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Well, hello and welcome to the Tennis Podcast on the morning, certainly morning UK time of Thursday, the 27th of March. Miami is stumbling towards its conclusion. The women are at the semi-final stage, the men. are at mostly the... quarterfinal stage. We have one semi-finalist. We were supposed to have two, but Miami decided to make its first good scheduling decision of the fortnight and not put Novak Djokovic and Sebastian Corder on.
court at midnight last night thank you tennis gods although Matt it has been a a a poor week for the tennis scheduling gods generally I would say Yeah, I've written the word scheduling rant into the agenda three times. Would you like to just get out ahead of this and sort of... Bundle them together. Bundle them together now, yeah.
Yeah, so obviously we know that Miami is a really long tournament and yet we've found ourselves in a situation where players are not playing a match for days and then having to play... matches less than 20 hours apart we had an absolutely egregious situation the other day where mandanissimova finished very very late and had to come back day session the next day like i think in these in these practically two week long events we shouldn't
ideally be even playing back-to-back days but i understand that maybe sometimes that is necessary but playing night session and then day session back-to-back i just think is an abomination quite frankly and that match had Absolutely no chance of being any good. It was exacerbated by the fact that Anissimo had a really long match and her opponent, Raducanu...
had barely had a match the day before. So, you know, there were circumstances there, but it was terrible. Alex de Menor was in a very, very similar situation as well. Really, really late finish, came back in...
in the day the next day and absolutely shocking news to no one he lost as well like we're we're putting these players in really really tough situations and we've also got a situation where The two women's quarterfinals yesterday were six hours apart and they come back the next day to play.
the winner of that second semi-final has got at least six hours less rest. And in fact, I think it's going to end up being a lot, a lot sort of... more extreme than that um and now we've got a situation where on back-to-back days they've pushed the start time back from midday to 1 p.m and yet they've needed because of the weather and because of the circumstances, they needed to get five matches in.
on those days and they weren't they weren't able to do it yesterday and now we've got exactly the same situation again today and we face potentially a situation where we're not going to be able to get all the matches in today either it's just an absolute mess it feels like The more time and the more decisions that they have to make to get scheduling right, the more wrong they get it.
And the insistence at the quarterfinal stage of playing all the matches on one court, I sort of get it for TV. It's nice in an absolutely ideal world. You can watch all the matches. But the reality is so often not like that. Matches go on for a long time, weather comes in, and there's absolutely no sort of backup situation, and we end up with a huge mess, which is kind of what we've had these past few days.
So there we go. And Artifis as well is about to be on the receiving end of it. OK, he wasn't night session last night, but he played later, had a bit of a marathon against Zverev and is now coming back first match. today to face Jakub Mensik, who's had a weird old week and has had several days off.
doing goodness knows what. And OK, David, you can say, well, it's these players' fault for playing long matches. You know, there are... consequences to playing long matches rather than winning efficiently and you should be rewarded for winning efficiently but like also it's in the tournaments And everyone's interest to give these matches the best chances of being good tennis matches. And they are not...
doing that, that, you know, it was a death sentence on Anisimova Raducanu, wasn't it? That scheduling, like that match ended up being horrible. And it felt like it was kind of always going to be horrible. I think there's a world in which artifice is... is in absolutely no fit state to be much opposition for Jakub Menzik today. There's also a world in which he pulls off...
what he's somehow miraculously pulled off in his last two matches. But it does feel like that has to come to an end at some point. With his back that he described on camera and on microphone at the end of the first set yesterday as... totally fucked to his coach that's got to feel good for Zverev hasn't it losing to somebody whose back was totally fucked yeah
But look, sorry, mom, I'm just quoting the guy. You know, I can't do anything about it other than, you know, just tell you how it is. But the bottom line is, I think one of the frustrations with it is that... You don't get time to appreciate what they've achieved, what they've just achieved, really. You know, people... don't remember Anissimova's win over Andreeva in the way maybe they should be able to. There should be 24 hours more.
Yes, I get it. You do. But, I mean, isn't it a bit of a shame that then she's gone out and not even been remotely competitive against Emma Raducanu? And some of that's Raducanu. She's the story as well at the moment. She's playing really well this fortnight. Don't want that. I want to see the best of Anisimova against the best of Raducanu. I realise maybe Anisimova's blister came into...
sort of as a factor in that match. But then we had the same with Diminor. He has this incredible experience against Giao Fonseca and he manages to come through against him and the loudest crowd he's ever experienced in his life, he said, and win.
And suddenly he's out there against a guy like Berrettini, who's just hammering forehands. And if he can't... back it up I realise that's a very tough opponent but if he can't back it up the next day nobody can because there's nobody as fit as Alex Demenor so I don't know I just I think that there would be
license for the tournament and the organizers to turn around to us and say, all right then, you sort it out. You tell us what you would do to get all of this in. Oh, I freaking love that, David. You've got 12 days. Sure, but I think it would be incumbent on us to come up with a schedule almost from DOT.
to factor in all the things that the tournament has to factor in, sides of the drawers, TV, ticket holders, all those things. I still think it could be done. Don't get me wrong. I still think that there's a... bunch of cock-ups gone on this last week but i also think you know maybe we need to take a sample of a of a two-week tournament if you're going to have them and if you're not maybe we should just well what would it be like if you didn't um but
I definitely feel a bit cheated on behalf of the players, the crowd in the stadium. Like last night, I mean, they did what we wanted them to do. They stopped at midnight.
But there you are with a night session crowd, many of whom would have wanted to come and watch Novak Djokovic and the home player Seb Korda, and they couldn't. And it wasn't because of bad weather. You know, it's just... It feels like nobody's winning. And they've put themselves in a... position for the exact same thing to happen today which feels absolutely wild to me yeah look I think the biggest frustration for me is that
On the one hand, people might say we're being really hypocritical here because the thing we've pushed for and want is these one week long Masters 1000 events. And in those... Players have to come back and play the next day, even if they've had a really, really tough match the day before. Because, you know, the draws are stacked. There's only a week to play it. It's like a sprint. You've just got to play these matches one after the other.
You accept that those are the parameters of that tournament. We've got a week to play this. Everyone's kind of in the same boat and you get on with it. The frustration here is that we've got the dragged out event, but the...
The good thing that should come from that is rest that the players get. They've got time to play this event. And yet they schedule it in such a way that they're not giving the players rest. They are sort of... backing it all up in this little period over the sort of middle weekend and the start of the second week, the sort of period that we've just had.
To me, that just feels wrong. It just feels like there needs to be a more uniform scheduling of these two-week Masters 1000 events that we've now got because they all do it a little bit differently. And I think Indian Wells does it the best because they have the two finals on the same day. That's their starting point. Whereas here...
We start in the women's draw before the men's draw. We've got to get the women's tournament done before the men's tournament a day before. And the whole thing just feels out of kilter to me. It's not a surprise when these scheduling issues comes up, when they set the tournament up like that. And yeah, I just think big picture. We need to look at how we're actually sensibly scheduling these two week long.
1,000 events to try and stop as much as we can this happening. There's always going to be stuff that comes up. I get that. But it feels like they're setting themselves up for a bit of a disaster at the moment. Or put the genie back in the bottle. and get rid of the 12-day long 1000s. Other than money, I cannot see one discernible upside.
I don't know a player who said they like it. And I would say that that's short-term money because you're diminishing the product. I'd say net over the long term, it's not increased money. It's a very short-term. Money. Grab. But they're a disaster. They are a disaster. And if one thing comes from a PTPA and tennis powers that be negotiating table and that one thing can be getting rid of 12 day long.
masters, then maybe having to read through that lawsuit will have been worth it. And I know that Indian Wales and Miami have always been like this, you know, like they've always taken up. all of March you know their scheduling is not new I suppose and yet feels like it's getting worse in a way Miami is extended hasn't it
I definitely feel like you could be starting the thing so that you get that first weekend that they so much want. Take the buys out so that all the big names are in the first round. Start it on... Friday maybe or certainly the Saturday and have that weekend because those are so valuable that's proved now but this business is starting on Tuesday oh god
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And it is with Ayala that we will start. She beat Iga Sviontek yesterday 6-2, 7-5 to reach the semifinals as a wild card. throughout this match. Matt seemed totally discombobulated. You kept on saying, it's just not the match I expected it to be. There were lots of existential questions coming in about what it meant for Igor Shviontek.
Roland Gall. Yeah, what I'm trying to do here is not get straight into the Igor Svantec of it all, because we did spiral into that and we will bring that to today's podcast, but we should focus first on... Alex O'Arla, shouldn't we? Yeah. Look, I mean, we talked about it on our pod on Monday, how good her run had already been beating Ostapenko and Madison Keyes.
She then got a walkover, as we thought she might, against Paolo Belosa because of that back injury. But then she beat Sigurdsson Fiontech. Look, I cannot express how shocking I found that. I really, really thought that Svantec was going to win this match straightforwardly. Like, honestly. I thought this would be one of those Fiontech scorelines that we've become used to seeing. And...
Honestly, very, very early in the match, I realised that's not going to be the case here because Ayala was standing up to Svantec really, really well. And you're right, we absolutely should focus, first of all, on the things that Ayala did well because there were lots of them. She was... redirecting the ball brilliantly. She has a real disguise on her shots. It's quite hard to tell when she's going to go down the line, but when she does...
It's such an effective shot. She was standing inside the baseline to return and putting constant pressure on the Svantec serve. Svantec only held serve twice.
out of 10 times in the entire match. And it took her over an hour to hold serve. And look, some of that goes to the Svantec serve at the moment, but a lot of it goes to the Ayala return, which was... reliable and forceful and just really really impressive and she came playing with such belief such composure even when she on tech did start to get things together a little bit better in the second set
She never sort of felt like she was out of it, Ayala, and she got the break back. And yeah, it's just absolutely incredible. Honestly, I knew the name from her US Open junior triumph a few years ago. I don't think I'd seen her play before this week, honestly. And it's absolutely crazy. You know, the three best wins of her career.
all coming in the in the same week all slam champions like just people don't do this this is absolutely remarkable i think it's one of the biggest sort of upsets that we've had in the sport in quite a long time really you know We watch a lot of tennis and I was not familiar with this person at all, really. And she's beaten Igor Fiontek in straight sets. And this coming off the back of... Not that much form, really. It wasn't like she'd been massively building to this. You know, she lost in...
round two of Mumbai this year and didn't get out of qualifying in Singapore and the Australian Open. And yet this breakthrough has been just an absolute joy to watch. And her reaction kind of said it all. You know, she just... She sort of burst into tears after all of her wins this week. It's been so raw and so pure. And definitely, definitely we'll be watching out for Alex Ayala going forward because I've had...
I've had a great time watching her. And yet I was left feeling, feeling confused by the whole thing because it was such a... such an out-of-the-ordinary English Viontech performance. Yeah, look, she's a fantastic player, Eala. That disguise that you... mentioned Matt and the the redirect that she has on the shots I constantly found myself going oh right it's gone there has it which is a I love being surprised
watching tennis. I love not knowing where the ball's going to go or what kind of shot it's going to be. And I really felt that watching here and I was so impressed. But look, I was expecting there to be a serve that got punished yesterday. I just wasn't expecting it to be Igor Shontek's. That was quite a shocking Igor Shontek performance. And this won't be the first time we've...
We've had crisis talks about Iga Shiantek recently, and there's this tension, isn't there, as Matt pointed out yesterday. She's won more matches than anybody else this year. Like, that... shouldn't be deserving of crisis talks. And yet, I think to everyone's eye that knows the sport and knows Igor Shvantec, this looks like a crisis to me. Yeah, it was certainly a shocking performance, and there have been a couple. I'm also reminded of that really long post from a few days ago that you were so...
affected by really in the show that we did on Monday. And understandably so, I think it was shocking. And then there's the incident that has happened in her practice session where she's apparently been abused by somebody in the crowd. who's somebody who's brought their social media position to reality courtside. And that's led to additional security for Igor Sviantek. And I mean, these are...
She was asked about it in the press conference. Did that affect your preparation, etc.? She said, no, I don't think so. But I mean, these are horrible things to have to encounter. So is she in a crisis? Well, I don't know. I don't know. I mean, I definitely am a bit worried about her. And I do look at some of the performances. I find them confusing because, as Matt's outlined, this just wasn't one...
that I saw coming because of the type of player she is and the type of player she was up against as a newcomer, who, incidentally, I have loved watching. I've felt in terms of not knowing which way she's going to go, similar to how I feel watching...
rallies involving another left-hander that we've discovered this this year in Lerna Tien when he would play guys you'd suddenly like oh wow I didn't see that coming out of there and and that is something that players like Svante may get clued up on for the future and it so it may be a one done um i still think and maybe this is just
I'm not very good at imagining a scenario when the dominant player on a surface doesn't become that dominant player the next time they play on it. I was forever in denial about Nadal, even last year. You know, I still couldn't completely imagine him not turning up at Roland Garros and not winning the thing. And I certainly think Igor Fiontek is the favourite for Roland Garros. That's how I feel about it. I'd still, I still think that...
She's going to be a different player when that comes around. But with all this going on and who knows how she's really feeling inside, there's got to be doubts. I definitely have doubts that I wouldn't have had a year ago. I certainly wouldn't argue with you, David, about being the favourite. I don't think you can make any case right now that Igor Shontek isn't the favourite for Roland Garros. The discussion we ended up having yesterday was whether you would take Shontek.
over the field right now for Roland Garros, which I think we would have done last year and probably the year before, and we'd have been right to do that. I personally... Well, I would pick her for Roland Garros right now in an eager versus the field set up. I would pick the field because, like, I do think what's going on with her is a...
a mental situation. I'm reluctant to sort of delineate mental and physical and technical in that way because it's all so interlinked. But she hasn't suddenly forgotten how to play tennis. It's clear that...
She's panicking on the tennis court. She's lost trust in herself. I think she's afraid of losing rather than wanting to win. That's my interpretation of what's going on anyway. And I do think that there's a world in which those... mental issues are exacerbated on the clay because her expectations of herself and the pressures on her are even greater on clay than they are.
anywhere else like there's a part of me that worries for her even more on clay because if it starts going wrong there she will be totally unforgiving of herself I think and externally people will you know it'll really be crisis talks if she if she isn't winning titles on clay the way she hasn't been on other surfaces. Where do you fall down on it, Matt, just now?
Obviously, she's going to go on a tear and normal service will be resumed and this will all be redundant, won't it? But let's have the conversation now while we can. I mean, I do kind of hope so. I mean, for her sake. And also, I just find it kind of like David. I find it quite comforting when... players who you know are so good and so reliable on a surface start just doing their thing again on the surface. We used to have it with Nadal. He would sometimes go into a clay court season.
not looking like himself and he would get on the clay and all would be right with the world again and you kind of just hope that that happens but I think I'm with you, Catherine, on the field over Sviontek right now. I think, you know, I look at how Sabalenka has improved at Roland Garros in the past couple of years. I look at how Andreeva has improved.
generally in the last few months. Jingxin Wen got that win over Sviantec, okay, not at the tournament Roland Garros, but at the site Roland Garros at the Olympics last year. It just feels to me like there are kind of enough. other names right now that I could put, that I could bundle together and say I would take them over this version of Igor Shviontek right now. And...
That point about the pressure maybe even increasing on the clay, I can see that as well. I suppose the counter is that it's not that she's playing badly all the time.
She has been so consistent this year in terms of she's reached the quarterfinals at every event. She's reached the semifinals at a lot of them. But she hasn't then been able to push on and reach a final or win a title. And maybe the clay is... is a big enough difference maker there that she's able to just be so superior to a lot of these players that actually she can relax a little bit more in the big matches.
and get the win and get over the line in one of these tournaments but i don't know i don't feel confident about that right now um The WTA clay court season is a little bit odd because we start like indoors in Stuttgart and then we go to Madrid and both of those tournaments. Okay, Iga Svanteg at her best can still win those tournaments, but they're not... your sort of traditional clay court events you know where more like Rome and Roland Garros where she is even more comfortable so it
We might be in a situation where we're even going into Rome where, OK, she's got some wins on the clay, but she's also taken some losses and she still hasn't got the title. And then I think it really ramps up the pressure for... for Roman Roland Garros. But yeah, I have concerns about the game right now. Like the forehand was all over the place. The serve seems really, really vulnerable despite a lot of changes that she's made to it.
I felt like she was off balance a lot yesterday. And that might have been Ayala with her disguise and her redirection, but it just didn't seem like Svantec was sort of grounded on the court. She's one of the best movers in the world, but she didn't look like that. yesterday concerns about the team setup uh concerns about the mentality as you said like there's just a lot and whether the clay is enough to cure all of that i don't know
Like maybe because she's so good on it. Her record speaks for itself. But it feels like there's just a huge weight on her right now. And yeah, I'm not confidently predicting her to... to win anything right now and that's a it's kind of a painful place to be because we because we know how good she is at her best absolutely It'll be Jessica Pegula for Ayala in the semi-finals tomorrow. David, you deployed some...
90s-esque tactics in order to be able to actually watch Bagula's win over Emirati Khanu on replay this morning. Yeah. This is another problem that we're facing in the UK at the moment. As good as Sky Sports are at broadcasting sport, generally, and I do think they're very good at it. They have a pretty archaic system of showing it. I mean, there is no facility to watch a replay on demand still. and they're more than a year into their coverage. I actually went on there.
on their website today to see if I could find coverage of the Raducanu match. There was a five minute highlight package from a match lasting more than two hours. Some of the streaming or some of the systems that you have that you watch over the internet. well, there isn't even a recording facility. I've got one with, I've got their top-end thing, SkyQ, which you can record it into a hard drive. So I put it on, and then I suddenly thought...
I'm sure I remember back in the 90s, I used to sort of put the timings on the video, and if the match went long, you'd miss the end of it. So I ended up recording the next six programmes that were in the guide after the tennis tournament. So I'm recording things called bite-size this and bite-size that and God knows what. It's a good job I did because we got to the end of the transmission time and it was just when Raducanu levelled at once at all. So had I not done that, I'd have been sat there.
watching, well, not having been able to watch the third set. In the end, I was able to. And I mean, look, they did replay the match or at least a large chunk of it. You know, maybe they took the sit downs out in a two hour window from 7 a.m. But if you've got work.
to go to or you've got kids to drop off school or whatever you might need to be doing between the hours of seven and nine. If your job isn't being a tennis podcaster, you're in trouble. You're missing Emma Raducanu's quarterfinal and that's not good enough, I don't think. Not in this... It's not the 90s anymore, much as I wish it was. Anyway, on to the match. Wow. The quality of this match was high.
certainly for the first two sets from both players. I mean, I think it was excellent. And I think Raducanu is playing the best she's played in a heck of a long time. She looks really... secure as to what she's doing her serve is is working way way better she's getting a load more free points
Her distribution has always been one of my favorite things about the way she uses their ground strokes. And she was just hitting the ball very cleanly and volleying well as well. I thought everything was good. And I think that just tells you how good Pegula was.
I did think, I don't see how, I mean, Raducanu's got to play like the match of her life to win this because so many balls come back and they come back deep. And if you put one short, she's on top of you, hitting a winner or forcing you into the corner. And Raducanu was not too far away from doing that, just the kind of outplaying game that she needed in order to win the match.
wasn't quite there in the end she did have some some treatment they took her blood pressure she said she felt dizzy towards i think it's the end of the second set um but she did an excellent job um to win that to win that second set and Pagoula did an excellent job to win the match. That's kind of how I saw it. I thought Pagoula's playing some of the best I've seen of her for a while. But yeah, really encouraging from Raducanu.
That story about the lengths you went to to be able to watch the match in full reminds me of my favourite childhood film was Splash. Oh, Daryl Hannah and Tom Hanks. My parents had recorded it on a VHS off the... But until adulthood, I had never seen the first 10 minutes because the recording came in at the first ad break. I remember the recording started with a Colgate advert. I thought the film Splash started with a Colgate advert.
gay advert. So I remember this big revelation when probably only about 10 years ago I watched the first 10 minutes of Splash. Turns out actually the... The opening scene in Splash is a quite problematic upskirting scene. john candy with young john candy uh so maybe i was inadvertently protected from that but yeah oh the 90s david what a time well that was the 80s that film i think but uh you
It was the 90s. You watched it later. Yeah. Great film, though. I think other than the upskirting, it's stood the test of time pretty well. The other semi-final and the WTA side of things will be Irina Sabalenka against Jasmine Paulini. It feels like the win over Naomi Osaka... Matt had clicked something into gear for Jasmine Paolini, who hasn't had a disaster of a season. It's not like, oh, last year was an aberration and Paolini's reverted to the mean, but it also...
hasn't been a 2024-esque season so far for Jasmine Paolini. But it, I don't know, just it felt like she found something in that win against Naomi Osaka, a really hard-fought, gritty, gritty win. Yes. I completely agree. It's been a little bit of a struggle. She had an ankle injury, didn't she, earlier this season and just hasn't quite had the vibes going. But I feel like she might have found the vibes this week.
There was a wonderful interview on court that she did with Blair Henley in Miami where Blair was like, you know. how do you want people to support you here in miami and she went forza jasmine and just like just like hearing her say that i was like oh we're so back That's what we've been missing. We are so back. Forza Jasmine. Yeah. And that was a really good win against Osaka, as you said, from a set down. She played the more consistent tennis. You know, Osaka did.
Did hit some highs in that match, but... Paulini protected her serve well, didn't lose her serve in the final two sets, which if Paulini can do that, you know, kind of her weakest shot, then that sort of backs up the rest of her game really nicely. And then she took care of Magda Lynette. pretty comfortably, really. Magdalene coming off the win over Coco Gauff. So, yeah, I do think this is a big run for Paolini just to...
get a lot of that back. But she's going to have her work cut out against Sabalenka, who is really... We were a bit concerned about Sabalenka's form not that long ago, but it really feels like she's hitting her stride a bit more now. It's amazing the way she takes care of Zhang Xinwen. It's now 6-0 in that head-to-head. I think a huge problem for Jung in that matchup is serve and return. You know, Jung does not make enough first serves and Sabalenka absolutely...
dominates her second serves. Jung won 17% of points on her second serve in that match. And I feel like that has been a pretty sort of repeatable thing across their matches. It's one of the tennis fascinations that that is. matchup that Sabalenka just really really likes right now so whether whether Paulini can consider protect her serve against Sabalenka I think will be a will be an absolutely key element
to that match as well. But yeah, good to see them both in some of their better form and into the semis here. It's quite a problem for Zhang, isn't it? That she has such a Sabalenka problem and that it's not... She's not Andy Murray voice getting closer, is she? It doesn't feel that way. I'm surprised about that. I'm surprised she hasn't.
Because she's such a good player. I always think players of her quality, somebody, you know, she's won Olympic gold. She's reached a grand slam final. I kind of always expect them to find... something in the study of of an opponent and And maybe she's a little stubborn in the way she goes about it. Maybe she's not able to use things that would change. I don't know, but I'm a bit surprised. But huge credit to Sabalenka to keep up that.
Dominance like that. Earlier in the tournament, Sabalenka beat the defending champion, Danielle Collins. So no title defence for Collins, but she did win big in Miami. This week, you might not have put this in the agenda, Matt, but that is an oversight for me. I did mean to, but then I just wrote scheduling rant three times. The floor is yours. Is it Crash? It is Crash, yes. This from reporting in the BBC, although it has been widely reported everywhere because...
because journalists are largely great. Danielle Collins found an injured dog two days before her... match against Irina Sabalenka on her way out of the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami where the tournament is held. She found the dog curled up in the middle of the road after it had been hit by a car and she took him to a nearby veterinary hospital. There is some... somebody out there in the world that hit a dog with their car and did not stop.
She asked fans to pray for the dog and has now revealed that she has adopted him and named him Crash. Crash is recovering and finally out of the hospital after five days on oxygen support, she said. His breathing is back to normal. All his wounds are healing and he's definitely enjoying all the love he's receiving. He's curious, affectionate and grateful for a second chance at life.
It was so incredibly painful to witness a dog in so much pain after being hit by a car and left in the middle of the road with so many people driving by his curled up body. I'm just grateful I was able to be there and get him the care he needed. I've officially adopted him. finishes recovering he'll be attending school so daniel collins once again the real winner of the Miami Open. Unfortunately, Danielle, adopting Crash does not get us any Fantasy League points. And that is a tremendous shame.
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to dwell on too much but I was quite emotional for Grigor at the end of it I am I'm sort of I'm constantly struck by how not young Grigor Dimitrov Now, you know, this was a physical struggle for him at the end. And OK, it would have been, you know, a physical match for for anybody. It was it was a real marathon and it's humid in Miami. You know, I.
would get a sweat on just stepping outside in Miami and it looked just gross yesterday. But he looked so weary at the end of it and you can't help but sort of see the shadow of the... the young boy that he once was. And I don't know why I see that particularly in Grigor Dimitrov, you know.
aging is not unique to Grig or Dimitrov. We're all doing it. But there's something about him that just elicits that reaction from me. Like, how are you old? But he was always going to be the one, wasn't he? The one we were looking at from the outset of this. podcast in 2012 he he's the one who was our al krazel fonseca of the day and um suddenly Heck of a win, though, because he's got a career's worth of scar tissue and he had some scar tissue specifically in this match. He should have won that.
He had multiple opportunities. There was a volley on... on one particular set point in the first set tie break that was just unforgivable and he ended up losing that first set. And I just thought, I just can't see him. Can't see him winning from here. And sort of about 17 hours later, there he is hauling himself over the finish line. And I was really chuffed to bits for him. And now he gets an extra day of rest before.
before his next match, an extra day of rest that his opponent won't have because, of course, he awaits the winner of Djokovic against Korda, a match that has been... postponed to today because it was the middle of the night and they hadn't had the chance to start last night. Made the unprecedented, we think, decision to not put a tennis match on in the middle of the night. Extraordinary scenes, Matt.
Yes, it's certainly the first time that that rule has been used on the ATP tour. I was trying to remember whether it had been used at all on the WTA. since they brought it in last year, that matches wouldn't start if it got past a certain time. But I don't remember it being used, so I think it might be the first, as you say. Yeah, I believe Jim Currier reported on Tennis Channel that Dimitrov was seen in a wheelchair after that match. Oh, God. Backstage because...
He had to be helped off the court at the end. As you said, he was in a really, really tough physical state. I mean, he looked in a tough physical way in the first set. So as you said, the fact that he overcame that and...
the horror of that missed volley on his seventh set point and losing that set. It's a remarkable effort from Dimitrov. It really is an incredible win, especially given the physical troubles he's had in the last... few months or so we've seen him have to retire from a lot of matches which has been a really sad scene but he absolutely
sort of gutted this one out it was it was impressive um absolutely crazy point that he that he won right at the start of the third set tie break and phenomenal passing shot from on the floor basically uh yeah
When his body just gave away on the shot. Instinct took over, didn't it? Yeah, I feel like Dimitrov and Monfils have just given... given the fans a lot in well this year but in Miami as well like just body on the line rinsing every last drop of talent out of their bodies and rackets and yeah like
Very pleased for Grigor Dimitrov. Worried about the semi-final, but the extra day of rest hopefully will be useful. Rinsing every last drop out of... bodies and rackets is perhaps a lesson that Lorenzo Mazzetti could do well to learn I don't want to judge him on the basis of one performance I haven't you know I've not been watching all of his tennis matches but I did
I stayed up late to watch him play Novak Djokovic the other night. And, well, I wish I'd gone to bed, quite frankly. I wish I hadn't sacrificed sleep for it. I was pretty shocked by the performance I saw from... Feeble is the word I use to you, Matt, for this performance. I thought we were... I thought Mazzetti was over performances. Like that. Now, I wasn't necessarily expecting him to win.
I know he is not the player on a hard court that he is on a clay court. Far from it. I know that he's had a tricky season with injuries, but it was more the vibes and the... and the limpness of it all. It was shocking. Yeah, I was shocked by the manner of how limp and feeble it was. I had zero expectations that he would actually be able to push Djokovic on a hard court. I mean, he's not had a winning season on a hard court since 2022, Mazzetti. His ranking is...
is built really on his grass and clay court results. I don't expect that much from him on a hard court. And I think...
Once it started going against him, there was just absolutely no resistance, which was the disappointment. You just hoped that he would be able to put up more of a fight. And he actually just let Djokovic completely... take over that match because Djokovic started not playing very well and he was in a bad mood and Fergus Murphy put him in an even worse mood by giving him a time violation the first time that he
went over the limit and Djokovic was furious about this but then it sort of brought out that inner fire within Djokovic and he did some brilliant things in this match Djokovic he was timing the ball well there was a lot of Great retrieving, deep return, suffocating play. I think it was one of his... It was maybe the best he's hit the ball at a non-slam or Olympics in a little while. Like I really did think that he's hitting the ball well in shocking Novak Djokovic news.
But he is, in a way that he hasn't really done at tour events for quite a while. Maybe Shanghai last year was pretty good. But even so, I did expect more from Mazzetti. absolutely no resistance at all. And quite frankly, at one point, I thought he was going to lose 12 games in a row. Having gone two love up, I thought he was going to lose two six love six. He did manage to get on the board in the second set, but... Yeah, it was a tough scene, really.
he's desperate for the clay, Mazzetti. You know, he was injured during the South American swing where he could have got some matches on the clay. So it's been a tough start to the season in that respect. I would expect more resistance from him if that match is on clay. I think he trusts his game more and he thinks he can hurt someone like Djokovic more. When he doesn't have that belief on a hard court, it's just kind of all...
all falls apart pretty quickly. Yeah, his coach was there shouting Forza and it didn't have the same ping to it as when... Paolini shouts Forza. He was also up against Andy Murray in Novak Djokovic's box and Juan Martín Del Potca in Novak Djokovic's box and Serena Williams who wasn't in the box but was... was very much sort of pictured and having a good time and messing up with the Djokovic camp afterwards. There was a lot of star power on show that night and Mazzetti performed like that.
That must have been a blow for him. Okay, so that's one semi-final. It'll be Dimitrov to face the winner of Djokovic and Korda in the other half. Korda, by the way.
withdrew from the doubles with his wrist injury and he talked about that he got that taped against Monfils he managed to come through that but I think part of that was Monfils having played so many long matches didn't quite bring it like Hopefully, again, hopefully maybe a day off helps Corda, but I'm a bit worried about that one as well from that point of view. Goody, okay. In the top half of the draw, Jakub Mensik got a walkover against Thomas Mahatch, whose withdrawal retirement...
Woes continue? Seven since the US Open, retirements or walkovers. And all for kind of different things? Yeah, we've had illness, we've had cramp, we've had... whatever that was at the United Cup. Yeah. Yeah, so Jakub Menzik threw to face... It is back-to-back Masters 1000 quarterfinals for Artifice. An absolutely crazy win over Francis Tiafoe in the round of 32 and then a comeback win.
over Alexander Zverev yesterday, David, to reach that quarterfinal. He's really trending in the right direction. I got excited about him a couple of years ago because of the ceiling and the moments when he... turns the turbo boost on. What he didn't have a year ago, which was really a massive Achilles heel, was just...
consistency, reliability from the baseline. Returns would go ballooning long from pretty run-of-the-mill serves and couldn't trust his game. Big wind-up forehand that looked like it could be rushed. Ball toss. up to the moon that in a windy day would just... blow all over the place and listen he still has some of these issues that he has to contend with but I think he's done an excellent job of kind of packaging his game in order to do that and I think that the last few weeks he's
He's proved that he's actually more than even a thought. He's not just this incredibly athletic specimen who's got an explosive game. He's got brains on court. I mean, his instincts are good. He reacts well and he finds... different paces and angles of shots for the right moment. And in this particular match, I mean, in the last couple, I mean, against Tiafoe,
I mean, he was 6-3 down in the first set tie break. He saved, I think, six set points in that set to win it. He really should have won in straight sets. Had to, you know, kind of blew that. And Tiafa looks like he's going to win up a break in the third. And then Feast, just his body giving out, just decided, kind of screw it.
I'm going to hit everything as hard as I can and try and hit lines. And he said two out of ten times that would happen and I would win. But I think it was a real eye-opener for him that he can win like that. And he kind of had to do it again against Verev because after that first set... The back's going, totally fucked, as he said. And he just turned it on in the second set and went for it. And kind of took the game away from Zverev. But that's only...
That's only part of the story of this match because Zverev in that third set from a breakup was a disaster. I mean, the game after he broke... And he got re-broken. He missed two backhands into the tramlines. Now, when did you see that? And then the forehand that went out that handed the break back. I mean, he didn't even make the tramlines. He was...
Absolutely awful. And honestly, I think this is the worst tennis I've ever seen from a player of world number two. What he has... been producing since the australian open he he got i think one win maybe two wins in in the golden swing that he went out to in south america he
He lost right at the start of Indian Wells. He's won a couple of matches here after two weeks off to sort of rebuild his game and rebuild his confidence. And he's absolutely gone to pieces against a guy with a back whose back is totally fucked. And I mean, I remember Yevgeny Kofelnikov going to world number one off the back of six first round defeats.
back in about 99 or 2000, just the way the rankings worked. I know it sounds absurd. And I was the person who had to try to explain that away as the ATP communications manager. And I'm like... I don't know why he's gone to world number one when he's playing like this. I mean, he had won the Australian Open, of course. And look, Zverev has reached two grand slam finals over the last year, but I...
I know I'm not his biggest fan, and that is the understatement of the century, but I just don't think he's that good. And he kind of wins matches just by... being there and not choking and allowing other people to choke. I mean, sometimes he turns it on against... Al Krause did the Australian Open and he's got a big game on clay when it's all working well but it's all pretty one dimensional isn't it and
I just think he's in free fall at the moment, and he's not hiding from that. In the press conference afterwards, he doesn't know what's going on. He said, I've got to figure something out here. And boy, has he. Is his window passed? Well, I don't I'm amazed he's been getting the windows he has because I don't think I think he's really quite fortunate to have made the grand slam finals that he has. So I would never have really thought.
I don't think he's that good. I really don't. But has his window passed? I mean, yes, I don't think he's going to win a Grand Slam.
But I've never thought he's going to win a grand slam. He's got incredibly close for somebody I never thought would win one. And I just think he's going to run into more and more players like Fees who are going to grow in confidence and realise, if I just don't... blow it this guy's this guy goes into his shell the moment somebody stands up to him matt where do you stand on that i largely agree with that i i think
What you said about Daniel Collins being the sort of winner of Miami, really, I think Yannick Sinner is the winner of Miami and maybe the sunshine double on the men's side. Like he's OK. He's not playing because he's banned at the moment. That's a bad situation. But everything else he's seeing isn't going to be worrying him at all, is it? The top of the men's game right now is in a bit of a state.
You know, Zverev, Medvedev, Alcaraz. Obviously, Djokovic, we know, is still capable of absolutely brilliant tennis. But Sinner could have lost his world number one ranking during this period. And I think now the only way he loses it is... is if Zverev wins Munich, Monte Carlo and Madrid. Well, that ain't happening.
So Sinner's going to come back as the world number one. He's going to come back rested, having watched all of his other players, you know, having a shocker, really, over the past few months. And I just feel like... I feel like he's kind of laughing at the tour right now. He, to me, feels like the winner of the Sunshine Double. And he's not played. He's banned. And that is...
That is a wild sentence. And maybe I'm wrong, but that's how I feel right now. Yeah, he's hearing David make the very compelling case that Guillermo Fies is the player of the year so far. rubbing his hands together isn't he um also side note i think our totally fucked count is now at five six city count me just
saying the totally fucked count, seven. Remember the explicit tag, right? The other quarter final we haven't talked about, Matteo Berrettini against Taylor Fritz. The week that we're going to... potentially finally find out whether the power of Taylor Fritz's powers were in his hair. I could have phrased that better to really drop that zinger. But you know what I mean. He's had all his hair cut off and he hasn't played very well since. But maybe this is it. Maybe it's happening this week.
in Miami what do you think Matt oh you've come to me I'll be honest I haven't seen Fritz play this week I've um I know he beat Shapovalov um Oh yes, David, you watched that. David will have seen that. David is our Shapovalov. David has randomly appointed himself the Denis Shapovalov.
Correspondent. Well, it's because I interviewed Janka Tivsaric and he talks all about Denis Shapovalov and he was talking about how he wanted him to have this ultra-aggressive game. And I wanted to see how that played out. I did actually think he did some of that against Fritz, and he went on this great run of about four games in a row in the second set, and you're thinking, oh, here we go.
How sustainable is that? I don't know. We're going to find out. But I haven't seen anything that has made me think, oh, yeah, Denis Shapovalov is going to be a total force now. I think he's definitely... improved obviously won Dallas and then he's back inside the top 30 but as regards Fritz
That match was just a very Taylor Fritz-like performance. Maybe I didn't expect him to lose his break of serve that he had in the second set and start to be under pressure. He's still not quite... at his best but that's a measure of just what a good pro he is I think that even even when he's maybe a little bit injured and he has been this year and even when he's not at his very best he's still makes you think like he's going to win most matches. And, yeah.
I think this is building block stuff. He always beats Berrettini, as I recall. I remember them playing each other at the US Open, and I think I had Berrettini down for the win just because I thought, oh, the points are quite good if I win.
this and and he got taken down comfortably in that match so yeah I just thought Fritz is what you're trying to do is just get over the injury and just start building again because he's you know just on the subject of Dimitrov how what a great pro he's become in his 30s and And he kind of wasn't in his early 20s. And Colin Fleming said this great line in commentary about, I wonder if you'll ever think, if only I'd been like this when I was 22 and not 32. And Taylor Fritz, I feel like...
was trending in Grigor Dimitrov's direction in his sort of late teens, early 20s. And now, I know he's not old now, but... He's figured it out very quickly, I think, how to be a good pro. I mean, he's got good people in his corner, Paul Anika and Michael Russell. He just feels like he's getting the most out of whatever his game is. And I suspect...
Betty will be at his best very soon. He should be the favourite for this one. OK, so we've got the winner of Mensic Feast to face the winner of Berrettini Fritz. Who have we got winning the titles here, folks? Djokovic. I think I've got Djokovic and Sabalenka. Yeah. I'm definitely going Sabalenka. Sabalenka-Pagula is a final that keeps...
that keeps cropping up on these American hard courts. We had it Cincinnati last year, US Open last year. If they then meet in the Miami final as well, that would be a pretty sort of... pretty big series of finals that they would have played against each other and sort of standing themselves out as the best players on the sort of US hard courts. And I think we'll probably get that. Great.
Sign me up. Who you got Djokovic playing in the men's final? Probably Fritz. Even though, as I've said, I haven't seen him play this week. But he beat Denis Shapovalov, Matt. I did hear an interview where he talked about his injury in slightly weird terms where he said he was asked if he's 100% and he sort of shirked at it and said, oh, no.
But it's a sort of conditions-based injury, and it sort of depends a bit on the surface. It was almost as though he was setting himself up for it to be a problem again on the clay, but he feels like it's okay at the moment. I didn't really understand what that was all about. So I'm a little, I've got that in the back of my mind that he's not quite right physically, but I just probably trust him more than the other players in that half. I'd give Mensik a shout, but...
I think Mensik over Feast is probably likely. I suspect Feast is going to hit the wall. Yeah. OK, that's it for part two. We'll be back with some other bits and bobs in part three. They say money never sleeps. But don't let your pension keep you up at night. Instead, combine your old pots and manage them easily with Wealthify. And you can earn between £50 and £1,000 cash back when you transfer to our personal pension.
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The tie break and the introduction of the tie break and the evolution of the tie break. How it changed the sport. Yeah. All of that fun. This is one I thought I knew, to be honest. I thought I knew a lot of this, but I've discovered a lot of stuff. Excited about this one. I'm excited. My favourite moment of the week so far was David just popping up out of nowhere and said, I've just had 10 minutes with Anna Blinkova, virtually.
Yes, big thank you to the WTA communications staff who received my note during her match. I'd been thinking for a while, you know, who can I speak to about the tiebreak? Oh, I wonder if I could find out how to speak to the woman who's won the longest tiebreak in history. That's, of course, Anna Blinkover against Elena Rebecca in her last year.
Australian Open, and I thought, I haven't seen Blinkiver's name on a schedule for a while. I wonder where she is. Oh, she's playing now. And so I wrote to the communications staff. She won her match, and within about 15 minutes, she was on the phone to me.
So how nice is that? So well done them. Brilliant. And she was lovely, by the way. She was brilliant, fun to talk to. Brilliant. Can't wait to hear that. David's also got a voice note from Goran. Matt has been speaking to the Wimbledon historian, Robert Mitchell.
nickel um during one of his recent trips to the wimbledon library it is it's going to be a great show and we'll be recording it next week it's our third edition of tennis relive for 2025 so far this year we've covered the 2008 australian open And we've told the story of Maureen Connolly, one of my all-time favourite editions of Tennis Relived. And by the way, this week we received the most lovely note from Maureen's daughter, Brenda.
She'd heard that we'd covered her mother, Maureen, and wanted to listen. And of course, we've sent her a copy of the show, which is extremely wonderful when I try to heap praise on that. yesterday for his work producing the show that Maureen's daughter would now be listening to. He said, well, she hasn't sent a review in yet. We haven't actually heard back from her since David sent her the show.
Might not be quite as lovely as we're hoping. But fingers crossed. So that edition of Tennis Free Lived coming next week. And before then... We'll be live on YouTube on Monday night to review the climax of Miami. That show will be available for everybody. Live on YouTube, 8pm Monday evening, UK time. The best thing to do...
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Hello to our top folks, Chris, Greg and Geoff. And over to Matt for some shout-outs. We have Sarah from Pennsylvania. Just straight up Sarah. And you will like this, David. Sarah says, I fell in love with tennis watching Pete Sampras win so many Wimbledons with my father. Go, Sarah. Yeah. Seven. Seven Wimbledons. Only interrupted by that pesky Richard Krychek in 1996. Sarah, in Pennsylvania. You've been to Pennsylvania, Matt.
Yes, I have. I had a good time. And Sarah, like either Sarah Borwell or Sarah Sue, my oldest friend that Matt met in Dublin last year. Those are our two Sarahs. Yep, no notes. Sarah, thank you very much. We've also got Matt Calman. Hello, Matt. Matt is from Staten Island, New York, but lives in Woburn, Massachusetts. Woburn. Well, Matt and I have been to Massachusetts. I've been a couple of times.
Me too. Don't think we drove through Woburn. I feel like I'd remember that. And Matt says, it's a variation of my name, but I've always loved Mats Valander. Oh. Haven't we all, Matt? Good choice. Great choice. Although the book I'm reading at the moment from John Feinstein, Hardcourts, references Matt's philander just putting everybody to sleep on course.
brutal but he's and i think matt's would would be quite happy to say yeah yeah and it served me well yeah only seven grand subtitles up yours uh matt thank you very much And last but by no means least, we have a very special shout out for Josh and Amanda. And this comes from Wendy. And we met. Wendy and family at Indian Wells a couple of years ago. And this shout out is for Wendy's son, Josh, and his fiance, Amanda, who are getting married on the 29th of March.
Just a couple of days' time. Oh, Josh and Amanda. Congratulations. And... Furthermore, Wendy says, I don't think Amanda knew exactly what she was getting into when she got involved with our tennis fanatic family, but she quickly became a tennis fan in her own right. And now she and Josh are soon to be. Tennis Watching Partners for Life, they will be getting married in Newport, Rhode Island, right near the Tennis Hall of Fame. Oh, excellent. Wow. That's superb.
Well, that is absolutely lovely. Wendy, that's very heartwarming. Josh, Amanda, congratulations. Have a gorgeous wedding day on Saturday. And do join us for the live YouTube show at 8pm UK time on Monday. on your honeymoon. What better way to celebrate? Folks, thank you very much for listening. We will be back on Monday to wrap up Miami and look ahead to Clay. We'll speak to you then.
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