18 Burst results for "Alejandro Davidovich"
The Tennis Podcast
"alejandro davidovich" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"To you from tennis podcast hours, myself, David and Matt. We've got the tennis on the telly. We've been at the Indian Wells tennis garden all day. We're now back at base watching on the telly, there's still a lot of matches still to be played, still to even start quite frankly, round two matches being played just at the moment. And the reason they're still so many to be played today is because it blooming rain. What was all that about? I mean, I was not happy this morning. I mean, I wasn't happy with the cloud. Let alone. I had no clue that there was rain on the way. And I mean, it disrupted things for probably not that long based on normal tennis tournament, standards, but Indian Wells standards Catherine. You looked at me as if to say this had never happened to you before. Well, it didn't, it didn't even occur to me as a potential obstacle in our day or any of our days. Throughout this tournament. So yeah, it's normal as it is in tennis. It just wasn't on my radar for this tournament and I was most displeased by it. The place looks all wrong. In The Rain, doesn't it? You said it's like a British seaside town out of season. It just looks and feels wrong. Dystopian somehow. I mean, still an absolute delight. Don't get me wrong, just less of a delight. And then you get all the classic tennis things that it doesn't really know how to behave properly in The Rain because instead of covering the court with a tent like thing as Taylor Swift would say they get leaf blowers out to try and dry the courts and they're just sort of pushing water around. Pushing it around and you're thinking there must be a better system than this one. And yes, I speak as someone who went out to watch will Ye Bing versus Alejandro davidovich for kina. 7 off he went. I was gone a while. He's gone a while. I saw two points. Because it took them ages to dry the court. The leaf blower guy got a huge round of applause when he finally finished. So tennis. And then the players came out two points. Started raining again. A troop of ball boys coming out with towels, getting around to applause. That's also very tennis, isn't it? Goodness me, that finished quickly. I've just looked up and remembered over shaking hands with the umpire. Yeah, he didn't? That was, as we were starting to record 5 minutes ago, that felt like game on with Brandon nakashi. That is another reason you like Daniel mede, isn't it? He is the faff free prince of tennis. Yeah. I mean, he's, you know, he's a bit of a mess. But a shiver went down my spine when you said that. But make a T-shirt with that on. He's so quick between the points and then when he wins match point, he's just no shenanigans. Between points is one of my low key biggest determining factors whether I like a player. I mean, there are outliers, obviously, Nadal. And plenty of others. But those outliers tend to be people that have so much else going for them that you can overlook it. But yeah, I could do, I could do a back hand list of I could do a quick between points. Okay. Well, I want to see that list. And can I just I think it would be quite boring. Draw attention to the fact that in a quiet moment, I'll draw it up. What's in Vasquez first name? Yeah, okay, so that's who dynamic evidence is going to play. And we've had whenever you say Ilya vascular Matt always follows it up with, he's quite good. He's always trying to sell Ilya when you're using it. When you're musing over a prediction, Matt will always try and push it. I never go for it myself. I just always try. To get to my point on the draw that we just saw on the tennis on screen here, the first player that Matt saw in the entire tournament was Baltic branders and scope. And he's out. And the theory is that the first player that you see when you're at a tennis tournament is going to win the tournament. So that's been disproved. That's true. I do always play that game. The first players I'm going to see are going to win the tournament. Although, who's going to win the women's tournament? Amanda and nismo. Who is yes. I saw the Carolina mooka though before just before mat clocked and over. Okay. So what's mcavoy? She's still in the tournament, but she's got a she's got Azarenka tomorrow. First up. Good match. I mean, look, if you can stay fit. She could win the tournament, but obviously she won't. She'll fall over in the third game or something. I hope she I wish I well. I wish she had a run. A run of good health. How good love do you see? She's so great. I think she could actually be. She's a top ten player, I think. I think she could be. Wow. I think I had her in my urine top ten, didn't I a couple of years ago? One of the years when she got consistently. I still don't think I really know what sort of player she is. All I know is that she's a bit of everything. That she just thinks she's a baller. Of a play, you know? She is. She's got all sorts of tools. Apart from a body, which is quite useful in tennis. Anyway, what has been happening would we want to do first, we want to do what's been happening with us, what's been happening with the important stuff, the tennis. I'm going with us. Well, we've been kept very busy. You know how afraid I was that our meeting greets would be embarrassingly poorly attended. Well, I don't want to suggest any degree of complacency at all. Please, please still come. If you're planning to come. The world could run dry at any moment, but so far, they've been going very well and you've done us proud by showing up at our meet and greets at the on location booth on site in Indian Wells and we've loved it. We've loved meeting so many of you. It has been good vibes only. Hasn't it? Oh, it's been, it's been brilliant. Yeah. One of my favorite things is the number of people who have ready on their phone, a picture of their dog to show Catherine. The best. We haven't prepared anything. We haven't come with signed sits a past style autographs. But they all have their dogs ready, and we appreciate it. Everyone's so nice. Imagine Catherine, if 20 years ago, you were allowed to kind of create the perfect existence of a job.
The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"alejandro davidovich" Discussed on The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"Nori takes revenge on alcaraz in Rio and Djokovic surpasses graph for most weeks at number one. Kim Chris, today is the 27th of February and we are here to catch up on the week in tennis at tennis weekly headquarters, especially backed by our crowdfunders Caroline girling and Stephen rankin. It's been another entertaining week on the tour. A surprising week, actually, because eager schwinn tech, oh my word, lost to barbora cricova in the final in Dubai. We had the Brits doing very, very well with cam nori winning in Rio, as well as Andy Murray getting to the final losing to Medvedev, who's made it back to back titles and consecutive weeks in Doha. And we've had some historic news today, Novak Djokovic has surpassed Steffi Graf for number of weeks at world number one. Guys, it has also been a historic occasion because it's been a sad sad day for me because malek yasiri, one of my favorites, one of my favorite players who's history has been entwined with the story of the podcast. He has been sent into retirement today in Dubai in the men's event by Alejandro davidovich for kina. He had a wild card. He went out very easily and now I've got to spend the next hour or so I feel like processing this sad sad information I've got to be completely honest, I'm not a 100% sure who that is. Oh, Chris. Chris, you don't know who Malik jaziri is. I know this is bad. Jolie more hurt by the fact that Chris doesn't know who he is or the fact that he's now retired. A bit both to be honest, yeah, I'm absolutely devastated. I thought maybe there was maybe there was one more run he could go through to the second round on the third round. Maybe he could take another wild card into an event in the Middle East, but sadly not, and yeah, he's hung up his tennis racket, although he will still be on the tour. I believe he is now. I wasn't even aware of this. He is the coach of vasek pospisil, but yet he's now officially hung his racket up, he's playing days are over. That's quite an interesting partnership. But I mean, Chris, so the backstory for yourself and for any listeners who haven't been with us since the early days of the podcast. Myself and Joel bonded over a malek jaziri match at the Australian open in 2018. It was against Salvatore Caruso. Another name you may never have heard of. Was this on a rod laver? No. The furthest from the main arena and even though it was like it had gone late, it was like 5 sets. It's still felt like there was only about 30 40 people watching, but it was that sort of time where I did, you know, I was talking to Kim about, hey, should we start a podcast? And that's how you series so related and entwined in the podcast law. I don't even know who won that match between him and cariso, but I remember someone accusing the other player of feigning an injury and all sorts. It went a bit sort of grudge match. Kim, I think the biggest thing to have come out of that match was the podcast, not the result itself. It was the formation of we should get them both on. He did. We should get the word. He did win it. I can confirm. It went to 5 sets and he won it 6 three in the final set. So what a result for malek. I'd love to have him on. We could ask him how significant that match was for his career if he remembers it even if he remembers that the crowd. Yes. Exactly. Let's come back to the present day though, otherwise we'll be spending the whole episode perhaps reminiscing about random matches at AO 2018, which isn't what most people are here for. I'm sure. What's been your highlight from this week on the tour? Joel, I mean, your highlight from the tennis, but I also, I am dying to know how your pepper army pancake went as well. So if you can kind of fill us in on both of the great. The less said about that, the better, I think, yes. Listeners, yeah, I suggested maybe pancake and a pepper army sort of rolled around each other. Yeah, it's not a thing. It does not work. I definitely do not have the peperami in the fridge before eating it like cold and hot. It's the contrast. It just doesn't work. It's a recipe for disaster, so we can leave it, we can leave it firmly there, but yeah, in terms of the actual action on the court this week, what my highlight was and it's my highlight because it just gave me a lot of confidence and it was maxime Crecy in Marseille against Jeffrey Blanco and he served what is dubbed the reverse perfect game, which is four double faults in a row broken to love. It was very messy. He still won the match, which was great, but yeah, watching that, it just sort of gave me some confidence that, yeah, it does happen to the top players as well. Messy from Crecy, goodness. That is a bad game. I love that messy. I do think though that we have seen like this transition, this slow evolution of more and more players being like, I'm just going to serve two first serves as opposed to, I'll do a first serve and then I'll have my very steady second serve, which is my high percentage play. I do think you get more and more players now like Crecy, who if you watch it, you can see why you serve affordable faults. He was just he was just going for it on every serve and obviously that's a completely different approach and mindset to have. But it's certainly feels like for me something we've seen become increasingly popular on the tour over the last couple of years. And he does do a lot of service practice I was going to say, you know, nice of his game is to serve in the volley. So maybe he practiced it more than others, so he backs himself to make it more than missing. The odds are very much in favor of him making one of them, but it did look a bit like when he got to three double faults. He wasn't hopeful for that last one. I suppose by the time he'd done three, he thought I might as well do for right now and then just call that game a bit of a rise. Chris, what about you? What's amused you from the world of tennis this week? And I also want to ask, I think you having some pancakes last week when we were having some galette. Yes. How are your galettes? But I sent you a picture. They weren't very well. It is with buckwheat flour, did find that out.
The Tennis Podcast
"alejandro davidovich" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"The player lounge is just deserted, and this is a different thing. For players who haven't done it before, if you've never gone beyond the first week of a Grand Slam, you're just not aware of it, being like that. So yeah, a lot to get used to, but she is familiar with it from that standpoint and in a couple of days time. Just can't wait for these matches. They're fantastic on paper. The men's side of things we had a quarterfinal setup between Mateo bertini and caspar rude. I mean, those again, those are two players. I've struggled to choose between who might win that, they're both reached grandson finals over the last 18 months. Baritone had a much harder time to get over the line today. What a match that turned into against Alejandro davidovich for kina, who is just an electric presence, isn't he? If people, there may have been a lot of people that arrived at that match, not knowing too much about him. But there will leave ten in neighbors about him. Yeah, tennis needs to market that guy more, I think. Market him and his animal sanctuary. Well, quite. There's just a lot to like about it. Yes, a doctor, check it out, folks, particularly folks in Spain, I think. If you're in Australia, maybe you don't want to adopt an animal just to look at the photo. Yes. Yes. I actually do do that sometimes. I know you're still in the battersea website to see what's happening. Another quick name drop from Martinez. I brought up the animal sanctuary on with her today. Obviously, because she had her dog Lulu at her feet at the time, I was desperately trying to get her on air, lily. Gorgeous little dachshund. And Martinez eyes lit up and she said, yes, I personally thanked him. For setting up that animal sanctuary, she was she is all about Alejandro David for kina and adopt us. As rightly she should be. Quite right. And I mean, I have never watched him and not had fun. Like he just is a good time on a tennis court. And that's why. Well, it's partly his tennis. You know, it's pretty, it's pretty dynamic and electric, you know, he's got, he's got big shots. He flings himself around the court. He's got incredibly strong, powerful legs. He does a lot of training on the beach. A lot of running on the beach and on the beach. His leg muscles are just huge. I'm just going to take the opportunity to bring up the 90s again, David. Nice. Andre Agassi running famously training by running up and down sand dunes. Correct. Oof. I feel tired. Just thinking. I'm not doing that. No chance. So there's that part. His game is exciting. He's also a case in point today. He'd taken the match into a 5th set. Really against all odds because after he'd won the first set, baritone had taken control. He was starting to hit his serve. And honestly, the match felt over. And then just a moment of inspiration from the bit of it for keen an incredible passing shot up the line. It helps to get the break in the fourth and he won the set and you're thinking, right, I'm so ready for this 5th set. They both golf court for a bathroom break. The bit of extra keener comes out makes three arrows and loses serve. Just the match pretty much. And you just think, oh, what are you doing? And then he gets a lifeline because he breaks back. He does the same thing again. Loses her again. And you just can't afford to do that against peritoneal and then it was a bit of a bummer because he ended up hurting his leg. I think he took jammed his knee in the court and he couldn't really move for the last few games of the match, but right there that match was in the balance. Because he was toe to toe with baritone, tennis wise, and he just let it slip in a way that bertini doesn't lose matches like that at slams. He's so reliable, so relentless, he can keep it up for 5 sets and yet again found a way to win, but I did enjoy them actually a lot. I have a feeling he's going to be one of those players whose magic is also his Achilles heel. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. A bit more feast. A bit Monfils like and will never quite be a real factor but will be great fun and will occasionally do something really special and then frustratingly not back it up in the next round. That's the story of his sort of short career so far. Remember that French Open, he beat rude a couple of years ago, brilliant match and then he was flat against pharaoh, wasn't he? And barattini will probably be the opposite because he just will keep going. I mean, he doesn't lose matches like this, does he? Yeah, what's your, what are the words that you came up with for severity? And you just chugs along. Chugs along.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"alejandro davidovich" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Open 12 CD coco has advanced to the quarterfinals the straight sets win over shoe Isaiah while 17 sea Caroline Garcia's onto the quarters as well, the win over 29 seat Allison risk. I'm rich Raj. Anything action 50 done jabor is on the court versus 18 seat of Veronica dear mantova in a fourth round match coming up all in a little bit lyudmila samsonova faces ila to Lyanna vich. In the men's draw FC Casper root has advanced to the quarters a four set win over quarantine mute while 13 seed Matteo bear tini needs 5 sets of guests past Alejandro davidovich for kina to also advance the quarters currently we are in the third set 12 C Pablo crane a busta and 27 cuenca are in that third set type at a set of peace coming up later tonight. The top seat of Daniel Medvedev will be facing 23rd seed Nick Kyrgyz. With the NFL season set the kick-off Thursday with the reigning Super Bowl champion LA rams hosting the Buffalo Bills, rams quarterback Matthew Stafford says there are no limitations with his right elbow after limiting his throwing during training camp due to elbow issues which began last season. Stafford received an injection into that elbow last year and did not throw it all during spring workouts to help the elbow heel. Major League Baseball scoreboard local teams currently top 8 San Francisco shiny up Philadelphia, three to nothing. I'm Dan Schwartzman that your Bloomberg world sports update, Steven. All right, thanks a lot, Dan. We're going to take a quick break, but I just want to give you a quick update on that big super typhoon heading past Shanghai and towards South Korea. It is now a super typhoon and the big port yangshan port in Shanghai has been a suspended operations, flights in Okinawa, Japan also being canceled. We'll be keeping an eye on that. We'll be right back. This is Bloomberg. Not
The Tennis Podcast
"alejandro davidovich" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"And it's now mysteriously disappeared from the schedule today and will be played tomorrow much the disappointment of the many, many tennis fans in the mason Ohio area who rushed to get tickets for Monday. They'll still get a great schedule of play, but they won't get radical Carney Williams, which is just feed it into my veins. I can not wait. Water treat what an absolute treat and I really hope emirati Carney can see this is the win win that it is. She gets, there are so many players. We talked about it on Thursday, didn't we? Haven't ever gotten to play Serena Williams and most likely won't. Eager shonte is never had the chance to play the greatest player of all time. And that's such a shame for her and for us. Emirati can who is going to get that chance. And I think that is wonderful for her. And in terms of the match, is she loses, she's lost to the greatest of all time, if she wins, she's beaten the greatest of all time. It is win win. And I know there's going to be a lot of takes out there no matter what happens that don't look at it like that, but I hope she ignores those takes. Yeah. I think she will, Catherine and I think she'll she'll relish it. I hope that nothing gets in the way. I hope that this delay of Monday to Tuesday isn't due to ill health for one of them or anything like that. I have no knowledge that it is. But I just hope that's the case, of course. A bit of a cock up really, isn't it? Announcing or letting it be known publicly that that match is going to be Monday night and it turns out to be Tuesday. Yes, it did rain yesterday quite a lot. I think a lot of matches were delayed, certainly in the qualifying in the first round, so that may have been a knock on effect. I'm not exactly sure why. But you're right. I mean, to have a generational clash like this, which so nearly missed the boat before Serena Williams moved on in her life. It's a trait and we should absolutely make the most of it. I will make the most of it David. Even I might stay up for that. I might make honey juices. I still have some frozen melon balls in my freezer from last year from our semifinal locking at tennis podcast now is last year man. I don't know how well frozen men and bulls age, but let's find out. This feels like a perfect opportunity to find out. I will do that. I'm going to make honey juices. And I will take photos and put them on Instagram accordingly. The men's draw in Cincinnati top half Medvedev Rublev sits a bus her catch also got Taylor Fritz mato bertin is Fritz in the U.S. open mix. I was about to say might be, you know. You'd be surprised if Taylor Fritz won the U.S. open. I don't think I'd be that surprised. I certainly think he's borderline. Would you? Wells champion. Yeah. Interesting. Okay, we will revisit this, folks. There's been a lot of Indian women champions who haven't won the U.S. open. This is not over. Sure, I'm not saying you would necessarily win the U.S. open, but what I'm saying is you might be in the mix. Gobsmacked. I'd be gobsmacked if who am I going to throw under the bus? I'm excited for the next words out of your mouth, man. Federico del bonnets. Honestly. Imagine if what do you think? I'm far more with Matt than I am with you. I would not be gobsmacked. I'm not putting him in my mix yet, but I'm considering it. Oh. I'll see what he does this week. I want to definitive by the time we get around to you. Okay, okay. Tommy Paul against Jensen brooksby Denis Shapovalov against Grigor Dimitrov curios plays Alejandro davidovich for kina berini TFO Sebastian corder against Karen hash and all those are all top half first round matches Andy Murray's in the bottom half. He's got Stan rinker first round and a doll is in there alcaraz caspar rude, Felix auger alias theme who had an absolute shocker incidentally in his quarterfinal in Montreal yeah, just having played brilliantly all week just didn't show up and it was a little bit alarming actually. Nadal is a very interesting one this week isn't he obviously it's his first match on U.S. hard courts he'll face either born a turret or a qualifier in his first match which they've already announced for Wednesday night unless it gets moved. Thursday. He could return to world number one this week if he wins the title and Medvedev fails to reach the quarterfinals. So look at that I think quite an unlikely set of scenarios, but it's possible, I think Alexander zverev could get to world number one this week. If a certain set of things transpires Medvedev will keep the world number one ranking if he wins too matches. So yeah, it's interesting. I don't think sometimes those sorts of a week when you could have three different players ending at world number one would be super exciting, but the rankings are so diminished at the moment that it does take something away, I think, from that storyline. But anyway, I'll still on board the hype train. A reminder that you have one more week to enter a Wilson competition for U.S. open tickets there for the Louis Armstrong stadium in the day session if Tuesday the 6th of September, you have to become a friend of the tennis podcast to be eligible to enter and the link to do that is in our show notes. Thanks to everyone that's already entered. I think it's safe to say judging by the number of entries that people are pumped for this U.S. open. I certainly am. Somebody that doesn't look pumped, but it does look just utterly majestic, is Willie the cat. Our mascot for this week, Willie was adopted in Long Beach, California, and is now living in Idaho. And I have to say, Willie is one of my favorite cats that we've ever had. I like Willie a lot. Willie's got that piss off everyone. This is my world and you're just living in it. Look about him. And that is one of my favorite things about cats, the sass. And Willie's definitely got the sass. Willie is clutching a tennis ball. And he definitely doesn't want anyone to come near it. He's also his fur looks so dense and soft. I just want to bury my head in it and use him as a pillow. So hello Willie will picture of Willie in our newsletter and on Instagram as well. And Long Beach, California is where Billie Jean King. Yes. Yes, indeed. A cat of great pedigree. We have all mascots, David's got Darwin. I've got Carter. Matt has the daily departed Gerald. Speaking of Billie Jean King, she and ilana kloss sponsor Billie Jean, who's going on a holidays this week. We're all the Whitaker family are off to limington on the south coast. To celebrate my dad's 70th birthday. Happy birthday, mister Whittaker. Chris Albert Lee and Kyle weing Gartner are our executive producers and top blokes, and we have shout outs, Matt. We have kazumi moto EK in Austin, Texas. Oh, hello. Great name kazumi. And Austin, Texas is on my would like to visit list I would like to go to the music festival that they have their apparently. It's a very obeying metropolitan vibes Y city in perhaps a state that would not be described using any of these adjectives.
The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"alejandro davidovich" Discussed on The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"Perhaps moon R knows nori's game quite well, which I don't know if that was a reason why he did pretty well against him, but they were a pretty good doubles pairing. I watched a few of their rounds a few years back, but yeah, Kavanaugh is into the third round and will be playing tomorrow. I really hoping he can go one step further. He's got Steve Johnson next who kind of demolished Ryan peniston in three pretty easy sets as well. So a bit of a shame that penniston wasn't able to make too much of an inroad there. We've had how many tan who beat Serena Williams late on that Tuesday night. She won through again today, actually, against saurus rubis tormo, so she's backed up that win over Serena. I think she's got Katie Bolton next. So that is I think a winnable match for water. But I mean, there's harmony tan going to be the revelation of this tournament. I don't know, perhaps you already is. There was a bit of umbrage, though, by her doubles partner, tomorrow call patch, who I think actually lost her Heather Watson in the singles. They were due to pay doubles together. Her and harmony tan, but how many times withdrew from the doubles and core patch was not pleased, she put up a post on social media saying that it wasn't fair that she was really sad and disappointed that she couldn't play her first Grand Slam doubles event that, you know, how many town of withdrew because of her late match against Serena, but the fact that kol pat should actually played 6 and a half hours in one day when was still wanting to compete in the doubles. So a bit of bit of hoo ha, a bit of aggro. They've sorted it out. This was the real drama. This was the real drama over round two because core patch came out today with another statement saying, hey everyone, me and harmony have talked and figured out all misunderstandings. She made me clear about her injury now and we already apologized to each other. So nice to see that they have made up. I was when I saw this, I was actually thinking about curiosity and coconuts and in terms of when curios probably told kill Caracas is I want to focus on the singles and cocky dacas obviously went out to Djokovic early in the same way of cocky in the doubles, but crocodiles go out early in the singles Novak Djokovic. I wonder what a cocky neck is thinking. I was sort of hoping for another Instagram story sort of press release comment to Nick curios. Like maybe in a jokey way, but I wouldn't have put it past like cocky to make fun of this and make his own sort of press release statement. Maybe they could have a last minute scratch pairing for partners who have been dropped. By their other partners or maybe cook and tan are not cock and Dan, cock and core patch. It's a bit of a mouthful. Could form a mixed doubles pairing, like the rejected partners. Pairing, yes. And more aggro as well, Joel, caught 17, yesterday, Alejandro davidovich for kina. Found himself match point down against Erie vesley, they had a very long 5 set match four hours going strong and match point down definitively for kina, got a point penalty from Carlos Ramos the umpire for Paula beast for hitting a ball into the crowd. So that was how the match ended, which was a bit of a shame, but you know, rules are rules and you can't go, can't go abusing those balls. So I hope he's learned his lesson. But yeah, a bit of a sort of scandalous way to lose a loser match. He accepted it very, very well, because I feel like there would be other players who that would have happened to that wouldn't have accepted it in such a way. I think I do think by the letter of the law, it was correct. And listers search for yourself if you want to have a look and make your own opinion, but I certainly think that it was quite clear he belted the ball out of the court and he had already had a warning. So I think his argument, I think, to the umpire was to Carlos Ramos was yeah, but it's a different type of infraction. But that doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what type it is. And second infection equals a point penalty. So I totally am on the side of the umpire here and yeah, I wonder if the will go away and thinks about maybe what he did because I think he'll be disappointed that he just wasn't he as a player let himself down by not giving himself the opportunity to finish the match. So yeah, I think he'll be a little bit disappointed with that. The one thing him that I was a bit like wary of. If you do watch the footage, there is a spider going across the lens whilst this point was taking place. And it's just like obscuring the view. It's all this is all a very bizarre moment really for with wooden. Cameramen need to watch out for those spiders. Yeah, I'll have to go back and watch that as specific footage. Could you imagine going up to after a match with one of those nice colored pens to write a philosophical message like sisa pass on the camera and there's like a massive spider there. Yeah, just like building a spider web of the lens. Well, I know this might be very stereotypical but I'd hope it was like an Aussie player then because they probably know what to do if it was a massive. I'm not gonna lie I would run a mile. I hate spiders. I would just be like, I'd actually probably just like point to one of the ball persons and be like, can you deal with this for me, please? They have many duties, not just gathering balls and throwing them to people to serve. Yeah, let's have them caspar rude lost, didn't he? Yesterday. Muguruza has lost so some big seeds out. I mean, muguruza is just the real doldrums at the moment. 6 four 6 love to greet minen. Of Belgium. I mean, what is going on with muguruza former champion just shocking? And you know, I was in the grounds and just minding my own business walking down one of the gangways. And muguruza walked past me the other way post defeat and her head was obviously this is in the right immediacy of defeating her head was down. Body language was really poor. There was no one around her. It was just kind of like she wanted to get off and have the world swallow her whole. It just felt she was just in this very isolated place, like on her own island and it's just not, it's not nice, I think, to see seeing players having these difficulties and these moments and that match against men and that second set, particularly she got bagel..
Bloomberg Radio New York
"alejandro davidovich" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"The world here's Dan schwarzman. Thanks, Brian. Another PGA Tour member has defected to the Liv golf invitational series as 23 year old Matthew wolf will play in this week's live tournament in Oregon. Wolf turned pro back in 2019 and immediately won the 3M open while also finishing fourth in the 2020 PGA Championship in second at the 2020 U.S. open. Since then wolf has struggled missing time to work on his mental health and has missed the cut in 7 of his last 12 tournaments and is currently ranked 74th in the official world golf rankings. Big ups at the start day one and Wimbledon is 7 C duber tour catch loses in 5 sets and unseated Alejandro davidovich for kina while topsy Novak Djokovic did drop the second set to Korean soon Wu kuan in route to a four set win. Another big scare occurring is 5th see Carlos alcaraz comes from being down two sets to one and in a fourth set tiebreaker to knock off young linard truth in 5 sets while 16 C Pablo carreno busto retires from his opening match after two sets. Others advancing to the second round include third seed Casper Ruud 9th sea Cameron nori and ten seated Yannick sinner. In the women's draw two seater neck on Tibet third seated on jabour and NC demo raducan roll into the second round of street sets while 7 sea Daniel Collins is knocked down three cents. ESPN is reporting that the LA Lakers are the only team that is actively trying to acquire Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving in a signing trade deal. Brooklyn has been unwilling to give the 30 year old a long-term contract extension. And Dan Schwartzman that your Bloomberg world sports update. Markets, headlines, and breaking news 24 hours a day. At Bloomberg dot com, the Bloomberg business out and at Bloomberg quick tape. This is a Bloomberg business flash. On certain days, we focus the yuan reference rate set by the PBOC, there's not much in it here today, the estimate and the fixed by the PBOC pretty much in line and in fact, pretty much in line with where the offshore Chinese currency is trading here at the moment 6 69 58. Hang seng index futures just started to trade. They're down about a half of 1%. We had massive gains yesterday the tech index is up 4.7% the hanx index itself was up 2.4%, so it might be natural to see a little give back today. We saw some give back on Wall Street, the rebound in global equity stalled out there. The losses weren't great, though the S&P 500 was down about three tenths of a percent. Some of it was driven by higher oil prices and higher yields because those had been going the other direction during the furious equity rallies last week. Anyway, WTI is still higher this morning in Asia, but yields have stabilized. They're not really doing all that much to yield on a ten year. Is that 3.19% to two year at three O 9. Nike shares down in after hours 2.9%, Nike offered a downbeat full year forecast for gross margins, so costs going up and it was also cautious on China. After the close as well, we had the banks announce what they're doing with the extra cash. After passing the stress test last week, Morgan Stanley traded up 3.2% Goldman was up 1%. Pretty interesting day I mentioned the Nike was higher. It's actually energy, utilities, real estate that are doing the best. And that's silicon markets. And Dexter has news in San Francisco, and he's headlines head. All
The Tennis Podcast
"alejandro davidovich" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"Would it be top ten? I don't know. I've been put on the spot. I need some serious 6 months from to come up with a 5. And that 5 is laminated. She did seeds everywhere a favor today and beat Kai kanepi. Oh yeah, she sure did. Is the only person in the world who draws Diane Perry with all respect that I am parry and goes, oh no. You know, I want to dig a strong tech. I wanted Simona Halep. So true. I'm pleased though that Dan parry is not disappeared. You want to watch a lot more of her and Hugo Gaston, if you're into your Friends. I think he plays tomorrow. But then. Decided against onto the men's draw and a few interesting ones today in the men's draw, Carlos alcaraz just in a casual four hour 14 minute epic beating yelling at stroke in 5 sets. Matt was watching or certainly watched a lot of it. What a way for him to introduce himself to the court on crowd map. Yeah, amazing, and they really did take to him, and I think that's one of the things about our careers is that he knows he plays really exciting tennis. I love that. He's, again, he said in his press conference quickly in the Spanish portion that his tennis is dynamic and fun and therefore he thinks that the crowd really, you know, kind of go with him. And that was definitely the energy on court one as he made this comeback against Jan Leno's truth. Because I really thought he was going out to be honest. He was two sets to one down stroop was bringing it in the way that he can when he's serving well and he's just all his momentum is moving forward in the court and he just imposes himself and his power and he looked the much bigger presence. Alcaraz looked quite kind of small compared to strove. And it was almost reassuring in a way to me that alcaraz was struggling on grass because he's so exceptional. He's so exciting and yet it was like Tennessee's natural defenses of a different surface where like, yeah, but you still got to crack this car loss. And of course, he's so brilliant. He did manage to come through and he did sort of get better as the match went on. I think in the end he won it, lots of reasons. One of them was physically. He seemed the physically stronger, even though I've said that about struff being so imposing our crest was just, you know, he's a teenager, isn't he? He had so much energy, even deep in the 5th set. He's now won 5 of his 6, 5 set matches that he's ever played. The only one he lost was that final set tiebreak to bear a teeny in Australia. He's very, very good, even in deciding sets. And I don't think he's cracked grass, you know, he said that there are players in the tournament who are better on grass than he is. He talks a lot about how the movement is still something that he says, it doesn't come in just a day. You can't just crack the movement on graphs in a day. You need time. And he hasn't had that many matches. So that's definitely something to look out for with him. He served exceptionally well. 30 aces, the most he's ever served, I believe. But generally, the one thing I would say is that great players can just suddenly produce something stunning when they need it. And he did that today in the fourth set tie break, he was a mini breakdown, and he came up with the most stunning single handed on the run flick backhand pass to get him to two one in that tiebreak. It would have been three zero down without it. I watched the replay 6 times in a year. Couldn't believe my eyes, Harry, how he managed it. And it's little just little moments like that. It's just greatness. Okay, he's still got to achieve everything we think is going to achieve, but just I've seen great players do those things and he's already doing them. I can't help thinking that this was the banana skin. The early round problem and having found a way through, imagine if it dries up and he gets his feet under him. Thank you closer for nini next. I mean, that's tough. That's a tough draw. And he's comfortable on grass. And we've seen him cause Murray problems here years ago. But if he can, if you can just stay in the event long enough and not be injured and get comfortable. And the more match time he gets, that's learning time, isn't it? So, and because he's so young, he doesn't have to worry so much about the hours on the clock. You feel like it's just all right in the class. 5 setters and be able to figure it out more. Speaking of 5 setters, we had a 5th set tiebreak. Today, in fact, I think we had a couple, but the one I'm talking about here is 7 seed Hubert her catch going out to Alejandro davidovich for kina. Always of an honor skin this one, a blooming tough draw for her catch, a davidovich Burkina, okay, you might not think of him as a grass court, but he did win juniors at Wimbledon in 2017. And it was the most, I want to think of a non clean. I don't want to say roller coaster. I don't want to say topsy turvy. But it was all of those things this match. It was a thrill ride. Alejandro davidovich for kina was two sets to love 5 three 40 love serving. And this went 5. He went for a completely unnecessary tweener. Fast forwards will including rain delay probably about three and a half hours. And Hubert hook actually serving for the match. In the 5th set..
Bloomberg Radio New York
"alejandro davidovich" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Has come anywhere close to having 60 votes. So I think this is likely to all be litigated out, dealt with in the various states around the country through the democratic process. And with that, there's deep concern about the future of contraception and same sex relationships earlier today on Bloomberg, Tara Lee grove, a vision and ethics foundation says there could be many far reaching consequences. And so just to have a justice saying not only should we consider substantive due process, but listing those specific cases involving contraception and same sex marriage and intimacy among LGBTQ community is pretty extraordinary. She says those issues have to be tackled in California voters will decide in November whether to make abortion a right under the state constitution. In San Francisco, Ahmed Baxter, this is Bloomberg, Brian. All right, thanks very much. I had 39 minutes past the hour. Let's get to sports. Dan schwarzman is looking at a couple of upsets going down at Wimbledon Dan. Yeah, Brian let's start off in the men's draw on day one 7 sea duber catch loses in 5 sets done seated Alejandro davidovich for kina, a topsy Novak Djokovic did drop the second set to Korean soon luquan en route to Forsyth win now. There was another big scare 5th seed Carlos alcaraz comes from being down two sets to one and in a fourth set tiebreaker to knock off young lenard's crew in 5 sets while 16 C Pablo crane a booster retires from his opening match after two sets. Others advancing to the second round who third seed Casper Ruud 9 seat Cameron nori, sends you to the Yannick center in three Americans 20th C John Isner 23rd C to Frances tiafoe and 30th see Tommy Paul. And the women's drawn to see the net continent third seed owned jabur intensi de rata Khanna roll into the second round in straight sets while 7 seated American Danielle Collins is knocked out in three sets. ESPN reporting that the Los Angeles Lakers are the only team that is actively trying to acquire Brooklyn that scored Kyrie Irving in a sign and trade deal. Brooklyn has been unwilling to give the 30 year old a long-term contract extension with Irving having to Wednesday to decide to exercise his 36 and a half $1 million player option for next season. I'm Dan Schwartzman that your Bloomberg world sports update, Rashad. Thank you, Dan. We are looking of course that the Asian trading day would go in there in 20 minutes away from the session in Seoul and Tokyo getting on getting on board as it were. We got U.S. equities grinding a bit lower. We've got treasury yields and oil on the way up and all of these things could prove a bit of a headwind for Asia and also on top of that. There may
The Tennis Podcast
"alejandro davidovich" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"Life lessons folks from stefanos sits at past. Cheers. And I think else notable from the men's draw that we'd like to pick out. Where are people like Felix auger aliasing augers? He is a potential fourth round opponent for Rafael Nadal. He opens against qualifier and there's an interesting little talking point in that top half in that we could have a match between Australia's team, coached by Tony Nadal, against Rafael Nadal, and we could also have a second round match between Novak Djokovic and Alex mold can coach by Marian weider now. That would have to be hard for Novak Djokovic. I mean, not hard enough for him to lose the match. I don't think. I don't know. How weird for him. Don't think I've seen more complain, but emotionally, yes. I agree. There was a moment in Madrid, wasn't there, which I'm not sure we had the opportunity to discuss where Nadal, I think it might have been his David Goffin and Felix. We're playing at the same time. I think it might have been when augereau seemed was beating. I'm going to say sinner. It was, yes, and turning it out had time to depart the Nadal GoFundMe, go and go and cheer her on Felix and get back in time from the dolls. Was that deciding set tiebreak win? Yeah. Missed out on the post match or postponed the post match auger seemed team talk in order to watch Nadal. Alex moll can, by the way, is into the semifinal in Lyon this week. Without dropping a set, he's beaten tsonga hatching of and courier. Well, that's a chance for us to have a look. This next couple of days and see what that is. And I wouldn't have thought Marion Vita would waste his time on somebody that he didn't see genuine potential. And I know he said he wanted to specifically wanted to coach someone from Slovakia, didn't he? I mean, you're right. He doesn't need to do this. He clearly wants to. I agree with you. You must see something in him. That half the draw generally I find interesting because we've talked about players that we expect to go deep and end up in the semifinals. But zverev could play Alejandro davidovich for kina in the third round. You could have Carlos sacras against Seb quarter in the third round. Beat him in Monte Carlo, didn't he? Yeah. So that's one of the years weird results. Yeah, and it was a weird match. It was pretty arrow strewn from our Cruz's point of view, called a play brilliantly that day, but yeah, there could be more bumps in the road, I suppose. I can't see it with our cars. I think that once he gets out at Roland Garros, I think we'll see the very best of him, personally. So do you think we're seeing Djokovic Nadal and we're also seeing alcaraz versus Djokovic slash Nadal. Well, just it's just all on the foot, isn't it from the down. If he's that one interesting thing with that injury, people have reminded me that he seems to struggle with it because I was saying, well, why is clay problematic? And it's almost, it does seem that there may be more of a problem when he has a layoff. For a while. He's talked about it. He talked about that in Australia that the pandemic was the best thing that's ever happened for his knees and the worst thing that's ever happened for his foot. It was the lockdown period of being unable to play, that caused it to worsen so significantly because he's had it his whole career, of course, but it suddenly become more acute. So I'm taking from that on to David that you are unprepared to make any Rafael Nadal basement. Having seen a foot is a get out. Just, I mean, look, I find it impossible to confidently say the way because it is all on the foot. There is, I don't think there's any opponent that's going to get in the way of him and the court of finals. But I was infused and encouraged by her jolly looked in the practice session that I saw, just clips of. And if anyone knows jolly, David, if anyone's jolly radar. I've seen Johnny in the mirror today. I don't know, I just think maybe there's having seen what I saw in Australia. I don't think anything can be ruled out with the down now. Oh, gosh. No, no. Totally on board with that take. Yeah. I'm not ruling anything out. But that changed my perception. I'm going to say that that match will happen. I think it will. I think some people will look at themselves round two as quite interesting. He starts against Jordan Thompson, it's then either current and mute, who we know to be fun or Stan Wawrinka. And I'm just going to get ahead of this and say, while rink and the doll is always basically a non event. They have played 22 times all but one have been straight sets. I barely remember any of this. And the one that wasn't straight sets was the Australian open final where which was compromised by the dials back. That's a rivalry. They've just been barely any good matches in that. In that head to head. It's bizarre. I can't remember because they remember them playing 5 times. Nadal matches in anticipation of them. Yeah, they can't ever remember us talking about one in retrospect. On board with that French Open final and I remember you, you've been persuaded by the final record that the rink went in with. But then it was 6 two 6 three 6 one. It wasn't a great take. It wasn't. No, but there was I understood the sense behind it because I remember sitting there listening to you and thinking kind of know what you mean. But same time match ups are everything. And Nadal is able to take his time away, so easily with the hooked forehand cross court because the big wind ups don't really work very well against Nadal and Nadal's just able to swipe, you know? I think we're going to get Nadal Djokovic. And I think we're going to get alcaraz probably Djokovic, but I absolutely share your after seeing what I saw in Australia. Anything is possible. Yeah. PS, he's a 13 time champion. I'd be surprised if it's not Djokovic or as ultimately in that semi. But it's just on your first question..
The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"alejandro davidovich" Discussed on The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"And also a little bit disappointing, I think, also for the second seat, Casper Ruud, because we were talking about the fact that podcast season gets to his gets his first ever master's hardcore final. And we're thinking, oh, this is a great setup for him. Going into the clay season. And yeah, again, maybe a little bit like zero. Yeah, it would have been a little bit disappointed, you know, not doing as well as perhaps he felt he could have and carrying on, I say, that meant that momentum from the sunshine doubles. So yeah, I think for the top seeds in the drawer was, yeah, pretty disappointing week, but at the same time, yeah, nice to see kind of rune vanders and chop, getting to the final and for ruin, you know, is in the top 50 now, as you said, I mean, where do you see him? Where do you see him going this season? How high do you think his ranking can go? Because I think he said at the end of last season, top 25 was his ambition, but I still feel like he could go a little bit higher than that given the number of clay events coming up, giving the way he's playing at the moment. He'll be someone not really many people will be wanting to face at the moment. Yeah, I can see him getting like a big winner slam over a top seed. Perhaps not necessarily following it up and going deeper Islam. You took a set off Djokovic at U.S. open last year saying definitely doable. He did. So I think yeah, I think top 25s doable top 20, you know, if he's not having as many points to defend from the rest of his season. So he surely the only way is up should he stay fit and healthy. Certainly think he will go higher and top 50s just the beginning. So, you know, well done whole guru, we've also got another player who is going up in the world. That's Sebastian Baez, who won the ischial. Again, another first time ATP tour title winner. Sebastian Baez did reach a final earlier on in the season, didn't he, I think, over and the golden swing down in South America. But this was his first title. One very comfortably over Francis TFO 6 three 6 two got off to a bit of a slow start, but managed to, I think, hold his serve, not go double breakdown early on and that was kind of the real key factor from then on he was definitely the stronger of the two players and yeah kind of race through the rest of the match really wasn't a very long final and yeah, so two young new first time title winners on the same day and Sebastian Baez, yeah, obviously we think of him, don't we as a clay quarter he's Argentinian. He's sort of honed his magic, I guess, on the I think a lot of challenges out in the clay. But yeah, now on ATP tour title winner. I think of him as a new Diego Schwartzman. I don't know if it's the backwards cap and he's 5 foot 7, 5 foot 8, he's one of the smaller players on the tour and he is a player who he does just look at home on the clay court that doesn't surprise you. Obviously, as an Argentinian and yeah, really nice, really nice victory coming through again some real battles in ASTRO Francis tiafoe as well coming through various battles. I feel like he was on the brink of going out at various points on route to the final. So both had to really fight their way through to the final and I actually think Francis CFO. I mean, his semifinal against Seb corda was an absolute roller coaster. Seb called a probably should have won it. But TFO coming through 6 four in the third, I think it lasted over three hours. I think TFO was pretty knackered, having saved match points as well, getting just getting to the final. And I think perhaps that told a little bit in terms of, in terms of his legs, I think TFO was saying himself that he needed to go to the supermarket Kim and buy new legs. That was how TFO put it, going to the final, so yeah, I think maybe physical fitness had an impact on the spectacle of the final, but at the same time for Sebastian Baez and other player who just think is very just very consistent on the clay. I think he's quite aggressive. He's got a decent serve and yeah, it's setting up him setting him up really well. And I think he's another player is again now into the top 50. He's having a good season. Was in the next gen finals. You know, at the end of last season and he's just kind of continuing so himself and I know that they're going to be people saying, can he do it on a hardcore? Can you do it on other court surfaces? Not sure at the moment, but at the same time he's making the most of it in the part of the season that you would think this is where he wants to make it count particularly at the top end on the ATP tour level. Yeah, and even if you start out as more of a clay quarter, you know, there's absolutely nothing to say you wouldn't learn and grow and adapt your game to improve and excel on other surfaces. So he's just starting his career like let's not write him off just yet on other services. I think it's all a matter of time isn't it? But yeah, for sure, very comfortable on a clay court. I think actually CFO, we were talking coming into this tournament about what Alejandro davidovich for kina was going to do. Where we after his Monte Carlo final. And he did lose the TFO, but again, it was another very tight battle. So see if I had to get through that one as well. So I'm not surprised here if I kind of ran out of steam in the final there. But funnily enough, he seems to like estero. He's got to a final before here, hasn't it? Yeah, it seems to be a lucky tournament for him. I think he's got to four 80 P finals. Two of them have now been at estriol. So there is something about the clay here that tiafoe loves. Yeah, he took 9 hours, 47 minutes to reach the final from his four matches combined..
The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"alejandro davidovich" Discussed on The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"Came today is the 18th of April and we are here to catch up on the weekend tennis at passing shot headquarters, especially backed by our crowdfunders Georgina Davis and Mark Underwood. We have had our first masters event on the clay this season, the masters 1000 event in Monte Carlo, Stefano sits past is our champion. He was the champion last year. He's the champion this year retaining his title, and that is not bad way I think to start the clay season a very difficult thing to do to retain your title. I think he's the first person outside of the big three to do that in a long, long time. But before we get into all of that, Kim, of course, it is Easter. I've got to ask you the big question that is on is in my head and I'm sure he's on everyone's lips. Of our listeners, what Easter egg, what Easter egg have you gone into? I'm sure you've tucked into have you tucked into a few over the weekend? What Easter egg have I gone into? I've got into a Cadbury's egg. I'm very traditional in that sense. But we can't, yeah. No. What about you? It's so underwhelmed. It's so underwhelming. Have you gone for a fancy hotel chocolat egg then Joel? Not hotel chocolate, but I do, I do posh it up a little bit over Easter. I've gone with, I think you have to, it's got to be lint, the lint chocolate Easter egg, lint chocolate balls as well at Christmas time. It's just got to be done. It's like, for me, it's like the seasonal, it's the seasonal chocolate of choice and Cadbury's, I just don't think it really doesn't elevate the occasion Kim. Come on. I think you've just been sold by Roger Federer like advertising for Lin, haven't you? You just been like, you've succumbed to their marketing. No, I mean, I do love a bit of chocolate. I mean, happy Easter to any of our listeners who have been celebrating. I've been kind of off in the southwest of England for a few days, which has been really nice. Lovely weather as well. We've had a reason. So yeah, it all been very nice, indeed, and very nice, as you said for stefanos it's bass because he's one of his first title of the year, defending his French Open crown. What am I saying? Defending his you are getting ahead of yourself. A few guys had to get sorry. Obviously he had too much Easter chocolate. Defending his Monte Carlo crown. 6 three 7 6 in the final against Alejandro davidovich for kina, who, you know, aside from defending his title, was probably arguably definitely the story of the week. Reaching his first masters final and, well, really making a name for himself. At this stage, are this level on the tour? Yeah, definitely. It's been it's been really impressive from davidovich for kina because he put himself on the map with that victory against Novak Djokovic. I mean, we were going into this tournament. Now looking back on it, a little foolishly thinking sort of nailed in for a Djokovic Carlos alcaraz quarterfinal, but by was it day one day two, both Djokovic and alcaraz had lost and davidovich for kina was very, very good in that match against Djokovic and we'll come on to that in a bit, but let's start with stephanos best because he is the winner. He is the champion and it's just amazing I think for Sisyphus because, as you said, he's retained a masters 1000 title. He's the first non big three player to do that since Andy Murray in Shanghai back in the 2010 2011 season. So a long, long time ago, it just shows that I think how difficult that is to become and I think this tournament is just shows with Sisyphus, although I think there are faults there, you know, with his game and you see that, I think, particularly like on a hard court and we've seen that I think at the start of the season, he's already got, I think, 7, losses on the tour. Yes, he is the match wins leader, but he's had a few losses where I think I've been a little bit surprised by, but coming onto the clay. I mean, his game just works so, so well. And I think this week really, really showed it. And I think particularly for me, the time he is allowed by a clay court really, really helps in terms of particularly I think his ground strokes, you know, I know he hits a heavy ball, particularly on the forehand, which I think was really key to his success, really kind of staying in offensive positions from the back of the court, but also one of his backhand side as well, and also, you know, certainly I think with him, again, I think being questions about that backhand side, but the fact that even on a clay court with that high bounce, he is able to kind of get round and break out his forehand, and I think is really, really helped him in terms of getting into these kind of winning positions. And I think that served him really, really well throughout the whole week and apart from that match against Schwartzman in the quarterfinals, which was an absolutely wild ride. Yeah, he played very, very well in the final. Yeah, definitely. Definitely able to run round and hit the forehand more often. He's got the times to do that on a clay court and get that kind of angles, it really is, yeah, definitely, I think his surface, isn't it? His game is so much more effective. And he served really well against David Richard Burkina in the final, so much better on all the kind of stats is clear kind of winner in that regard. It was just when he was serving for the match, had a bit of a wobble. He was able to break back, went to a tie break, but I mean, really, since has been, you know, pretty comfortable. I guess, for a lot of the tournament, it was really that Schwartzman quarterfinal that he, as you said, went for love down in the third set and had to come all the way back, but aside from that, you know, he had solid win over Sasha zverev, win over laszlo, for nini. So obviously really, I think good for him going into the rest of the places and to have this kind of wind for his confidence because he's been really off the ball for a while. Neither of us really thought he was going to defend his title when we were making predictions this time last week. You know, we were kind of just focusing on alcaraz and Djokovic, as you said. And I was going about Yannick sinner for some reason. But yeah, it's a really positive week, I think, going into the French Open, you know, he will be defending his final at the French Open as well. He's got lots of points there to defend, you know, he obviously lost in 5 sets of the Djokovic last year. Many people are now considering its passes, you know, I guess he would already have been one of the favorites, but it's going up in the form books and the odds perhaps. I think one question mark for me is around his position where he does get into those kind of winning moments in those scenarios where he does have the opportunity to serve it out and we saw that in the final he wasn't able to do it..
The Tennis Podcast
"alejandro davidovich" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"As we recorded this podcast last week, Matt in person sat on this sofa that I'm sat on right now. I promise I have moved in the last 7 days. We were watching sub sebi Sebastian corda battle through against bertok van der zant hope, who was injured and called it looked quite good, but you know, he was in a battle against a slightly injured opponent. He didn't look like he was he looked like he was playing well, but not necessarily shaping up to do anything major at the tournament. Then he goes and beats Carlos alcaraz mat in a match that I missed because I hadn't earmarked it as one that would be notable. Quite frankly, I'm a big fan of Sebastian cord is that I did not see that happening on clay, given alcaraz's form, obviously this is the case for any subscribers to the newsletter you'll see that I'm doing I'm doing a bit of with alcaraz. I'm just continuing to double down. Why did that happen? Unfortunately, I was at the U.S. embassy when that happened. We should have discussed this before I throw you under the bus so much. At least you were doing podcast work at the embassy. That sounds pretty, doesn't it? Obviously, you're trying to get a Visa to travel to New York for the U.S. open later in the year. To make sure I don't miss any quarter and our creative actions from the U.S. open. Yes. But what I mean, I did some obviously lots of people were talking about it because it was a notable result, wasn't it? I think everyone us included was getting very excited about the Novak Djokovic Carlos alcaraz quarter and neither of them won their opening match and I can't remember what the quarter final was in that section. I think it might have been davidovich for kina Goff at. Or Fritz, no Fritz, the vivid for kina, wasn't it? Anyway, it wasn't Djokovic. I think alka has looked really just like oddly rusty by the sound of things making a lot of areas. I think it was a really windy day. But again, that surprised me that he didn't deal with those conditions because he dealt with them so well. At Indian Wells in the wind and I would have thought with the spin he would he would favor the wind more than quarter. But actually I was reminded cord has played quite well at the French Open in the past already. He is tall, I think he likes the bounce going into his forehand and backhand up high and I think maybe we didn't just because of both vendors and Schultz, injury. We didn't quite see corda having to play very good tennis, but I think he is I think he is capable on this surface. And that would be a fun rivalry actually, wouldn't it? If those two can can develop one, alker has called that that is not called essential. Two more, two more bits away from Monte Carlo. One is that Joe Salisbury having reached world number one has, well, confirmed his place there quite frankly by alongside partner Rajeev ram beating one Sebastian cabal Robert Farah to win the doubles title in Monte Carlo great final, wasn't it? And yeah, he's just a great story for J solsbury to be to be doing that and rising to the challenge of being the world's best doubles player. Yeah, and watching that final, it really struck me just how fine the margins are in doubles because Salisbury and ram were in the ascendancy and it flipped on one on one point really. It was a sudden death use and Kabul and Farah got a net cord in their favor. That gave them the break of serve. And it just made me realize that getting to getting to number one in doubles when the margins are so fine when little moments can make a big difference in a match, basically. I think it's harder to be dominant really in that format. So I think anyone who gets to number one or really ranked really high in doubles. That's really impressive and I thought Salisbury really stepped up in that max tie break an incredible bit of defense to pinch a point. And yeah, he's really playing like the number one. Great to see. It really is. And hello to both of J Salisbury's parents. Who we now know are listeners to the podcast hello. Last very important burning bit of business from Monte Carlo. Adidas t-shirts. The very prominent new anti dust t-shirts because of course stefanos sits above lifted the trophy wearing one of them worst kit in the history of tennis. I think. Oh, wow. Okay. I can't tell you how much I hate it. It actually grow on me a bit through the week. I was with you when we were watching it on I think it's ridiculous and distracting. It's like, for anyone that hasn't seen it, it's sort of colors, I think, are pretty horrible. They're like sort of sludgy, greeny colors. And then they sort of covered in nonsensical hieroglyphics. Which apparently is something Parisian? It's something it's something sustainable, is it? Just put a picture of a polar bear on there or something. I mean, that sounds great actually. A T-shirt with polar bears all over it. Kind of like the more now I know that you really, really hate them. It's so distracting. And I know that's what they want. I know I'm playing into their hands, we're talking about it on the podcast, people are going to go and Google it, but no one's going out to buy it. I promise you that I do like it enough to buy. No. Okay, okay, here's the test then, if I bought you one as a generous gift, would you wear it? Pajamas. Right. Case closed folks, worst kit in the history of tennis. What else happened last week in tennis? Besides that dreadful kit, let's change the subject. I was just going to say one more thing on sits a pass. This week, because I found it interesting that a lot of the chatter last year round sits a pass, was that he was struggling to close out matches. Do you remember when it all sort of stemmed from that match at the U.S. open against borne turret, a couple of years ago. And then obviously the Frank open final last year, he led two sets to love and that felt like one of the last remaining hurdles for him in terms of trying to really win a big tournament because he'd proven he could beat the best players. And I just thought this tournament was interesting from that perspective because he had that crazy match with Schwartzman, where he led, I think 6 two 5 three served for it and then suddenly found himself for love down in the final set, but managed to come back and there was just this moment at the end where he just sat and in his chair and just sort of for about 30 seconds, looked like he was just really taking that in. That felt like a really big win for him that overcoming that hurdle of letting a lead slip, but managing to find a way to win. And I think he fall to the little bit in the final, didn't he, didn't he? He had one attempt at serving it out and got broken back and managed to win and I think it shows the frailties are still there maybe, but also that he's getting better at overcoming them. So I just felt sort of not only his tennis being so good, but the way he won, given his sort of backstory, I thought was quite significant. Very, very good point. Is he playing Barcelona? I know Alejandro davidovich for kina has withdrawn from Barcelona because Barcelona was sits a past played one of the matches of last year against Nadal in that final. And that was after winning Monte Carlo. Yeah, he's in the draw and we can get excited about a quarter that may or may not happen again because it's the Carlos alcaraz quarter. So since alcaraz would be a quarterback. We need to enjoy this brief time, don't we wear Carlos alcaraz is ranked low enough that he scheduled to meet these players in the quarters rather than in the finals, which is surely only a matter of time.
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"alejandro davidovich" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"Let's come on to talk about that because there was there was one moment where he dived for a ball that even if he had made it, I don't think he had any chance of winning the point. It was just, I don't think he did it for performative theatrical purposes, but it was, you know, with the benefit of a split second hindsight, it was really silly. And he ended up drawing blood and having to get treatment on his chest. It's just an instinct that I think your eye, Catherine, our instinct, is to not die for a tennis ball. His is just to do it. No matter the consequences. Do you think somebody once said to him, you've got a hair a bit like Boris Becker? Do me a do me a dive volley? Let's see what you've got. But we're not talking about just at the net here. He's not opposed to doing it, doesn't it? But we're talking about the back of the court. He will be gymnastic, hurling himself towards a tennis ball, at the baseline. He did one on return of serve. I mean, yeah, he actually drew blood against Novak Djokovic. That was the extent of the drama in that match. It looked very much like Alejandro davidovich for kina was going to win that in straight sets and there was a bit of a mental let down from the Spaniard to not do so and then Djokovic went into lockdown mode in that second set tiebreak, which was very reminiscent of Djokovic of old wins the tiebreak quite convincingly and lets out just one trademark Djokovic guttural roar to the crowd really extended chest beating all of that jazz and I was thinking 6 one third set quite honestly. I thought, you know, okay, the tidal waves in flow now Djokovic is if not producing the tennis of a world number one just the force of the man will take over from this point and and it was a 6 one set. It was a 6 one set in Alejandro davidovich for his favorite and it was favor rather and it was a really arresting site quite frankly and Djokovic said after the match that he collapsed physically. And that he didn't like the feeling and that he's going to speak to his team about it. Which, look, it's his first tournament back. I know you played Dubai but this is, I suppose for a mere mortal, it's really understandable, but I found it quite alarming to see, he obviously found it alarming to experience. And he obviously wasn't prepared to struggle that much. Physically. Now, whether that's because he just has never really been in this position before, I don't know, but you'd think he'd be physically fitter than after his previous comebacks from injury because presumably he's been able to train at full pelt. This whole time because there's been nothing physically wrong with him. So from that perspective, I found it, I found it quite bizarre actually that site and look, there's plenty of time for him to get that fitness back, the muscle memory is there, but you know, he didn't say, gosh, I collapsed physically. I've got work to do. Don't worry, I'll get there, but I just need to get it back out on the practice call or whatever it is. He said, God, that was awful. I don't know what's going on. I'm going to have to have a chat with my with my team. What did you make of it all met? The same as you, really. David put in our WhatsApp group that it was like an old smartphone that you think's got half an hour, 45 more minutes of power left, and suddenly it just goes and you can't use it anymore. And that was like Djokovic with his own body. Maybe, you know, like you said, that second set reaction was not the reaction of someone who felt they had nothing left to give in the third set. And clearly that was pretty much the case because the last few games that match he had nothing left. And yeah, you're right. It is early in this comeback. It is early stood in this clay court season, obviously Roland Garros is his priority, but it does put a lot of pressure on the upcoming tournaments. You know, he needs to get better physically quickly and he needs to start winning matches because I think on clay more than anything, it's the surface which doesn't suit him quite so much. And obviously it's all relative. He's a two time French Open champion. He's beaten Rafael Nadal twice at the French Open. He's very, very good on this surface, but I think it does take him a bit more time when he's not quite so attuned to the clay, he can, he can seem a little bit frail, a little bit more vulnerable. I think, for example, there are players like davidovich for kina. Okay, he's a pretty unique character, but there are players of his sort of ranking who were back themselves more against Djokovic on clay in the early rounds than they would on hardcourt or grass court. So yeah, it certainly makes the next few weeks for Djokovic, particularly interesting because there's a pressure to get results now. Belgrade this week, where he's obviously the top seed, home favorite. Is that coming at a perfect time or a tricky time, given that pressure you just referred to. I mean, the pressure will be greater there than anywhere else you could argue. And he's got to draw which could see him, face cats manage, I think, in his second match and obviously we know the form he's been in. That's an interesting match from a pressure perspective. I think for both of them actually, Djokovic playing a younger Serb, get to manovich, trying to face Djokovic, I think, is an interesting, slightly awkward dynamic, probably for him as well. I would think it's a good time. I would think he would enjoy playing at home, but like I said, there's so much intrigue around Djokovic at the moment. Yeah, the next few weeks are going to be fascinating for many reasons, but definitely from a Djokovic perspective. A couple of other bits to tidy up from Monte Carlo..
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"alejandro davidovich" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"We saw that saw that throughout the week and it was nice for him to win Monte Carlo again in front of the fans, you know, just a different experience to what he had last year and yeah, he's a real real force on this surface. I think the return thing is big, isn't it? That extra bit of time on the return because he hasn't figured it out on a hardcore. He's made incremental improvements, but he hasn't had the significant lightbulb with how to return a big serve on a hard court with those massive swings that he has. He hasn't developed that shit backhand return or chip on either wing return, really, that so many so many want him to or are calling for him to do, but it just doesn't matter so much on clay and it's just so interesting what a change in service does to the sport because it ostensibly looks the same, doesn't it? And you know, if you didn't know that much about the sport, maybe you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. I don't know, or maybe it would be even more obvious, maybe we're our eyes sort of become used to the difference. I don't know you could go either way, but I don't mean look at Alejandro davidovich for kina. I mean, since making that run at the French Open last year, when he brought himself to all our attentions, when we learned that he supports an animal charity back home in Spain and he wears a patch of theirs on his kit, since he announced himself he's done boggle as an E as soon as he came off the clay, just different player we went out to watch him play Felix austerity at the Australian open earlier this year on that wonderful new court. And it was a, it was a really great match what we saw, but he just didn't have ways to end the point, did he? There were some wonderful rallies, brilliant hitting. But he didn't have the weapons to end the point. And it's just a completely different sport for him on clay. Yeah, totally. And I think that auxiliary has seen match that you mentioned was probably one of the better matches he's played, not on the clay in the last few months. And I think he lost it in four tie breaks. But coming into this week, he hadn't beaten a top 100 player this year. And suddenly he gets on the clay and he beats, you know, a host of them, obviously Novak Djokovic in the second round, I'm sure we'll talk more about that match, but just absolutely. I mean, at this time of the year, you just talk about players that you don't normally talk about. You know, we're going to talk about the Vivek for kina where we could talk about mazetti as well. I enjoyed watching him on the clay and he's done nothing either. No. Since the French Open last year, he's done he's done close to nothing. And then suddenly, suddenly he's reminding us all why why we're so excited about him. I mean, I still think he should be better on hard courts than he has been thus far. And I think he will be, but oh, it was restorative to watch Mercedes look like that guy that we were all so excited about a year ago before he retired for the fans. Well, I do think that match had had lasting consequences. As you said, I think he's better on other surface than he showed. I think that was quite a scarring experience for him. And it took him a little while to get over. But yeah, absolutely such stylish tennis that I loved watching him this week. And I think for davidovich for kina, he's always been a guy, even last year, when yes, he had that run to the quarterfinals at Roland Garros, but he was a guy. I loved watching, but I didn't trust him to win matches because his tennis is so streaky. He hasn't got a great serve. He breaks. He breaks Mary carillo's main tennis rule, which is you've got to hold your goddamn serve. And he doesn't do that particularly well. And it just makes him vulnerable in matches and his game can go off and on very, very quickly. But I think he's really worked on that on trying not to have so many let downs. And I did trust him a bit more this week, just match after match. I felt like he was competing brilliantly. I love watching his game. He's so intense, isn't he? So intense. Just intensely intense. And I love that. I mean, it's really great. My favorite features in a player in terms of what I what engages me and he's just got the energy he must burn up with that intensity. I mean, there's a look in his eye that can be a bit terrifying, but it's also the electrifying. Yeah, absolutely. So I think what I'm saying is that he's managing to balance sort of throwing himself all over the core as he does and being literally and I think there's a Twitter account did focke fall, you know, it's the did Marin Cilic win equivalent and it just every day, yes. I think the U.S. channel. I think maybe it was tennis channel that had it this week. They actually had a counter during one of his matches of how many times he dived and fell in the clan. It got up to 8 at one point. Well, there was one in there was one in his match against Novak Djokovic, which spoiler alert he won..
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"alejandro davidovich" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"Actually, in some ways. Yeah, he's actually. Maybe it's because he's playing on the same day as Medvedev, perhaps, and I don't know. My attention kind of goes to Medvedev. I think lots of people would probably feel the same. He described his win as a lot of fighting and a little bit of swearing, which I thought was quite a good summary. He was frustrated. He said it took him a time quite a bit of time to work out buyers, someone had never played before. Quite a tricky game. I think I asked him straight up. How was your elbow? And he said, fine. He said, honestly, I've not troubled me to Sydney. It is fine, and he didn't need any treatment, or anything like that. So it's a good sign. Because that's my biggest worry about sits a pass. You know, I do think other than that, the game, the game can be there. So then it sort of feels like. I've dropped a clanger then is what you're saying by not having him in my quarterfinals. I haven't got him in there. We've only worked with the information in front of you. I sort of, I had him losing to Taylor Fritz in round four, which is a much still on course to happen for it to beat TFA today in three sets, which is a big win little wobble from any double faulted serving match point serving for the match, but then he wrapped it up in the third set tiebreak. So they're on a little collision course. That TFA for it to match. I think it was, we didn't get to see that much of it three very competitive sets. I think, for those three, I mean, so striking the difference in physique between those two. One of them has been playing a lot of golf. And the other one's been playing less golf. I would say, but yeah, Taylor Fritz looking good. And I don't know. I don't know what I was thinking. Anyway, we're all thinking vaguely the same thing. So Fritz now faces Roberto Bautista, a goo and sits a pass faces Benoit pair. Who's unexpectedly doing a thing, he's having a run, he's beaten Grigor Dimitrov, he's got this extraordinary head to head, I think, with Gregor Dimitrov has and he's beaten in four times. So who knows? Maybe it's just one of these quirky head to heads, or maybe Benoit paire is ready to finally fulfill his talent anyone want to speculate about whether that's the case is he going to pass? Happy to take it in its own isolation, that particular match. Not to try to read anything into it whatsoever. Understood David understood. Pablo andujar, the movement killer. He has reached round three at the Australian open for the first time aged 35. And I think that deserves a little bit of a round of applause. And he faces Alex domino next. So he's got the chance to do some more movement killing. The first time Alex de menor had won a match on the rod laver arena today, which was a big moment for you. That was the only person that showed up for his press conference. Really? Great, Aussie hope, I know. Wow, that does surprise me. Yeah. How did that conversation go, Matt? This is where I say, find out in the newsletter. But it was very nice. It was very nice. Yes. Sign up then. We didn't plan that folks. Last match, I think that we want to mention is Felix auger LS theme against Alejandro davidovich for kina on the care arena my goodness me this was grueling. I mean, Matt and I went out to watch a short portion of it and that was grueling enough. Went out for a second stint. And that sounded grueling, and then the match seemed to go on for another 7 hours after that. And it was only four sets. Goodness knows what would have happened if Alejandro davidovich for managed to take it into a 5th, which could have happened four tiebreak sets. It was, wasn't it? Marathon marathon stuff. And I know Felix is an extraordinary physical specimen, but he has had serious court time to get to this point. Yeah, and played right in the heat of the day. It was hot today at Melbourne park and this was in the baking sun for four plus hours. Yeah, I found it interesting. I remember we commented on Aussie against battista goo at ATP cup and how good was your earliest scene looked, and how secure he looks. He wasn't making the same errors that he often makes. And I really thought maybe that playing someone with that rhythm helped him. But he's played two players here who give him rhythm. Rusev Rory, and davidovich for kina, their baseline that he's had rhythm. And yet, I've watched quite a lot of him. And he is spraying the ball. You do not know what is coming off of his racket. It's either a sweet connection with a perfect pop, and it looks brilliant. It's sort of mesmerizing. Or it's a shank and it's going ten feet long. And it's a real mix at the moment. And I do think perhaps though the video makes for keener and Rousey, both have firepower. And I think he's been wary of that. And I think he's been trying to pull the trigger a little bit, perhaps when he shouldn't be. Very different style of his next match against Dan Evans, who didn't have to play today. After render kanesh withdrew with a wrist injury. So couldn't be more contrasting circumstances for those two Felix about 8 hours court time into matches Dan Evans very fresh, having had a day off. Sometimes that doesn't help. You know, sometimes that can actually hurt a player. So that's an interesting third round, but gosh, Felix has had to have to battle through and his celebration afterwards was as big as you see from Phoenix also alias seem. He was buzzing to have won that today. He really was. Felix augere seeming in Stan Evans is a match that I can definitely get excited about. That'll be in a couple of days time. The schedule for tomorrow is tasty. It's very tasty indeed, David. There is a lot of this that you're not going to be allowed to watch because it's happening in the middle of the night. And if I see you tweeting at 3 o'clock in the morning again, there is not going to be a podcast tomorrow. Those are the rules. I don't need to start a burner account or something. Yeah. I mean, close your ears for this scheduled David because you're not allowed to watch any of it until the night session, okay? As a ranker against fitter first up on rod laver arena. We'll let you know the result in the podcast, David. Critique of our Panko. Thanks. And then in likely sensational match that you're not allowed to watch news, David, and watch some of this. Alcaraz against bertini. Look. Oh, I'm watching that. If it goes long, you can watch the end, okay? Can you make the others go longer?.
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"alejandro davidovich" Discussed on WTOP
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Don't Count Out Kacper Zuk
"Zouk. I mean you look at his effectiveness against graduates. Made seventy percent of his first serves was twenty seven of thirty on first-serve points in the match nine of thirteen on second serve points so again. He's thirty six of forty three only lost seven points on serve throughout the duration of the entire match. That's freaking nuts and look casper soup another guy who only six feet tall but very alejandro davidovich fokina e davi go fanny in his athleticism. The word that comes to mind is just spring. He's a good athlete. He's gonna track down that extra ball in the corner. He the ball is going to explode off of his strings. His first serve is absolutely a weapon. You look for casper zouk over his last fifty two weeks. This is a guy who has had a ton of success onto or you look overall. Where's he at. In terms of his record. Casper zouk thirty three and nine in his last fifty two weeks onto or now you expand that to twenty nineteen he seventy and twenty eight overall in his last two seasons seven itf titles in eight total finals. Of course unlike Evan furnace looked for casper. Zoo he already has a semi-final at a challenger level under his belt made the semifinals. in calgary. last year he knocked off asheq pospisil in three sets. We all know when onto have a very successful. Indoor hardcourt season was in the midst. I should say of a very successful indoor hardcourt season when he lost that match in calgary but yeah for zouk seven titles in eight finals like everyone gets angry because fa doesn't win enough in finals. Casper's zook is winning and finals and again nine tara. Seven ten in his career and challenger matches. That's not great but it's not horrible.