WTA Finals in Saudi Arabia - early impressions; Zverev wins Paris, but David holds firm
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Catherine, David and Matt convene for a Sunday night pod to review Paris and the early stages of the WTA Finals.
Part one - Zverev thrashes Humbert in Paris final; Humbert-Khachanov aggro; Alcaraz's comments about surface speed; David defends last week's Zverev takes; how much we'll miss Bercy.
Part two (from 26 minutes) - Players and WTA Chief Executive Portia Archer face questions about Saudi Arabia; wins for Sabalenka, Swiatek, Paolini and Gauff discussed.
Part three (from 57 minutes) - Doubles results from Riyadh; the Race to Turin is going down to the wire, but is that a good thing?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billy Jean King. |
| 0:02.0 | This is Marion Bartoli. |
| 0:03.2 | This is Bianca Andrescu. |
| 0:04.7 | I'm Matt Villander. |
| 0:05.8 | This is Mary Carrillo. |
| 0:06.9 | This is Pam Schreiber. |
| 0:08.0 | This is Janik Noah and you're listening to the Tennis Podcast. |
| 0:28.4 | Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast on a Sunday evening here in the UK. If you hear some sort of minor explosions in the background and some subsequent dog barking, |
| 0:36.0 | that is because it is bonfire weekend in the UK, |
| 0:39.7 | which is a very uniquely British event, isn't it, marking Guy Fawkes attempt to blow up the |
| 0:46.9 | houses of Parliament, which really feels like something you wouldn't want to celebrate with |
| 0:50.1 | fireworks, but that's the way us Brits do things David how you doing yes I'm not a massive |
| 0:57.6 | fireworks fan if I'm honest um so yes I feel Billy Jean there um but yeah I'm all right I've had |
| 1:06.5 | I've had a good day I've've watched a lot of tennis this weekend. |
| 1:14.4 | And looking forward to having a chat about it. |
| 1:20.1 | Yeah, we've all, I mean, we have been absolutely spoiled for tennis the last few days, haven't we? |
| 1:23.3 | And Matt has, Matt's been recuperating from illness. So it's just been duvet daying,unkering down, and presumably multi-screening, Matt. |
| 1:30.1 | Yeah, my dad messaged me yesterday to say, I hope you're taking it easy. |
| 1:33.7 | And I said, yes, I haven't left the sofa for seven hours. |
| 1:37.4 | I think that's definitely taking it easy. |
| 1:41.0 | Good work. |
| 2:03.1 | Matt, you're pretty much back to 100% matt but not quite well enough to come and meet me on the driving range today after my second ever golf lesson which p s folks was was just as much of a success as the first one uh video evidence on our on our Instagram page. The journey, the journey continues. And yeah, I don't want to be one of those tennis people that bores on about |
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