WTA lifts China suspension - our reaction; Monte Carlo latest; News, Results round-up

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports & Recreation, Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Their WTA's suspension of business in China in reaction to the allegations and silencing of Peng Shuai lasted 16 months. In this podcast, recorded a few days later than usual due to Matt's ill health, covers our reaction to that WTA announcement. We also update on Monte Carlo, including a loss for Novak Djokovic and the re-emergence of clay-court Medvedev.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary Carillo.
0:05.3	This is Pam Shriver. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:20.8	Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast. I'm here and don't worry this time I am not alone because I
0:29.4	bring you a fit and healthy mat robots. Hello, Matt. Hello, it's good to be back. Sorry for interrupting the
0:39.4	programming. Trust me folks, it enables us to bring you a bumper tennis podcast today. There is
0:49.8	lots to cover. We might have had to spend 20 minutes on Casper Rude winning a clay court
0:54.2	250 had be recorded on Monday. We will be covering that folks. Don't worry. It just might have
1:01.2	its airtime squeezed ever so slightly by other events. And the other reason that this is a bumper
1:09.7	pod is because bonus David Law. Oh, bonus. Oh, I'm very delighted to hear. Well, you're
1:18.1	supposed to be in in gracious running around on a beach, aren't you? But by the magic of
1:25.6	delaying the podcast by four days, you're here. Yes. And airplanes which got me here into my
1:32.3	sunny hall windowless room. But yes, no, I'm very happy to be back. And very happy most of all to
1:41.5	see Matt looking well again. And hopefully that's the end of any health related drama.
1:49.3	Absolutely. We've been the medics that we are. We've identified that this was a hashtag
1:54.9	athlete related illness for Matt. He's just adjusting to athlete life.
2:02.7	Yeah, I didn't have I didn't have blacking out on my Easter bingo card.
2:07.5	You're your whole Garuna. You just need to figure out your hydration. Have the have the pickle
2:13.2	juice on standby. Those such times. Who was who was it during Miami that he put out Carlos Alcaraz?
2:22.8	Even the famous Carlos Alcaraz struggles to hydrate appropriately. He's loving that. Anyway,
2:30.4	right. There you go, Matt, a gift from me to you. No Carlos Alcaraz, of course, this week in
2:38.0	Monte Carlo. We will be touching a little bit, seeing as we have had five days of Monte Carlo
2:44.3	under our belts at the time of recording. We'll touch a little bit on what we've seen. And by that,
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