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Boris Becker Returns to Germany After Release From British Prison
"German tennis legend Boris Becker has returned to Germany after serving 8 months in a British prison, Becker, who has lived in the UK since 2012, traveled immediately back to Germany after being released. The three time Wimbledon champion had been sentenced to 30 months in prison in April for illicitly transferring large amounts of money and hiding assets after he was declared bankrupt, Becker's lawyer said the tennis star has served his sentence, and is no longer subject to penal restrictions in Germany, Karen
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Morning, our top story the asylum attorney is for Tana's done over like Djokovic will challenge these deportation from Australia. That's according to a report from seen an affiliate 7 news. Government officials canceled his Visa after his arrival to compete in the Australian open. No application for the appeal has been submitted at this point in time, but a hearing is set to be heard in about half an hour from now. Came under fire after receiving a medical exemption for COVID vaccination. Bought the Australian prime minister says the same rules for entering the country apply to everyone. Here's what one top player had to say. I know how hard it has been for Australians all around our nation, but in particular victorians have had a real rough trot over the last 18 months and two years and I understand why there may be frustrated with the decision, but ultimately I have no interest in speaking about Novak's medical history. Let's turn now to Christine Brennan seen in sports analyst and columnist for USA Today. Good to have you with us. Great to be with you. And thank you. So it's no surprise that this is the number one trending story on CNN dot com. The world's best tennis player arriving in Australia for a Grand Slam only to be held up by border patrol and then to be told that your Visa has been rejected. You can't come in. It's just incredible. Well, it is. You know, picturing Novak Djokovic, the top ring tennis tennis player in the world, arriving at the Australian open whereas one 9 times is the defending champ. Stopped at the, you know, at the border, stopped by an immigration. Take into a room, according to his father, there were two police outside the room all night. And he doesn't have the right paperwork. And by the way, you're going home. Get out of here, leave. What an ignominious ending to a story that I frankly, it's a well deserved ending for Novak Djokovic. You know, he thought he could just saunter right into Australia. And we welcomed with open arms. And a lot of confusion, exactly what happened. But the end result is that the government of Australia said no, you're not coming in. And I think it's a wonderful actually a wonderful message. And I wish the organizations and governments did it. Personally, that I think, you know, you just can't, Novak Djokovic wants it both ways. He wants to not be vaccinated, but then to be welcomed by a country that has been dealing reeling from the pandemic. And obviously, they said, no, and leave. And he had to leave. Yeah, and I have to wonder how he got this medical exemption in the first place. Do they so called two independent panels through the Australian open? His coach Boris, these former coach Boris Becker spoke to CNN earlier and said, he believes Novak should be more transparent about this so called medical exemption and that's the only way the only appeal he might have in this particular case because otherwise he'll be heading out of Australia pretty soon if not already. Yeah, and maybe that ship has sailed anyway. But yes, if Novak Djokovic had been more transparent all along, it probably would have been better. I mean, he has never officially said he was not vaccinated until applying for this medical exemption. It was pretty clear that he wasn't vaccinated. He has been very vocal in his hatred, his criticism of vaccine mandates. He has been quite cavalier, frankly, and living his life. Those videos early on in the pandemic of him out among people and not socially distancing and of course the apparently got COVID himself. So, you know, there's a lot that Novak Djokovic could have done differently. Getting vaccinated would be a start of respect for the country that he was going to. Among other countries that he may go to in the future. But he didn't do it. And now he's paying a big price. And certainly being more forthcoming would have been a really, really good thing for chuck of his to do. And certainly from an Australian perspective, someone who was fully vaccinated and struggled to get back home to Australia, I can understand the outrage when he took to social media to say that he was flying into Australia unvaccinated with a special exemption because this is a country that has had one of the toughest COVID restrictions in the world. And the city of Melbourne, of course, survived one of the longest lockdowns in the world. What impact going forward will this have on the Australian open? Well, certainly it doesn't look great from the standpoint of busy playing as he not. We're giving him the exemption, but now the government says no way. I mean, that has a bit of a Keystone cops look to it all. Unfortunate. I think overall, you know, had he been at the Australian open, where he would have been a very strong favorite Djokovic to win. And of course then get the most Grand Slam titles in the men's game. You know, he would have been reviled. I mean, the booing would have been extraordinary. I would have completely, I guess you miscalculated and thinking that this would be welcome with open arms. So what the government did showed us kind of was a preview of what we might have seen in the stadium. And just the hatred and the real anchor at that Djokovic. So he spared himself that, but I'm wondering if that will continue to carry over throughout the year wherever he goes. But the Australian open is still the Australian open. And it's a Grand Slam tournament the first one of the year. And I think it will go on just fine. And maybe it's a lesson to anyone who's not vaccinated. Maybe it's time to start thinking about getting vaccinated and respect the fellow competitors, respect the fans who obviously care very much, especially in a place like Australia that has dealt so severely with lockdowns and quarantine. They really have and like most cities around the world right now, they are seeing that surge in cases. They don't want to go backwards. We'll see how this plays out. We'll see if we hear from the tennis champion himself. For now we'll leave it there. Christine Brennan, as always, thanks so much. Linda, thank you very much. When out of Japan, when new COVID-19 cases of top 2000 for the first time in months, those numbers come as the country's foreign minister calls on the U.S. Trump post COVID restrictions on American military bases in Japan. Early this week, the governor of Okinawa blasted the U.S. Military for not containing the spread were down to shows that more than 800 American personnel have tested positive at that base. And in China, 13 million people are now beginning their third week of lockdown in xi'an city. The state news agency Shinsuke
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"boris becker" Discussed on The Tennis.com Podcast
"Don't know him as well. You can tell he's been around grade coaches. Because information that he has and how he's able to articulate. And I always get a player, how a player is able to articulate what they're feeling, what's happening as a reflection of the words that they were fed, right? So tell us about Jim, because that was an era of pre me, you know, Sampras, Jim, Agassi that a lot of people see, even today, the TFO's, they don't know that era, right? They weren't on the court. When they were facing, so tell us about Jim. Let me tell you real quickly. I came off the tour in February of 84 and the reason my daughter was born. And so I asked the USTA, can I come do, you know, if they had anything going on, this was pre player developments. They said, yes, so I'm 28 years old. And I was still top under in the world, singles and doubles. So I go to this camp. And you know, I told my wife, I said, it's good for me to retire because I was playing with this 15 year old in Germany, and I'm saying, oh my goodness, this guy's amazing. And we beat him in double 7 6 in the third, so I come. So I tell my wife, CES, time for me to retire. You know, I've got to get out. So I go do this camp. I work with this one kid, this little kid. He's fast as heck. And I'm having to bust my butt to play with this kitty's 14 years old and say, what is going on here? So then I go to the next kid and I'm seeing, oh my goodness, kind of pudgy little guy ripping forehands. And then there was another kid and saying, this is ridiculous. So I called my wife says, good thing I retired. So, you know, the kids were? I was playing against Becker, Boris Becker in Germany when he's 15. I come home. The first kid I play as a, as a coach, the first is Michael Chang at 14. The next kid is Jim Courier. This is in one morning. The next kid is Pete Sampras, and then then I'm exhausted at the end, and they say, have you hit with Andre yet? And in the afternoon it was hundred. So I met Jim and he's 15 years old. And then I started to get to know him. I traveled with him to some of the junior vents. He was obviously a voluntary student who developed and gave him that opportunity. But I had spent quite a bit of time with about ten, 12 weeks. When he was 17, I was with him when he won the Italian juniors when they won the Italian, the French junior doubles, you know, when he was at Wimbledon, the U.S. open. And what a lot of people don't know is when Jim was 19 years old, he asked me to watch him at Wimbledon. He was really, really struggling..
The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"boris becker" Discussed on The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"I think this must be the first tournament this year with both rapha and Novak in. So it's all all setting up nicely perhaps. We'll have to see how they both get on. Obviously, Rafa hasn't played in a while. Djokovic is still a bit rusty, but off the back of the Belgrade final, I'm sure he'll, well, he could be playing Andy Murray, potentially, if Murray does get past chape of valor, I think that might be a stretch, but that would be quite interesting wouldn't it would break the winner batch lose a batch bold for Andy Murray, I think if he did yeah, beat Shapiro, I think that would be very, very, very tough. But yeah, Djokovic one feast, I feel like that could be quite an entertaining one. And Kim, just a quick shout out before we do go to an ad break, Lucas Puig, another wild card, beat Karen catching off last night in straight sets. Lucas Puig, who I don't think we've spoken about for long, long time. Yeah, in Madrid, on a wild card, decent, decent, decent performance. Where has that been? You know, last few seasons. He faces stefanos sisa pass next. So yeah, a really good day I think yesterday for all of the wild cards and also for British tennis. I actually think that was the first time ever. For Brits getting through to the second round of a masters event and Kim, who would have thought it would have happened on the clay of Madrid. I mean, yeah, maybe it did wells or by Abby, but if the fact it was on the clay, I feel like I feel like when we come to Davis Cup, all the countries we play, they're always like, let's put it on clay because we know Brits don't like clay, but yeah, if you look at the Madrid results in Madrid so far, been pretty handy. Pretty difficult. Yeah, whoo. Right, we'll be talking about David's cup later, actually. But let's take a quick break now. Do you join us in the second half, where we'll be having a look at Boris Becker being sent to jail. Roger Federer announcing he'll be returning in Basel and also looking ahead to the Davis Cup finals Joel, which are a long way off, but we've had all of the draws announced. So do join us in just a moment..
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"boris becker" Discussed on The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"You can see given what had happened the previous week, getting to a match up with schwi on tech. And pushing schwenter. Even though it was straight set 6 four 6 four, she played very, very well, I think, and I think that, even though in that defeat, I think we always say this, you know, you learn, you can learn so much more, I think, defeat that it rather than in victory and I think perhaps that match showed her, you know, she's got the belief, I think, in the confidence to really kind of have a go at these at these clay events coming up. And with the draw opening up for her, yeah, it's a really promising kind of position to be in. Still one match at a time. Kalinin is going to be a very tough customer. She's going to be full of confidence coming through that. That muguruza victory, but yeah, very decent from radu khanu. I mean, just on the talk of her and her coach Kim, what did you make of that? Because we thought this was going to be like a long-term partnership. I think at the start of the season, we were excited about it. But 6 months later, something didn't work and raddy Carney felt like she needed she needed a change of pace. Yeah, it's now her I think she said four coaches in the last year, which seems quite a lot, but you know, it is the early stages of her career and I guess she's trying to find. You worried? I mean, when she won the U.S. open last year obviously she was under Andrew Richardson under temporary sort of working relationship. And you know, that was obviously very successful. So I think she just, she's a young tender age. I guess I think her father's kind of quite involved as well in picking perhaps the next the next step or what she should be doing. But I think if something isn't working or you don't feel like it's maybe it's a gut feeling, I think it's probably better to end it sooner rather than later. Rather than persisting and it just you could be wasting precious time maybe in your career if you stick with someone that you don't fundamentally think is right. She said that she'd recently been working very kind of briefly with Ricardo piazzi. He's a recently been coaching Yannick sinner. Well, as coached him into like what the top ten and they've just kind of parted ways. So possibly going to go down that route, but at the moment, like seeking advice from LTA, wanting to go under, I think, a new training model under the LTA, she said. So how that whatever that means in reality, I don't know, but perhaps that's where she feels more comfortable. And I think you've got to, I guess, you want to test yourself and push yourself for perhaps what you feel is right for you. I think that's there's a lot to be said for just following your kind of instinct. And I mean, at the moment, it's an argument to say, does she need a coach? She's playing very, very well at the moment she's paying very, very freely. And it does feel like she is getting advice from lots of different sources. Maybe there's not just sort of one coach and it's working. It's working well for her. And I always think back to Danielle Collins, who made the Australian open final. She did that without a coach. So it's not I don't think ridiculous kind of thing to say that could rad a car new work in a way where she maybe doesn't have necessarily main coach, but could just sort of, yeah, understanding and get advice from different outlets. Of course, she's still very young and it feels like still having a full-time coach probably is the best route to go in the sense of helping you learn, helping you adapt to the tour. But I think what we've seen is she knows what she wants, even though she's a very young player, even she's just making her way onto the tour. She knows what she wants. She is assured and knows what is and what isn't working. And even though it was a tough call, even though it sounds like she got on with belts off the court, they have a good, they had a good working relationship. It just didn't, there wasn't that spark there. It wasn't that click that I think she was potentially looking for. So yeah, we'll see how we'll see how that goes. We'll see if she gets someone in for the rest of the clay season or maybe for the start of the grass court season, but yeah, maybe I'll we should put in an application ourselves to be very Connie's coach. I would I personally wouldn't mind that. I think that would be disastrous, but yeah, I think Ian Bates, who is the head of women's coaching at LTE, it's with her in Madrid this week. Personally, I would go back to Andrew Richardson. You won the USA from with him. Surely, you know, he would be obvious, but I think maybe obviously there are reasons that not too, but I don't know. She's going to look for something. She's good that she's got the LTA to kind of in the interim work with imagine if you didn't have that set up or system to kind of have to help while she's searching for that next kind of long-term coach. So unfortunately for her, she does have that. I mean, just a note on other kind of, you mentioned Danielle Collins. She's been knocked out of Madrid by andreescu who's put two wins together. Andreescu won that one very comfortably. Another player that's out is Osaka losing to Sara cerebro's tormo..
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"boris becker" Discussed on The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"So it just tells you I think how much how much mileage was already was already gone. Yeah, given getting to the finals. So yeah, perhaps understandably a little tired. So yeah, we'll see how he gets on in Madrid. But yeah, good week, I think for Baez, but also for TFO. Kim, let's move on to Madrid now because we have had we have had tennis. We have had more tennis in the ladies in the ladies drawers, but it has been a tournament so far I think for the women where all the seeds are not having something is going on with the altitude and the quickness of the court. It's just not suiting them because a lot of them have been going out in the first round and I think first round second round and we're only left I think we've on jabal in the top ten seeds left already in the tournament and we've not even got to the end of knowing who are our quarterfinal quarterfinal lineup is. Yeah, it's pretty shocking. I mean, just to clarify, Sri Lanka, critique of it and cultivate, did not play, but we've got to have the likes of Paolo ber dossa, sabalenka, Maria Zachary, a police giver, Daniel Collins, and garbine muguruza all out in the first or second round. Leaving on jubal as, yeah, like the top ranked seeded player left in the draw. Also Emma raducanu. I think it's the 11th seed is still in it. So sorry, rather 11th in the world. So I mean, we've seen this before, especially I would say more in the women's side of things, but it's just when it all happens together and there's like none of the top ten players basically it's a funny old one. But we do have Saban Halep who obviously has been at the higher echelons perhaps a bit before his friend there with Halep still in the draw as well. Yeah, definitely. It feels like a tournament with the fact that field tech is not there is completely up for grabs. And the fact that all of the top seeds have gone out again, it's just a reasserts that that view that this tournament for the women's completely up the grads, who knows, potentially, for a first time first time masters level winner, you were speaking about Simona Halep. She is here. She is playing great tennis. She's obviously got in a new partnership now with murato glue previously Serena Williams coach. She's had a couple of very good victories. I watched her yesterday against coco goth coming through 6 four 6 four. She had that standout win against the second seed as well in the second round 6 three 6 one. So she seems to be one of the form players that partnership seems to be going very, very well at the moment and it was interesting to hear about how she is looking to play more aggressive under murat glue and it seems to be paying dividends at the moment, coco gough. Yes, she was ahead in that second set and probably would have felt that she could have closed it. But again, the pressure and the aggression, I think, that hallett showed, Goff, I think, just sort of buckled under the pressure a little bit, and Madrid has been a happy hunting ground as well, I think, for halo. I think this is now her. I think she now got 30 wins in the Spanish capital. I think only kvitova has more. And she could, I think, potentially overtake a bit of this tournament, depending on how deep she goes. So it's been a happy hunting ground for her and even though she is unseated, given that she's still in the drawer, given her experience and how well she plays at this tournament. And with muratov glue in her corner, it feels like everything is set up for, I think what she calls Simona two. Yeah, I mean, if you look at everyone who's left in the drawer, I feel like halleck is the favorite now. I mean, just seeing how well she started this tournament, she's got patriarchy. So this new kind of rejuvenation with her and the way she beat but also who has been playing really good tennis this year and did really well here previously and it's a home tournament, perhaps a bit of added pressure playing at her home tournament with being the number two seed, you know, that's probably the play into it, perhaps. But yeah, I think the main Halloween. We know what she can do. She, as she said, loves this tournament, two time winner, and then another two finals on this court. So I think she's got chabot next, which is obviously going to be tough, but I think Simona is the one to be, actually. I mean, we've also got Alexandria against anissa mova in the other quarterfinal and Nissan over knocking out sabalenka in the first round and then also as a ranking so she's had some really good wins. We know what she is capable of. She's been deep at Roland Garros before. So perhaps an over halip semifinal. We've also in the other half, the top half. This is the Emma raducanu, half. It's just nice that she's been able to get some consecutive wins again. And actually in her last three sets of tennis, she's only dropped three games, which is really nice to see after I would say on the hard courts, you know, quite a lot of dodgy, Gritty battles. It's nice that she was able to get a really comprehensive victory over Marta caustic in the last round, 6 two 6 one, especially after I think the last time they played caustic basically thrashed Emma to pretty much the same scoreline. So nice revenge for Emma there. She's got Angelina calina next, who took out muguruza, what thrashed my ether, very surprising school I'm there. Muguruza is also another player, I think, who's had a very weird year, hasn't really done anything with it and just hasn't got any form whatsoever really at the moment. It's very strange. Yeah, very strange. I think that for me was probably the ugliest result from the top ten seeds crashing out three in love in your home tournament. I don't think she has a particularly great record in Madrid, but at the same time, that scoreline, the manner of this defeat, yeah, I think it was particularly disappointing and yeah, she's not having a pretty wonky season. I think it's not been particularly great. And yeah, a bit disappointing for her, but yeah, emirati Carney though, she seems to be going from strength to strength at the moment. It seems that the clay has really, I think, helped her get these kind of consecutive match wins under her belt, something that she's not really been able to do a lot of, you know, since she won the U.S. open last year, she's now one consecutive matches twice in as many weeks. She has looked very, very good here, I think. You know, I was watching some of her first match against Martinsville, someone she played in the Billie Jean King cup qualifiers, and she was down in that first set, I think, like 5, I think she was down like 5 two and it was really impressed to see how she fought back and won it on a tie break and since then, she's just been able to just play, I think, very freely and without kind of any sort of pressure. And I don't know if that plays into the fact that she's no longer working with her coach, torben belts, and whether that's just taken the ice off of things in terms of just going out there, playing your game, playing with confidence and yeah, that win against Mars Costa, she preserves particularly, I think she served really, really well..
The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"boris becker" 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
"boris becker" Discussed on The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"Roger Federer announces his comeback in Basel. Give today is the 3rd of May and we are here to catch up on the week in tennis at passing shot headquarters. The Madrid open is firmly underway. We are reaching the quarterfinal stage with the ladies and we are getting underway with the men. We also have a couple of ATP two 50 to talk about immune and Estoril with next gen finalists, whole guru and Sebastian Baez from last season, winning the titles and then of course off court. We've got so much to talk about with Boris Becker's jail time sentence. Roger Federer announcing his return in Basel and of course Emma Radeon, who's splitting from her coach, big news for British tennis fans and Kim, it hasn't been lost on me as well because we've had the bank holiday weekend. You have also had a little jaunt away to Dublin. I have, yeah, so I apologize if I sound a bit ropey this morning. Was it all the goodness you've been drinking over the weekend? Well, I don't actually like Guinness, but just generally all the singing and a bit of alcohol. I'm not going to lie, as one does. So I hope I don't sound too kind of rusty, but I've been following it all the tennis and obviously Rafa's back, so I'm really excited to see get into Madrid and to round up last week's action. And yeah, like you said, quite a lot of off court news as well, especially with Boris Becker leading the ways. Some good some bad. He's in wandsworth prison, which is like a short walk for me. I'm not gonna lie, so I don't know whether I should go down there and see if I can visit him. Visit him, yeah, go get any visits, visiting out of the visiting hours. I don't know. Exclusive interview for the first time. I feel like I should make the most of it. Yes, exactly what an exclusive that would be. I don't know if one's worth prison would allow it, probably. I don't think they would somehow. You could try. But yeah, let's get on with the tennis from last week to begin with because we did have two tournaments. Like you said, Munich and also Estoril. Two first time title winners and two kind of young next gen players, I suppose. Let's start with Munich. A bit of a disappointing end to the week. I have to say, you know, no offense to hulk Arun, but I don't think anyone would want to win their first title through a retirement in the final from their opponent, but that is exactly what happened when politics ran to Sancho. He was leading four three in the final and retired with a chest injury, all of a sudden had to go and pop your uncle hulk green was the winner, but yeah, very disappointing, obviously, for the fans and the tournament generally that it has to end in that manner. Yeah, definitely was a disappointed disappointment because they're both been playing fantastic tennis throughout the week, both taking out the first seed so rune taking out zverev in his second match and then boss its van der zandy taking out Casper Ruud in the quarterfinals as well. So both playing excellent tennis in the week. I think Bosch Anderson shop is okay. I think he tweeted that 20 minutes after he retired, he actually felt fine. I think he started kind of breathing difficulties and he expects to play Madrid. So I don't know if it was just one of those things during the match. He felt tight, he didn't feel like he could continue, but as you said, yeah, not the way you want the final to end. But at the same time, a great win for whole guru. He was playing some very, very good tennis throughout the week. Didn't drop a set en route to the final. I think we have known about him for a while. Now I actually almost feel like players like Carlos alcaraz has almost stealing his thunder a little bit because he's been flying under the radar for particularly on the clay season so far and he really, I think announced himself at this tournament particularly with that win against Sasha zverev, the top seed in the second round. It was a real no contest really for ruin. It was very, very impressive. He was using the drop shot bringing zverev in and yeah, I mean, if there was one match, I think you would look to look to say this is why rune won the title. I think it was that match against Vera because he was just so impressive and so I think fearless given he's only I think what 80 19 years old gets the top seed in his own tournament, he just he just did not care and I think everything just came off for him that day and yeah, he just put a very good run of results together throughout the tournament. Yeah, also had a win over, I guess, Emil Rui being the other kind of more notable name. I mean, no offense to Oscar otter or Yuri leche, but yeah, really good solid week. Obviously not the way you want to win the final, but you've got to be there to win it and come out on top in the end and it's good that at least van der Zandt, he's okay, you know, it must have been a very quick sudden worrying thing that he just thought it was safer to retire in that moment. It's now in the top 50. He is the first Danish man since 2005 to get to that point. Kenneth Carlson apparently was the last. Obviously Freddie Nelson, you know, famous Danish guy. But obviously never made it into the top 50 in Singapore. A crying shame that is Kim. It really is. So yeah, full credit to whole grain. I have to see how he can progress up the rankings. Certainly a whole host of youngsters kind of making their way up as we've seen as we've seen so far this season. Just a note on zverev, yet abysmal kind of time really for him at the moment. He's not playing well. He's serving terribly as we know when he serves terribly. You know, he's not winning points on his first serve. He doesn't really have an effective game strategy falls apart. He just doesn't get that sort of same results really. I mean, he had that semifinal in Monte Carlo, but apart from that this season, he and a final which he lost to bublik. He's just had a pretty shocking season. And I do think that there's that incident in Mexico. I think since then, he hasn't really been effective. I just wonder if maybe there's something else going on, but yeah, I'm going into the French. He's really not in a good place. No, it's weird at the moment because you think he is, he is in the perfect position potentially to kind of mount a challenge for being but being world number one. Novak Djokovic is in and out of the picture, Daniel Medvedev is off court at the moment off the tour at the moment. So you feel like there's a big opportunity at the moment for this very to potentially get to get to world number one, but he's just not making he's not making the most of it. He's not making he's not making the most of the drawers he finds himself in. I think he was pretty reassured by I think getting to the semifinals in Monte Carlo, but at the same time to come into Munich two 50 event top seed, you would have expected him to get further than he did and the fact that he didn't even win one match. Yes, he did come up against an inspired whole guru, but his performance, particularly his serving, it just was not particularly great and he made 75% of his first service we only won half of his service points against holger room. He didn't hit single ace. There are some very ugly second Serbs. I was seeing as well and yeah, you obviously feel that when that's not working for him, it kind of all falls apart from there and I think another thing I think I noticed in that match with ruin is that even though I feel like he feels quite comfortable from the back of the court trading from the baseline when he's doing that against players you can just do that on the clay court where it's a bit slower. They can be consistent at high heavy ball. It's fine, but when someone like ruin uses a drop shot, brings him in. I still feel he like he lacks a bit of confidence when he comes to the net and I think that's a potential weakness in his game at the moment is that yeah, I'm fine from the back of the court, but if someone's got that drop shot in their locker, if they've got that little bit of variety, then I think it just throws very a little bit off guard. So yeah, a bit disappointing for him..
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"boris becker" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"Could see what he meant to people and he just owned a room he owned the court and he was more I think a lot of it's a lot more affection for him and a lot more of a mark that he left on the game in terms of impact and people who won a lot more than he did. He proved himself to be a really good coach. I think you'd have to say over the three years he was with Novak Djokovic. So maybe there's something he can come back to when he finally comes out of prison. But, you know, it's hard to believe really that he's got himself in this degree of a mess, because it's not just the fame and those sort of things because many others have managed it. And you also have to, well, you have to feel for the people that he let down along the way here. And the owed money too, but it's really hard to fathom that Boris Becker is in a jail cell right now. The other thing that's happened over the past week is Wimbledon's annual spring press conference, which was inevitably dominated by Wimbledon's decision to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes, which was discussed on the tennis podcast last week. And Wimbledon explained that it was the government's decision that they were following they were following that sort of lead and advice that they recommended and wanted events of that magnitude to follow that course of action. And since then, Novak Djokovic and in fact before then as well now that shock of which immediately came out and said that he didn't agree with the ban at all. Rafael Nadal has done the same today and that does seem to be a theme I would say Matt generally speaking is most of the players. They don't like this. And that goes along with what the tours have said. They don't believe that Wimbledon should have done this. We were tangled up last week trying to figure out where we stood on it because to me, the only the only place I feel most comfortable being is in knowing. That I really don't know what should be done. I mean, I've said that I think on balance, I think Wimbledon have done the right thing, but the only thing I feel comfortable saying is that it's an impossible situation in pretty much every way. Yeah, agreed. And I think it's in Madrid this week. If I'm not mistaken, where the tours are meeting, I believe, to talk about it and maybe to come up with some action. So obviously, it's a topic which is going to go is going to stay very much at the forefront of conversation, I think, in tennis between now and Wimbledon and we'll see if any anything comes from that this week. But yeah, a lot of players have spoken out against it. And we obviously did a big, deep dive on it on it last week, and yeah, I think that's the conclusion, really. It's pretty much impossible to fall down one way or the other, really. I feel still very very torn on it. We've had a lot of correspondence over the last week. A lot of people disagreeing with things we've said are other people agreeing and I think that that's just inevitable, really. But we thank you for your correspondence. So that's the end of today's show. We have a mascot for the week of we got that. We have the lovely Cooper Cooper Cooper is a 6 year old pug mix owned by Cooper's love and by Liz. Cooper is lovely. We're looking at a picture of Cooper, his tongue sticking out, loving life. And I love this story that we better send this to Catherine sharpish. Yes. Cooper is named after the restaurant where Liz and her husband had their first date, which I think is lovely. I love a story behind the name. And Cooper's got a great one. Cooper, thank you for being our mascot and thank you to Liz for signing up as a friend of the tennis podcast at the mascot level. 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"boris becker" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"On a tour of Munich and all their plans and what an impressive venue it was. And again, these tournaments that just want to punch above their weight and I think you saw from Sebastian Baez, how much it meant to him when he won that title and I love seeing that. These tournaments that it's such a big deal to win that two 50 tournament where maybe for a big name it might not mean quite so much as it did for him. Sad that there weren't quite such joyous scenes in the final in Munich because it ended with a retirement after a player who'd performed brilliantly all week and I'm going to say it as well as I possibly can, not up to Catherine stannard's, but Baltic, van der zan shop. Had been forced to retire through breathing problems four three down in the first set. I think you've been working on that, David. That is, that is pretty spot on, I think. Okay, that was. Okay. I like the theatrical bit. It's my favorite part about it. I'm going to go at that. Anyway, he was beaten in the final by a man whose name we have been playing over and over on the ATP app ahead of this recording because we're desperate to get it right. And I thought we'd nailed it. But it turns out that holger runner doesn't pronounce the R so it's apparently holger une. Which is really caused me some problems. So we're going to go with holger une. Yes. Calling any Danish listeners and if anyone can help us with that and confirm that it is una. That would be great. Yeah. That would be most appreciated. And I actually love the fact that on the ATP side, he says his entire name, which is holger vitus not scar une. And he beat botic van der zant holt. In the first set, when poor old undesigned hope, it's hard to breathing problems. And beaten earlier in the week, Casper Ruud, which had annoyed Catherine immensely because she'd pick Casper Ruud to win the title in our newsletter, which you can sign up to, so that if you want to find out what results aren't going to happen, you'll be able to do that because we predicted them. And then he went and beat my pick for the title, which is mere mere cuts manovich. So thanks a lot. Who did you pick map this week? Someone else said didn't win a title. Who did I pick? Davidovich for kina in Estoril. Thought I thought I was onto a good thing there, but no. Well, anyway, well done to holger uno, because I mean, that's a good title win for him, isn't it? I mean, he's still a teenager. And just 19 years of age from Denmark and, you know, he's somebody that we seem to have spoken most about sort of playing some nice flashy tennis and maybe having a good set against whoever it was, maybe Novak Djokovic at the U.S. open last year can't exactly remember. And then cramping horribly and having to retire. He seems to have a real problem with that, but you know, this is a big moment. Yeah, it is. His first ATP title didn't drop a set all week. He absolutely thrashed Alexander zverev very early on in that tournament really just helped maneuvering him really drop shotting him all over the court. He's certainly been a guy whose name, I think we've heard for a while. You know, he's a very good junior. He was sort of one of the best of his age group, but yeah, he's had these cramping problems. His social media is slightly irritating. It's all a little bit sort of over inflated ego for a guy who went down a lot yet. But, you know, fair play to him because he's won this title really, really impressively, and he definitely didn't benefit from the frozen ranking system over the last couple of years. I think he would be higher in the rankings, had the system been more normal over the last few years. But he's up, he's up into the top 60 now and I think we're going to be seeing more of him because yes, it's a flashy game, as you say, but when he puts it together, I think it's a pretty dangerous game as well. So that's the tennis for this week and the really big story, though, has been that of the news that Boris Becker has been sentenced to two and a half years for his failure to correctly follow the rules of his bankruptcy and he'd been found guilty of moving money around hiding money basically so that he didn't have to pay off all of his creditors as part of the bankruptcy. And he has been jailed for at least half of that two and a half years. The other half of it will be on license and will be served in the community, but Boris Becker is currently in prison and I don't sympathize with him because he's done wrong, but it's very sad. I feel and that his life has come to this point. What was your reaction upon hearing that news Matt? Yeah, I mean, you've said it there. He has done a lot wrong. He deserves this. But it said that it's come to this, you know, such a legend in the sport, someone who was so well liked for a long, long time, especially in this country. But it's been a long time coming, really, hasn't it? He's had financial problems for a long, long time. And it's caught up with him now and you'll be able to speak on this a much more detail than I can, but you know, it seems like he lived his life a bit like the 17 year old who won Wimbledon and thought he was indestructible and he wasn't. I think that's right. The judge in the court said that he'd been humiliated, but he'd handled the entire case without humility. And I think that that is probably the problem here is that throughout this whole entire process and period of his life since retiring from tennis, which is more than 20 years ago that he retired from tennis, he feels like he's just carried on living like a world number one, like somebody who's still top of the world rankings with all that money pouring in from endorsements. He earned more than $25 million in prize money on quarter alone. You can double that triple that for all the endorsements he had. I mean, it's hard to overstate how famous he was in the mid 80s when he won that Wimbledon. He reached 6 Wimbledon finals in 7 years, and he was an ever present in our consciousness here in the UK, because we only had four TV channels, and he dominated two of them for a couple of weeks every single summer. And the way he came on the scene in 85 and he was diving all over center court. He was knocking out, established names, winning Wimbledon, out of the blue, and as a 17 year old. And you know, I can't help, but feel sad to know that that that person is now in jail. I'm not saying it's not. I don't, I'm not making any excuses for him. Other than that degree of fame at that age, I think probably damaged him, or at least stunted his development and ability to handle everything that ended up coming his way thereafter. I don't, I don't know how I would have been out of handle life. With that degree of attention, all the time. I mean, to give you just a couple of examples I always remember in hearing that in Germany, if you showed anybody in the country that had a study, they reckoned that if you showed somebody the picture of Boris Becker, they would know who he was. You know, there was nobody in the country who didn't know who he was. And I can't say I was never close to him. I encountered him a lot over the last 25 years. But never found him particularly warm to people like me in the media or working behind the scenes, but then he could be also incredibly charming out of the blue and you could see his charisma.
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"boris becker" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"It's a bit of difficult gig to take, really, because there's no real long-term prospects in it. If you want a job, you're probably going to be out of it in a few months time, the way it's approached. But from her perspective, she's seems to be laying down a kind of platform that she doesn't need. What everybody thinks you need in your tennis careers. She seems to be able to work it out herself in her own way. I mean, and I say, well, good luck to you if you can. If you can do it, go do it. There's no rule that says you have to have a coach and you have to implore them all the time. Yes, maybe you need to be upfront with them about that. But it's up to these people whether they take the jobs. Yeah, I think that's very well said. I'm going to be honest when you, I think I found out the news from you, David, via WhatsApp that emerita Khan, who had split with torb and belts, and my reaction immediately was probably a negative one. It was probably like, oh, same here. I like torben belts. I don't know him personally, but I like the way he comes across. They just had good resorts. And a bit like with Andrew Richardson that you do end up thinking, well, why would you why would you ditch him? What's wrong? But I end up coming around. Yeah, exactly. And I think the reason it's a negative one is, as you said, it's a new partnership, talking about has got an impressive record as a coach. You felt like there was quite a good relationship there. It felt like things were starting to come together. Maybe it needs some time. And also, the other reason I perhaps felt that way is exactly, as you said, David, because that's the convention. You know, it's the convention for players to have a coach and stick with them all of that. That is what tennis players most tennis players do. But just as you pointed out, emira Kano has not done anything the conventional route. You know, she's, you know, she won the U.S. open before she'd played a professional match on clay. This is not someone who necessarily needs to do things just because that's the way things are done. And I think the more I think about it, I think she needs some kind of support system in place around her so that being on the tour is a nice place to be and somewhere that she can enjoy and all of that. But does she necessarily need a coach? Not necessarily. You know, she's spoken about wanting sparring partners, hasn't she and what an interesting line that was. I'm concentrating on my sparring. Yeah, because you ever heard that before? No, because she said she wants to get used to the speed of the ball a lot more on WTA Tour and it sounds like she's identified that as a problem rather than necessarily her sort of tactical approach to a match which seems to be spot on already we've seen examples of that in her career of how flexible and adaptable she is on court and it sounds like even we're talking about red akano herself was putting together a lot of the tactical plans and honestly this match she played today against kostyuk I think is the best she's played since the U.S. open. It felt the most U.S. open like just as you said right from the first ball it was clear she was playing well. And you know, if we go back to the U.S. open, that was such a trademark. She won all those matches pretty easily. She started max as well and this is the best I've ever seen her hit her forehand today and I would say even better than at the U.S. open it wasn't the forehand which stood out. It wasn't the forehand which stood out then. It was a lot of other things, but today she was just bossing points with it and I think that a little bit of extra time on the ball that actually helps her. She's embracing the clay, her mindset's good, her movement's good and yeah, there's a kind of joy about her and she was signing all the autographs that she was at the U.S. open after the match and yeah, in her words, she was vibing. And she revived her way to the U.S. open title. I mean, I wish I knew what that meant, but I'm way too old to know. More than twice her age. I'm sure it means something. Now, I mean, it means yeah, I do like that. She's just feeling away and doing it her way. So good for her. She's got Anne Helena Kalani next who beat garbine muguruza. I think I've I'm not sure I've watched an full match of colorina, have you? I saw it today against muguruza and she also beat Sloane Stephens and a couple of weeks ago she beat we're back in Charleston, she had a lot of big wins recently. I think she won. I think she won the title last year, Budapest maybe. She won a lot of matches in the last 52 weeks. She's solid player, but, you know, and look, and we should say I'm at a car new, it's obviously, you know, in the same way we wouldn't judge your relationship with torment belts after two matches. You know, we probably shouldn't judge this sort of new route she's taking after two matches either. You know, this needs time as well as an approach, but it's a great, it's a great start. And I think it just proves that she doesn't necessarily have to do things the way we would expect her to do things. She's carving out her own route and I like that. How much would you judge Naomi Osaka on clay at this point? She won her first round against Anastasia Potter pover and seemed pretty happy with that performance. She when it comfortably lost today against Sara cerebos tormo, now I know Osaka seemed to be struggling a little bit physically at the end of the match. But that didn't feel like it told a story of it to me. I haven't heard a press comment so I don't know whether she's elaborated on whether there was a serious problem, but the main problem seemed to be her opponent and the court, to me, and she she doesn't slide. She does these little stutter steps into balls and then hits the living daylights out of it. Like she does on hard court and sometimes she spectacular winners, but my word does she had a lot of errors and the ball was just coming looping down the middle of the court most of the time and then she would miss. Yeah, she had some strapping on her leg. She said she had a little Achilles problem, but again, she said, that wasn't the reason for the defeat. How do I judge a sack on clay? I think we've seen the problem again, Sarah srivastava today, as you've outlined, because in the first match, she beat Potter pova, who is also a big hitter, and it wasn't really like a clay court match. It was just, you know, it was just two players hitting big ground strokes and a soccer was better at it..
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"boris becker" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"Prediction mass at the end, Simona Halep for the title. What do you think? Absolutely not editing that out, holding, holding Catherine to it. Yeah. I like it. I like the pick and I'm pretty sure that has come from watching halleck against Palazzo in particular. That was, that was an eye catching score line. It was an alley catching performance from halleck beating but also so easily. And I think both Catherine and I commented while we were watching that on how that's intensity. Right from the start, she just seemed really engaged in the Mac. She broke by the Australia way and then kept it up the entire match. I've watched Halep in the past and she's one of my favorite players to watch. She's an incredible player, but sometimes she can let an opponent back into a match or she can she can wander. She can let things bother her sometimes. And that's all part of what makes her so engaging to watch, I think. But she was just ruthless and really hitting the ball aggressively hitting it flat, that's something that she says she's been working on with Patrick mouratoglou who's obviously there coaching her now and I think when you hire Patrick Moritz as a coach, you know, you sort of get more toggle 5. You sort of take on a whole sponsor. Suddenly, suddenly her box or these M's are appearing on people's hats and it's like, you sort of, it's like a brand that you sign up to, isn't it? But he is a good coach, I think. You know, he must be given the players he's worked with and the setup he's got there. And it sounds like that was a real focus of their few weeks practice together leading up to this to be more aggressive to win matches more efficiently because her body has been breaking down on her recently in the last couple of years. And if that performance was anything to go by, that's a really positive start to that partnership because I thought she was awesome and she's got she's got and she's got pedigree in Madrid as well. I think four time finalists two time winner. So yeah, I can see why Catherine's gone with that pick. I turned that match on and it was already a set and a break up for halal and I think moments later but also started to have a bit of treatment just caught side by the physio. And I said to you guys, is that injury the reason for that score line because that score line is not what I was expecting at all. But us as in our home country, the crowd are going further trying to latch onto any little opportunity to get behind. She's been in great form. She always feels like the almost perfect clay court player, although I have to say Halep I think is also worthy of that description and of course she's won the French Open as well and all those clay got finals you mentioned in Madrid. But it was so one sided I couldn't really believe that a fully fit but also would be getting this sort of drubbing to be honest. And to be fair to her, she just came out at the end of the match and she said, I can't blame my physical condition at all. She was perfect, basically pointing over at her. She was perfect. And that's very interesting because I do tend to think of halo as a player who has a very, very high level, but that there's probably a ceiling to which she can dominate an opponent. I never think she's going to have the weight of shot to be able to truly knock somebody off the court, for instance, but yeah, she got the job done handily. Yeah, I would think probably the last time played a match which would jump out to me as perfect was probably the best match she ever played, which was that Wimbledon final against Serena Williams when Patrick mouratoglou would have been in the other corner, wouldn't he? He would have he would have witnessed that that performance and I mean had it was perfect that day, wasn't it? Obviously very different conditions on grass, but I remember she barely made an unforced error in that match and against Bela says she was not making unforced errors. She was hitting winners. Yeah, it was a great, great performance and I always say it, but I think tournaments are better when Simona Halep in them because she makes good matches and I hope we're going to see much more of her on the clay this season. Does remain intriguing, doesn't it? In terms of what this means for Serena Williams, the fact that Morocco Lou is no longer effectively coaching her. And yeah, I want to know where that's going to end up. It hasn't taken more totally along to get involved in Twitter conversation and he's actually suggested to his followers that they might want to come up with a name, a team name for himself and Simona Halep I don't quite know what he has in mind, but I've got a good suggestion, and that's Simona Halep. It might be a good team name. So anyway, who else are we seeing today, Matt? I quite enjoyed watching Bianca andreescu and rescue start the day, Catherine was referenced in her. And talking about one sided score lines that you don't expect to come up. I did not expect 6 one 6 one to be the scoreline that she would beat Danielle Collins, who looked off the pace. I think she's had some injury problems, and she's not had so many results of..
The Tennis Podcast
"boris becker" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"Well, let's talk about today because Madrid is well and truly underway. Of course it is, in fact, it's about three days underway on the women's side. The men's just about rolled into town, and they're about to start playing. In fact, they had a few matches today. Matt Roberts is here alongside me, David law virtually. Catherine Whittaker is in Madrid. We'll be hearing from her in a little while. We've obviously got the very sad news about Boris Becker's downfall, I suppose you could say he's been jailed for two and a half years of which half of that's going to be spent in jail. Because of his failure to keep to all the rules of his bankruptcy and that's a pretty disturbing tale, which we'll talk about a little bit later in the podcast. But Matt how are you doing? Are you all right? Very well. Thank you, David. Back from my golf trip. And ready to tune back into tennis. How did it go? Did you fare better than when you played against me, albeit you did win? I think I did play better, yes. And it was very enjoyable. I don't know whether this is a blasphemous thing to say on a tennis podcast, but I think golf might be my favorite sport to play. Oh, what? You're cheating on tennis. It's purely personal. I think I'm better at being kind to myself with golf because I have far lower expectations. I've actually been playing I've actually been playing tennis quite a lot of my life and I feel like I should be better than I am. But with golf, I don't feel that at all. I probably played, I don't know, fewer than 50 rounds of golf. So if I make mistakes, it doesn't bother me quite so much. Yeah, I enjoyed it. And I did make mistakes. Okay. All right, well, if you are a recent listener to the terrorist podcast, folks, Matt has thrashed me at golf, he's also thrashed me at tennis. So I'm searching for a sport at which I can beat him at. And he has not yet taken my challenge of a pull match. Because I'm quite good at so anyway, let's talk about tennis. And Madrid, which is well and truly underway before mater and I start getting tucked into it all. Let's hear from Catherine, Catherine Whittaker, who is in Madrid for Amazon Prime Video presenting their coverage and she was court side today. I was watching the coverage throughout the day and amazing spot that Catherine and Annabel Croft have got and Danielle had to cover over there as well. Literally on the court while the players are knocking up. It's quite a sight. So hello Catherine. Hello team and listeners greetings from Madrid where it's been quite a day for me. Day one for me of presenting from onsite obviously the tournament's been going for several days. It's really exceeded my expectations actually. I've been to this tournament before in a different role, but not for several years and barring the odd match here and there mostly involving Rafael Nadal or yeah, I suppose, I suppose pretty much Nadal or perhaps the odd radio electrifying match. I found the atmosphere quite often to be a bit flat here, but that's really not been the case. So far in my experience, it's been. Really electric the atmosphere. Okay, I've only been here at a weekend, so we'll see what it's like tomorrow, but it's felt really vibrant and intense. And it really feels like, you know, it's such a sporting city Madrid, isn't it? It feels like, you know, the tennis fans are back and forth post pandemic restrictions, so that's been really enjoyable. The tennis is largely been good quality. I mean, a couple of big matches have disappointed. I mean, Andrew Collins, I thought would be ding dong this morning and rescue just steamrolled her. So the match is disappointment, but it's brilliant to see andreescu back. Fascinating thing, the conditions up close, the altitude really does reward aggression. So it can lead to some really brilliant swashbuckling tennis or it can lead to some really erratic tennis where it just sort of pings off the racket and the player looks like they've got no control. So it's a mixed bag, but I'd love to see where I can play like she did today. I mean, she was just full of joy and sparkle made me think of that Suzanne longland quote about there must be some sparkle too. And yeah, I don't know, you know, she's going to win the thing, but it looks like U.S. open and Miranda Carney to me and that's an absolute joy. And yeah, I'm quite excited about this tournament actually. I'm keen to find out who the best of the rest is with, without eager from tech here and I'm pumped for Andy Murray's Dominic team tomorrow night in very much soon to be able to date tennis news. And alcaraz playing in front of home fans with all the expectation and maybe he'll play in a doll again like he did on his 18th birthday here last year and got walloped. Anyway, that's all either seem to be out of date or soon to just not happen. So I'll wrap this up and I'll go and eat my croquettas, which are very much one of my favorite things about this country and this city. So thanks for holding the fort in my absence and I don't know why I'm volunteering this prediction, but I think Halep might win it. That's my, that's my early feeling. Feel free to edit that out. And yeah. I think probably should be a wrap for me..
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"boris becker" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"Was all worth it because I do think their impact on sports fans the last 40 plus years is actually kind of a little bit underrated now. And I think people look at HBO now and they just think of like, you know, they think of real sports. And something like that. And it's like it was way more innovative, especially with they were the only ones doing sports documentaries the way we're kind of used to now for, I would say good 15 years. I mean, eventually it became too formulaic, but they were way ahead of the curve on that. The way ahead of the curve on coverage and those 24 7 type shows and hard knocks and kind of pushing the envelope, the way they had Wimbledon, I'll never forget. All of a sudden Wimbledon was on all the time. I remember watching that Boris Becker won. I think it was 86. In HBO just had it on all the time. I was like, this is great. I get to watch matches that just wouldn't normally be on TV. So way ahead of the game. Never Wilton was never on during the week. In fact, I found out from a cup of producers that they were putting the tapes on of Wimbledon on the Concorde to get in fact. That was amazing. I mean, you know, it's like they're spending money in their spending a lot of time. They develop relationships that people like Billy gene and Mary carilla that leads into careers after their after their done playing. And I thought it was really interesting. The problem is, is you just alluded to, though, that once they lose Wimbledon, and once they're really starting to do original programming, then the money is there. And you have a series of executives who really aren't big sports fans. And it turns out that's it, wait, that's an understatement. Well, but I think people think that it's just, well,.
The Tennis Podcast
"boris becker" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"Well neither is mine done both. It's one of them Hubert catch and lucas cuba against his servant strip. This is all of it when two players come together because they happen to be from the same nation We were promoting the the nineteen ninety-two olympics relived share. That we did the other day and that reminds me of the interview. We did with michael. Stich talking about winning gold with boris becker. These two people who didn't particularly get along just bury the hatchet for two hours a day and won the gold medal. Really yes so. Going to listen to our olympics relived series of podcasts. Which are out there we did. We covered every single olympics that Tennis has been part of and yeah really really proud of that shows. I remember the other day that we initially set out to do to olympics podcast and then the first one ended up being about two hours long and we decided we needed to separate them out. So there's lots lots of in-depth shows there. Sure is okay right well. What about the women's draw in the doubles. We got critique avert and cnn senac against sue and shay but not that shea not suez and ash parties plane with storm sanders. Kiki burton's could be in her final tournament playing alongside demi shirt against garcia danilovich. These cracking matches garcia mladenovic. Being back together is is emoji. Fell out back in the day publicly. And exclusively oh wow look at cynical old replayed and so we got a soccer and young and then we've got public and medvedev splendid and then the light match is jackovitch against delhi. So basically be on when we wake up here in the uk. And i'm i'm waking up really early every single day to make sure so exciting. I don't know about you but one thing i do. Not like is long lines at grocery stores..
The Tennis Podcast
"boris becker" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"Just sort of figured that out. Over the course of the match and was was using the bertini slave slice to to get on top of rallies by the end. And i'm sure part of that was being on top of the school line and just generally opening your shoulders a bit but for me. The feet of this title run is the fact that he never played. I don't think even close to his best. Tennis never saw that moment where he opened his shoulders and he's just swinging. I'd i'd. I mean i didn't didn't watch much isn't if there were one or two that i saw very little of because they were just so routine in those so much else going on but are of what i saw. There was none of that completely free hitting. He looked tense and inhibited. Throughout this tournament. inhibited by desire. And hunger for for this title and look. He's had that desire and hunger for for a long time. It's it's defined him but that the calendar slam makes a now or never situation. If you don't win this one. They're not off and for the golden slam. That's off forever. It's hot it's taught to think that he'll be in this position and threes time. They definitely never say never were any of the big three concerned but yeah he's looked inhibited. To me and yet still imperious and in the words of his coach. Gordon even is bitch after the match unbeatable thought i i think i would put some of it down more to the opponents that he faced the type of opponents the attacking nature of chevelle of and bertini who wants to go on the front foot all the time. And i think it's it's probably a safer play to win the match by not hitting out for nova chuck rich in that situation. I think it's harder to hit aggressively against that sort of power. And i'm not necessarily agree with you every talking about taxes. I'm just talking. I mean physically. His shoulders to me have lit. Just tight. coach makes sense. Does your out does add up that that might be the case. I just feel like there was some players. That is very evan. One or two others that he he might not approach it quite the same book but probably writes in that she attention gets in the way In in in terms of how zip approaching it but that's the extraordinary extraordinariness of his ability is that he's still able to. It's like it is the ultimate plan bay. He he he has two or three modes that he can just go into in order to win grand slam title and in his own words. He's a more complete player now than he ever has been. I mean he's not he's not saying he's playing better than ever he's he's not putting it in those terms but i think he realizes now that he understands his game better than ever. I think he has more options. You know he can go into his classic grinding mode from the baseline or he can be really aggressive from the baseline and dominate with that forehand. Or he can do what we saw this tournament which was not really either of those but just raise game when it matters mix in some variety. I thought he volleyed brilliantly. This tournament he was. He was ghosting in a lot. And finishing points at the net cash was really went over by yelling. I mean this is a classic of volley ernie said it. It's it's amazing what he's achieved with that because he used to not have a clue in a decade after employing of bullying coach. Well i mean what's that. That's todd martin. Mark woodforde. boris becker. Goran even is rich. Andre agassi i mean there is not a stone he is land he in order to try to improve the is and it's an has paid off. I mean he's in might not have always been a cute at the time an obvious but just and that was what pat cash was sending the country's sometimes. It may not happen. He was going in on a wing on an prayer with when he was first starting with. Boris becker but here he is now twenty twenty one some seven years later or whatever. It is mid thirties and he's still fit enough to be able to enjoy the fruits of all at work. You put him back then. And he's i think what he's done in. Just how. I view tennis is. I think i used to quite flippantly. Think you know the best players is the one who who's peak is the highest in a who who ceiling is the highest and djokovic will certainly have a claim to that when when he played peak tennis. He's a incredible. He can do anything but there were. You know nidal in federal can do anything as well when their their peak. What he has done has made me realize that it's about having the highest floor. You know it's about how you'll playing when you're not quite at your best and finding ways to win when you can't necessarily see the ball huge inches hit winners all day. And he does that better than better than anyone. I mean really. I mean he absolutely. It is incredible what he does. And i don't think he was at his floor this tournament. He wasn't playing badly but he certainly wasn't at his peak and he just he he he creates not much difference between between the two. It's it's incredible. He has is very few weaknesses. And you're just left thinking. Well how do you beat the guy what. How do you hurt him. And he's he just got the answers to the questions and you know bertini is asked questions. Chiappa valve has an. They've come away empty-handed. We'll i asked that question of goran. He was brought to the brought to the press conference room after the match within min again happened off to the australian winded. Maybe happened off the french open. But i was setting. He wasn't aware of it. Then but in pops goran say say we We had to that press conference. Virtually of course and i asked him go is just. He's he's in all of djokovic cheese completely in order of him he had already come out with some incredible lines. He'd said he talked about plays from the balkans. We're we're capable of incredible things. And i know. David pointed out the as a croatian he had had a thing'll to. You've not so great things to say about serbians back in his day. But maybe he's matured. He certainly feels a vulcan kinship with jovic a mentality of understanding. Something that not everyone can understand coming from a war-torn country and all of that and it's very clear. I think they're extremely different. People and i don't think they're blake's the go to the pub together but i think goran is. Yeah in all if novak djokovic. Woody is an athlete and competitor. And anyway he was. Just what seeing miracle about jackovitch so bullish not downplaying the hype about the golden slam the opposite of downplaying the height..
The Erick Erickson Show
"boris becker" Discussed on The Erick Erickson Show
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The Body Serve
"boris becker" Discussed on The Body Serve
"Alina loses in the second round to magdalena and belinda. Bench loses in the first round to keva. Yeah you tweeted something about this. Because we are still sort of trolling bench for her comments. On naomi a- craving attention or needing to be in the talk as she said I think you underestimated the Disdain for bench around the internet. Well i think because happened a few years ago that loss. That was a semi final. Win over serena at the rogers cope planted the seed for this to happen all these years later and i remember watching that and feeling annoyed by it. But it wasn't at her. It was because the rogers cup set off fireworks. Drake was aired it. Yeah so i felt. Maybe she took a little too much flack but they're apparently. There are a number of people on tennis twitter. Who don't feel kindly tour victoria. As a wrinkle lost saronic hairstyle in the third round heading into this tournament. I had said on the last episode. Watch out for visa. And how her injury situation holes up and this tournament and she looked for the most part fine physically but you might say mentally. She kind of fell apart in the third set against cure. Stay to care stairs credit if you are somebody who feels generous enough to give her any credit for anything in tennis or life. She played well. Yeah yeah those double-faults davita mentally really just lost it in that third. Set it. You know. It did really looked way more psychological than physical. The big. the first big upset of the tournament was francis off. Oh beating stephanos t. Tip us in us. I feel like we since we are wrong. So frequently we have to take a little bit of credit or you have to take some credit for giving francis a really good chance in this match and he came out with a plan played so professionally returned a hell of a lot better than stuff on us and it was just so cool to watch and it really felt like francis was putting something together taking credit for calling. That doesn't really mean much to me. Because i feel like the signs were there as mad. Video is up to love in the fifth so dear sits about maybe a little hungover from the roland garros final. He didn't play any tournaments. Before wimbledon grass and his grandmother had just died the that too. It feels like a long time ago but it's not and annesley. His return game is just not there yet for grass it. It's exposed too much right now. The majority of the top ten seeds remained through to the fourth round on the men's side. Some of the earlier upsets if you can call them. That casper rude definitely was playing well especially on clay heading into this tournament. Muste who made the semi's the week prior demon won a title and yannick sinner not necessarily for his grasp prowess that he brought to this tournament. But i- caching name recognition. Yeah yeah buzz. Boris becker said on tv today that he spoke with jahic and jahic told him allegedly that he's just not figured out how to plan grass yet. So you mean to tell me. You are watching tennis broadcast that. Boris becker was on and you stayed channel enough to take in the information. There was no choice because feed available almost fell off the exercise by trying to trying to reach for the ramirez changes. As soon as you heard. Becker on the call only to change to the same match another channel to get john mcenroe trick michael. No today this was the curious. Oj seem match. And becker andrew castle. Where the only feed. I could find. And i just kind of had to suffer through it because i don't want to sit there in silence especially during a curious match. There were upsets. There were also some surprises for me. Christian green is one of the surprises of this tournament making the fourth round. He hasn't had a very difficult run. Pedro martinez got rid of more fees for him and so getting beaten martinez in the third round and he'll now face jovovich and the fourth good lunch that man vasco and work also quietly slid into the wrong of sixteen eventual. It's nice to see this. Because he has put together a stellar year for him he took us set from that all on. Clay whipple on. You're you're saying that still your includes winning one set unclaimed. That's not all hold on there. Were there not comments. I'm just saying it was the first thing you know i mean. He has really been gearing up and he's been playing well. He gave federer a good fight at hollow. He beat zverev at munich. Which there's you'll recall is his fucking court and i quote just say okay. Great to see a really good result here from joschka and or koch just kind of doing his business quietly and efficiently over there. He's had a bit of a dip in recent months since we winning my only here whether yesterday i know i know saying it's nice to see him. Reemerge after you know. We've also seen quite a few people who've done well at roland-garros play well at wimbledon as well coco gov is into the second week of both tournaments on the women's side. You've got rebecca following up. Her quarterfinal admiral and garrels. Now she's in the fourth round here. Critique uva is also in the fourth round screen duck. I kind of quipped joked on the preview episode. That what exactly is taylor for. It's going to be doing at this tournament. Given that he had just had knee surgery right at. I was like why is he playing at all. And then he gets through to long matches one three hours one almost four hours in the first two rounds. And it's like okay. He just had meniscus surgery three weeks ago and he decided to play and he cut off his hair his strength. His sam sonian power. Yeah it looked like in a hotel room by himself with a young woman and he then goes on in the third row to take the opening set from he who shall not be named With the last letter of the alphabet martin future vich beat both yanic center and diego schwartzman on to the round of sixteen. This is the fourth time that he's been in the fourth round but never advancing to the quarterfinals. And guess who he will play next andre kruglov. This'll be the fifth time they've played just this year and full. Jovic has not won any of those yet. I feel like this is a good time to take him out it right. This would be a good time to turn the tide. Rubio of isn't as consistent as he's been over the prior year during the fall and winter. And i think the the surface works better for this matchup in favor. Karen huchon off. I did not see. It was kind of been languishing. I thought that was. I mean a pretty good up for t- ofo given the way he was playing and francis. I dunno didn't didn't really seem to show up for the match. I trow kind of routined him in this one. The surprise here wasn't so much that huchon obt off. Oh was that. China is here to begin with right right the easy for me. He's stalled in his career. I'm shocked to learn that. He's twenty five years old already is like he's younger even though he looks like he's been thirty for ten years and for somebody who had so much promise earlier on in his career hasn't really delivered he's made one slam quarterfinal at the french. Open a couple of years ago but he was the first of this russian generation to really break out winning the paris..
The Tennis Podcast
Wimbledon Re-Lived 1985
"Hello, everyone and welcome to tennis relived Wimbledon relived day three. We've taken a trip back to nine hundred, seventy, eight and nineteen, eighty and today we're taking a trip back to nineteen eighty five. We are firmly now in the territory of David, laws voiced and cavernous memory I. Don't know if that's a good thing necessarily, but but it's where we are you doing David. I I'm enjoying trip down memory lane, and yeah, it's it's. It's very interesting. Watching scenes from my childhood that I have not watched since and trying to. Find out whether my twelve year old brain. Had any sort of accuracy in its its conclusions. You couldn't quite remember watching the one thousand nine hundred eighty book McEnroe final that we covered yesterday. The you were aware of it in your consciousness. Do you remember watching? Boris Becker Kevin Curren Nine, thousand, nine, hundred five. You remember where you were. Vividly. Are would typically do you remember what your head was like? It was appalling. It was it was probably quite similar to Kevin. Currency if I'm honest. All sort of curly and waffly. So I would have been twelve years of age I just got into the the senior school is as we used to call it and I was just watching Wimbledon back toback hour upon hour, and there was nothing else tennis wise to watch I didn't even know. Existed I was absolutely fascinated after that tournament to try to find. Opportunities to see a tennis match with Boris Becker playing somewhere else. To See. 'cause I couldn't understand how. How does Barsebaeck not win every tennis match that he plays given how hard he hits the ball, I knew nothing of clay coats and hardcourts and things that did as a twelve year old seeing seventeen year old win Wimbledon. Did it did it make you think oh? Crikey, I'd better start achieving some life goals I remember I remember watching the dull when the French Open realizing we the same age and thinking. Catherine! You've achieved nothing in your life. Salt. Out. The way couldn't it could inspire you or it could make you feel like enough to fight. Now on C., no, because twelve to me seventeen was really old, and seventeen was basically a man, and I was such a young child including my age, but I look back at it now, and it does make me shudder to think of what this we having just watched it to watch. This guy who seventeen who physically is easing credible presence, and he's muscular and strong and strapping, but he's got this really young. Young, face, and he you hear him. We've just had him interviewed after the match as well and and it does make me shudder to think my word this on his shoulders, and yet it was also very exciting at the same time. Not your formative Tennessee's will have been spent watching Boris Becker the pundit. Boris Becker the coach. I know obviously you'll have been very aware of know what he achieved in his career, but actually. Watching it back in seeing a seventeen year old Boris Becker wate struck by. Well. It's actually quite difficult to reconcile as you were saying the Boris Becker. I've always known with this Boris Becker. I actually think that this achievement of voice rose Becker winning Wimbledon seventeen oversee I've always been aware of it, but I and in many ways it's. It's become a more extraordinary achievement as time has passed, and as the sport has got kind of older, and it's hard to make those breakthrough so young, but also in a way. It's actually one of those achievements, which is so of its time that if you didn't live through it, it's really quite difficult to understand the impact that it had and the feeling that it gave people, so it's interesting to go back and read about it and walked in here David's memories of it. I mean what I'm struck by is the sense of belonging that he seems to have on that court. He is striding around the coal like he owns the place. He would go on to say that it was his living room. Denise and Toco famously, but and it's like that he's. He's walking with such confidence playing such. Tennis okay, it's one thing to have the game another thing to believe in the game and know that it's a game that you can win, and that just comes through on just as you watch all the match really. I didn't anywhere with confidence when I was seventeen I was just to a crippled bull of angst. And Self Doubt I. Mean I I just can't relate. Assholes, everyone, stop looking at me. Not Looking at you, you think everyone is looking at you any of that. Yeah I think my my mum describe. That is the peculiar phase when you didn't like taping taken.
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Prison inmate kills 3 with guns of stabbed police officers in Belgium
"China this week for more talks us home prices climbed in march the snp core logic case schiller twenty city home price index rose six point eight percent in march from a year earlier the sharpest gains were in seattle las vegas and san francisco the home price index is slightly higher than the two thousand six peak before the housing market and the economy crashed data from the national association of realtors shows part of the reason prices are moving higher is the declining number of listings on an annual basis for the past three years buyers concerned about being priced out of the market by mortgage rates now hitting sevenyear highs are aggressively hunting for homes it's zero love for former tennis star boris becker deaths ap's charles day with desma reports it all ended in an exchange of gunfire gunman has killed three people including two police officers in the east belgium belgium prosecutors say the attacker had disarmed please and use their weapons in the shooting rampage the man had approached to police officers from behind carrying a knife and stabbed him several times and then shot them as well as another man in the nearby vehicle the attack was later killed by police meanwhile an official at the federal prosecutor's office has told the associated press there indications that the lead shooting could be a terror attack i'm charles de la desma hi i'm brian mckendrick store manager of your new chantilly wegmans as a new part of the chantilly community we can't wait to give you our very best with a one of a kind good jogging experience every day we're committed to helping you make great meals easy healthy and affordable with consistent low prices you can count on please join us for the grand opening of our new chantilly store on june third your next great meal delicious and done to learn more go to whiteman dot com slash chantilly ap radio news i'm ed donahue since the north korea summit was cancelled by president trump last week there's been a growing effort to get.