16 Burst results for "Tim Henman"
The Tennis Podcast
"tim henman" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"Hello, George. Hi, George. Like George Diaz, the former umpire. Oh, that's very good. That's very good Catherine. And Brighton where I was researching recently as a tournament that was held for one year only in 2000 and Catherine's travel partner from Rome, Tim henman won it. And it's also the tournament at which Guernica which broke all of his rackets and had to retire from a match. As a result. He was talking about that the other day actually. Tim is Tim is minding minding my bags as we speak. Good lads here. We've got Matt in Sydney. All right, Matt. That's a good name. Matt says, as an Australian, I've had a good laugh at the sensation joke. So, so true. Like Matt ebden, a sometimes sensation. Yeah, very good double sensation these days. Not as good as rinky in Jakarta and whoever his partner is. Jason goodness. Yeah. So anyway, thank you. Thank you Matt. Who else we got on that? Finally, we've got Karen Mae bomb, who is in pulley, just outside Lausanne in Switzerland, but originally from Denmark. Wow. I feel like we know Karen. We've definitely given carrying a shout out before, I think. Yes. Yes. I'm pretty sure it's always makes me feel like, oh my goodness, I need to say something different to what I said last time. So what's the what's the obvious thing that I would say? I mean, I've never been to Lausanne. Do you know some people called Karen? How are we spelling Karen? All right. Well, I don't know any karens within I, so you're unique, Karen. And Denmark. Denmark, the home of. So, you know, formerly. Oh hang on, I thought Lausanne isn't that sweet. Right, should have gone instantly down the runner route. Sorry, Karen. I nearly bailed you out without any awkwardness, and then suddenly. Wozniacki and well done, Denmark, well done Karen. Yeah, absolutely. Okay. Well, I think that's about it for this edition of the tennis podcast. Catherine, you better go on board. You're playing. And we'll do all of this all over again when we get to Paris. We can not wait. It is just two short days away, and then we're going to be there bringing you tennis podcast every single day from next Sunday will also have two preview shows for you as well. One after the draw, one after media day where we get to speak to all the players and we've also got
The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"tim henman" Discussed on The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"Or am I being super harsh? Well, when you say it in black and white, I think it's very clear. I mean, this is a good 25% lower pretty much than anybody else when it comes to winning the bigger matches and tournaments. That is kind of the facts of the matter is that she can't win clutch matches. And she does have a real tendency of going off the board when it comes to it. It is mental we know she has the game if you're making that many semifinals, you know, she's obviously been in positions where she could kind of push forward a bit more. She's had many more semifinals than the likes of coco Goff, for example, even the pagola, you know, she really has kind of pushed forward in many of these tournaments. And that is something that is a problem. I think she should switch up her coaching situation. I think we probably do have to kind of stop predicting her to go that much beyond a semifinal. And I think it is a shame, but I do think you have to you have to look at the mental side of the sport and realize that it's not the physical side that's a problem. It's very much between years. But I've seen a lot of people who are defending how well she does and how good it is. But I mean, I think a lot of players would rather be picking up titles and then losing occasionally a little bit earlier and be a little bit less consistent if it meant that they were getting sort of the higher highs rather than kind of being sort of in the middle of the top ten, but never really posing that big threat. Yeah, it sort of gives me Tim henman vibes as when I was growing a little bit. He was always sort of getting semis of Wimbledon but not ever doing much more than that. I know that sounds a bit harsh, but yeah, I think like you said, I mean, she's an absolute, like she's so physically strong. It's all kind of, yeah, like you said, mentor really isn't it. Other factors is not physicality. I would imagine. But yeah, it remains a bit of a conundrum, but we hope she will eventually break it. Let's look at what happened on the ATP side of things out in Indian Wells now because we had Carlos alcaraz winning the tournament beating Daniel Medvedev in the final in straight sets 6 three 6 two, alcaraz, this is his third ATP masters 1000 title and with winning this he now returns to the world number one ranking just pinched the top spot from Novak Djokovic by a couple of hundred points. There's not much in it, but he is as of yesterday back at number one in the rankings. He won this title without dropping a set very dominant performance and he's now the youngest man to have won both elements of the sunshine double. So both Indian Wells and Miami he won Miami last year and completed it with a Indian Wells the year after and he's also, along with rapha, can I just say, well, they're the only players to have won at least three masters 1000 titles as a teenager. So yeah, alcaraz continuing to make history and break records. What did you make of alcaraz's performance in this final? And what made the difference over Daniel Medvedev is it's fairly comfortable school I'm wasn't it. It was indeed. Well, Kim, I'm glad you've asked because I've actually I'm trying to redeem myself from last week where I volunteered that I made a tally chart of the points in a tie break whilst watching the Medvedev tiebreak. So that I want to move on from by offering something much better than a tally chart. I was looking at what the difference might have been. And I think that the service aspect of things is actually where the big difference lies. So remember, when it came to the U.S. open final and the whole of the U.S. open, I mean, it was 5 set after 5 set after 5 set marathon. And he really was struggling to finish some of these points a bit quicker. And I think the key area where there's been a lot of improvement is actually in the serve. So in the final, he did not face a break point. And I was actually comparing his performance across the entire tournament with his performance in the U.S. open final from last year. And in the whole of this tournament, he faced 11 break points and was broken just twice. And that's across 6 matches and 11 and a bit sets because obviously Jack drove unfortunate she had to retire, whereas in last year's U.S. open final, he faced ten break points and was broken three times. And it was definitely a case where he was being broken much more frequently and wasn't consolidating behind his serve. So if you look at the scores across the week, I mean, he rarely played or was pushed into a tiebreak situation, for example, coming through against Felix in straight sets. He did play a tiebreak in sinner, but there's much less, I guess, not much less competitive, but he was able to assert his dominance much more.
The Tennis Podcast
"tim henman" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"What a tease. Jessica McGill is one game, folks. She broke in that game, so it's for one. Soon to be out of date tennis news for any fans of that segment. There will be thinking, let me pick it is just one that quite straightforward. She four and three. Another potential segment for future podcasts, what did I call it earlier loitering on the lawn with law? I'm a big fan of this new section. There is famously at Indian Wells. There's the players lawn, which is this huge grassy area. Not as huge as I no, but and it used to be bigger. It used to be massive. Okay, well now it's a decent size. It is big. And we've seen Ben Shelton perform. Incredible athletic feats on it. All week. The things I never quite know whether you're saying Blake because of the laughs. No, it's a brain worm now. Sometimes on Instagram is that I did for the last, that was. We saw him throw in an American football around. I mean, he launched an American football. We stopped in our tracks. Like the quarterbacks do. And it almost left the I know it's not as big as it used to be. There's still big patch of grass, but it is football field length almost. And he just launched this thing towards his mate. And it almost went over the fence. And then he switched positions with his mate and he was caught on one hand. You could see where you could see a Y he's got such an amazing serve because of the way through that ball. The throwing action is what they always talk about, isn't it with a great servant. Secondly, the sheer athleticism of the guy catching that ball, and then we came across him the following a few hours later, doing a skipping routine, didn't we? Like, rocky in the training. Still never seen him play tennis live, but now seen in two other sports. He was doing, I think you worked at he was doing three rotations of the skipping rope in between jumps. It was extraordinary. Again, it made us stop in our tracks. And all the while he just seemed to be having, I mean, talk about living your best life. The best. We all decided we wanted to be Ben. I don't want to be Blake Shelton. But I wouldn't mind being Ben Shelton for a bit. I mean, I'm okay with being me at the moment, but Ben Shelton looks good too. And he's got Taylor Fritz. Yes. Very exciting. Yeah, that's tomorrow. But yes, David's been doing some loitering, getting some lining up some stories, some chats. Yeah. I bumped into one or two people. So we'll see where that takes me. This is turned into a sort of tease. It wasn't what I was intending. I should, yeah. Like Wally masser. Indeed. Well, this WALL-E is an 8 and a half year old bearded collie. Owned by David goode, who says he's quite idiosyncratic and obsessed with frisbee. Billie Jean also loves a frisbee. I like her for his pace. She likes this frisbee, she likes like a floppy one. Okay. It's called a squeegee disc. Can't launch those quite as far, but still. If you've got the right technique. Oh, really? You can. I'm up for it. Let's go and have a good old time. WALL-E is beautiful. Visually I can look at Wally David. Lot of faith. You can't see his eyes because there's so much hair going on. It's a sort of slightly Riley a polka vibe. I didn't look cute. With a little cutie, you're sorry. Yeah. Idiosyncratic is a new adjective for our pets, isn't it? Love that. So thank you, Wally, and thank you David for bringing Wally into our lives. We have our mascots, David's got Maisie. That may see. I've got zenya, Alexandria, and Matt has Darwin, lull, Billie Jean, still not enjoying the cold weather. It sponsored by Billie Jean King and ilana kloss. We have our top folks and executive producers. We have Jamie and drew and I'd like to give a special shout out to Hannah top folk Hannah today because Hannah via her friend Nancy delivered a Gourmet chocolate today. What is that? Amazing. Incredible. It really incredible. In fact, there are a couple of feet from me right now and I'm going to go dive in for another one. Hannah, those chocolates arrived at a moment when of need. We needed a moment. A bit of a pickup was required at that point. It was raining. We had a bit of bad news. So thank you, Hannah. And thank you to Jamie and drew, of course, as well. If you want to send us chocolates, that's fine. We have shout outs mat. Yes, we have Ada, who is originally from Cleveland, but has lived in Europe since 1984, most of the time in Zürich. Oh, I've been to Zürich with Tim henman. Not just the two of us. And I remember Ada from entering one of our previous competitions. Yes. Was it from an opera house? An amazing photo. It was. Yes. Absolutely. Aid was a violinist. Yes. I think she might have a, is any to the one with the indoor hammock that you were very briefly got hello? Very obsessed with Catherine. Even if she's not, it's worth bringing up because Catherine's face is up. I think that's right. Yes. Thank you, Aida. Yeah, thanks, Ada. Ada didn't provide that information in this year's shout outs. Maybe I shouldn't have said that, but anyway. It's given that Catherine a nice vision. We've also got penny Scott Francis. Oh, hello penny. Who is in car shorten, but via putney? Oh. Hello. Excellent. Penny says that her earliest memory of Wimbledon was bunking off dancing colleagues. To go to lots of the big matches on the outside courts, they got this, she got a seat on court one and saw Billie Jean King and a very young Martina Navratilova. While bunking off dancing college, what a life. Wow, well worth missing it, I'd say. BG, BJ, K and Martina.
The Tennis.com Podcast
"tim henman" Discussed on The Tennis.com Podcast
"So we talk about those people who have very special circumstances. You mentioned Serena, you mentioned roger. You've had the opportunity to coach Pete Sampras and roger. How did you get from playing to coaching Pete Sampras? I mean, you look at some like dream jobs, you look at the list of guys that they could call and all of them would say yes and Pete Sampras chooses you. How does that happen? Yeah, it was an accident. It was a sad accident and actually for me because at the time I was actually helping a former player guy by the name of Jim grab, who is a friend and just a lovely guy and was former number one doubles player in the world and top 20. He's a very good player. And I just started helping Jim and helping a couple people kind of just informally. And then what happened was Tim's coach Tim gallox and got sick. Got diagnosed with brain cancer. And so when Tim got sick, I was friends with both of those guys. I had known Pete for more and I played and Pete traveled with his brother. I traveled with my brother. We just got to know each other. I was 8 years older, but I knew him pretty well. So when gully got sick, you know, they talked about it, Tim and gully, and they both said, why don't you just ask Paul to help for a while while I fight this thing? So the goal was for me to help as long as gully was fighting and then for him to be helping back on tour. Unfortunately, that didn't work out and Tim lost his battle to cancer. And so my whole mindset was, how can I make a horrible situation less horrible, you know? And I had one of the best teachers in the world. I was talking to Tim gully all the time. He was home getting treatments, calling him from the road and learning how to manage Pete's personality. When to throw in things when so I had a great mentor and I was doing it with someone who was a great player, but also knew me. Like Pete knew me, but we knew each other. So yeah, he was a great Pete Sampras, but I wasn't, it sounds horrible, but I wasn't as in awe of him because he wasn't Pete yet. He had won, I think, three or four majors. But I'd known him for a long time. So I felt like our communication was good. And I was very easy for me to talk to him because we knew each other real well. And then I had gully mentor me about the when the how and the why of navigating that. So I did that for a year and a half. And then, you know, Tim passed unfortunately. And by then, I was kind of pretty on my way to understanding how best to help Pete. And also, I learned a ton from Pete. I don't know how bad you feel about this, but the main thing to me about coaching is I could argue, I learn more from each player than they learn from me. I mean, I've been so lucky now, you know, to be with Pete and roger and Sloan and Tim henman and Stan and now Taylor. And every experience is new. I'm learning more
The Tennis.com Podcast
"tim henman" Discussed on The Tennis.com Podcast
"Every time I see you, you give me crap about being on the podcast and was like, I'm just waiting on you to say yes. We worked it out, right? We worked it out. And now come out, my grandfather believed that one my son and daughter in law had a little baby girl a couple weeks ago, Carter, and I'm too young to be a grandfather, but I'm gonna roll with it. I'm gonna pretend like even older and more crotchety than I am. Well, and even closer to your daughter than I am to you and there you go. She's married. So you could be a grandfather again. I know. It's that time of life. So I'm going to embrace it. I'm going to embrace it. So what do we got today, man? What are we going to talk about? Well, first, I got to tell our listeners your background because I think people know you as the TC commentator. But you are sort of an aficionado, have dived into area area. So look, college player of the year in 1984, finished a year number 12 and 85, which we have not seen that happen in recent times where someone's, you know, NCAA champ. Of the indoors or number one play on college in the next year to top 12 in the world, coach Pete Sampras, Tim henman, Stan Wawrinka briefly, Sloane briefly, on team Fritz, always whispering in the background, whether he's in the box or not, managing director of USDA high performance program. Very famously coach Roger Federer for two years to a 7th Wimbledon title. And was one of the sort of first sort of minds involved in bringing place site to fruition, which is a very well-known tool used by junior tennis now analytics. So this is Paul listeners. We are very lucky to have you on. Thank you for joining. Thank you, my friend. I'm looking forward to it, and we don't get to see each other much. So let's have some fun. So I think about you, I had this short list, right? As a Midwest guy called whether climate guy had this list of people when people say, oh, you don't make it from a cold weather climate. You don't make it from the Midwest. You don't make it from New York. And then I started rattling off, you know, Jack sock from KC. James Blake from New York, Donald young, Taylor Townsend from Chicago. And then you New York guy, right? Went to school in Tennessee, one national indoors, top 12 player in the world, and just like a staple in tennis thing. What is your take on playing tenants in New York Times? Because I just say, we just hosted the boys level one 16s at my facility. And the best player tournament by far was from Rochester, New York. Still have the complaints we hear about indoor climates, not enough court time. Not enough hitting partners, not enough competition, you know, nobody to play with, but somehow still make it. What's your thought about making it from a cold weather climate and the move to Florida having been somebody that made it?
The Tennis.com Podcast
"tim henman" Discussed on The Tennis.com Podcast
"When you go back to talking to the guys who worked within when he was really young, I mean Sven the Corona felt Dutch coach who obviously worked for Maria Sharapova in many players. He was head of the Swiss tennis foundation, but Swiss tennis federation student when Federer was coming through. As a teenager. And he talks of Federer being pretty badly behaved in terms of it was never, it was never picking on another player. He was never getting in someone's face or anything like that, but it was always about him. He was a perfectionist, as you might imagine. And he couldn't handle Sven says that he just could not handle playing okay or well. He had to play perfectly. As anyone who's ever played any sport knows, there is no such thing as perfection. And if you aim for it, you're going to fail, but he really was desperate to play as perfect tennis as he could, even at that age. He threw his racket all over the place. He got involved in all sorts of awkward situations in terms of his behavior on corpse. He Sven tells the story about how I think there was some sponsors regalia at the back of the court and Federer threw his racket and it hit the curtain and broke the sponsors hoardings at the back and caused a lot of fuss and but the interesting thing was how do you deal with someone who does behave like that? Do you just discipline them really hard or do you sort of work with them to try and get to what's causing that? And I think the sign of it a good coach is that they deal with everyone individually in general. And they work out what works for them and spend it. We knew we felt that we couldn't just say to roger, you can't play for two weeks. Because he would go nuts. And it would just do turn and maybe turn him off Tennessee. So what they did was they put in one sort of court cleaning duty and stuff like that. But he was still allowed to train. He was still allowed to play. And that sort of east him through that period. I mean, there are plenty of other stories of him throwing his racket, I don't think he necessarily was a swearer, badly on court. I mean, he can speak so many languages you could probably hide it. Nicely. But yeah, it was generated generally throwing rackets and just getting incredibly frustrated. And you can see that even if you go back and look at video of his early matches on court on the tour, you know, he lost to a lot of good players, a lot of top players, a lot early on. They lost to Hewitt. I think the first four of the first 5 or 5, 5 out of 5, Tim henman beating a lot, pat rafter beat him three times out of three, but in the book that rafter says, you know, I got lucky. I got him before he became roger, but still there were people who got on top of him. And after even describes it as being mentally, really weak. And the interesting thing is Peter lundgren was working with Federer when Federer won his first Grand Slam at Wimbledon. Before that, rafter played fed Federer three times as I said, and he said he remembers Peter being really annoyed because Federer was really weak mentally.
The Tennis.com Podcast
"tim henman" Discussed on The Tennis.com Podcast
"I mean, it was there. But in those days, it wasn't taboo to ask them out. And so we weren't shy. So, you know, we had a lot of fun in those days. It wasn't. We head onto ours is where you had to do this and do that. No, no, no, no, no. You did what you want to do. And so anyway, Australian open is my favorite. I won't say any more because it's probably a PG rated audience here, but anyway, Australia was my favorite. Now, John, it's funny because on tour now, we always joke about how the Brits struggle at Wimbledon. And how they came to the pressure. Before you move on to Luke, what advice do you have for Emma? Because we've seen when you went up with a British player makes it kind of like an American player. We get so brisket so excited about them. And we see it just crumble them. Yeah. What advice do you have for the young? Well, I mean, obviously it's easy for me now to say now because I'm not there doing it. And I didn't do it then. But, you know, Tim henman, even though he didn't win it, Jim henman embraced that pressure. You know, people say didn't win it. Yeah. But he got to about 9 exaggerated, but semifinals and he was four in the world. And he, if anything he overachieved. So an Andy Murray embraced the pressure. He loved it being sleeping in his own bed and all that stuff. I hated that stuff. He did. I would say to Emma, you've got to embrace it. Listen, the pressure on her is going to be immense. But she's already won a slam. No one can ever take that away from her. So I would she's got to embrace it and some friendly advice to her, stop changing coaches every two days. How about that? That would be my advice. That helps. Yeah. All right, Luke. Favorite Grand Slam stop. Oh, they're all, as you know, they're similar, because they're siblings. But they're all a little different. And I default to what Lloydy said, you go where you want. And for whatever reason, I always played great in Paris. I played great in the juniors there, one the juniors and doubles with Patrick McEnroe over Boris Becker in the win of graphs give French guy and then playing the seniors winning with Murphy in 93 was the most special thing in my life..
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"tim henman" Discussed on #digitalsuccess - Social Media Marketing Podcast by TheAngryTeddy.com
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The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"tim henman" Discussed on The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"And so baffling the tim had been described it as a joke at the end of the match. And it's something that has really impress everyone from tennis. Fans like ourselves to non tennis fans like my like my friends. Message me on what's up. And even as far as as the queen who has been getting in touch to to lay her her appreciation. Yeah emma's from far and wide. And i just everyone just one of those occasions as tennis fans you know doesn't normally tennis doesn't nobody kind of breakthrough into like the real mainstream and outside wimbledon as well exactly. Yeah we normally watching you know some random tournament in india arrow venezuela or whatever commenting on what's going on and you know the the this is really just captivated the whole nation and everyone's behind. I think oversee the fact that she got to the fourth round wimbledon. So we we had been exposed to how weed seem kind of what she you know. She had a night match their that. Kind of change in full oversee. That meant that they were already to some extent aware but for her to just suddenly you know when a when a usa open second major effort you know it just as she did deny see done nice and casual is just remarkable and Yeah when tim henman at the end he said oh. It's an absolute j. Just crop may out because it would if you also have not been following it and he suddenly right what happened. You think well hang on a minute like how. How did that happen. How is she being suddenly able to play so well that no one can even get close like. She hasn't dropped a single set in ten matches. And i think it was a second round matching qualifying when she got to like seven five and the set and that is the closest that anyone has been able to get. I mean she's not face tie-break drop to sat in the final. It was a continue. It was just continuing that. That dominance i think she showed throughout the competition we spike in about how hernandez had very different rates to the final. The fact that fernandez's come through lots of three-set battles. Uso have never sweat you if it was going to get to that set whether that would favored fernandez. radical new. Just came in with so little pressure and expectation. I think it was quite clear from the outset. She has really loved being in new york in his felt very home and as a result the thing that has really shown in her tennis on how relaxed she you know. She is on the tennis court. And you saw that. I think straightaway In the in the first set when she raced into or she she she break a vessel paternity to go to lubbock yes. Fernandez did bright back. But it sort of i think it sort of showed radicati was and to be fat. Both of them just they weren't gonna be paralyzed. Who will buy the situation. And the fact that it was a historic matchup between two nate. Two teenagers which i think was great because we go to really entertaining an enthralling match. The was the had lots of drama medical timeout. While in in the second set but ferretti candy. I think particularly it was just a continued. Ah sessional of how good she is on on a tennis court and in particular think has really kind of helped us today and i actually think it was. One of fernandez is weaknesses. She doesn't necessarily have the biggest. I serve and and radhi candies. Return game was very very impressive. I it felt like you know in that. And in the second set she had lots of opportunities across quite low of the fernandez service games even though they were. You know thrilled. In that. First set i saw was thinking you know right account. He's been paying the bat attendance. Hey michael it might not look like that on the on the on the school board by certainly felt the way she was playing. It did may me a little bit like a little bit. Copped she could. She could actually do this. Yeah i was just hoping that. It wasn't going to be a case of of of missed opportunities because emma was getting a lot of break points on the fernandez said i think she had eighteen in two and fantasy really well to save the vast majority of those obviously when it comes time and time again that we will serve is under pressure. It's not a matter of time really that you're going to come to a and yet much more confident on serve which gave her that kind of confidence. I guess to ready for the return games and she was whipping some of these returns and and just like really in the rally from the word. Go and i mean it was he kind of knew that we cracker from the second game. It was like ten minutes long back and forth and the level was exceptional. And i just was thinking good. This is completely different. G the wimbledon final where we had carolina pushpa just completely phrase and could not really bowling court start with and it's so refreshing to have players. You've just come out. And and you know save very young but just not fazed by by the occasion and just being able to play the game from the very first point and that's really nice that we've got that it's because you always worry that the mavs gonna get better if people. Yeah exactly and you know. I mean for these players are so early on in their careers. You just you. Just don't know how they're going to react until they get on the on the tennis coal and again. I know we speaking about it before. Kim but the you know the situation at wimbledon i think for a lot of british tennis fans that was also playing in the back of our minds and tons of that has happened before against tomjanovich the the situation augury called the better of her and in your full crowd. You've got of legends. Watching courtside billie jean king. Tim henman was at virginia. Wade was that which was very cool. I thought it felt like a a very much a pressure. The pressure in in one sense was on but at the same time county just was not. She's was not fazed by toe and just going back to some of the you know what was so impressive. I think about the you know the points in the way she moved about in court was was that returned because when she was returning the finance serve it wasn't high risk. Low percentage tennis. She wasn't going wins straight straight off. She was really kind of able to. I think a positional court by getting the boo back and getting it back date which Was really i think beneficial. Given the i think fernandez show over the last few matches shotmaker. She can be and if you give her a little bit of time and maybe the ball draw a little bit shorter she. She really likes to play with the angles. But the fact that i think radicati going deeper and was able to get close to the baseline and also quite central as well. I think it helps Get into the rally quickly. And really i think make it awkward. Phen undesired before. I think she she was had a little bit easier. But certainly i think in this match. It was the finance service games. The felt whether the biggest opportunities i think for accounting she was able to knock on the door time and time again and as you said the the more times you don't let the door the more likely your going to break serve and i think that's exactly what happened. Despite the the number of of bright points that she did have. Yeah and i mean..
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"tim henman" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"She was extremely impressive. That week. really confident Torri athletic extremely athletic game ferber variety. You know it's not. It's not the most elegant game but she's real competitor in She speaks radio. Well you know a lot about a really real solidity to her game. I think can she had had she she. She's had result you know she's done affair that a winning but it loaded the time. It's two fifty level and on clay. You know when the sort of events that don't full passive this sort of tool story so much sean building up to anything. Oh in a bit of a sort of casper ridge three three titles after wimbledon on clay vibe. I mean she didn't win three titles on playoff to wimbledon. but she's she's done her winning completely out to the spotlight and this is the first time really fuji. Respect to lexington this. She's done anything in the spotlight and it's one of those we look at a game. We'll why you'll really really good. And i'm i'm really pleased that she backed up that wind. She had over a soccer last week. I'm really pleased. That wasn't able to be dismissed as a flash in the pan or a bad dave Soccer oversee no misaki. Still building up to form wasn't peak assault But you know she. She was thoroughly outclassed in the final social. Hugh could have stopped party But that shouldn't detract from a real breakthrough week. Vigil teichman who i think has top thirty potential. This fine on the parents get so back in the top fifty. I believe i think she's around about forty five now and she. She started the season strongly. I remember her reaching the semifinal in dubai and she was getting a bit of form going again and then she got injured in palermo. I think on the client had to miss realm garrels. Which just as you've described. She's got a game which yes. She's had some results on. How cool but actually you sort of think. Well clay is is where that game should be thriving. I think she's got a spanish coach and she grew up in spain. There's a t- loves klay. She yeah she's got that lefty topspin forehand that you just think clay immediately and says she missed out on garrison that was a real blow for and this was. This was the first thing she's been able to kind of do since then and yeah. She's cerebral tennis. Blair i think she picked the right shot at the right time. She don't overpower you. But she might out think you outmaneuver view and yeah. It was a really great run back in the top fifty. Which absolutely i think is where she belongs and let's hope she can she can push up into the kind of seedings slams. I suppose be a good target if if you got any idea why she go to wildcard into cincinnati. I mean obviously. She's entirely justified. It and i'm chuffed to bits for that she did. But that's a that's quite a wild wild code you mean. Usually they go to american players all former champions that dropped out of the the rank. The you know the top of the top of the pope's no i don't but the push the podcast where we ask questions of the cuff that he doesn't something something to try and find out anyway if he still says next week But as you said it sort of makes sense that she would get one because she was making strides had a setback on. This could've shopping back up again. But let's suppose very nice of the western and southern nathan. I would say to help knockout soccer from marriage collar. Welcome beat tim henman at queen's anyway all those years ago so anyway. It was a crack in week actually the women's singles. I thought i've already some great matches threat and doubles as well. Because great story there from from an australian point of view because sam sto sir and juncture reunited for the first time since february won the doubles title that third titled together i since the two thousand nineteen australian open beat montreal champions gabriela dubrovsky and louis stephanie in the final Seven five six three stefan. I just love watching her play doubles. But that's impressive from spicer is there and and i'm pleased because you know she's she's had a lot of losses in the last few years sunni in singles and i love the fact that she still just loves the game she just wants to play. Yeah me too. I remember that that twenty nine hundred australian open win that they had was really emotional. One that's one of the government's the that sticks in my mind most about the twenty thousand australian open actually think it was the encore speeches. They did injunctions way. Saying obviously it was in in melbourne. Extremely emotional for for some stories are who famously is hard very disappointing results in singles her home slam for her to be lifting a trophy a slam was just really glorious. I think can cheered on by the whole of the luxury He will think very highly of as a young sri explained that it was some story that persuaded her not to retire from tennis. She was right on the brink of retirement and some studies have persuaded her her not saving. It was just a really unexpectedly. Emotional moment say i didn't. i'm tightly. Extrapolating that story the for my own purposes. But i'd love to think that juncture had returned the favor persuaded some stays it to stay out there bit longer for for moments like they had yesterday Maybe that didn't happen tool but anyway it's a lovely was first title as a mother i believe and some more wholesome sanctuary scott. Yes please. she said we miss each other so much. Because the last two years we cannot play together the first tournament we play together. We won the big trophy not so special. The first day we met each other and sam told me with back. I'm so happy. Because i can play with my best friend every day. Lovely great oh is that's great great story. Well it'll be. It'll be really interesting. doubles tournament. I think the us open this time round. Both men's and women's events method this. Just there's a lot of competition. You've you've got the clear standout men's gio in mechtild in poverty pathological but i know this much sandwich quality in some depth and those drawers now so that'll be very interesting tournament at the end of the year. The men's singles was one by alexander. Zverev who beat andrei rupe left six two six three in just fifty eight minutes and frankly could have been even quicker than that because he was six to five to up and he got his serve broken one little wobble there when he hit a couple of double-faults other than that i mean he was. He is playing probably the best tennis of his career. Thought at the moment. I mean that's olympic gold medal didn't play toronto. Followed it up. And he was just dismissing people. I mean he he swiped Cuss peru decide for the law suggest. Full games the the really big match from his perspective as the one against stephanus sits pass which Which was the semi final and which was all over the place on say because It's very ferry comes to be in charge. Then he started to complain. If some simple healthy went off court and he was he was unwell off the court and then sits bass was walk. Full one up with with a couple of breaks serve in the third set and then didn't win. I mean that was I don't know is not a choke. From switzerland's listen to david's talking about the match like he stayed up to two. Am watching like What's your tweets david. Wake up to. How many messages from us off. We're hardcore david. Hold decided to not read your conversation until i'd watched on catch right right. We'll just just rowing back in time. A bit shoes on your question. I would say choke is a bit harsh. But he certainly blew it to an extent he. He tightened up when serving for the match. Sit surpass i would say. He played bad game from that point on. I feel like is very very one it ready but but yes sit surpass disposed of an opportunity likely but rowing back in time a little bit very of one. The first sets then sits pass goes off court for a bathroom break as he wants to do of late. And now look. They've been playing in sweltering looking conditions in cincinnati and in canada the the previous week as well so lower players have been going to change with the bags into to change their kit Say zurve night..
The Functional Tennis Podcast
"tim henman" Discussed on The Functional Tennis Podcast
"And they don't have to be new balls. Like i've gone to sorry joe training centers and some of the balls. They have are terrible. And so i do replenish every so often put some wait forever so it takes you while before. If you're playing with your own fused. Tall santa balls takes wa before they get back. I mean that's one of the unwritten rules. We have a hopper a ball from his forever. We go we always have fifty or sixty really good balls that are being used in tournaments so the first thing we do we go to chairman for three weeks. We find out what the ball is. We go ahead and we've got a hundred brand new balls. We have a hopper but his slingshot. Oh it's usually in a kabore box in the grand slams and you checked out you put a car down. Whatever your id checkout seven rainy balls off you go and then you never see down here on future. That's what i'm saying that that's the difference you've seen here eat details you'll see in preseason. I've seen preseason pictures all over the world or videos now special just from december. And how many coaches had ozzie open. Twenty twenty polls. All the top guys had the practice with the ball amount before. I know they have the advantage of australia because they have this break to do. Not so much still get once next term to get that ball you start working on. They have all year fraiche difference like so cheap balls like unlimited forget like hidden through practice training session and robbie at the club decided to buy these polls which were not used on the on the on the tour and a major mistake of feeding him he sold bounce the who actually hit it out of savings camacho. That's how that's how rare they are knittle. all time management ball the coaching. I mean it's and when you put it together now you see why these guys make it. I mean tim henman had a private coaching time us. Thirteen till the whole time. Not transition of the tour and still who you've played against actually easily practice with. He played henman when about fourteen. Beat henman tuned to. Didn't he means toward blue. Audis needs but also also wouldn't have made any difference because we have no coaches here in ireland. Who spent twenty years on the tour. We don't have access to them. But what about these coaches you know you see. I notice nourish guy who are italian guy plays in italy. The motors are they moved emerging italian guidance stately and he's grown up over there between a club in the countryside. One coach takes boats zones. I think last year director a number one goes one or two in the under fourteen which you deceive him. But i don't know if coach at any really to experience for the kid bought into coach part of the coach. They bioengineered coach. It's a relationship has to be fun for the players. Coaches said non-ec skilled color. You have to make it fun. They have to be laughing and relaxed on the court. They're going to be having fun with you. Otherwise one of the biggest things you have to have as a coach leaving not as a personality. That's gonna make you play laugh as if you don't how got a knock knock on the travel. I've have seen you do now. just recently. With the kids out here where you do play some star wars game with laugh megaphone for them which that's what they need. That's into being all serious and then the kids we're here. We get inspired here. Becca on tennessee. Because you've got you know. Land sarah back to an wesley owens. His rugby team training out here. So that the kids when they're pages on empty take we'll take forty tennis balls memorial around ten. Were trying to convert tries through the shoot a goalpost with tennis. Both kid loved. The kids loved the game creative aspect of you know. Robby would loves to shoot for targets every friday self robinson everyone out in the court and i never beat him. 'cause obviously us thirteen in the world but we will pay for bosses ally. He would always show for the last hour and friday. I was waiting to get robbie come. Because he's a great chef. Great great guy great player and he would always show up. That's the only way we get him out on the friday because otherwise wise weekend. he's done only seen it all. He's you know. he's getting ready to retire. So you'd have to find some way to modem motivate him to get it out together online and targets good jackets bottle of wine for choice in case he's going to settle full of it by now say has some good wine there as one of the pro players years on the tour us to motivate themselves all. They'll definitely i'll definitely use music eld. They'll definitely definitely listen to something. They'll definitely do some yoga like to do yoga. Do a lot of stretching like a law people where people don't realize and it's activists not past stretching like if you're gonna go hit with lopez remember seven kononen went out in the australian open than we were practising lopez and the very first bowl coach fat in lopez. Hit the ball of one hundred twenty miles. An hour is was already matchplay loose. We'd gone in. We didn't know that would lopez was like that so we hadn't warmed up warmed up the legs on the by slamming samba arms. So condom was hoping to have the short tennis warm up and then moved back in the basement. So as i know straight back into base rate in one hundred and twenty miles an hour dots zone ways. Time warm and open. You could be warmed up. I guess he would do the same thing. Like if you went on the court Andre the first ball was coming out your mouth ninety..
The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"tim henman" Discussed on The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"I think the i've met It's not that she did anything momentus in my life but she just had that just mesmerize what she gets to steffi graf would be. I would love to work with. What about you guys. I think i can get yours. That would be over his. Oh yeah referendum absolutely joe. I guess you'd say andy. Murray bill me row. Yeah probably would be mario. Maybe even tim henman. I can't say. Uso gravitate towards players that you kind of grew up with and for me. That very much was yeah. Tim henman and pinkett would be interesting to reflect on how he handled. I think the kind of pressure that he was kind of pretty much. You know in that era with him. Yes gregor's ski was about as well. But when it came to wimbledon the day the prussia he was particularly from the media and the fact that he got to walk. i think four four semifinals. pretty good going so Yeah i think it would have to be a tim. Henman think adams questioned is hard. Because i think you'd have to. I sit down with all of the people who need all of as many as you could. I got another question for you as well with. This is from jay on twitter. She said what's the best way to watch your match. When buddha is it with a loss of payments or strawberries and cream or is there something else that you would pass recommend can lower to that i would say definitely paying w burn is i fought him for that one before and yes on the outside courts and just pit absolutely raced pim's under the go wrong with pins can you. Let's be honest An s. on hat. I would say they would be my sort of staples very very cautious and west sunscreen. Yeah yeah just also. I mean you mentioned how much it admired. Steffi graf is a player that of playing in the current generation that use of gravitate towards when you're watching women in two thousand twenty one someone that roy. Well i mean you call filed to not mention emma record ito she is just how exciting player is go to watch eighteen years old. And i think for me. She was brilliant this shape because she got people talking about wimbledon hap- sit more focused on euros or the olympics is sort of the focus back into you know. Actually we have some fantastic young british tennis players and we should all be following and watching and seeing what they can do on those going to be really exciting to see how she gets on. I think taken a wildcards into san jose a few weeks. I've so be it. Just see how she develops on the tour final question. Abby a question we ask all our guests. We are a british tennis podcast. So we need to us you the most british question possible which is how do you take your cup of tea or you even drink. Teas are your copy. Passer now i i cannot stand cafe. I am tightly in ken. And i think about this because i'm a bit old school and i. This may sound really over my cup of tea. Which bay in a teapot quite strong and i pour into consoles and i probably make a as mug of tea in little china cop. I love san i. Yeah i would drink tea until the cows came high. Basically if i could have a couple of day after this recording feel it. It's well earned the biscuit as well because ship richest you can't fte without biscuit. Kenny sort of teabag. Are you going for wo flavors. Your financial he tips. Oh i cannot cope with anything. Herbal or anything fancy May yes pg Three with trae does. This may sound awful. Does it actually false sad about this much. The vast majority of august. I think she said builder's tea which proves you can't beat the original candy. Say i'm have milk. I just don't get it. I have to have it brooch a full minutes and an to like builders day. Yeah yeah. I mean i i have a variety. A classic builders is very hard to beat so Yeah we will add your suggestion your onto our people. I'm loving the sources. Well i very civilized up and mayo through three. Let's begin the chat with couple of teams that finish it was. Let's say paul listeners. Kind of cracking open their pins while they're listening to this. Let's finish off now. You get into your cup of tea but before we go. Obviously your broke is out now where can listeners. They want to buy wimbledon's greatest games. Where where can they do say. Yes i is available on amazon I believe and that is an amazon prime. I'm pretty sure you order it. It will come. The next day is in smith's I think it's available else in other bookstores online. But i'm not quite sure. Where are so i would. Yes google and you will find but turning. Smith's spinning ops on amazon. We'll make sure to a link to where it's available on amazon. And w h smith's in the description. Say listen if you're interested in purchasing wimbledon's greatest games on the same who say fun in illuminating. I think to kind of read through the different matches. So if you're listening and you wanna kind of get up to speed on. All of the greatest games of happened at wimbledon will put a link in the description. And i think. And i think this as well so jolting to interrupt but it is a very much a for my fans point of view. I'm no expert in the world of tennis. Don't profess to be You know any sort of top dog intensive what i would right but this is meant to be and i think why it works is a real walk down memory lane and a fun Look back at some of the games of happened at wimbledon. And i think you know if you could remember that that it's not always about the the world class tennis is played in these matches. What they represent definitely unless. I hope you enjoyed listening to this. Latest episode of the book club..
The Tennis Podcast
Plucky Watson, Serena's Escape
"And welcome one last time this fortnight to the tennis podcast and Wimbledon relived on. What would have been men's Finals Day of the twenty twenty championships have finally. The Sun is out. It's been a frankly miserable. What would have been Wimbledon fortnight, which is made the the pain of? Missing out on Wimbledon slightly easier to bare certainly for me personally, but it's A. It's a lovely summer's day today. And it would be a nice day to be enjoying. The men's final especially is the The flying ants have the memo that Wimbledon didn't happen. they are out in force which is. A Wimbledon tradition. Hadn't done well, that's. Today's the first I've I've probably missed it and I think maybe the weather is part of that. And we've we've just watched a match with an amazing atmosphere which I think probably also stirs that feeling a little bit, and probably because it's the last day of what would have been Wimbledon and us is the last day of Wimbledon relived for now. What a pointed addendum to that sentence David. Wouldn't next one planned for us. When should we brace also? Developing! Certain Olympic week looming on the horizon A. I feel like I. DO actually need a week off now. I feel like doing relieved of all of the sports. The Olympics will be doing archery relived. Staging two thousand eight. She's just ain't doing on this fate going. Stop the Autry podcast. Doing the end is near. You can have asleep seen. Yes well I'm going to hold David to even I want a week off now that is that is is not my writing, but if it said. We need to on that. You know it doesn't apply to middle of the night. What's absolute? There's a moratorium on on that. today, folks. We take you to the year. Twenty, fifteen. And a third round match between eventual champion Serena Williams, and then British number one had the watson a much which ended up defining that Wimbledon Fits Serena in in some ways defining the extraordinary and dramatic year that she had on tour in twenty, fifteen and much that kind of. Defines Wimbledon in some ways we'll certainly encapsulates Wimbledon the the sun, setting over just resplendent center court with. British ten tennis fans out in force getting behind a plucky Brit that half in the mid never heard of that morning. It's. It's Wimbledon all over. Isn't it? And I think I don't WanNa. Put words in your mouth David. That's probably what made you miss it because what we've just watched so sums up so many of the things that we love about tennis I would say that's true. I also think it's it really does encapsulate the the Wimbledon that I knew as a kid, and as a teenager before Tim Henman came along when British though there was a big gap where? I had not known British contenders for the title. In on the women's side in before my time to be non-journalist Virginia, Wade and Sue Barker, won the French Open, but would never really perform to that level at Wimbledon. So, Strapped my formative years following the sport, Jeremy Bates had a good run in ninety two got to the second week had match points didn't manage to tighten them against gay full Jay. And there were a lot of those sort of moments. There are a lot of single standout moments of a player. Would make them. National News as back page. front-page news even plays like Andrew Castle. You got to eighty in the world that had a match against mats. Wilander that back then was hyping him to to a level. The even he didn't think was was appropriate. Time member in in the Post match press conference that that he did he. He guys this great line. After losing the final against Philander, he was two. It's one up for landing world number, one, nine, thousand, nine, hundred sixty, says he said. Let's just take it easy here I. Mean I lost and. That's that says a lot. Ready I think you know he. He was realistic enough to know and I remember Chris Bailey in nineteen ninety-three. Playing Goran Ivanisevic and the whole nation just stopped, it was nine seven in the fifth set twenty tonight night, the whole nation, stopping for about four hours just to watch this moments, and and he became a national celebrity in a single day. People had I mean it's way more than what Heather Watson inexperienced here in terms of going from somebody nobody had ever heard of Watson was on the map to some degree. This took it to another level question, but Bailey was an complete unknown and then suddenly. I remembering, going on BBC grandstand the next day with death Lynam the presenter who? Asking about his life and said, what did you go friend thinkable list and he said. I'm. GonNa go. I haven't got a girlfriend. And then suddenly the BBC was just inundated with letters from people offering their services his girlfriend. Services! Okay maybe that wasn't quite. Home. He told me he told me because he covered the Australian. Open with us for BBC radio for number years, and he told me that that night he went into Wimbledon village walked into a restaurant with a friend of his and the entire. Pub and restaurant just stopped what it was doing and turned around and just stead at him. and. He'd never experienced anything like like not at all until. Four ask before he'd never been heard of by so many people.
The Tennis Podcast
Venus Williams - Game Changer
"Hello everyone can t the tennis podcast day. Eleven of Wimbledon relived would have been women's Semifinals Day Wimbledon and would probably have been under the reef because looking out of my window in Putney, which is a? Mile and a half ish down the road from us, W nineteen is in miserable. Say That's great. Thank you, British weather for making some twenty twenty. Just that little bit extra great. But not to worry because. David Matt to talk tennis with. Seven hundred episodes David you just told me. We actually can mark a milestone because we've remembered it before recording rather than fully seconds off the recording. Yeah, we! We've celebrated five hundred, six, hundred one in the past. So yeah I'm fin quite proud. You know it. It draws me when you say it's women's semifinal state today because I'd kind of I'd forgotten that in as much as I'm so used to now talking about classic matches with you both watching them. We've just watched another one to the BBC of. Matches on every day that they're showing Wimbledon doing their own stuff online streaming matches, which is the one good thing I take from this whole period is the suddenly. The vast archive is just being. Put out there for everybody to enjoy, but I had forgotten. That is still Wimbledon and today would have been women's semifinals, and that makes me quite sad, yeah. I, wish I wish I could forget I get the impression that perhaps you haven't forgotten in the optimistic. Every cloud silver lining way that David. I Dunno, I kind of have in a way, I'm just so so invested in what we're doing. The the usual schedule of Wimbledon isn't isn't really in my mind so much. Just me then okay. Trip back to two thousand and five when. Storm strong was winning his seventh consecutive Tour de France title. Yup? The three hundred eighty made its first flight at the live eight concerts. Good friend of mine went to live eight in Hyde Park and she says it was mostly great until sting came on early evening when everyone was pissed in party made and some new material. Juno live eight is when I discovered pink Floyd and realized I two thousand. David Luiz discovered. It's. Matt's now. Sort of got me to to realize that I actually need to listen to albums full of Bruce springsteen and not just judge. We. Born in the USA. Correct. Correct get on that David's It was also the year that Britain implemented. The civil partnerships axe to include same-sex partnerships. It was the year that London won the rights to host the twenty twelve Olympics. And the xbox three sixty was released Oh and Pope John Paul the second died. There's a few. We've already done it two thousand and five much at the French. Open say these are these events that we didn't mention I around, so that was T-, thousand five I was working. My First Wimbledon as an employee I was a bull store assistant. Under the employees of one Derek Dimmer? Who was the head of the bull store at Wimbledon in done that job with his wife? Centuries I think. It was it was a job. which largely comprised heavy lifting and I loved it I couldn't believe my luck that I was working Wimbledon, even they. My primary job was lifting boxes of tennis balls and wandering around the orange practice with bin bag, asking players and coaches. If I could collect, they used balls of the practice, so they could be resolved to charity. I thought that was the best job in the world and I could not believe my luck and I went back the next year as as head bull. Store Assistant I was GONNA. Say You assumed to be promoted? Yeah, that was my first promotion and that I was GONNA. Ask You if you did a good job with whether you got a good review. Turns ends. It did I mean there's not? Much that can go wrong with putting balls and have been bank. But it didn't go wrong, and honestly I just. I thought asking asking. Tim Henman if he was finished with these tennis. Balls are just so. That was the coolest thing in the world. I thought I was the coolest person in the world getting to do that job.
The Tennis Podcast
Federer Comes Of Age
"Hello everyone and welcome to the tennis podcasts. Wimbledon relived. Not Say Manic Monday. Is Strange to think that in an alternate universe rule experiencing the busiest most hectic day, if the tennis calendar down the road, well down the road from me, and that's w nineteen and instead well I didn't know about you, but I'm something my safer why I'm dressed. I was GONNA. Say My pants spur. I'm dressed, but I'm certainly not in A. Poised and ready to. Go on the tally or anything. I mean it is a very different university living in. The the same time I still find myself trying to crowbar these matches into to be able to watch them all in time because we just watched four hours of a match for today's podcast, having recorded yesterday's show, and then we've got tomorrow's look forward to I mean look I'm having the time of my life. I'm relive I'm reliving two thousand and one and loving every single minute of it, but yeah around actually making meals for children and go into the pollock, and all that sort of thing I am struggling a bit to fit it all in hence sleep out today we spending. We're dwelling quite a while in in two thousand and one land. Aren't we today tomorrow? Yeah and it turns out that that's important. Because David didn't see two thousand one Wimbledon. Much of two thousand and one full stop you in a windowless room in the ASS. End of Germany awesome thing. Date I did I missed the entirety of the two thousand one Wimbledon until the final which we'll get onto more tomorrow when we, she watched that as one of them it because the woman doing tomorrow is the two thousand and one men's singles final between Goran, Ivanisevic and Pat, rafter today it's Pete Sampras against Roger Federer in the fourth round, but yet the time. Time I was in my fourth year working for the ACP tool I'd been communications manager for three and a half years traveling around I had informed the powers that be that I would like to have got writing and interviewing and all that sort of thing, and they said okay. Then you can go work on this new thing that we've got called a website. And it's and we produce it in Hamburg Germany. So off. You go to the office that. Germany. Not the end of anywhere I thought it was somewhere a little more. Than that. Politically, it was delightful, delightful The office was Nelson somewhere. And Anyway I'm sitting and get there and I'm like we get to the fourth round magic Monday manic Monday and I'm thinking right. There's a lot of crack matches on here. This Roger Federer against Pete Sampras Tim Henman lighter. which channel is it on here in Germany? And they said it's on premiere I said all right. Where's where's that said? We haven't got that one. So. So I was a little bit dubbed by this and frantically trying to think. How do I get out of this job? But. I've signed up for the rest of the entire week until the weekend when I would go off to Gustad for the tournament that. So anyway, that's when I discovered that actually it was available on BBC radio through their website in inverted commas I that I'd never heard of before, but anyway so I was able to listen to the BBC radio coverage throughout the rest of the week, and that's what made me decide. That I wanted to be a commentator right and that week. And he fight off emails to to the commentators he'd be listening to. You. Yeah Yeah, Inkatha. Who is the tennis correspondent? Richard Evans, very long time experienced respected journalist and reporter send the Sunday Times tennis correspondent Dana coincide of the BBC. And they brought the championships alive for me over in Germany and I mean that's what they do. That's what the job of the radio commentator is for people who can't say to try to bring it alive and. It did the job for me. It made it magical I mean I. I actually think that Wimbledon. If you think of Tim Henman's run as well and everything else that went into it, it was one of the all time. Great. Wimbledon's including the ending. And to listen to it on the radio where your mind is having to do the job for you, because you can't see it, using the words, they they describe and you conjuring images on the back of those words, it makes even more mystical and fantastical David Law. You turn not being able to watch one of the greatest of all time into a positive. Well twenty years on Haram watching it. It's awesome. Win deliveryman in solihull. She's moved on from working in tennis and not being able to watch moved into working in tennis and this year still open. You Up to in two thousand and one. We still shuffling around on your bum. Knows all my eight now right was. Please listen to yesterday's podcast to
The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
The Big Debate
"Hello Ladies and Gentlemen Welcome to the passing shot tennis caused by fans. My name's Joke Kelly. I'm Kim McKenzie and today on the big debate we're discussing the greatest players to never have won a singles Grand Slam title. Take your seats. Thank you everybody hype you while Hyppia Safe On. What would it be today? The very star of the French Open Garros Second Grand Slam off the season. Obviously we have no live at is to catch up on what main came have decided to do in. This episode is commemorated. The occasion by looking back at some of the best players to have never won a grand slam singles title. And it's nothing is fair to say it's quite Alexi List that we've we've captured and are few surprising. Names bad did about is the yeah. We've had a lot of suggestions for our listeners and followers say thank you very much for sharing your thoughts and we have had some niche suggestion straight in as well. I'm actually trying to think plays on these lists. Yeah A lot. More names came up that I was actually wanting to and I mean really one of the questions is where do you draw the line? How do you quantify like how many slam final how many titles players had to have one career ranking? They had to achieve to cut be considered good enough To have been capable of winning slam. Is it how close they came and in a final. Is it just what they did in terms of the rest of their career that you could kind of define it? Let's say we'll be looking into this more detail but yeah it's it's quite an impressive list of talent on this list and makes you realize actually how perhaps unjust sport can be when some of our favorite players never quite managed to go all the way exactly and as he said I could this list dominate at Alex. Verify think if that career they will at some point be able to kind of break that that grandson duck. We're going to start actually with a really popular answer. The calls one of one of the first thing that came into my head. It was one of the first that came into of our listeners. Had as well and that player is David Nalbandian. Who the me as one of those payers who do not doubt that he had the technical ability to win a Grand Slam. It was more. I think the injuries him. I think this is fiscal outlook or school. He was quite stocky and made. Now bandying was one of those players. Where yes he? He could be anyone on his day. He was let down by injuries. And the fact the his maneuverability around the court wasn't wasn't the greatest. Yeah I would agree. I think now found him probably gave into the list of being too injury. Prone to to capture title assertively. He was around before the dominance of of the big three m federal was kind of coming to the scene of course but Sam either he was before when the era of Jovic in middle kind of say dominating everything when you look back at what he actually achieved. It's very impressive. Though he was the the only Argentinian in history to reach semifinals Al Slams and even just reached semi-finals and more at all is is a feat in itself and oversee most famous he reached the Wimbledon final thousand. T- leasings Lleyton Hewitt which you okay. This was his best opportunity to witness lamb. However I think in this final you look at the score line and it was so comprehensive. He think if he wasn't capable of kind of doing more on the day at such a kind of big opportunity. I know this question marks around kind of whether he really sees the moment because slates near be like six one six three six two very straightforward line and this was the tournament. Schley going back to this two thousand Buddha. The top seventeen seeds were knocked out before the fourth round. It was only Asian. You and Tim Henman. It will get onto later. That actually came through so you think ooh found in. I don't know I guess maybe even getting to the final was a bit of a stroke of luck giving given that he was Didn't he wasn't having to play top top names to get that far. Sipa houses move reflection of that but yes that very consistent across the Sam's reaching the semi of old of them and the fact that he he was able to be the big three as well. I mean we talked about it in a in a recent Poe cost about the fact that he. He's the only player to beat in the Big Three in one tournament. In in Madrid. I think he'd be Federa Djokovic and the Dow so he was able to kind of know only just do it on one occasion. He was able to come string great consistency across. You know what you would need at a grand slam across. Two weeks is just yeah. You almost fell the loss hurdle as he said. He got to the semi finals of L. Better every Grand Slam and I think it's just a bit of a shame that he got so far but doesn't really have a lot to show for it in terms of in terms of actual titles and that two thousand eighteen. Would you look at the George? Dd that kind of that was potentially could have been his. May I know kind of you know? He's up against the world number one. The Best Player Lleyton Hewitt. But certainly you know how to kind of solve easiest drawer to get to the final to go out. So comprehensively was almost shabelle on his part.