WTA semis set - who wins it all?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Part One - Serena Williams Group. With Anisimova beating Madison Keys and Iga Swiatek to qualify, we’re officially at the ‘silencing the doubters’ stage of our prediction. We analyse Anisimova’s improving performances through the week, offer some reflections on Swiatek’s curious season, and discuss the remarkable form of Rybakina at this tournament so far. Can she keep it up?
Part Two - Steffi Graf Group (23:00). We cover Aryna Sabalenka’s flawless record, including an impressive victory in a Roland Garros final rematch against Coco Gauff, and we make sure to pay some much needed respect to Jessica Pegula’s record.
Part Three - Semi-final predictions, doubles results, and a very exciting podcast announcement! (36:22)
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| 0:00.0 | This is Marnie Vandenberg, recording live from the Billie Jean King Tennis Center at the U.S. Open, and you're listening to the Tennis Podcast. |
| 0:22.7 | Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:25.9 | It is Thursday evening here in the UK. |
| 0:31.1 | The WTA finals in Riyadh have reached the end of their group stage. |
| 0:34.0 | Round Robin Tennis is over for now. |
| 0:35.7 | Matt Roberts rejoices. |
| 0:39.2 | Although he might have come round to ram robin tennis, |
| 0:44.8 | more of that to come. We're here to look back on the round robin stages and to look ahead at what's potentially to come in the semi-finals and finals. Matt, how are you doing? |
| 0:52.4 | Very well, thank you. It's been quite a busy 48 hours in tennis podcast world. |
| 1:00.1 | More on that later. |
| 1:01.6 | But I have had time to track Amanda Nissimova getting through the group stages in the WTA finals and setting up a repeat of the US Open final |
| 1:14.4 | as we heard Marnie there in the intro live from the US Open a few weeks ago. So somehow it all |
| 1:23.1 | works. A very, very appropriate intro today from Marnie. |
| 1:28.7 | I love the name Marnie. |
| 1:30.5 | And thank you for that intro, Marnie. |
| 1:34.0 | And thank you for that little tease, Matt. |
| 1:36.2 | You've done my job for me. |
| 1:37.4 | Yes, do stay tuned, folks. |
| 1:38.8 | We're a very exciting announcement at the end of this show. |
| 1:44.0 | David, how you doing? I'm really well. I'm really well. And I'm enjoying |
| 1:52.5 | seeing things looking a little brighter on the predictions front, given we had a bad start. |
| 1:59.0 | And maybe we didn't know. we didn't have a bad start. |
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