. |
| 0:57.8 | And tonight, tonight, I'm going to Glasgow, so I could be in for more. |
| 1:04.2 | Oh dear. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, I'll be looking at the plus side to that, listeners, |
| 1:08.0 | is that it means you're going to be getting daily tennis podcasts throughout the duration |
| 1:12.5 | of the Billie Jean King Cup finals, which is where Matt is going to report for us. |
| 1:17.2 | Yeah, the downside is that you don't really see daylight very often, |
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