18 Burst results for "Kai Kanepi"
The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"kaia kanepi" Discussed on The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"Incorrect, Kim Chris wins zone. Chris. I'm not on the list. Nowhere near nowhere near the list. Can I tell you the other players I was thinking about? Yes. Redeem yourself. I was thinking Simona Halep, but I think there might be a bit early for her. No, Simona Halep would also have been an incorrect answer, Chris. What about. Sara errani on my list? So ironic. Yeah, sorry, irani number 6 in the rankings. And one more player in the top ten. No one got any ideas. We've spoken about her recently, actually, petrova. It's not but portrayer is on the list at number 12. I was talking about whose number four in the rankings, agnieszka, rad vanska. Oh, that is bad. We should have got that. She's been everywhere this week. So you could have had I was trying to think he got to the slam fire. I'll go from one to 20. You could have had Azarenka, Sharapova, Serena Williams, advanced Kerber, irani, Lee nar, Petra kvitova, Sam Stosur, Caroline wozniacki, Marion Bartoli, Nadia petrova, and Ivanovich, Maria kirilenko, Dominika cibulkova, Roberta Vinci, Lucy savage, Julia gerges, kaia kanepi, and the final one macro rover of Russia. Now which macaroni was that is that the one who's playing now? The older. That would make sense. Not the one with the same name, who they like the year of birth. But ask where the inspiration came for this bonjour. This seems rather unusual. I don't know, I just felt, you know, 2012, it was the time that tennis was in London for the Olympics and for me that was a very fun year on the tour. There were lots of big names on the WTA Tour and I just wanted to relive past glories. Excellent. I quite like those. Memory lanes. Yeah. Excellent. I love it. And although I lost, I think we both did pretty well. So well done us. Let's have a look at what's in the mailbag this week, because we have got a lovely email from David, who has asked us, hi guys, it seems like a lot more players are withdrawing from matches and tournaments and getting injured. What do you think is behind this? So quite an interesting and thought provoking question from David. Thank you for getting in touch. Joel, let's start with you. What do you think might be the reason for the well, the seeming increase in withdrawals? Because it does seem to be quite a lot these days, isn't there? Yeah, I think first of all, I think just the game in general has got a lot more physical, particularly on the men's tour and I think that physicality. There's been ushered in bi players like by like Rafa Nadal. I think has led to more led to more withdrawals and injuries. I also think that there's just loads of tennis on the calendar. And I feel like some players might feel pressured into playing events whether that's for sponsorship or for prize money or ranking points and again, they might not necessarily be fully fit. The season is January to November. It is very, very long. And putting so much wear and tear and pressure on your body, considering the court surfaces as well. It's not very forgiving and I think if you don't pick your schedule and know your limitations that we've seen the big players, I think, especially do over the years, thinking about Andy Murray and how he picks and chooses events. I think it can, it can get very demanding on you very, very quickly. And again, I think that's another reason why we're seeing, I think, more injuries in generally. Yeah, and also I was thinking, maybe players are just better aware of when they should reach their limits and call it a bit of a day, whereas before they might have just wanted to have plowed on, but there's a bit more of a self care attitude like when they do get to that point and they're not feeling great. It's like actually I need to look after my body and maybe that's a healthier attitude when you do find that there's issues. Maybe it's a post COVID thing, more germs going around, like that we're not already immune to because we're not traveling for a while. I don't know. There's the whole load of things. A lot of sponsorship activity, of course, as well. Like you mentioned, there's a lot more demands. Chris, what do you think? What's your what's your two penne on this? Why do you think that there might be more withdrawals than normal, more injuries, perhaps happening? Yeah, I think a lot of players didn't really take an off season in the traditional way. We've seen a lot more activity that is taken to the sponsorship. There's a lot more money on the line, a lot more kind of pressures to be on the court as much as possible. Something that struck me about this about this question particularly, some of the quotes from players about the tennis balls they've been playing with having lots of difficulties with them, especially when it's come to their wrists and Medvedev was very vocal on this this week. And I think he didn't really want to be one of those players that moans about the balls.
No Challenges Remaining
"kaia kanepi" Discussed on No Challenges Remaining
"In the quarterfinal she could potentially pay face the number two seed on shepherd, who sounded the last sign of the draw, she broke against tomorrow's the Dončić, then gets risk or another pet ranking player market on Joseph, and then kaia kanepi, big hitter, can not be seated, finally, at number 31, after years of being unseated in looming, another various check teenager, hashtag various cha teenagers, Linda for vertebra, sister of Brenda, Linda being I believe 17. 17 year old that is in the section as well, a lot of wild cards and stuff in there. I think it's a good section for a shipper. I kind of like to match up with Kenneth for her, I think she can unnerve that kind of power, and it's probably kind of meant if she probably doesn't mind. Can I make quarterfinals there last year though? And then hadad Maya and lyudmila Samsung are the seeds. Elsewhere, and that's actually the draw also with a couple names recognizable, like Sloane Stephens and Donna fetch in that section of the draw. Chabert played in Adelaide in the first week of the season, did not take a Tunisian team to the united capital. She could have. Yeah. Way it works. She could have played. But she chose not to. I lost a notch about who was the surprise qualifier. Another hashtag various check teenager made the final there, a surprising breakout run, it's not in this main draw to ranking roast too late, and when Venus pulled out, there was a great chance I thought to give her the wild card but I believe it went to Kimberly barrel. I believe got their placement wild card. In this section, I think. Yeah, it's a barrel about it. Kind of missed opportunity, I think, but whatever. Yeah, shipper is made the last two slam finals. It can she make it three in a row. And maybe even go even further. What do you think? I think she's going to be the second one is interesting to me. I think that's been playing. She obviously have surgery last year and so I went to show republic for the Great Britain versus chat republic in the car. And contrary to what was unbelievable. She took the street destroyed rather Ghani, which obviously other people have done, but she just played, she was so good and I was so excited to watch her for the rest of the place, even and then she got injured and didn't play. But she's at the end of last season, she won a hundred K, she started to get into rhythm again and she started strongly this year and made cool finals in Adelaide and lost her sabal Ankara. I believe, and yeah, she's playing very well. So I think although I think that could be a tough outing for jibber and also with a variety of someone who could actually make triple overthink and make maybe as often happens with the bird, she can sometimes fall into doing too much in terms of using her variety to many drop shots, et cetera, in several relying on also her voice tracking abilities. To see that much up, obviously, funnily enough, I feel like when keneth becomes a seed, it drains her all her powers. When she's when she's unseated, watch out, but her being that she will still take out any top player that comes across her, but as a seeded player, it sort of often not the case. I think it's a good draw for jabber and she's had a few draws recently particularly at Wimbledon I think when that opened that opened up for her and she took advantage and made the final and she's, as with diversity is always clear and honest and open and loud about her ambitions, which I really like and we know her ambitions, she's here to win a slam and she wants to she's the one number two. She wants to ask her she won't take us possible and reach number one. I remember she actually going on, we need to be quicker but it's okay at some point last season she said that she wants to be number one and that got so much like almost criticism and people couldn't believe that she would dare to say that because she was like double the amount of points or whatever. But if you're at number two and you're not trying to be number one, where do you want to do it? Why are you here? Right. And on the rankings has no points to defend from Australia last year. She didn't play last year due to injury. Associations and make up some ground there and shante is defending a lot of points coming up in the first half of the season, you know? So there's no reason why you should burst and think about closing the gap. My overall assuming out Finnish at the women here before we get to the men will try to do them quicker. I think this fool me one shame on me, et cetera, but I think I'd be very surprised and it's not a top little bit conservative here. Not a top ten seed winning this tournament. I agree with you. I think, which I don't usually say for women's slams. Like you just don't, that's not how it's been lately. But I think for the most part, the best players do match the rankings for now, and we have a little bit of data from the beginning of the year to tour back that up. And I'm not as confident, I think I don't think I picked it up like over the field, which I think is the fair question. Based on her dominant last season. And I think I might take the field over a shot that just based on some of the united cup shaking this, but I wouldn't be surprised by her either. And she did it when the U.S. open when they were not high hopes were her there, you know, her complaints about the balls and whatnot we can remember. I hope the storylines we have consolidate in this tournament in the season get some continuity. It'd be nice to have. Would be nice. Let's go to the men's draw. The administrator is anchored by a Spaniard on top which we expected. We did not expect it to be Rafael Nadal. Carlos alcaraz pulled out of the Australian open with a hamstring injury. It's a big disappointment. It is the third time in the last 5 slams. The number one ranked player is not in the men's draw. Just kind of wild. It doesn't play a first round match. The show, which was in the draw, then got withdrawn when he got deported. But that was banned from Britain and couldn't play Wimbledon. Now Alcatraz out here.
The Tennis Podcast
"kaia kanepi" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"What she was able to do. What's she brought to the sport? I don't think we're going to see the same tennis because I think it's very easy to forget just how great a tennis player she was. Forget everything else for a second. This woman was an incredible tennis player who just destroyed everybody. And but I hope that there are moments. And I think it is possible if she could win a couple, you know, if she needs a decent draw, I think, watching her against Belinda bench last night made me think, what an awful draw this is for her because bench is so clever, it puts you off balance, diverts your power back onto you, but there are certain players and look there are a lot of tough drawers in women's tennis right now, but there are some where she could just tee off and overwhelm. And if she could have a couple of those and get into the tournament, I think something certainly certainly an epic match where she may be knocks out somebody big like a top 5 seed is absolutely possible and an appearance in the second week. Oh, he sort of put a round on it. Ish. Second week is still quite vague, though, David. I'm not going to press you now. But I'm just going to say that I know we've had some exciting draw days of late Grand Slam draw days because there have been exciting, unseated lookers in drawers, but can you imagine the feverish anticipation of the women's draw at the U.S. open this year on Thursday, the 25th of August, the very same day that we arrive in New York City. I am already feverish myself. And PS, the U.S. open announced, didn't they that they had had the most extraordinary surge in ticket sales off the back of Serena's announcement. I mean, they don't even know when she'll be playing her first match and it's like everybody's just bought every ticket available just on the off chance that Serena might be playing in that session. It's amazing. And it's going to be so exciting and we can't wait. And maybe she will take our breath away one more time. She wasn't able to last night as you said Matt, she lost out after winning her opening round match. Tip breeze's deers 6 three 6 four. She lost to Belinda bench last night in Toronto 6 two 6 four bench it now plays garbine muguruza in the round of 16 who folks has won two tennis no, sorry, she got a buy in the first round. Has won one tennis match. Two sets. Still noteworthy. Does feel noteworthy, doesn't it? It shouldn't. Well, she beat the Washington finalist. Kai can epi, four and four. That's can be just well, I mean, she'd be an injured name soccer in the opening round, unfortunately it's all retired injured, training is set in three love to connect, but a win is big for big Aretha. Yeah, especially if you're talking about laying it all out, how you feeling? That press comment she gave, not so long ago where she just said, I just don't know what to do. I'm doing all the things you're supposed to do and here she is one of those players then and erotic talks about with experience, but no form and no confidence. And she can not figure out the solutions, and you just need, it's like the football player who's on a barren spell in front of goal and just needs one to go and off the knee and coming in. Got herself a win against kaia kanepi and I didn't watch the match for all I know Kai Kane hit a 158 unveiled errors. But the fact is she won a match. And maybe that maybe that will be a big difference maker for her. It just doesn't win over an injured Osaka. I watched that match on replay. You watched it as well as it was a really sad sight, wasn't it seeing a soccer just unable to compete physically, it's not good. Is it this distance out from the U.S. open? That that didn't look good to me. Have you got any reasons to be cheerful? I was quite cheerful about Osaka on Monday, wasn't I? In fact, I think I said she looks fit, and that didn't age well. It was sad. It was her back that she was getting treatment for. And I think we're saying as well, it must have been quite a tough day for Osaka. We know how much the sucker looks up to Serena Williams. She played on the day when Serena Williams Vogue piece came out, I think she tweeted after the max, something like this has just been a really, really bad day. Tough for Osaka, because she was playing well, I thought, you know, shocking news, tennis player hits the ball well, but she was. And but she just couldn't move, especially at the start of that second set and had to pull out. And yeah, just a couple of weeks out from the U.S. open, it's not good, and she had that injury earlier on in the year. It kind of lingered and just sort of took out that whole clay court season that she'd been so enthusiastic about trying to figure out one little injury sort of took it all out and I would hate for that to be the case here, which is usually her best time of year.
No Challenges Remaining
"kaia kanepi" Discussed on No Challenges Remaining
"Welcome to the challenges from rating. I'm Ben Rothenberg, joined by Timothy carrillo and CR's Spain and sub Saharan African correspondent to Mani hello again. Happy to have you back, as always, and we are here on the occasion that is both a little bit, I don't think surprising is the appropriate word, but timing, I didn't expect to wake up to this news this morning and did that three to Williams has formally announced her retirement. It's a little bit fuzzier than that. She didn't draw a direct finish line, but you can pretty much read into what she's saying and it seems very clear that the U.S. open is planned to be her last tournament, anything beyond that would be a big surprise based on her current framing in a cover story for the September issue of Vogue magazine and very much keeping with current Serena. Media strategies and prevalence and prominence of things like that. Yeah, it's funny. I just start with your initial reaction to this news. Obviously, you and I have both followed Serena for decades. What is your reaction and your feelings about this news and the sort of finality what has been up until now, you know, never ending career. Yeah. The actual news, I think you agree. It's not surprising. It's not shocking. It's if we were talking about Serena a few months ago, I wasn't sure that she was going to come back to the sport at all. So yeah, I'm not surprised that I'd actually had for a few months now. I've had Serena on push notifications on Instagram. And anticipation of this at some point, there's going to be a big announcement like this, and so it was just funny when I checked my phone. So I was working out in the Commonwealth Games the last couple of weeks in Birmingham and I was on the bus back home. I checked my phone and you could just see like the vote, you know, like the kind of thumbnail. And I was like, here we are. Even before I clicked on that, you know, so it wasn't surprising. As you said, it's interesting because the actual article was detailed in places. I didn't expect I didn't expect to have, for example, to go into such detail about Margaret court. And it was very detailed in some ways, but then, as you said, vague on, she didn't actually explicitly say it. The U.S. open is the end. This is my final tournament. Done. This is what we assume and it seems actually the tweet that introduced article questions was actually more, you know, she said, I'm going to enjoy these last few weeks. But it seems to be the end. Yeah, yeah, you're right now. I was doing a bunch of media appearances on various TV and radio about this news today as normally happens when there's some big tennis news story. And yeah, there wasn't the one clear pull quote for people to sort of nail and say, well, Serena Williams said this. A lot of them were actually playing the clip of her and press in Toronto yesterday, where she got her first win in 14 months. Where she sort of talked about seeing a light at the end of the tunnel and that light represented freedom. And that was kind of the quote, actually, which wasn't even part of this Vogue story that wound up getting the most circulation. It was an audio thing. So maybe more sense for those media. But yeah, it's interesting to see what she went into and how she frames it and what she says and what she doesn't say. In here, and there's some interesting things on both fronts. I thought, yeah, the Margaret court thing, actually, we can get to that now, I guess, as you mentioned, it might as well. It's one of the things on my agenda here to talk about. Actually, before you do this on the surprise front, I want to share a quote from that I think really sums up kind of the tennis world's reaction from the always understated and succinct kaia kanepi, who was asked about this today after winning via retirement against Nami Osaka today in Toronto. She was asked, is she a player who's inspired you in the past? And just what was your reaction when you saw the news? And kaia said, I took it very calmly because players they retire in certain age. I think it's normal. I quote machine can epi. In classic form. Yeah, anyway, so here's what she says about market court. She says, there are people who say I'm not the goat because I didn't pass market court's record of 24 Grand Slam titles, but she achieved before the quote open era that began in 1968. I'd be lying if I said I didn't want that record. Obviously I do. But day to day, I'm not I'm really not thinking about her. If I'm in a grandstand final, then yes, I am thinking about that record. Maybe I thought about it too much, and that didn't help. The way I see it, I should have 30 plus grand slams. I had my chances of coming back from giving birth. I went from a C section to a second pulmonary embolism to a Grand Slam final. I played while breastfeeding. I played through postpartum depression, but I didn't get there. Should I what a cuda? I didn't show up the way I should have or could have. But I showed up 23 times, and that's fine. Actually, it's extraordinary, but these days, I have to choose between building my tennis resume and building my family. I choose the latter. You won't get more to the family stuff later. That's a big part of this. Essay, but yeah, I'm sure you get asked about this, I get asked about it. The market court record, I think in so many ways, was illusory, and it was a shifting goalpost in a lot of ways. You talk about in your piece that she repeats for The Guardian today that she pointed to Steffi Graf, who was the holder of the pro era record of 22 grand slams first. And Margaret court only sort of came up after. And Serena did embrace and more toggle also her coach for most of this time did embrace the chase for 24. It was a very easy narrative and it was easy to build stories around and have to be the quote greatest of all time because that number did exist out there. But I think anybody who I'm glad Serena said a little bit, she could have said more.
WTOP
"kaia kanepi" Discussed on WTOP
"Sports at 15 and 45 powered by maximus. Moving people and technology forward. For 45, here's rob wood fork. All right, the nationals and Orioles? Both getting blown out. The Phillies putting four more on the nets to make it a 12 one game as we are in the bottom of the 8th inning in Philadelphia and it was a brutal start by Corey Abbott on the mound three and two 30 innings of 7 hits 7 run ball 5 walks, most of the runs scored via the home run, hit four homers off him. The Nats just won for 8 with the runners in scoring position, Caesar Hernandez, his RBI single the loan score for the Nats, not much good happening there in Philadelphia for the road team. Meanwhile, the game just went finally Camden yards the O's fall to the pirates 8 to one, and that snaps a 5 game win streak. The Baltimore Orioles just the game and a half still out of the last AL wild card, the mystics in a close game with playoff implications over at the ESA, they are right now trailing the LA sparks by a score of 68 63 about midway through the fourth quarter there in the district. We have a new women's champion at the city open, ludmilla, samsonova, won the last two sets she beats kaia kanepi to win the title, the men's final between Nick kyrgios and yoshihiro nishikawa. That is coming up here shortly in golf Ashley booja wins the women's British open in a playoff. It is her first major title. Rob woodfork WTO sports
WTOP
"kaia kanepi" Discussed on WTOP
"Now bottom of the 7th inning and a tough day for rookie Corey Abbott giving up all 7 runs on 7 hits. He issued a whopping 5 walks gave up four home runs and all of that damage coming in only three and two third innings. He is in line for the loss, the offense not bailing him out either, a Caesar Hernandez RBI single remains the lone score for the Nats, who only have three hits outside of the two by Hernandez today. The Orioles lose brand manager Brandon Hyde to ejection after he argued a key blocking the plate call. They trailed the pirates now 8 to one in the 8th inning at Camden yards, they are 5 game win streak right now in pretty serious peril, the mystics down 8 at halftime, and now early in the third quarter, the sticks are trying to close in on the LA sparks. It's a 30 40 to 36 deficit here for the mystics now in the third quarter. Big first half, excuse me for Ariel Atkins, game highs with 13 points, 5 rebounds to lead the stick. So on the men's side, Maryland Indian king four star recruit out of Virginia Jamie kiser, the big guard figures to be a big addition to the Turks lineup. At the city open, kaia kanepi, and lyudmila, samsonova, splitting the first two sets of the women's final, they're now in the third set with Sam son of a leading three to two and then the men's draw, we are awaiting the start of the match between Nick kyrgios and yoshihito nishika. Rob wood fork WTO sports
Bloomberg Radio New York
"kaia kanepi" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Brian shook Now this Bloomberg sports update the Yankees are down 33 and 13 on the season in 16 and 6 on the road after a two zero win over the Tampa Bay Rays in St. Petersburg Florida Jameson Taiwan raises his record to 5 and one stopping the rays on just two hits over 8 innings with 5 strikeouts clay Holmes pitched a perfect 9th to get his 6th save both of the Yankee runs came in the fourth inning on solo home runs by newly acquired Matt Carpenter and glaber tourists off of Tampa Bay starter and loser Jeffrey springs While Matt's opened a weekend series against Philadelphia at Citi Field beating the Phillies 8 6 a big game for Pete Alonso a double a home run and four runs batted in Alonso now leads the major leagues in RBIs with 45 vow his 12 home runs Carlos Carrasco gets the win and is now 5 and one with Edwin Diaz getting his 11th save The mets had a 7 zero lead but the Phillies made things interesting getting 6 in the 6th inning highlighted by Garrett Stubbs three run Homer But Miami Heat force a game 7 in the NBA eastern finals beating Boston one 11 one O three in game 6 The Los Angeles Lakers have hired Milwaukee Bucks assistant coach darvin ham to be their new head coach It's a four year deal and replaces Frank Vogel who was fired National Hockey League playoffs Colorado events as to the Western Conference Finals beating St. Louis three to two to take their second round series four games to two Low rangers host Carolina later tonight at 8 p.m. and need a victory to avoid elimination as the hurricanes lead that series three games to two At the French Open 18 year old kokon gough the youngest remaining woman in the draw reaching the fourth round beating who had been the oldest remaining woman kaia kanepi at 36 in straight sets On the men's side 19 year old Carlos algae reached the fourth round with a win over 21 year old American Sebastian corda with a Bloomberg sports.
The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"kaia kanepi" Discussed on The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"It's like who's going to come through this section isn't it? It's really, I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if Angelique Kerr becomes through as well, you know. Battling through that first round match. I mean, who do you think is the most dangerous person left in this part of the draw? Because I'm still looking at Anderson over, I think she's playing very, very well at the moment. But again, again, I look at players like Leila Fernández has also playing well, coco Goff sort of coming through the jaw unnoticed. Yeah, some real some really interesting kind of players to kind of keep an eye on, but for me, and it's given what she's done here before, perhaps she has the edge a little bit. Yeah, I mean, I've got a funny feeling about Kerber, but what she's going to go complete the career Grand Slam. Well, no, not all the way, but just maybe semifinals or something. But actually, I would love her to get the career Grand Slam. I think that would be cool, but I mean, it's quite unexpected, but I've just never say never. Really nice though, for Darius saville, I thought, you know, she kind of she's obviously a player that's coming back from this awful injury and it has some good results this year. She's actually got quite a, well, an all right record against kvitova, but she, yeah, beat her in straight set, 6 four 6 two. So really nice for several. I hope she can carry on through the jaw. I'd like to see that. And also, I think we mentioned this earlier, but Diane parry backing up that win over critique for as well. Who incidentally has COVID and is out of the doubles. So even if she had have come through that first round match, I guess she would have been out with discovering she had COVID, so she wouldn't have been able to defend her title anyway, which is just awful timing. Yeah, a real week to forget a feel for critique of a testing positive, defending champion out in round one, maybe had some sort of hope for the doubles, but unfortunately not able to play it. So yeah, she'll be kind of looking to move on moving on to the grass. Kim, I'm going to talk to you about kaia kanepi also because she beat had admire 6 four 6 four. So she is potentially marching on to who knows another quarterfinal. But I did mention my path for the courts earlier and actually it is to do with kayak and epi. Oh, is it who she's beaten in? So all she's equated with really, isn't it? That's what she's known as for. Exactly. So kaya can epi is by topic for par for the courts for you and our listeners. And it is to do with who she has beaten at grand slams. And the topic for you Kim is this. Now has ten wins over top ten ranked opponents at grand slams. And those have come against 9 WTA players, I would like you to name me as many of those WTA top ten ranked players that kaia kanepi has beaten at a Grand Slam. Oh, blimey. Okay. And I know this is I know this is quite challenging. So I'm going to give you the slam and the year, it happened to give you a bit of a clue. And I'm going to give you, I'm going to give you two lives as well to reach my passport because I do think it's quite a quite a challenging one. So I'll let you know, this is the past score I'm going to set for you. So out of 9, I think over 50%, I'm getting 5 out of 9 with two lives. And the events she has achieved this at are starting a while ago. French French Open 2008, Wimbledon, 2010, U.S. open 2010, French Open, 2012, Wimbledon 2013, Wimbledon 2014, U.S. open 2018, Australian open 2022 and French Open 2022. And French Open 2022. Australian open 2021 Australian open 2022 and French Open 2022. Right, I think this is probably the hardest part for the courts you've given me like ever. I think this is harder than the world. We haven't you two lives. I've given you two lives. Okay, helpful. Right. Oh, this is very, very, very niche Joel. Okay, well let's start with the obvious gobby in your muguruza from this tournament. Correct, yes, that is your first correct answer yet. I'm sure she beats Simona Halep, didn't she? Because that's the whole where's crying up in the drawer thing. That's where it comes from. Correct. Yes, that was the U.S. open 2018 four years after her previous top ten win, but yeah, defeated Simona Halep, so that's two. I have a feeling she beat Caroline wozniacki, possibly Australia one year. Correct. Caroline wozniacki is on the list. It was French Open. Oh, okay. 2012 Kenneth one 6 one 6 7 6 three in the third round. Okay. So yeah, wozniacki is right. That's three. Kim, you said this was difficult. You've got two I gave you two lies and you've got two more to get to get par for the courts. Yeah, but I don't know the others now. Well, you know they're going to be in this top ten players, yeah. I don't think she's beaten us. I'm think she's beating the Williams sisters. And one of these players, she has done it twice. Oh, okay. It's probably maybe like a..
The Tennis.com Podcast
"kaia kanepi" Discussed on The Tennis.com Podcast
"My colleague, then vomit had a chance to sit down with Amelie mauresmo, the term director of Roland Garros. And we're going to take a listen today. But before we get there, we're talking about the French Open. Let's take a look at the draw. Let's take a look at what's happening and what do we think is going to unfold here over the next two weeks. We've got Wawrinka coming back off of injury, showing just how difficult it is to come play a Grand Slam. Not having a lot of matches on your belt. Same with Chicago. Coming in, not a lot of matches. Got taken down by a young French man. Osaka would probably the toughest draw of a mall had to play Amanda nissin over the player who has been there before in the first round. And so I not having a lot of matches. Maybe not having confident on being confident on the court. And plan Amanda, who won a best young ball struggles on tour. Proof of an ugly combination. And if you recall, we had several players in the previous podcast about who's the one player who was unseated that when the draw comes out, you hope you don't play. In the first round. And it was kaia kanepi. And garbine muguruza got a little bit of taste of that. Katie vary nets. When I congratulate her on getting the American wildcard to the French Open and actually getting the win, proving that she was worthy and did deserve it. And on the men's side, our last French Open, where we get to get to see sanga. He had a tough draw we had to play Catherine in the first round, not the kind of player you want to play in your very first first round in your last French Open. But we want to wish them well. We want to say farewell to a giant,.
No Challenges Remaining
"kaia kanepi" Discussed on No Challenges Remaining
"To keep an eye on for sure. And also pushing up to be in that higher level. Madison keys backed up her run to the Australian semifinals with a nice quarter final here and then got absolutely blitzed by sviat tech. Love and one. In that match, let's just showed how this sounds like was when she and then it wasn't even surprising. That was the thing that really shocked that message. Yeah, I was saying we were at that little mingle event as that match was starting. And I was telling the media director there in time and she's going to she's going to destroy her. You just wait. Destroyer. And she did. So anyway, that's pretty much the women's rapid and some of how he had nicest here building back. Yeah. Looks like on a fast track to be back in the top ten potentially by the end of the year if she keeps this up. Yeah, with a new situation in coaching right with the background and she went to an academy for the first time in her career, which is interesting, considering her age. At 30, which she likes to point out herself, like I'm 30 now. She's a new chapter for me. That she's gone, yeah, to Patrick's academy. And got a new coach there. Two more. Other people just who are on an upswing dimension. Kerber had a nice tournament made the fourth round played tough in their first tour meeting three setter that was a nice match to swatch. And Harriet dart, another qualifier made the fourth round. Had a surprising win over elina svitolina, and then had a win over the always challenging kaia kanepi in the other. For losing the keys. So good one for her. And Allison risk also was down, what was it? 6 love two love or 6 love three love to muguruza. And I think it's a lot of 6 love three love. I remember before winning. That match. That was a wow. It was a long term. That actually looks like a long time ago, but it did happen. At Indian Wells 2022. Speaking of that, you were in the last 2021, I was not the fall edition of the tournament. I was curious and you can compare it to Rotterdam, obviously, where you've been also this year. This was a term that I was struck by how aggressively back to normal parts of it felt like there were just no masks happening. Most anywhere on the tournament grounds, we were required to wear masks when we were in the press conference room with players, which honestly was seemed alarming for the players because they were so not used to seeing mass. They were like, wait, why are you wearing a mask? We haven't seen this anywhere. This kind of reaction I got in some one on ones with players like I need a mask now. I haven't eaten mask all week. Kind of vibe. And then in the press room, I got to say for me this was sort of a little bit jarring. I was in Australia where we wear masks constantly in the press room and certainly a lot of other places on the grounds there were sort of encouraged required. But there really seems to be a sort of attitude now of pandemic over, let it go. We're done. Although they still didn't get back to the access to the player areas we'd normally had as it were members, which is frustrating for reporting purposes, very frustrating hopefully that comes back. But yeah, I'm curious what you make of the state of tennis and what it's like being back on site at tournaments now with in person press and a whole lot of stuff pretty back to normal. Yeah. But all the people on site had to be vaccinated. We need to mention that, I guess. For the staff, not the players, but yes. Yes, except for the players for staff and fans as well. So that explains, I guess, the no mask policy on the grounds. Rather than was much different though, we had to wear masks at all times and there was still a curfew there. So there were two night matches scheduled in Rotterdam then the first one would then be with the crowd and then the second match, the crowd had to go and even mid match, it could have been required for them to leave. So any wells was much different for sure. And comparing it to October, it was a whole other world because back then we couldn't talk to the players in the press room in person. It was all still virtual. Like we would be there, but we wouldn't see the players either. That was a thing that got solved now, which was great, obviously. Because the quality of the pressors I feel rises, the players are more into it. Significantly. Yeah. Which is good for everyone. I suppose. Yeah, no. It was back to back to the old days in most cases. And there were more journalists as well. They turn out, yeah. Yeah. We have our major catch sort of a group chat. We have like 20 tennis media people who are at the grand slams whatever. And 11 of them were Indian Wells, which is a high number. It was a big, big turnout of people. From all over the world as well. So yeah, there's tournaments are stopping to remember so it's no longer an option more and more. There was no video, press conference option. Which can be rough, you know, obviously for people who are far from the tournament, it was a way for no expense to portal into a press room and get access to people you're covering..
The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"kaia kanepi" Discussed on The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"She's another player that I don't know if she thought that she would get back into this situation because she's had some surgeries in the last couple of years. She's had her long-term battle with endometriosis. And I think she probably questioned whether she would be playing this well again, making it through to the latter stages. But here she is. And it's a fantastic story. She's also now into the top 20 for the very first time in her career. So I'm really pleased for her. I really admire always her grit and determination. She's always quite an entertaining person to watch on the call, even if her opponents perhaps don't appreciate her, yelling all the time, but I think it's always good to see her getting fired up and corneille I think was just a bit too hot and tired to really try and fight back after losing that kind of tighter first set today. Yeah, Danielle Collins is a real character, isn't she? She's very intense on the court and I think that intensity is one of the reasons that she I think does so well, grand slams, I feel like she always quite the opposite I think to Madison keys who I think perhaps is a bit too reliant maybe on a plan a game. I actually think Collins is one of those players who fight her fight to win means that she's going to lead. She's going to leave no stern no stone unturned. She's going to kind of look at any sort of roots she can. To win it to winning a match. She just wants to get it done. And yeah, I think coming through cournet again, another great story for cornet first first ever Grand Slam quarterfinal. It's just kind of I think ran out steam against Daniel Collins who will make her debut into the top 20 next week. I mean, it's been a great, it's been a great tournament, hasn't it Kim for Americans in the ladies in the ladies draw two semifinalists, Jessica bielle, as well get into the quarterfinals, Amanda Anderson over as well with that amazing win over Naomi Osaka. But yeah, Danielle Collins really kind of leading the way you feel. In terms of, I think, just showing, just showing how to get it done and just kind of move on to the move on to the next round and. You get your tech next who had a bit more of a tussle against kaia kanepi. I think actually it was her longest match in a Grand Slam one minute over the three hour mark. So there's going to be potential questions there, even though Xi on tech may go into the favorite as that is going to be questions there of how of how much does she on tech have left in the tank and against a fit and firing Daniel Collins? That might be that might be closer than perhaps some people are expecting. I mean, Collins has had a few three setters, I think against Clara torson and Elise mertens. But yeah, there's only one day between matches. They're playing literally straight away the next day. But she won't take his sport 21, so you'd think that she should physically be able to recover, but it will be interesting because when she won Ron Gareth 2020, she breathes through that draw, you know, barely dropping games. So if she can potentially win the title here, she's going to have to have done it in a bit of a grittier fashion a couple of three setters and just not having that kind of ease of sort of through the draw. And I think that's what she said that she's been really working on finding solutions on the court when she's in adverse positions and she spoke about she was a setting a breakdown against Canopy. Exactly. And you know, she spoke about working with the sports psychologist when she won ruling garrison obviously she's still working with her to really focus on how to deal with adversity in these matches because she didn't have much adversity when she won her first Grand Slam. So I think that's testament to you, I guess the work that she's been doing. She was able to turn it around today against a very seasoned opponent who could well have that second set was a tie break. It could very well have gone can epi way give or take a few points and most certainly that would have been a very unexpected 70 finalist. And I'm going to admit, I did not watch a lot of this match, but I did see match point over and over because it was an incredible show of defense for English. I actually listened as I recommend if there's one shot one point you want to watch today, it is the match point in the film tech can match and yeah, the defense I think that should be on tech showed was for me was a sign of a player who could I don't think necessarily is a fore conclusion this is going to be ash party title. Because I do think that the defense that should be on tech shows I think is a good foundation, a good platform for her to potentially mount her own challenge. To win her, her second Grand Slam title. It's obviously not necessarily going to be easy and she's got to come through Danielle Collins first, but I think she will have tremendous belief given those adverse positions. She's found herself in grand slams in gansa matches and has come back from. She is now 5 O in three set matches where she's lost the first set on the Grand Slam stage. So I think she's going to have tremendous confidence regardless of what I think Danielle Collins is starring at her if she's a break up. If she's a setup or if she's a sat in a breakup, I don't know, but I think regardless of that she don't take is going to have that confidence that, yeah, she's going to be able to find a find a way to win. But you just know that Daniel Collins is one of those players, he's not going to she's probably not going to let it go that easily. Yeah, I mean, I have to say both of these semifinals, there may not be what we've predicted as is often the case with the ladies, but they are very entertaining matches that I'm going to enjoy watching them even though I do believe that bharti will win fairly comfortably and I think we'll come through in a tougher match..
The Tennis Podcast
"kaia kanepi" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"And a feeling of what could have been, you know, she did point out that she still pretty early in her tennis playing career. She's only been pro four years. She completed the full course, didn't she of her athletic college scholarship and she was she was the number one college player by the end of the end of her degree. But yeah, she said, she said she was not quite gassed, but you know, told told that she was just a person with heavy periods or told that this was just something she had to manage, et cetera, et cetera and goodness me emotionally that must just be, yeah, all a lot to deal with and she's fascinating on it. And she said that she thought it big just generally a good thing if periods were more talked about talked about more openly and as a result, researched more thoroughly as a factor in athletic conditioning and training methods and all the rest of it. You know, it's an enormous thing that happens to 50% of athletes, 50 horse, only 50% of tennis players, and yeah, as always sort of male is default, isn't it? So CC Caroline cruelty Peres and her brilliant book invisible women rather. Yeah, the male body is treated as default and therefore research into those kinds of areas tends to be underfunded and under spotlighted, not a word, but it's late folks. And she's just really interesting. She's probably one of the most well rounded human beings in tennis. I would say, because she's had a life that wasn't just tennis and being a prodigy and she had to had it difficult at times, I think, in her upbringing, she had to really scrap in order to get her college tennis life and her and she was very determined to get a qualification that wasn't just around tennis as well. And she's got a degree, and she probably will fought her heart out for that, worked hard and made sure she got it because she wanted to make sure she had that as a backup. And that if Dennis doesn't work out, it doesn't matter because I've got this. And I just feel like she's lived life. Beyond tennis and that makes her that much more interesting and open when it comes to conversations like that. Absolutely, and she was asked what was most satisfying for her about this achievement obviously it's not her first Grand Slam semifinal. She's done it here before, but she said it made her think of her childhood and the sacrifices that her father in particular made in order for her to be able to play tennis and you know she said the hours that he would spend on the road just taking it to competitions and practices and she told little story about how you know she used to train before school and one day he couldn't take it because he had a cold and she said, God, at least let me at least hang out for a run. Like I need to do some kind of training, and she said he hopped on his bike while she ran alongside him just so she could get some training in for the day and yeah, it was a lovely little story. So Daniel Collins then through to a second Australian open semifinal. She of course achieved it three years ago. She lost out to Petra kvitova that day. She will face eager scientific who defeated kayaking happy today in a marathon four 6 7 6 6 three three hours and one minute she wrote hashtag tired on the camera. I think that's our tournament motto, isn't it? Thanks for the support, hashtag time. Yeah, exactly. It was an extraordinary match point. If you have the opportunity to watch match point, I highly recommend you do so. The clip of it is doing the rounds. It was just extraordinary defense into attack from ego Schwann tech. It was a point that she had absolutely no right to win. And it kind of summed up the match really in lots of ways and kind of summed up this whole run for her because it's so different to her run to the title at the French Open in 2020 when she just blasted away all before her. She was she was sublime. It was two weeks of absolute perfection for mikashi on taking this run, whether it ends here or goes on, has been very far from that. It has been up and down and that is a big part of the learning process for Shaun tek and she talked about that today she said she said you play your best tennis a couple of times a year. I'm trying to be okay with not playing my best and winning anyway. Yeah, because I think when you have a breakthrough, that's so often what people associate with you for a long time. And I think I probably was guilty of that. I was thinking, well, she found tech. Blasts her way through slams, you know, because we've seen it. She's capable of it, but that might be the best slam she ever plays in terms of level of tennis for a whole week. It's unrealistic to expect her to do that every time she plays a slam. And I think she's coming to terms with that as well. And as you said, she figuring out the process of winning matches when she's not at her best, and she said she's been getting better at finding solutions on court. She's really, she's really taken a lot from the fact that she's won from a set down in the last two matches, something she hasn't got a brilliant record of doing on tour either away from the slams of sort of figuring out matches when she's not playing well. So I think there's quite a lot of satisfaction to take. Obviously you want to play your best. And it's brilliant when everything is going perfectly. But yeah, it's just not going to happen most of the time. So winning like this is absolutely vital. And look, she wasn't. At her best today, 12 double faults, in particular, she really struggled on serve. And she was very close to losing in straight sets. Can epi had her in a second set tiebreak, but just when she needed to, I thought she cut out some of the unforced errors she started extending the point. She won a lot of the long rallies in the second set and in the third set as well. And yeah, it's a really great achievement to fend off someone of Canopy's power when you're not quite playing your best yourself. It was a real mental challenge, I think, for especially on tech out there and yeah, she dealt with it. Really, really well. That's 7 Grand Slam quarterfinals for kaia kanepi without reaching a semifinal, which I think to quote a mat stat from earlier or last year, was it?.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"kaia kanepi" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"And another quarterfinal match in the women's raw topsy to actually Barney moves on to the semis with a dominating trait said win over 21st ranked American Jessica pegula Coming up later 7 sea ego fiance is taking on kaia kanepi in another quarterfinal match The NFL network reports that saints said coach Sean Payton is stepping away up to 16 years in New Orleans The 58 year old could take a job in broadcasting as networks have shown considerable interest Finally the ravens and head coach John Harbaugh are closing in on a contract extension as a 59 year old heads into the final year of his current deal Arbo has built the ravens for 14 seasons and has made the playoffs at 9 of those years I'm the enforcement that your Bloomberg world sports op day Markets headlines and breaking news 24 hours a day at Bloomberg dot com The Bloomberg business out and at Bloomberg quick take This is a Bloomberg business flash Hi everybody 17 minutes past the hour We update markets every 15 minutes on Bloomberg radio So a stealth rally earlier this morning it looked like we would be mixed to slightly lower but the hanxing index is now up about 9 tenths of 1% We're seeing technology rebound in the Hong Kong market hang tank tech index up 1.8% Tencent is up one and two thirds percent Alibaba up a little more than 1% The CSI 300 is up two thirds of 1% and we see gains in Taiwan in Singapore and also in Seoul The one market that is lagging behind is Tokyo the nikkei off about a third of a percent but that's so well off the worst levels of the day You have to say that the yield on the ten year treasury the bond market the treasury bond market is pretty steady here And also looking at the dollar it's also pretty steady The Bloomberg median forecast for interest rate hikes this year at the moment is three and so everybody would be watching traders be looking to see how hawkish the fed sounds in the fight against high inflation Both over the rate hikes and then really what happens with holding a treasury Do they go so far as to make some comments about quantitative tightening or do they put that off in which case the markets would probably rally All right that is a check of markets the time now 18 and a half minutes past the hour Let's get to it back through San Francisco for news All right thank you very much Brian China is now offering Hong Kong help to ramp up mass testing to try and blunt the home across outbreak Critics in Hong Kong are now saying that the quarantine facilities have become a spreading ground for COVID.
The Tennis Podcast
"kaia kanepi" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"And the fact that this is the first time she feels like she's ever had a proper preseason block and she talked about how previously all training blocks had to be managed around her cycle around her menstrual cycle because her periods with that terrible and that painful and new lease on life for her and she spoke about it so openly and so brilliantly and she's another person that's just unapologetically herself and I love it and can't wait for Collins against corny and yeah the full exchange is myself and Taiwanese carryover from The Guardian and Simon Briggs. Matt's new doubles partner, they're playing their playing doubles in about 8 hours time. It was the three of us in the press conference with the Daniel Collins, and it was brilliant. So subscribe to newsletter if you haven't already. The other quarterfinal in that bottom half of the women's jaw will be eager if we on tech against kaia kanepi. Who's completed her collection of Grand Slam quarterfinals. This was the only time she hadn't been to the quarterfinals of because, of course, she's a specialist in Grand Slam. She is extraordinary Kai can epi. Matt and I didn't see much of either of these matches, David, because it coincided with some of Fritz and sit to pass, which we were watching slash trying to obtain chips during and also with the shrink match coincided with a flurry of press conferences that we wanted to get to. So over to you for your hot takes on these too much is please. Well, first film take I was most amused with the surveillance cameras backstage that showed her juggling three tennis balls up against a wall, just doing all sorts of tricks as she got ready for the match. And I thought that's a very ego free on tech thing to do. And to be able to do, you just get the sense that she has this sorcery at her fingertips and is able to do pretty much whatever she wants whenever she wants. But she had a hands full today because castella came out blazing and she's another one a little bit like Alicia corne. You know, little later in her career now and get in the best out of whatever's left. And she was knocking on tech off the court. And it took everything really that the pole could find in a game to turn it around and she reached she had to dig in. She did that. She found the shots and she looks really good. She sort of one gallon away by the end. The Canopy sabalenka match. Well, it was just a real disappointment that it was shunted out onto the second court as a victim of the schedulers because it got stuck on scheduled after the demo match, and then the sits the best match, which meant that when those, when the sheds were started to go long, it was either they're playing after midnight on a deserted probably rod laver arena, or they're playing on a second chord, which is also got nobody in it because nobody was expecting a match to be taking place over there. And it's just that that sort of thing has just got our go to all tournament long and it has been doing for years. And occasionally people say, well, what else can they do? You know, they've got these great matches. Well, when was the last time you can remember the men's match being shoved out onto the second court? Because a great women's match is going out on because it was scheduled at prime time. It doesn't happen. And it's really frustrating. But anyway, so it's played in empty stadium. They went out. Well, there you go. So delighted on delighted. They went at it, they went out it head to head these two and they were knocking lumps out of each other. I actually haven't got the stats for sabalenka to know what the double fault count was like to be quite honest. But the match itself was it was just full of nerves because, you know, can epi was lead in, she had a chances. I thought she'd let it slip, and she does. She has tended when she's got these great opportunities, you know? She's great in the first round, knocking out a big name, but when you then expect her to take the next step and go all the way, she's always come up a little bit short, but there was a great moment in the third set, tiebreak, where, I mean, honestly, I'm watching it and I'm thinking 7 6 match point. And of course, it isn't because it's the final sector, right? And she did exactly the same thing and she thought she'd run them out. She goes and then she just goes, oh. That's nice to do it all again. And if you can find that GIF, get on it, I would say. But anyway, I think she was a worthy winner in the end. And yeah, another great little story for her. Might not make big global waves there are other bigger stories than kayaking epi. But for her, that is a massive moment. And you could see it all over her face in the interview afterwards. You get lots of great stories in slams, don't you? But there's something I think really interesting about players finally accomplishing something. And we had that with coronary today. We had it with can epi find the competing set of Grand Slam quarterfinals. They really satisfying stories when something like that happens. You know, we love breakthroughs. We love young players coming out. But there's also a lot of great stories about players who've given a lot to tennis over the years and persisted and just chipped away and have filled up draws and provided us with moments. And it's nice when they get some of the spotlight as well. It's never too late to try again, folks. That's what we've learned from today. Two t-shirts. And they probably make Simona Halep feel better about losing because she can think, well, I'd only have lost stick an epi, anyway. She's always losing to Canopy and slammed isn't she? Right then, I think that's it for day 8. It's been so jam packed this episode that I haven't had the opportunity to tell you David and the listeners about my absolute world triumph today. I don't even know what word lives to be honest. I have been buzzing all day. Honestly, it's the biggest endorphin here I've had in two years. It was immense. It started my day off such a pep in my step. So much of a pep in my step that I ended up getting into NFL, David. It's been a really big day. We're talking. Now we're talking. Yeah, we don't have time to talk about it though, but slate it for later date. But we do want to say shout out to Andrew because our Twitter during the Austrian opened during the day sessions big Buffalo Bills fan. As am I now? As am I really think I feel like I've been a bills fan for a 100% of my of my NFL sporting life? I feel all of your pain hashtag bills Matthew. We love you Andrew. And that was brutal..
The Tennis Podcast
"kaia kanepi" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"Not when the tennis ended, obviously the tennis went on Bill midnight and that was with the second night session match all the second scheduled night session match being moved to the second court more on that later spoiler alert there will there will be a rant. But I shouldn't start with the round because it's been a great day of tennis, a great evening of tennis. We had two absolute thrillers. They happened to be spread across two courts. We had fruits against sit to pass on the rod laver arena and on the second court we had arena sabalenka and kaia kanepi and we had some really good matches in the day session as well and we'll be drilling down into all of it with Matt and myself in Melbourne, David and solly hole. I wanted to start by covering pride day a little bit, Matt and I have had our wristbands on. In fact, courtesy of lovely Cedric, friend of the pod, and listener and giver of gifts, Matt and I have four wristbands, and we've been told that they are much coveted. David, we reach wearing one today one rainbow wristband each and to the people on the media reception said, oh, you managed to score yourself a wristband. Those are in high demand. Matt goes, oh yeah, we've got four actually. Now we know what to find. Yeah. We're just hoarding them and we'll pop them all on eBay at the end of the tournament. So yes, thanks to Cedric, we've got our wristband. We've got our pride fans, which have been dual purpose today quite frankly. Don't worry, I got all of my ranting about how hot it is in before we started recording David's had to listen to an air full of unique complaining about the heat. It's very much not hot here. I can promise you, there's no issue with heat in solid hall Catherine if you'd like to change places at any point. I did have to have a cold shower before recording this podcast for everyone's sake for definitely for the sake of my mood anyway. That's all out of the way. No further complaining about the heat. So we've had our pride fans. We've had our wristbands and the Australian open went very big on pride day today. And in fact, they've gone very big on equality. They've had this sort of they've had this campaign around haven't they with ash Barty featuring very prominently in it. You know, just not explicit explicitly referencing gay rights or pride, but you know, the messaging being about equality, but it still remains the case that they have somebody the second stadium at this tournament is named after a very strong and vocal advocate against equality and that is extremely problematic. I wanted to read out an email we've received from a listener whose name I'm going to pronounce as Jorge boyas. And Matt's giving me a thumbs up, so away I go. That's the happiest I've seen in a day Catherine. And it's good because I'm going to have to say his name again because he starts with hello. My name is hall. Hey boy us. He says you probably see me pestering the TTP Twitter timeline this Aussie open. He's relatively new listener. I'll skip the bits where he says lovely, lovely things about the show, but thank you, Jorge, for your kind words. He says, part of the reason why I tweet at you so much is because I have so much to say, but no one to say it to but we're very grateful to receive this communication from users day 8 has just started in Australia. But I'm already disappointed in the tournament's pride day efforts on social media. Specifically, the first two tweets they've posted the second one of which the tennis podcast is retweeted my identity as a gay man who's been at least questioning his sexual orientation since 5 years old gives me his perspective. That makes me view their words differently than a lot of other people. This is what life is all about different perspectives, but unity only works if we actually consider those perspectives. From my view, the video they posted that the tennis podcast is retweeted feels like a slap in the face, half the video is spent telling us to enjoy the tennis. There is no mention of the LGBTQ+ community by name. And I don't understand why they are all thanking us for our support. The LGBT plus community does not support the sport of tennis as a political bloc as far as I know. If I want to get into semantics quote, see you around is just to throw away line. Nobody can look lesbian gay bisexual transgender queer or any other identity on the gender gender expression and general orientation spectrums, but it's not semantics. The point my community has been trying to make for decades is that anyone can be a part of this community and it's an example of how little thought was put into the words given to and all thought of by those players. It speaks to the hollow nature of these pride day efforts and again he makes the point about Margaret court's name still being on the stadium. They're being no openly gay players on the ATP tour and he says everyone walks around saying I have no idea why gay person would be made to feel uncomfortable about their sexuality by the ATP. He says these are only a few issues that need to be of concern by those actually committed to being allies..
The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"kaia kanepi" Discussed on The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"Wells played at the Walter vinyls, you know, 12th seat here. This is obviously not how he envisaged his Australian open going. It's a right shame. He didn't play very well. I think he said it was the worst match he played, probably in the last year, I guess. Said called a tough draw, you know, just coming back from COVID, which meant he couldn't probably hasn't been on court much of late. But what did you make of what did you make of this? Obviously, Laurie would be very disappointed. I think as British fans were disappointed. But I think it could call to go on a bit of a run here. You know, he's got to fall through out of slams before that this could be the start of another run, perhaps. I think quarter was a little bit of an unknown quantity and he maybe perhaps surprised himself with how well he played, he won the next gen finals, he's being in good form, but as you said, he had COVID. I think he was in isolation in his hotel, so I saw on social media. He was hitting the ball against the wall and it awkwardly hit him in the nether regions in like a comical comical sort of way. But yeah, on the court, yeah, he was just he was just too good against cam nori, and I do wonder if cam nori season his breakout season last season has caught up with him a little bit at the start of this season. Yes, he is also he had coronavirus over the off season. He didn't in his interview blame that as the reason why he's not had a great start. But I think he's played four four singles matches, lost them all, he's not quite at the races at the moment. And the fact that he won over 50 matches last season played lots of tournaments. I think he's going to need to, I think he's going to need to kind of scale his picks and chooses a little bit more. I think that the tournaments that he plays so that he doesn't feel potentially so jaded. Further down the line because I do think potentially this is an impact of how much Tennessee played last season and the fact that the off season is so short. I think also he know he's got Indian Wells coming up quite soon. You know, he'll be defending his title and I guess you've just got that pressure on you haven't you? And no one I think is expecting him to defend his title, so I would hope that he doesn't feel that pressure too much, but it's harder isn't it to stay at that ranking after you've had that breakout season. It's the second season syndrome. You know, it's really difficult. You've got so many more points to defend. So I think it's inevitable for his ranking will decline somewhat. But I think if he can finish, well, I'm talking about finishing the year already, but if he can kind of just think, let's not think about that too much as long as he's ranking as they're all there out to get him to stay in this evenings. I think it's perhaps inevitable it might go down somewhere. It's so hard to back it up and just a note Joel I have to correct you on your next gen finals. It was actually Carlos alcaraz, he won the next gen apologies. Next gen point, they should finally, yes, sorry. Yeah, anyway, just got to throw that in there. But let's just go back to what House we saw today at the Australian open couple of women's batches. I mean, there were some very straightforward wins for Simona Halep and Annette's conservate. I think cultivate in particular, she played senica, which could have been quite a tricky match, but obviously come to bait. You know, she's now the 6th seed. She had that epic run at the end of last season. She played really, really well. And it seems that her good form is continuing. So I feel like I haven't really spoken much about her in the build up or in our preview episode. But again, good opening from her and Simona Halep who came through against magdalena freck. But two seeds that did struggle was Elena Rebecca and arena sabalenka. Rebecca, I had to save a match point to overcome Serena DS it was two tie breaks and then 6 one in that third set. I think she's struggling still with that injury that did not care out of the Sydney event when she pulled out after having beaten Emma ratana. But so I'm not sure if she's going to be able to fulfill my predictions of making the final sadly. But sabalenka she was playing storm Saunders, Australian wild card. Her serving was abysmal at times. She 12 double four. She was down a set and a break. Genuinely thought she could be on the way out, but she did manage to battle back to come through. But yeah, sadly link is just not in good form at the moment issue. No, not at all. I was a bit painful to watch at times and again, she's going to she's using the Australia, but I think and it's not a position I don't think any tennis player wants to be she's using the she's the Grand Slam at the moment to make sure she's finding out on court as she goes her serve again, I think and it will probably click at some point and she's hoping it's sooner rather than later, but it's not the position you want to be and she very easily could have very easy could have gone out today having been a set and a breakdown. But she lives to fight another day. One player that doesn't apply to you, though, is Angelique Kerber, who lost to I think everyone's most feared round one opponent kaia kanepi, who is now 14 and 22 versus seed in the opening two rounds of Islam. So really, really dangerous players. She's won 7 of those wins against top 16 seeds as well. She beat Kerber 6 four 6 three kvitova also lost to castella 6 two 6 two. I think COVID is having a bit of injury troubles at the moment. I think we've had wrist. So not really kind of big surprise there. Layla, Layla Fernandez going out talking about U.S. open U.S. open finalists in Iberia. Fernandez, the 23rd seat went out to Madison English of Australia 6 four 6 two, which was a bit of a bit of a surprise in terms of again how in terms of that score line feel very competitive looking a bit of the highlights or a lot of errors from Fernandez who just didn't seem to be at the races, a game just wasn't there. So yeah, that was a bit of a surprise. But Madison linguists credit did play very, very well. I think she definitely played above her 133 ranking. Yeah..
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"Pretty simple It's an information molecule Everything else has been used for vaccines We current have been dramatically more complex than this This is a pure information molecule And if you get it safely administered our self know what to do with it they make the antigen that's needed to cause their im to attack any kind of threat including the respiratory virus that we're going after So I think the technology is actually lending itself to deployment globally Doctor Rafael I'm looking at your shares Moderna share is up more than 890% since the end of March last year There's been a huge surge of money into the pharmaceutical industry on the heels of the mRNA advancements and also because there does seem to suddenly be more money for vaccines How much is this going to be consistent that more money will continually be deployed to vaccine development at a time when traditionally this has really seen a dearth of investment Well you're making a good observation in that remarkably the most effective pharmaceutical company which is actually our own immune system that we carry around with every single day Take more lives It stopped like more viruses And it's within us And yet historically we have no real access to being able to use it on our behalf And so occasionally people of their own vaccines over decades of work And that's why it's been the backwaters of the pharma industry I'm very pleased to see that people have seen a proof of concept of what vaccines can do They're innately powerful if you know how to control them And so I think that that money is not just kind of following a short term opportunity but recognizes a real shift in what's possible in our effective our immigration I should also say that another phenomenon is driving that I think the capital that has to do with a shift in its industry from being a rather probabilistic shock ongoing we call it in the industry kind of almost lottery where you've been on a lot of different drugs and maybe one or two out of a 50 naked Versus a gradually more deterministic activity By that I don't mean that everything we do will work But that we should expect many things if not most to work that's just a question of iterating and learning and making better and better products That is not been the investment thesis of the pharmaceutical industry And so I think would be the beginning stages of where this begins to look more like tech and less like this complicated speculative activity that BioTech has been for the 35 years I've been in it Interesting Mister Alfie and it's great to catch up Let's continue this conversation another time There went in on how much that industry is set to change Tom we thought the world would change radically 11 months ago when we had that efficacy data in and around November It was set to open the road open the waiter easterly supply chain issues The world would reopen and Tom It's not quite happen that way has it What I would say John is my amateur study of a lot of pandemics Frankly going back you know hundreds and hundreds of years they always take longer to end That's a great common theme And there's a rationalization to use a baseball metaphor somewhere in shortstop around third base whatever John and football the last 70 minutes on It just goes on forever Sometimes in markets though Thomas you know you don't necessarily need things to get better You just need them to stop getting worse Is that where we are right now that I think that I think so 1% From New York City this morning radio on TV This is Bloomberg I'm Danny klepper with an exclusive BNP Paribas open up Dave for Bloomberg TV and radio from tennis channel Two American stars were the headline makers on day one at Indian Wells What were you as open champion Sloane Stephens was pushed all the way by Britain's Heather Watson before punching her ticket into the second round After a slow start the 2017 winner in New York had to fight back from a set down before eventually getting across the finish line and just under three hours on stadium one Up next for her a first career meeting with compatriot Jesse pakula Later Madison keys blasted kaia kanepi off the court in the opening set that lasted just 15 minutes And despite a more competitive second set the former finalists that flushing Meadows moved on to set up a meeting with Anastasia pavlyuchenkova and round two And don't forget Dennis channel's daily live coverage from the California desert hits the air at one p.m. eastern I'm Danny klopping jerk.
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Feeling pressure: 2020 champ Kenin loses at Australian Open
"Women's defending champion so it kind of became the Australian Open biggest upset thinking to date the falsely blaming a bad case of news for her straight sets loss to the Estonian kaia Kanepi disappointment also if the sixteen year old cocoa golf at six four six three to the fifth seed Elena Svitolina better news for other Americans including Jennifer Brady Shelby Rogers and mackenzie McDonald they all reached the third round the man's face state Stefano sits above survived in five but no such problems for Rafa Nadal who comfortably reached the third round I'm Graham like us